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Cake day: January 25th, 2024

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  • I was thinking that exact thing lol. I’m like, yes ‘distributions’ are distributing new softwares with the new kernel.

    And the improvement in desktop environments does feel like a good improvement considering the user is interacting most with it.

    Or maybe I’m just apathetic to these things because most things I care about my distribution are that it provides me a good package manager for external and self made programs. And everything else is just programs installed through said package manager.



  • I thought the most mode sane and modern language use the unicode block identification to determine something can be used in valid identifier or not. Like all the ‘numeric’ unicode characters can’t be at the beginning of identifier similar to how it can’t have ‘3var’.

    So once your programming language supports unicode, it automatically will support any unicode language that has those particular blocks.



  • There are basically two types of files. Text files and binary files.

    Most information are stored in text files so humans can easily understand it, and it’s easier to find errors, review, parse. But text storage takes more space than binary files. And many complicated softwares normally need multiple text files or data files, many of them just store them together as a zip file so that it’s easier to handle. Examples are .docx,.pptx, etc files in MS Office, try unzipping them and see what they contain. Zipping also has advantages of reducing file sizes.


  • That depends on what video player you use. Of we have control of that, then sure it works. I use mpv to play things, so for radio streams or live videos I can go back/forward as long as it’s cached.

    But if it’s the web service, even though the browser video player has something cached, the player is still controlled by the website. And considering most of the people use chrome/chromium derivatives or YouTube app, it wouldn’t be hard for them to make it so that the player itself will collaborate with whatever they want to do.

    If YouTube was a separate organization it wouldn’t have been the problem it is because of how Google has been taking over all the different parts they need for advertising.




  • I was thinking the same.

    Normally when you see the sign you just see “nothing” or “impossible” . But only on certain angle you see “nothing is impossible” , implying something that looks impossible is not impossible just look at it from a different angle.

    Which is fun, but still people who are driving by and just see one side, or see that sign just one side from their window all the time, and are mildly depressed, might not appreciate it.