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warpspin··on Parsing EDIFACT in Python with syntax trees
I think OP means that it will parse EDIFACT with the tree structure it actually has in its specification, instead of a simple list of messages like many people do.

EDIFACT normally has (possibly repeating, possibly nesting) segment groups and a lot of code trying to handle EDIFACT skips over that.

warpspin··on GridSnap – an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS
Tried so many window manager addons or replacements for macOS. Ultimately, the only thing that stuck was https://github.com/FelixKratz/JankyBorders which does nothing more for me than painting a big colored border around the currently active window.

Everything else, including tiling managers never worked for me. I prefer to have my main window centered and all the others nearby, but nothing ever quite fit perfectly.

warpspin··on Poisoned Google SERPs
Been out of the SEO game for a while, but the industry has always been pretty hysterical and has been seeing broad patterns in what often are only minor fluctuations or tests.
warpspin··on Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
Thanks for that. Looks like exactly the agent I might have been looking for.
warpspin··on Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
All I'd want is a CLI with a few tools AND a built-in, properly configurable and working sandbox. Seems that's too much too ask.
warpspin··on Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
It's buggy like hell once you do not run the default settings. Whole permissions system is completely broken, for example.
warpspin··on The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings
I didn't even consciously register the release of the many sequels back then. Always assumed it stopped after Lemmings 2.

Lemmings Revolution reminds me a little bit of good old Nebulus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulus_(video_game)

warpspin··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
Haven't seen any docs or so. Is this actually a general model, or does it need training on the the data set it answers? Finding it suspicious you never see some kind of prompt.

Edit: never mind, found https://docs.typesafe.ai/introduction/quickstart by now

warpspin··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
Pure marketing genius
warpspin··on Jellyfin 12.0
Thanks, definitely will try that one.
warpspin··on Jellyfin 12.0
How does it compare to current Plex? Are there proper, usable apps for Apple TV and iOS already?

Edit: Anyone is running Jellyfin on Qnap?

warpspin··on Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD
Second this. Even the kid who later chose a programming career hated Scratch.

Also, it'd be far too low level in comparison to what the guy did - ultimately, this is a game engine. Proper comparison would maybe be against Inform 7.

warpspin··on Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug
If you're doing the gym right, you don't have the energy to ogle anyone, anyway.
warpspin··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
Me, too. Plus, who cares if an LLM corrects the grammar or something.

If the engineer's a bad writer, the blog will at least restrict itself to the elemental information. There's too much SEO-influenced fluff anyway with people telling their supposed life stories as introduction to some technical tidbit. Same pestilence nowadays as with cooking recipes.

Nobody wants to read that shit, no matter who or what generated it.

warpspin··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
This. If it's actually an illustrative part of the text, include it, even if it's AI generated. Not everyone who can write can do graphics.

If it's only decoration, leave it out. No matter whether AI, stock or custom made.

warpspin··on Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free
You spelled Neovim wrong :-)
warpspin··on Neuromancer (TV Series) – IMDB
My personal issue with Foundation was, that at its core in the books, it was about ordinary humans solving problems. There of course were people with special abilities, but that was, well, special, and so special that e.g. in the case of the Mule, it completely trashed all plans everyone had due to its extraordinariness.

In the TV series, everybody seems to have superpowers. A rather pacifist politician from the book is suddenly, in the series, a gunslinging person with mental superpowers.

I liked that the original was about more or less competent people making decisions, and seeing those decisions play out. I admit, I like competence porn. Almost everyone having superpowers feels like a betrayal of the values of the books.

Best part about the TV series are the three emperors. It's the one addition which really added something to the story... and which did not betray the values of the original book series, but was just a nice addition.

warpspin··on Neuromancer (TV Series) – IMDB
I liked Altered Carbon, at least season 1.

What I fear is another Foundation.

warpspin··on Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
Saw there's an issue already about the <= ligature. Will open a second issue with feature request for bigger dots.
warpspin··on Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
Seems there's no way to disable the <= ligature without disabling whitespace ligatures? I'm not all too crazy for real ligatures but whitespace adjustments otherwise seem nice.

Also, as it's so finely adjustable, would love if they'd offer some variants for dot and comma, to increase their size, because that's my number one problem with fonts since age 45.

warpspin··on Apple announces macOS 27 Golden Gate
Wonder if their screen time stuff will finally be safe against tampering by kids and not be "hackable" within seconds.

Also, I still hope, that one day basic stuff like time machine might work... reliably.

warpspin··on Crystal Nights (2008)
Accelerando is not Egan, though, but Stross. Egan's book Diaspora shares similar themes, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)
warpspin··on Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)
I'd ask for Rock n' Roll Racing!
warpspin··on DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
You definitely forgot Merkel and Habeck.
warpspin··on DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
It's night. Somebody has to fill a form to approve night work first.
warpspin··on DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
That's weird cause 8.8.8.8/1.1.1.1 will already answer with SERVFAIL right now, unless the domain is still in the cache.
warpspin··on .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?
Probably just a high TTL.
warpspin··on .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?
Whole .de TLD seems to go offline right now due to dnssec or missing nic.de nameservers?
warpspin··on Canada becomes the first G7 country to approve a generic version of semaglutide
Thanks. I was about to ask that.
warpspin··on Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter
> Is the middleman's nationality that important

No, it's not. You're absolutely right on that.

It's just someone you don't know who actually runs it due to no proper imprint promoting their business over someone else who you also don't know who actually runs it. So you send all your valuable business data to unknown guy A instead of unknown guy B. Oh, and also, in both cases you couldn't even sign a proper data subprocessing agreement with both guys. You can't sign it with guy A, who doesn't care, and you also can't sign it with guy B who says he's from Europe, does not even bother to provide an address to prove that, and obviously does not understand the GDPR.

Net souvereignty gain is zero by switching the middle man. In fact I'd say using such a "European" router service is actually worse than making business directly with, let's say, AWS, OpenAI or Anthropic where you'd at least know where you're buying from.

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