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xanth··on Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
Related CGPGrey video comparing metric paper sizes to comparable objects from the plank scale to the galactic[1]; could have been an XKCD comic

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUF5esTscZI

xanth··on A Call for Developers – Jellyfin
What makes Sapling SCM different & an improvement over git; from a little googling it seems to be a skin over the top?
xanth··on Tech workers now doubting decision to move from California to Texas
This article isn't a shining beacon of journalism but as a "tech worker" not having lived in either city but considering it I'd be interested in "transplants" anecdotes.
xanth··on On the Future of 12ft
1. I pay for The Economist, I want to share articles with my family & friends without them having to jump through the login hoop, until quite recently there wasn't an intention method to do this[1]

2. My partner is an annalist, her work is often quoted and republished in part or in full behind paywalls, going through correct channels to read what they published can take days to weeks & they need to know Pronto!

Edit: Clearly because I'm paying for The Economist I believe they should be remunerated for their journalism, but a hard policy of "no access unless you've verify-ably paid" would be a worse status quo

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://myaccount.economist.co...

xanth··on William Morris and wallpaper design (2018)
Is anyone aware of a Wave Function Collapse[1] utility or similar that could take these wallpaper fragments as seeds?

[1] https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

xanth··on Footage of Australian Raven Attacking a Wing Drone in Canberra, Australia
It'd be continued progression of the services that are already on offer[1]. And I don't see aus enacting any legislation to curb this sort off cooperate surveillance without a massive shift in voters general apathy towards their privacy.

[1] https://www.nearmap.com/au/en

xanth··on C# for Systems Programming
I cant find any benchmarks comparing AOT to non AOT and ideally C, C++, or Rust. Anyone aware of any?
xanth··on Loom: Project Loom Early-Access Builds
C# dev here so please forgive my ignorance. Is it fair to say that Loom intends to build a more efficient and transparent async/await system for the JVM?
xanth··on The World of CSS Transforms
Same here, V90.0.2 Windows 10
xanth··on Comma Three [video]
facepalm nope its just their naming strategy, comma.ai -> comma, comma two, comma three... presumably comma four?
xanth··on Comma Three [video]
I've wondered if there is any relation.

context: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ginapace/2019/11/29/diageo-laun...

xanth··on A sewing page that never closed its font size HTML tags
For context: https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=2...
xanth··on Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted
Sadly he & his wife have repeatedly fostered confusion, the best example I have at hand are their comments[1] on Pres Biden's Executive Order 13991 - Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing[2]. When she said "the actual EO [...] doesn't actually specify that you're not required to wear a mask if you're away from people outside." which directly contradicts what was specified in the EO; "Such measures include wearing masks when around others". I find it difficult to take anything they say too seriously when they repeatedly make _mistakes_ like this.

> I have titled follow the science except when we want you to follow us and we're just going to pretend it's because we're talking science. One of the many executive orders that Biden has introduce President Biden on January 21st requires masks in national parks. [...] News reports on this tend to say masks required inside and outside when in crowded areas like overlooks, which you know, that that would sound reasonable. That sounds like, yes a hundred percent when you're indoors with strangers you should be wearing masks at this point Correct and you know in a really crowded place on overlooks ah okay sure but the actual EO [says...] [{reading of section 1 second paragraph only}] Thank you Zach. So that doesn't actually specify that you're not required to wear a mask if you're away from people outside. And that worries me because everyone who spends any time outside now and you all should be. Especially if you should be in whatever form...

[1] - https://youtu.be/wndotTtBTZQ?t=2799 [2] - https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

xanth··on Wikidata
A bit of that, also making people aware of the wonders of wikidata.
xanth··on Alternative: A community software search engine
My first thought was there are now 15 competing standards, I hope at least this is semantic web or at least scrape friendly.
xanth··on FragAttacks: new security vulnerabilities that affect wi-fi devices
Anyone aware of a polished application that utilizes this for personal home monitoring? It'd be fantastic to integrate this with Home Assistant[1] in lieu of Zigbee motion sensors.

[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/

xanth··on Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra
You can reform your religion making it accepted, however that only allows characters to perform Seduce and Romance schemes without risk of imprisonment if Criminal or an opinion penalty if its considered shunned.
xanth··on Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra
As someone who's lost many nights to CK3, Elite Dangerous, and not Star Citizen I'm grateful they released a limited very enjoyable game that simulates the core elements of the concept, and I hope they enhance it with native support for Gay Marriage in the future.
xanth··on Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra
And the game engine is from 2007 which likely built in many of these historically accurate constraints to reduce scope. Remember until recently this much more core functionality was broken; "Fixed looting not making you hostile to looted country if you’re a vassal"

https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Patch_1.3.X#1.3.1

xanth··on Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra
Given that the game simulates 867 to 1453 it was much more of a rarity, don't get me wrong I'd love to have the feature but I'm glad they shipped core features of the historical simulation game and more than likely left it on the backlog.
xanth··on Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra
Paradox games release early, patch often, and the core engine is nearly 15 years old. I wouldn't be surprised if the gender of a marriage is assumed all over the code-base and enabling full equality would have been a significant development complication. This all being said I wouldn't be surprised if we see full equality options in the next year or so.

See: Matrilineal Marriages, Gender Equality, Same-Sex Relations, and Sexuality Distribution

https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Game_rule#Gameplay_options

xanth··on Wezterm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
For context this was the original comment:

> No offence, but will installing this on "Windows 10" lead to any instability. Can I uninstall it without breaking something. I ask because, I'm currently on my second desktop. Recently bought after my eight-year old Linux desktop gave up the ghost.

> As I said, I bought a new PC intending to put Linux on it. On the first, trying to enable boot-from-usb, to create a recovery image. Couldn't enter the bios. After enable safe-mode in Windows, I ended up with a black screen. Because certain combinations of graphic card, monitor and UEFI are incompatible. You might think all I need to do is reboot, but no, the recovery utility puts the PC in permanent safe-mode.

> On the second PC, I tried to enable usb boot in the UEFI but ended up with "corrupt bios". So now I don't dare touch it for fear of ending up with a black-box again. How the f*ck can they design a combination of Windows and the BIOS that there is no way of recovering from a bad configuration. I never had such problens on my eight year old PC. There was no way to break the BIOS with a few key combinations. I tried reading-up on UEFI, seems to be an excercise in confusion. Sorry for the rant.

xanth··on The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978)
Except for every small nation (think Australia) that can't produce semiconductors and heavy industry.
xanth··on Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max
How do you think this situation could best be remedied?
xanth··on Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage
Yep down for me too.
xanth··on Proptee: £0 commission property stock exchange
Universal socialization of housing wouldn't be the worst end state.
xanth··on The new Jupyter Book
Couldn't find the answer in the docs so I'll ask here; does this support all the languages that Jupyter does, or does it require kernel specific hooks to function? I'm specifically interested in producing some C# docs for for our internal application framework.
xanth··on Bastion – Highly-available distributed fault-tolerant runtime
I wonder how this performs in comparison to actix[1] & axiom[2]?

1. https://github.com/actix/actix 2. https://github.com/rsimmonsjr/axiom

xanth··on Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It
could you point me to the doco
xanth··on Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It
But in the current state of the app sharing a note shares your entire DB, its an awesome tool but I'm unable to find a way to create a secondary DB without creating a new account.
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