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8 votes
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Is it OK to use pop media reference for a personal domain name?
I'm finally in a position in my life to afford a personal domain. The name I'd like to use is name of an episode from a moderately popular TV series. The series ended its run few years ago, but...
I'm finally in a position in my life to afford a personal domain. The name I'd like to use is name of an episode from a moderately popular TV series. The series ended its run few years ago, but I'm not sure how copyright/trademarks work.
So far, I'm planning a strictly noncommercial personal use only. Will the choice of domain name be any trouble down the road?
9 votes -
Should x < $foo < y read from $foo once or twice? Perl debates
6 votes -
I’m a developer. I won’t teach my kids to code, and neither should you
19 votes -
Critical RCE vulnerabilities in SaltStack result in server breaches for LineageOS, Ghost, DigiCert, and more
15 votes -
IBM System/370 Mainframe emulated on a Raspberry Pi Zero
@brianroemmele: I will let out a bit of a secret. I have been running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero for ~5 years. About 7 times faster System/370. Millions of lines of COBOL JCLs running flawless on a battery. Tested an entire bank's mainframe COBOL on it.
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LaTeX: Using a different font for glyphs used in commands like \sum
Hello everyone. I consider myself fairly competent when it comes to my work with LaTeX, but as everyone who uses it knows, it is definetely strange sometimes. And right now I have a problem which...
Hello everyone. I consider myself fairly competent when it comes to my work with LaTeX, but as everyone who uses it knows, it is definetely strange sometimes. And right now I have a problem which just irks me in the wrong ways:
I use XeTeX and a number of custom fonts for my documents, but when writing mathematical formulas I found out that the font I set for Greek letters (Gentium Plus) is used for letter commands like
\alpha, \Alpha, ...
but not for commands like\sum, \prod
. As you can see in this example here. You can see XeTeX defaults to Computer Modern.I've looked all over the net for solutions but I can't find one. I'm using
mathspec, amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb
as my font related packages and I set my fonts like this:\setmainfont{Charis SIL} \setsansfont{Helvetica Now Display} \setmonofont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Fira Code Retina} \setmathfont(Digits,Latin){Charis SIL} \setmathfont(Greek){Gentium Plus}
I feel like I'm going insane not solving this problem. Should you require it, my entire LaTeX template is here on Github. Please help, thank you.
8 votes -
Write a Simple Steganography Program using Python
5 votes -
Variations on the Death of Python 2
8 votes -
Talk: Freshman Mandatory Ethics Seminar
3 votes -
Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
9 votes -
The Homebrewserver Club
17 votes -
Why I Decided to Run a Tor Relay
9 votes -
Debugging Folklore
19 votes -
What are your must-read development blogs?
Just created an Inoreader account and looking to dig into some good reads. What blogs do you read revolving around development?
13 votes -
Complexity Has to Live Somewhere
14 votes -
DigitalOcean introduces Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks
5 votes -
Reverse Engineering Obfuscated Excel 4 Macro Malware
5 votes -
JetBrains Academy - Learn to program in Python, Java, or Kotlin by creating working projects - Currently available for free
17 votes -
Open Wireless Movement
9 votes -
What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
16 votes -
Building a secure DNS infrastructure like SecureDNS.eu
5 votes -
Redis 6.0.0 stable has been released
3 votes -
The bashtop resource monitor is a work of art
12 votes -
Haiku activity report - April 2020
7 votes -
LabVIEW: Community Edition
4 votes -
How Does Lossless Compression in Fuji RAF Files work?
3 votes -
The cost of JavaScript frameworks
5 votes -
Typesetting Markdown - Part 8
5 votes -
What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
19 votes -
Lisp-friendly list of resources
4 votes -
Help Packaging Elmer FEM for Nix
I'm trying to package Elmer for use with NixOS, and could use some help from any experienced Nix users. My current attempt is located here. There is some junk left around in that file from my...
I'm trying to package Elmer for use with NixOS, and could use some help from any experienced Nix users. My current attempt is located here. There is some junk left around in that file from my experimenting, but it's at least a start. There are also a few lines of error included in the comment here.
Any help is appreciated!
