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8,000 threatening emails sent to politician over menstrual care post in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 48 minutes ago

Singular, this was one unhinged lunatic. (I know there are others that think like this, but this is another level of crazy)

Where there any notable people in history who where lesbian? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/SapphoAndHerFriend/ has numerous examples.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lesbianism

There was allegedly a lesbian relationship between Anne, Queen of Great Britain and her courtier Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham.[144]

The question of Christina, Queen of Sweden's sexuality has been debated, but her relationships with women were noted during her lifetime.

There are more examples, in that wiki, I'll leave it up to you to decide which are notable.

Keep in mind that being openly gay/lesbian was at various points in history "frowned upon", so finding definitive proof one way or another is difficult.

The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

It still is a thing in some fonts: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/font-ligatures-for-your-code-editor-and-terminal

Took me a while to work out what they were called. Font rendering is hard :(

The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

That is quite a unique quip. I love the idea of geo-based rendering, every application that renders text needs location access to be strictly correct :D.

I'd go further with the codepoint reduction, and delete w (can use uu) instead, and delete k (hard c can take its place)

The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago (11 children)

weird o with the leg

Can you elaborate? Do you mean Q or p?

I built a 6x8cm roll film camera out of some spare camera parts, a focusing ring from aliexpress, and a 3d printed body! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That sounds like a lot more skill than I have :) cool project!

I built a 6x8cm roll film camera out of some spare camera parts, a focusing ring from aliexpress, and a 3d printed body! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

How does focusing/dof work for such a camera? Do you just rely on focus distance markings/tables?

Dutton refuses to rule out ABC cuts and repeatedly declines meeting with chair Kim Williams, sources say in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Really hope we arent stupid enough to vote him in.

UBC Engineers Develop Stir Stick to Detect GHB & Spiked Drinks in Seconds in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

From the 3rd link:

The team is in the process of speaking with a large manufacturer to bring Smart Straws to the market, Baigorri said, and plan to make it "very affordable and cheap enough to dispose."

Laudible goal, but I do wonder why other teams failed. The bulk price (on amazon) seems to be about $2.30 each, which definitely isnt super cheap.

The downside of "every drink gets a stick" is that it becomes much easier for a would-be rapist to replace the stick with a fake at the same time as inserting the drug. If you cant trust the integrity of the drink, you can't trust the stick either.

I wonder if having a "Free drink replacement, no questions asked" policy might be easier/cheaper answer. If you think your drink was tampered with, return it to the bar for a replacement. Bar can increase their prices a bit to cover the wasted drinks.

UBC Engineers Develop Stir Stick to Detect GHB & Spiked Drinks in Seconds in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Is this one of those "my first chemistry project" kinda things? I swear I have heard of heaps of these kind of things coming out of unis, and nothing about this seems different to all the ones from ages ago.

Edit: existing product: https://www.amazon.com/DrinkCheck-Spiking-Escape-Spiking-Personal/dp/B0D1VGWJFG

Highschoolers from 8 years ago: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/05/27/whats-in-your-drink-the-straw-that-can-detect-date-rape-drugs/

Also 2017, and a commercial product: https://www.cnet.com/culture/this-straw-is-smart-enough-to-detect-date-rape-drugs/

[email protected] - Community for steam. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Check with the Admins, but it might not be the instance for that community.

https://legal.programming.dev/docs/community-guidelines/

Netflix Says Kids Don't Care About Consoles: '8-Year-Olds Aren’t Dreaming of PlayStation 6' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago

Exactly this. Company statements have zero basis in reality, they should be ignored unless they actually back them up with evidence or data.

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Lost my username somehow, anyone else had this happen? (programming.dev)
 
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Why is the NodeBB announcement stuck in new? (programming.dev)
 

Seems like its been pinned there somehow, despite being 2 days old. Happens when logged out as well.

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ESPHome Addressable RGB Emulator (github.com)
 

Hi All. This might not be for everyone, and is very rough around the edges, but I have written a tool to more easily test how custom addressable RGB effects work.

Simply copy the code portion of the lamba into a text file, and then build and run, and it will output on your terminal how the effect will look.

It is very rough, you need a C compiler, and a RGB/TrueColor capable terminal.

If it works for you, let me know, if it doesn't, also let me know.

https://github.com/cameroncros/ESPHome-ARGB-Tester

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Rewrite of screen in Rust. Feedback and advice pls. (programming.dev)
 

I dunno if this is appropriate for this community, so mods, please delete if not.

I have been writing a screen clone in rust.

https://github.com/cameroncros/PoorMansScreen/tree/better_screen (The main branch is how I currently use it, not at all screen-like, the better_screen branch is much closer to a screen replacement.)

It all currently works fine, albeit quite simple, and I suspect not following best practices. Please talk shit about my code so I can fix that :D

For my next stage of development, I would like to use some combo of vt100 and ratatui to wrap the shell in a border, or add a menu bar at the top or bottom to make it clear when the user is inside a "screen". Does anyone have any thoughts on how to go about doing that? I am very unskilled at ratatui.

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Visualisation Megathread (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink
 

Visualizations are hard, and take time, so here is a thread to highlight the visualizations that we have found/created.

Please feel free to post your visualisations!

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Final Leaderboard (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Those of you running behind, keep at it, but this is the leaderboard as it stands at the end of 2024.

Happy new year!

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Using LLMs to solve AOC (www.jerpint.io)
 

A lot lower success rate than I suspected, I guess a lot of the scoreboard times were probably legit?

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Preliminary Leaderboard (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
23 comments fedilink
 

Well, that was a month. Congrats everyone who has reached the end, and thanks to everyone who has contributed solutions and advice.

Sometime in January I will create a megathread for visualizations. If anyone has any other ideas, happy to hear them, otherwise, take a well earned 11 month rest until next year :D

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🎄 - 2024 DAY 25 SOLUTIONS -🎄 (programming.dev)
 

Day 25: Code Chronicle

Megathread guidelines

  • Keep top level comments as only solutions, if you want to say something other than a solution put it in a new post. (replies to comments can be whatever)
  • You can send code in code blocks by using three backticks, the code, and then three backticks or use something such as https://topaz.github.io/paste/ if you prefer sending it through a URL

FAQ

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[2024 day 24] - Pt2 - Manual Inspection? (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I am wondering if manual inspection is the way to go for pt2? Seems almost achievable with some formatting. Anyone been down this road?

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🤖 - 2024 DAY 24 SOLUTIONS - 🤖 (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Day 24: Crossed Wires

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💻 - 2024 DAY 23 SOLUTIONS -💻 (programming.dev)
 

Day 23: LAN Party

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