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New comment by pcdavid in "Apparently Google hates us now"

pcdavid — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:13:47 +0000

This might be useful: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/toxcancel (Redirects to xcancel.com (a mirror of x) when the browser is about to load an x.com page).

New comment by pcdavid in "Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]"

pcdavid — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:52:27 +0000

Fixed

Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]

pcdavid — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:42:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3AMRlYfc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47233110

Points: 519

# Comments: 92

New comment by pcdavid in "Stepping Down as Libxml2 Maintainer"

pcdavid — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:40:16 +0000

Isn't this what the european Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is about? See https://orcwg.org/cra/ and the work of the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group in general.

New comment by pcdavid in "German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph"

pcdavid — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:05:43 +0000

https://git.tricoteuses.fr/tricoteuses/a_propos has the French constitution and others (e.g. "Code Pénal": https://git.tricoteuses.fr/codes/code_penal/commits/branch/m...) under git too. They have developed a custom tool to automate this: https://git.tricoteuses.fr/logiciels/tricoteuses-legifrance

New comment by pcdavid in "Antonmedv/walk: Terminal file manager"

pcdavid — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:11:38 +0000

This behavior is controled by the AUTO_CD option: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Options.html. To enable it yourself:

    setopt AUTO_CD

New comment by pcdavid in "What makes developers productive?"

pcdavid — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:06:06 +0000

This sounds a lot like Shape Up from the guys at Basecamp: https://basecamp.com/shapeup

New comment by pcdavid in "/Uses: A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software, configs"

pcdavid — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 11:49:07 +0000

Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)

New comment by pcdavid in "The plague of emoji insertion in French docs"

pcdavid — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:13:07 +0000

FWIW, LibreOffice automatically inserts an actual Unicode NO-BREAK SPACE when I type ":" at the end of a word (if the language is set for French of course). If I insert an actual SPACE and then hit ":", it even replaces the SPACE with a NO-BREAK SPACE.

I'd be surprised MS Word doesn't do the same. No need for a "true" typesetting solution.

New comment by pcdavid in "What's New in Jakarta EE 10?"

pcdavid — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 17:25:57 +0000

Relevant: https://jakarta.ee/about/faq/#collapse-1

Obituary: Alex Blewitt

pcdavid — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:53:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/07/alex-blewitt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32164417

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pcdavid in "Tom Lord has died"

pcdavid — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 20:06:00 +0000

Yes apparently: https://lwn.net/Articles/901807/

Tom Lord has died

pcdavid — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:28:15 +0000

Article URL: https://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2022-06-26/article/49837

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32155067

Points: 156

# Comments: 67

New comment by pcdavid in "Convert curl commands to code in several languages"

pcdavid — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 17:29:48 +0000

This is not representattive of modern Java, which has much better APIs. Since Java 11:

  public HttpResponse fetch(String url) {
    HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
    HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create(url)).build();
    return client.send(request, BodyHandlers.ofString());
  }

New comment by pcdavid in "Transactional memory similarity to garbage collection"

pcdavid — Fri, 07 May 2021 11:49:26 +0000

This analogy is not a new idea, see "The transactional memory / garbage collection analogy" by Dan Grossman at OOPSLA 2007: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1297027.1297080

PDF available here: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~djg/papers/analogy_oopsla07...

New comment by pcdavid in "Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular"

pcdavid — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:42:47 +0000

> It mostly goes to show that containerizing application code for execution in a managed environment in nothing new. I'm sure this was also done somehow in the mainframe world.

Yes, it's called an operating system :-)

New comment by pcdavid in "Paris breaks all-time high temperature as deadly heat wave grips Europe"

pcdavid — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:09:21 +0000

It's necessary because the water used to cool reactors is rejected in rivers. In normal circumstances the temperature increase this causes is under control, but right now it risks endangering the wildlife in said rivers.

New comment by pcdavid in "If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer"

pcdavid — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:53:41 +0000

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

New comment by pcdavid in "TextMate 2.0 (rc 10)"

pcdavid — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 15:39:24 +0000

And Emacs (C-x r t), and Eclipse (Alt-Shift-a to switch to rectangle mode).

New comment by pcdavid in "Sl: a mirror version of ls"

pcdavid — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 15:42:08 +0000

It invokes "ls" twice. There's no guarantee the maximum width obtained from the first invocation is still correct for formatting the result of the second.