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> Yet, the market for "Indian Luxury" is booming globally. We see European houses acting as colonial curators of Indian heritage: Prada rebranding the Kolhapuri chappal for ₹84,500 ($930); Gucci selling the common kurta as an 'exotic kaftan' for the price of a small car; and Dior releasing a ₹18,180,000 ($200,000) coat dripping in Lucknowi Mukaish work without a whisper of credit to the artisans. The global appetite for the aesthetic is ravenous. But in Kanchipuram, the very hands that feed this hunger are vanishing.

The Western colonial imperial system never truly went away, it simply morphed into an opaque inscrutable machinery to make it palatable to its own highly refined taste. An empire of human rights.

I personally just switched to using push descriptors everywhere. On desktops, the real world limits are high enough that it end up working out fine and you get a nice immediate mode API like OpenGL.

Back when I was on Android, there used to be a launcher by Nokia called Z Launcher. The idea was simple: the home screen could only show the six apps. However, you could draw a letter on the home screen with your finger, and it would be recognised and used as a beginning of the search query for app names. Of course, you would only get six search results, but you could always draw the next character to get better results.

And there was some basic ML to learn which app was more likely to be used at which time, location, etc. so that the right app could be shown at the right time without having to scribble anything. It was the most efficient way to launch apps I have ever used.

According to Wikipedia [1], it got removed in 2018 which is right before I switched to iOS. I do remember trying to replace it with KISS Launcher[2], but it just wasn't the same.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Launcher

[2] https://kisslauncher.com/

I didn't know there was a schism in Racket. Is this about the CS vs BC backend? I thought that was water under the bridge.

I always wonder why SQLite didn't expose a programmatic way for creating a query (as opposed to parsing SQL statements). Given that it was designed to be embedded, it seems to me that it would have made far more sense to provide an API based interface. Then, for example, stored procedures would just be function pointers passed as callbacks.

Why is 'Differences between Collabora Office and Collabora Office Classic' document gated behind a email-wall? Nothing but enshittification.

https://www.collaboraonline.com/case-studies/differences-bet...

Is there a SLIME-equivalent to achieve REPL driven programming for applications with s7 embedded in them?

What is the revenue model for Tangled? This is why ATProto stuff worries me, the AppView is expensive to host and no one has created a paid service yet to achieve sustainability.

Mine was also managed by Fastmail. And no one else has ever had a problem with it (including Apple when I added it after signing up).

I had a similar issue when I first brought my iPad. Turns out, Apple doesn't like custom domains for emails. So, I had to make an Apple account with a Gmail account, then remove the Gmail account and add my email address with the custom domain.

Why? Who knows. Still remember my first experience after buying an iPad.

Yeah, the downvotes were expected. Developers do not like being called out for the miserly and self-destructive bunch that we are.

I was building an advance IDE for C and gave up when I realised that no one would buy it because "lol vim is free". Finally, I am gathering the strength to resume working on it, but only for personal use and with no expectation of selling more than 100 copies.

What bothers me the most is the hypocrisy. It's okay to make money by showing predatory ads to unsuspecting populace, but not by selling useful tools. No, that is immoral.

I agree. When people bemoan the death of lisp machines and RAD and whatnot, remember that we deserve it. We do not want to invest in good tools and treat "Worse is Better" as some twisted virtue, and then wonder why everything sucks and most developer experience is stuck in 80s-90s technology paradigm. We deserve this.

Which server was the most compliant? I have been using Radicale for a while, but would like to know if that is not a good choice.

It seems that most research effort goes into better dtoa, and not enough in a better atod. There are probably a dozen dtoa algorithms now, and (I think?) two for atod. Anyone know why?

Can the metadata feature be used to ergonomically emulate HTML attributes? It's not clear from the docs, and the spec doesn't seem to document the feature at all.

SDL GPU doesn't properly support Android anyways due to driver issues, and I doubt anyone's playing games on enterprise workstations.

SDL GPU is extremely disappointing in that it follows the Vulkan 1.0 model of static pipelines and rigid workflows. Using Vulkan 1.3 with a few extensions is actually far more ergonomic beyond a basic "Hello, World" than using SDL GPU.

Well, with the death of Xbox and release of raddebugger, maybe supporting VS/MSVC just isn't that important anymore. Good riddance.

The article clearly states that the code only works on GCC and Clang, which leaves MSVC. Not sure how the question was random.

Any hopes that MSVC will add C23 support before 2040?

1. Is there any plans for native mobile apps?

2. Which data sources (banks, UPI wallets, etc.) are supported as import source?

This is disappointing. I can write the networking parts in Rust and the rest of the program in C, but apparently can't do the same with Fil-C.

Can a program be written only partially in Fil-C? That is to say, can we link regular C and Fil+C object files in a single executable?

Not for me. Maybe some misconfiguration on my part then.

Hard to parse the networking jargon, but does this enable offline connections?

If I have two devices on my local LAN (both connected to a Tailnet) and my home internet goes, currently the devices disconnect from each other. I have been looking for a way to prevent that, so that the all devices connected to the same WiFi network on a tailnet can find each other even if the internet connection to the wider world is broken.

> Although I could see China having access to it, which is problem.

I can see USA having access to it, which is also a problem. Or any other government.

I found this, will try tomorrow: https://hub.docker.com/r/sritchie/mechanics/

Trusted to do what? Work against user's interests? Prevent user from even expressing their interests?

> their mission is to create God

What if this "God" deems it a sin to monetise him? Will OpenAI turn heretic to keep the revenue flowing and incur cyber-divine wrath? Or are investors pricing in omnipotency?

(see what happens when one speaks in ridiculous corpo-flowery language?)

Yes, I agree. Which is why you should convince your politicians to forget about puny worthless India and focus all their antagonism towards the great mighty China only. Thank you.