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The Arch Wiki has been a lifesaver for me, providing a wealth of information and troubleshooting resources to handle configuration and installation issues. Despite claims that Arch Linux is difficult for new users, I found it to be the only distribution where I could consistently get things working. Other distributions like Ubuntu and Manjaro failed […]
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MIT’s brand has made it a popular choice in anime as a source of advanced technology. The university has been mentioned in various anime shows, showcasing its prominence and global recognition. Characters from Serial Experiments Lain, Nadesico, Bubblegum Crisis, Ayashi no Ceres, and many others are associated with MIT. Washu even graduated from MIT at […]
In this web content, the author explores the fascination with identical twins and the complexities of twin identity. They mention a famous portrait by Diane Arbus of identical twins that inspired Stanley Kubrick’s depiction of the eerie twins in “The Shining.” The author discusses how twins complicate our notions of personhood, attachment, and agency, and […]
Svelte Native offers a fresh perspective on constructing mobile applications with the help of NativeScript. Unlike its counterparts React Native and NativeScript-Vue, Svelte Native delegates the majority of its tasks to a compile step during the app development process instead of burdening the mobile device. Instead of relying on virtual DOM diffing, Svelte Native efficiently […]
The provided code is a sample generated by the curl command-line tool. It sets various options using the curl_easy_setopt() function. The options include specifying the URL, disabling progress meter, setting the user agent, limiting the maximum number of redirects, specifying the SSH known hosts file, and enabling TCP keepalive. The code also mentions additional options […]
GTK now has two new renderers called “ngl” and “vulkan” which are built from the same source, making them unified renderers. The advantage of these renderers is that they can share infrastructure and maintain both Vulkan and GL renderers easily. The unified renderer implementation is focused on correctness and maintainability and can handle more varied […]
In this blog post, the author explains how to find the second and higher order derivatives of a transform, building on their previous discussion about the relationship between derivatives, logarithms, and transforms. The key concept is that the second derivative of a transform can be found by multiplying the first derivative by (log(T) * log(T)). […]
During the 18th Century, Guangdong province was the center of trade with the West, leading to a unique blend of Chinese and Western styles in both painting and porcelain decoration. The dialogue between Western merchants and artists resulted in the creation of Export Paintings and Canton Porcelain, which combined these different artistic traditions. Of particular […]
WhisperFusion is a project that enhances the functionalities of WhisperLive and WhisperSpeech by enabling smooth conversations with an artificial intelligence. With 206 stars and 12 forks, it has gained attention from the developer community. The code repository also highlights that there is one open issue and no released packages. The project has attracted contributions from […]
In this web content, the author discusses SQL query optimizers and their importance in database optimization. They mention their conversation with Mr. Chi about his project called “optd” at CMU, which is a query optimizer library. The author decides to launch a series of articles covering everything about query optimizers. They explain the definition and […]