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What's the current state-of-the-art in WYSIWIG text editors on the web?
Getting ready to dip my toe back into building a basic notes web app for myself. There are a lot of options out there: ProseMirror, Slate.js, etc. From what I can tell ProseMirror is the most...
Getting ready to dip my toe back into building a basic notes web app for myself. There are a lot of options out there: ProseMirror, Slate.js, etc. From what I can tell ProseMirror is the most active. Am I missing something though? Any gotchas?
5 votes -
Desed: a debugger for sed
14 votes -
Freedombone - software for an internet of people
8 votes -
Explanation of how a one-line change in the Windows 10 kernel enabled a sandbox escape in Chrome/Edge/Firefox
6 votes -
What's the current state-of-the-art in Python package creation/distribution?
I've been thinking on and off about packaging up a few simple Python utilities I've written to stick up on Github for people to use if they want, but, every time I go to check out how one goes...
I've been thinking on and off about packaging up a few simple Python utilities I've written to stick up on Github for people to use if they want, but, every time I go to check out how one goes about managing dependencies and all that for a project, I run into a whole wall of options. Does anyone better versed in all of this have any recommendations for me?
11 votes -
What are your favorite CLI tools/applications?
While I've been teaching myself my first programming language (Python), I've been getting more into using the terminal as much as possible to build familiarity and get comfortable. This has opened...
While I've been teaching myself my first programming language (Python), I've been getting more into using the terminal as much as possible to build familiarity and get comfortable. This has opened my eyes to so many useful utilities and makes me curious as to what there is out there that I haven't heard of yet.
My favorites so far:
exa - A modern version of "ls"
youtube-dl - Download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms with various options
hledger - Plain text double-entry accounting software based on ledger written in Haskell
thefuck - App that corrects a spelling mistake in the previous command by typing "fuck"
spicetify-cli - Customizes the Spotify client with themes and extensions
spotifyd - Lightweight Spotify daemon
spotify-tui - Control Spotify in the terminal
neofetch - Launch tool that can display ASCII art or pictures and general system information
I'm on macOS but I'm almost certain all of these are cross-platform.
What are your favorite or "must-have" CLI packages?
40 votes -
Multiple vulnerabilities affecting the default Mail application on iOS since at least January 2018, with evidence of being exploited in targeted attacks
10 votes -
Stripe is silently recording your movements on its customers' websites
14 votes -
Brush up your COBOL: Why is a 60 year old language suddenly in demand?
10 votes -
Weekend projects
18 votes -
Seamless branch deploys with Kubernetes
3 votes -
"Memories" - 256 byte MSDOS intro
10 votes -
Oil 0.8.pre4: The Biggest Shell Programs in the World
7 votes -
Video of a still functioning 1958 FACOM 128B Japanese Relay Computer
7 votes -
Ultimate Guide to Switch Debounce (Part 1)
4 votes -
Supply-chain attack hits RubyGems repository with 725 malicious packages
12 votes -
What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
9 votes -
Programming Languages that are Both Interpretable and Compilable?
I've been thinking about the feasibility of defining a language spec that can both be compiled and interpreted lately. I first thought about it while writing code in crystal, which, for the...
I've been thinking about the feasibility of defining a language spec that can both be compiled and interpreted lately. I first thought about it while writing code in crystal, which, for the unfamiliar, is a compiled language based heavily off the syntax of an interpreted language (ruby).
Here are a couple reasons I find the idea interesting:
- It effectively neuters the interpreted/compiled language debates. Why just choose one, when both have such big upsides?
- You could develop a program in the interpreter with the same playfulness as you get in a shell, and then compile it into a speedy 'lil thing!
- It would be wonderful for metaprogramming! From my experience, languages usually define a little janked together syntax for compile-time execution. If the language had an interpreter for itself within the compiler, you could metaprogram and program in the exact same language.
I'm curious if any languages like this exist, or if you can think of more benefits.
Edit:
I just want to mention that my reference to 'feasibility' earlier is not born of disbelief - you can write a compiler or interpreter for any (to the best of my knowledge!) well defined formal grammar with enough effort. I suppose I left that word there to account for the fact that I might have unknown unknowns here.14 votes