Ingo van Lil
inguin@nerdculture.de
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Post #1173880
@keksidontti There is also read_bytes() and write_bytes() for binary data.
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Post #780320
@humanhorseshoes @dan That's the difference between Traditional and Simplified English. 😆
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Post #696563
Polemic copy&paste rejection for #AI #slop submissions: https://406.fail/
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Post #696561
I've been using #git daily for almost a decade, yet I had no clue about the power of pathspecs. Or where to find it documented (hidden in "git help glossary"): - match filenames accross directories - match from repository top directory - match case-insensitive - exclude files matching a pattern https://css-tricks.com/git-pathspecs-and-how-to-use-them/
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Post #446901
Today at work I tried to give those hyped AIs a shot. I gave #Copilot a task I thought should be easy for an #LLM: Take a file with 3500 translations and provide matching suggestions for the 100 missing ones. It did an OK job for German. It failed miserably for Traditional Chinese. It kept bugging me with followup questions, like how it should handle strings containing just spaces (there were none). It started responding in Chinese. It sent me a file where all the translations were filled as &...
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Post #166052
Are there any #wayland experts around? I'm currently switching from Cinnamon/X11 to Cosmic/Wayland, and I may need a little pointer. On German keyboards a few important characters for coding are in awkward positions, so I'm using xmodmap to remap the "umlaut" keys: keycode 34 = backslash bar udiaeresis Udiaeresis udiaeresis Udiaeresis keycode 47 = bracketleft braceleft odiaeresis Odiaeresis odiaeresis Odiaeresis keycode 48 = bracketright braceright adiaeresis Adiaeresis ad...