@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world @dan@discuss.systems That's the difference between Traditional and Simplified English. 😆
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Ingo van Lil
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Why don't web sites start banning the Google crawler? What's the point of being "listed" in Google if they stop sending clicks your way?
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 "[TRANSLATION_NEEDED]". It sent me a file where all translations were copied from English. It kept rambling about Python resource limits and sent me the result in small chunks.
I gave up after 20 minutes of back and forth. It was like the most stupid intern ever.
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@piko @blinry
I think the majority of participants did indeed resort to using a linear programming package. Personally, I went with the "linprog" solver from the scipy package.
Later I found a Reddit thread where somebody described an efficient recursive algorithm to solve the problem. It sounds both clever and straightforward, but I never took the time to try and implement it myself:
https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/1pk87hl/2025_day_10_part_2_bifurcate_your_way_to_victory/
@keksidontti@mastodontti.fi There is also read_bytes() and write_bytes() for binary data.
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
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@MSugarhill Ich nehme dafür den Online-Shop meiner lokalen Buchhandlung des Vertrauens bei buchhandlung.de.
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 adiaeresis Adiaeresis
How would I do that with Wayland? Ideally I'd like to be able to toggle between the standard and customized layouts.
Any help appreciated.
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@nekohayo Don't know of any extension, sorry.
My own approach for a similar migration was to fix this up directly in the history/bookmarks database:
- Quit Firefox
- Find the places.sqlite file in your profile
- Make a backup!
- Type: sqlite3 places.sqlite
- Type: update moz_places set url = replace(url, '/-/issues?', '/-/work_items?');
- Quit with Ctrl-D
This will fix both bookmarks and the history. Unfortunately I have no clue how Firefox Sync will react to this stunt.