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New comment by ognyankulev in "From XML to JSON to CBOR"

ognyankulev — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:43:45 +0000

The fact that the long article misses to make the historical/continuation link to MessagePack is by itself a red flag signalling a CBOR ad.

Edit: OK, actually there is a separate page for alternatives: https://cborbook.com/introduction/cbor_vs_the_other_guys.htm...

New comment by ognyankulev in "Markdown's Big Brother: Say Hello to AsciiDoc"

ognyankulev — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 09:23:16 +0000

I was hoping Eclipse AsciiDoc would already deliver stable spec, TCK and (new) reference implementation: https://asciidoc-wg.eclipse.org/projects/

New comment by ognyankulev in "Upcoming changes to the DNSSEC root trust anchor"

ognyankulev — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:19:57 +0000

I was hoping it's NIST ECDSA P-256 (algo 13) for smaller DNS packets, instead of what they did with continuing with RSA 2048 (algo 8).

New comment by ognyankulev in "OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company"

ognyankulev — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:05:32 +0000

Renaming to "TheAI" would match their ambition for AGI.

New comment by ognyankulev in "Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls"

ognyankulev — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:44:53 +0000

It's there, in Shared bindings: "Alt+L lists the contents of the current directory, unless the cursor is over a directory argument, in which case the contents of that directory will be listed."

Why WASI Preview 2 Makes WebAssembly Production Ready

ognyankulev — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 12:33:57 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/why-wasi-preview-2-makes-webassembly-production-ready/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39952026

Points: 1

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New comment by ognyankulev in "X to Close – The origins of the use of [x] in UI design. (2014)"

ognyankulev — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 14:59:41 +0000

I can confidently say that Elon's X won't become Japan's WeChat.

New comment by ognyankulev in "An invariant from category theory solves a problem in mathematical ecology [pdf]"

ognyankulev — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 16:29:46 +0000

The book that includes the results from these slides has broader scope, and also can be downloaded for free from arXiv: https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~tl/ed/

"The starting point is the connection between diversity and entropy. We will discover:

• how Shannon entropy, originally defined for communications engineering, can also be understood through biological diversity (Chapter 2);

• how deformations of Shannon entropy express a spectrum of viewpoints on the meaning of biodiversity (Chapter 4);

• how these deformations provably provide the only reasonable abundance-based measures of diversity (Chapter 7);

• how to derive such results from characterization theorems for the power means, of which we prove several, some new (Chapters 5 and 9).

Complementing the classical techniques of these proofs is a large-scale categorical programme, which has produced both new mathematics and new measures of diversity now used in scientific applications. For example, we will find: [...]"

"The question of how to quantify diversity is far more mathematically profound than is generally appreciated. This book makes the case that the theory of diversity measurement is fertile soil for new mathematics, just as much as the neighbouring but far more thoroughly worked field of information theory"

New comment by ognyankulev in "APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and Ubuntu) packages"

ognyankulev — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:03:13 +0000

But why "newest" Debian release is 9.x (Stretch) released in 2017 (current alias "oldoldstable") ?

GTK 4.11.1 Released with Better Textures, Wayland Fractional Scaling

ognyankulev — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 14:39:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.11.1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35455052

Points: 1

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New comment by ognyankulev in "RVVM – The RISC-V Virtual Machine"

ognyankulev — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 13:59:24 +0000

Instruction interpreter is nicely human-readable: https://github.com/LekKit/RVVM/blob/staging/src/cpu/riscv_i....

New comment by ognyankulev in "X12: Requirements for a successor to the X11 protocol (2013)"

ognyankulev — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 07:39:34 +0000

In 2017, a typo was fixed. The content is from 2013: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wiki/xorg/log/Development/X12.m...

New comment by ognyankulev in "George Orwell's 6 rules for writing (2018; originally published in 1946)"

ognyankulev — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 15:18:25 +0000

Or you can read it for free from Internet Archive: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Williams%2C+Jo...

New comment by ognyankulev in "Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things"

ognyankulev — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:17:49 +0000

pushd/popd are intended for interactive use, not for use in scripts. It prints the full stack on directories and there is no option to be quiet. Of course, there is always redirecting to /dev/null but it is intentional to not have option to be quiet.

Usually there is no need to return to original directory. Change of directory is process-local (script-local) so the calling process is not affected by this 'cd' in the script.

New comment by ognyankulev in "Graphviz 7"

ognyankulev — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 14:06:15 +0000

No idea why v7 is trending now. The big changes (moving to C99) are in v3 from 2022-02-26.

New comment by ognyankulev in "JEP 431: Sequenced Collections"

ognyankulev — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 07:27:01 +0000

Since Java 8, there are default interface method implementations: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/defaultme... . You can add any method to interface in backward-compatible way if you also define default implementation.

New comment by ognyankulev in "JBIG2 Undetectable Data Corruption: Destroying Our Past, One Character at a Time"

ognyankulev — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 08:19:51 +0000

This only applies to legacy JPEG (1992), not for JPEG XL (2022).

New comment by ognyankulev in "JBIG2 Undetectable Data Corruption: Destroying Our Past, One Character at a Time"

ognyankulev — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 07:03:26 +0000

My choice would be the recently standardized JPEG XL designed to replace all of: JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, GIF. Among other things, it is supposed to be the first choice for long-term storage. I guess mass adoption will begin after including it in the PDF standard. It is already experimentally in Chrome and Firefox.

New comment by ognyankulev in "Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player"

ognyankulev — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:43:20 +0000

License (AGPLv3) doesn't make sense for a video player. It only scares any use in corporate environment.

New comment by ognyankulev in "Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV support"

ognyankulev — Thu, 12 May 2022 12:18:35 +0000

I meant to have these parameters as awk options, supplied on command line, from envvar, or maybe even as awk variables.