Kicking off #FreeSoftwareAdvent (thanks, @neil), I'll open with remind(1)
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Kicking off #FreeSoftwareAdvent (thanks, @neil), I'll open with remind(1)
While it took several articles and a couple attempts before I switched over to using it, once you taste the power of what it can do, it's hard to go back to less-capable calendaring tools.
While the classic "garbage day is on Thursday unless there was a holiday earlier in the week, in which case it moves back to Friday" scenario is a nice little demo of its power, one of the best examples from my daily use is the kids' school calendars:
• the teen has an A/B schedule which doesn't mesh nicely with calendar days, week-days, etc
• similarly, our elementary-age kiddo has a 4-day cycle schedule for her "specials" class
But remind's nonomitted() function makes quick work of both of those, taking into consideration weekends, the school holidays, and using PUSH/POP directives for high-school testing days that impact his A/B schedule but not her 4-day cycle. I've never encountered another calendar that handled all the edge-cases with so little effort.
It's a little rocky interchanging with other calendars (you have to use rem2ics to create .ics files to share, and pulling in others' iCal is non-trivial and doesn't seem to maintain the fidelity of remote events).
But otherwise, this runs a great deal of my life schedule.
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@curious_carrot @Yaku e invece in australia mi pare che ci sia almeno un'istanza prettamente australiana, e forse anche più di una?
di sicuro seguo un po' di gente in Australia
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LINKioni 22 Gennaio 2026 - con Cristian Tava
Cosa fa un "Pirata della Sostenibilità"? E perché dovrebbe aiutarci a comunicare?
Le donne over40 possono scoprirlo, ma anche i semplici curiosi.
Cristian Tava è pronto ad aiutare, ma... non chiamatelo coach!
#linkioni #villaggiosaggio
#offagna #piratadellasostenibilita
#vocedelledonne #ospite
#cristiantava
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Oh, no. Injury for Megan. This is going to come down to the wire. The editors are brutal.
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È stupro solo se lui è negro.
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@vfrmedia @gabrielesvelto I did code a little bit in x86 asm when I was a teen. It was the only way to turn on SVGA modes in Turbo Pascal and I wanted to make game back then ;-) I did a prpgram which simulated a flame in real time, doing per pixel average of surrounding pixels and adding random 255 sparks on the bottom to make the flame look real
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Yep, it's gonna be Megan. A real sleeper candidate. No projects, no boat, no drama. The fox almost ended it for her, not by being an actual threat, but it distracted her into trying to trap it. If it hadn't moved on on its own, things would be different, I think.
Oh, but now she's making a hammock. But, Fowler and Carleigh are much farther gone, so it's probably OK.
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@gabrielesvelto The book 'Silicon' by the Italian who designed the 4004, 8080 and Z80 is a most splendid read. Fascinating that he had to add reverse engineering optical confusions to minimise cloning by rivals.
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@vfrmedia @perpetuum_mobile if you have some free time this is a good deep dive: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/fa14/cse240A-a/pdf/04/Gonzalez_Processor_Microarchitecture_2010_Claypool.pdf
While it doesn't cover some of the most recent advancement it captures 90% of what you need to know.
If you have a lot of free time and want to dive deeper there's this: https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf
