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kwk1
·22 days ago·discuss
What you are talking about is sometimes called "basic research":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research
kwk1
·4 months ago·discuss
There is promising news on the development of OpenCASCADE front:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QQRAAF-occt3d-8-kerne...
kwk1
·4 months ago·discuss
Yes, the OpenCASCADE 8.0 release is very promising. There's a FOSDEM presentation from this year by one of their developers which shows what's in the works.
kwk1
·5 months ago·discuss
In the LLM space, it's LoRA, not LoRa. Not great!
kwk1
·5 months ago·discuss
I've seen it elsewhere, but it's definitely annoying. For example KDE's build assistant tool:

  $ kde-builder --help
  ...
    Supported command-line parameters:              https://kde-builder.kde.org/en/cmdline/supported-cmdline-params.html
  ...
kwk1
·5 months ago·discuss
This is supported on Codeberg (and Forgejo instances in general) via the "AGit workflow", see https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/agit-support/
kwk1
·5 months ago·discuss
> Basically nobody ever died from leaky pipes

I know you're probably intending to only remark on leaky water pipes, but:

The New London School explosion was caused by a leaky pipe. It killed 295 students and teachers, and led to the inclusion of smelly thiol in natural gas, as well as the Texas Engineering Practice Act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion
kwk1
·5 months ago·discuss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate
kwk1
·5 months ago·discuss
It's not meant to be a link, rather "X (formerly Twitter)"
kwk1
·5 months ago·discuss
Yep! Shepherd × Goblins

https://spritely.institute/news/shepherd-goblins-update.html

https://shepherding.services/
kwk1
·5 months ago·discuss
I checked and it looks like the root-required issue has been addressed with a --relocatable flag, and there are a few options as well for needing to untar, e.g. producing an appimage format output.
kwk1
·6 months ago·discuss
If I may jump in, here's a neat one:

https://www.braillerap.org/en/
kwk1
·6 months ago·discuss
Is `guix pack` not sufficient for this?

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/html_node/Invoking-guix...
kwk1
·6 months ago·discuss
They are the ecosystem shapers, let them figure it out.
kwk1
·7 months ago·discuss
Often I've seen font websites have a sort of "font hello world" preview image, and adding something like that here would be great. Apparently they're called "type specimens".
kwk1
·8 months ago·discuss
I recently learned those have a name based on their dimensions:

https://88x31.nl/
kwk1
·8 months ago·discuss
Incus is specifically an LXD fork.
kwk1
·8 months ago·discuss
From Moby Dick, on the Great Lakes:

> they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AMoby-Dick_(1851)_US_ed...
kwk1
·8 months ago·discuss
"Inversely proportional" for what it's worth
kwk1
·9 months ago·discuss
A term for that concept, by the way, is "endonym":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonym_and_exonym