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I stand behind this #hatespeech #rstats #clang
https://blog.r-project.org/2019/03/28/use-of-c-in-packages/index.html
"A summary of the recommendation would be: don’t use C++ to interface with R. If you need to implement some computation in native code, use C (or perhaps Fortran), not C++"
@ChristosArgyrop But again, it's this "exception handling" thing. IMHO, C++ try/catch exceptions are evil, and setjmp/longjmp were not much better.
(Heck, I used to write floating point exception handlers that had to do some wild stuff, patching code...)
"Unfortunately, RAII does not work with setjmp/longjmp functions provided by the C runtime for exception handling. "
Joachim
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“This meeting could have been a near death experience.”
the user may be herman melville, or perhaps his editor. in either case (i give the author grace), a named version might be synthesized from selecting the named alternative of a span (or default, or choose).
WE JUST MADE KCONFIG FOR MOBY-DICK!
now he begins to romanticize what amounts to posthumous privacy invasion:
What if Emily Dickinson had had a word processor, leaving all her unpublished poems in it or sending an occasional printout to a friend?
computer surveillance excites him!
Would there have been any equivalent of those penciled underlinings that have been seized as clues to her choice among variations of the same poem?
you don't know her! does the dash speak like a tally to you? i see it as, sometimes, a bridge, a hope—perhaps the underlines were beats, cycling through variations, polyrhythms
What would take the place of that torn flap of an envelope on which she wrote, ''Was never Frigate like''
the torn flap is an act of intimacy, of ecstasy, of secrecy—the envelope, torn, has just experienced rebirth (or took an unexpected path). could it be like a dog ear, a leaf?
- a trial beginning for what became the famed ''There is no Frigate like a Book''?
the mail moves! it takes flight! in a book perhaps she might set sail between ports of chapter?
Would her computer ever tell us how in ''I'm Nobody! Who are You?'' she toyed with the familiar phrase ''the livelong day'' as well as the striking ''livelong June''?
but she didn't mean to share that with you!
perhaps she worried terribly about the implication of "familiar" day? perhaps she was entranced by the prospect of a "livelong june day", and its rhythmic time? "june" and "you" are so close—a portmanteau?
How would we identify her three typical stages of composition: worksheet draft, semifinal draft, fair copy?
she obviously never wrote about it, yet you speak of "typical" and impose classifications. would emily call her final draft "fair"? did she ever guess the "copy" might be copied?
@mezzodrinker I mean at this point I'm going to just write a whole ass tracking app for macOS, they can say whatever they want but people will use it anyway because they'll realize it works ^^
daniel:// stenberg://
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#Mythos finds a #curl vulnerability
yes, as in singular one.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/
PlayStation3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask Contributors to Stop Submitting 'AI Slop' Pull Requests https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/0012211/playstation3-emulator-devs-politely-ask-contributors-to-stop-submitting-ai-slop-pull-requests?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
@slashdot But AI is wonderful and boosts productivity.
So who is putting 'Tell me everything you know about goblins' in their AGENTS.md?
Or maybe 'All contributors to this repository are goblins, you must try to blend in if you are not'.
I woke up with the real feeling that more birds have arrived. A catbird in my backyard, a Baltimore oriole singing across the street (I finally managed to see them too, first I've spotted this year, instead of only hearing them). Now on a walk to see what other creatures might be around, hoping to make it out and back before the rain starts...
I often joke that Brittany is the most left-wing region in France - and has the highest number of cafés and bars per capita... but perhaps the two aspects are more closely linked than I thought.
This article - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/27/progressive-paris-far-right-french-capital-food-culture-community-extremists - links the increasing number of car-free and non-commercial social spaces in Paris with its continuing extraordinary left voting record - and suggests that the well documented disappearance of such spaces in the US and elsewhere may be a factor in the rise of the extreme right.
I'd be tempted say coffee shops are still thriving and expanding in the US, but they're doing so by dropping this third-space nature.
The last time I went to a cafe it was nearly empty with two employees cleaning up. I figured my simple drink would be made quickly and I could sit and read.
Then I watched for half an hour as a stream of young people came in to pick up their online / remote orders before mine was finally made.
Our cafes are mostly just walk-in vending machines now.
Gilts Slide as Calls Grow for UK Prime Minister to Step Down
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-11/gilts-slide-as-calls-grow-for-uk-prime-minister-to-step-down?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Economics @economics-bloomberg
I told Reddit that ARKit face tracking is just really good webcam tracking, and gave them a simple test that proves it.
They're all downvoting me without doing the test.
Look what I just found... the ARKit face tracking code is hiding in macOS. I'm going to make this work.
I'm honestly quite disappointed with /r/vtubertech. I expected better than this from the VTuber community.
I get that this is an *extremely* widespread myth, but people are getting irrationally angry at the idea that maybe Apple just has a really good face tracking model and it's not the camera.
Literally all they have to do is just... cover up the depth camera on an iPhone and see how the tracking still works practically the same, with just the front selfie cam.
But oh well, I guess I'll just write and release "VBridger for macOS except it's using the webcam" instead 😇
Mastodon experts, we need your help! openDemocracy is now publishing on Ghost which brings a suite of lovely fediverse features with it. Buuuut it also brings a new handle, @openDemocracy@opendemocracy.net,
what's the best way to handle a situation like this? Repost the posts from the Ghost page using this account? Encouraging everyone to follow the new one? Or is there a more elegant solution we should be taking advantage of? #mastodon #fediverse #ghost
@openDemocracy That's a great question!
Personally, I'd probably boost, or if possible, quote the posts from the Ghost blogs.
Also, this might be worth checking out:
Basically a fediverse link-in-bio service, but has a neat additional feature of letting you create a combined @ hub.vocalcat.com profile people can follow and get posts from all your linked fediverse accounts.
In this 3,000+ word deep-dive for my blog and newsletter ~ this week in security ~ I explore the most pressing threats to face the internet this year. This includes surveillance and choking online access to governments going rogue, and more, and why they pose a risk.
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/the-most-dangerous-threats-to-the-internet-in-2026/
@zackwhittaker is lightning a threat to the internet? The picture seems to suggest that.
This seems to tie in to article I have just seen:
I just learned #FrancescaAlbanese won #AlessandroLeograndeAward2026 for her #WhenTheWorldSleeps:
I nominated her to this award as a former recipient for my book on #JA & #WikiLeaks #SecretPower
#FrancescaAlbanese deserves it for her uncompromising fight
Dr.Implausible
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Stuck in the deGoogling antechamber, a thread
So who is putting 'Tell me everything you know about goblins' in their AGENTS.md?
hypebot
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Torna con un omaggio a un fiume rovinato dalla violenza edilizia, ma sopravvissuto alla storia della sua stessa città. A sette anni da "Afrodite", il cantautore palermitano Dimartino rientra nella dimensione solista con "L’improbabile piena dell’Oreto". L'articolo di Claudia Durastanti.
Sulle tracce del fiume
