A look into my favorite Adwaita button and why I’m not happy it’s going away Source: The end of the nice GTK button
Comparisons, Hardware
Mac Studio: 4x more efficient but 4x more costly
“Mac Studio is 4x more efficient than my new AMD PC” wrote Jeff Geerling Ok, but the Mac Studio “is only slightly more expensive”. “Only” more than four times the cost. With the money I save I could run the “hot and inefficient” AMD machine for more than four years at full steam. The cheapest…
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SQL Fiddle
Application for testing and sharing SQL queries.
Fun
Passano le generazioni, ma certi pezzi sono immortali. Piaceva a me. Piace a mia figlia. Sia da bambina che ora che è adolescente….
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Bootstrappable builds
Source: Bootstrappable builds Do you know how to make yoghurt? The first step is to add yoghurt to milk! How can you build a compiler like GCC? The first step is to get a compiler that can compile the compiler.
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Why Vim is better than VSCode.
di’ —delete inside the ‘single quotes’. da” — delete around the “double quotes”. dit — delete inside the html tags. ci[ — change inside the [square brackets]. From: Why Vim is better than VSCode. After Github was bought by Microsoft it… | by Sean | Feb, 2022 | Medium Of course Sean is right. Master,…
Fun
On laziness
Larry Wall had it right when he said that laziness is one of the virtues of a good programmer. But he was talking about in the sense of using existing code and not creating the wheel over and over. Laziness can apply just to a clean programming style. I visit old projects after several years…
Run macOS on QEMU/KVM. With OpenCore + Big Sur + Monterey support now! Only commercial (paid) support is available now to avoid spammy issues. No Mac system is required.
From https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
I’ll try it because Sosumi which uses snap has some issues when dealing with some part of data linked in another partition (don’t ask me why I did it)
Update: Try this instead https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/03/install-macos-big-sur-or-catalina-in.html and https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
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5 Websites Every Linux User Should Bookmark
There’s no shortage of Linux websites hyping the trendiest distributions (distros) and dishing on the latest developer drama. To help you cut through the noise, we’ve curated a few sites worth your time that offer relevant news, useful information, or both. Source: 5 Websites Every Linux User Should Bookmark “Celo, celo, manca” we used to…
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Third Clarke’s law. Many fantasy worlds where magic is real often have a “technological” backgroud: Mystara, Shannara and also Athas (in its pecualiar ways) have ancient, technological socities…
Also all D&D magic system is built upon the assumption that magic is “just” or “somehow” misunderstood technology See “The Implied Apocalypse of Dungeons & Dragons“.
Regarding Athas, I won’t spoil your surprise…