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  • Thinking inside the box

    A new minor release 0.2.5 of our RcppRedis package arrived on CRAN today. RcppRedis is one...

  • Thinking inside the box

    A new minor release 0.2.5 of our RcppRedis package arrived on CRAN today. RcppRedis is one...

  • Thinking inside the box

    The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...

  • Thinking inside the box

    The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...

  • Thinking inside the box

    The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...

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    Who pays the cost of progress in software?

    I am told, by friends who have spent time at Google, about the reason Google Reader...

  • Reproducible Software Releases – Simon Josefsson's blog

    Around a year ago I discussed two concerns with software release archives (tarball artifacts) that could...

  • Thinking inside the box

    A new release 0.1.7 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R. This marks...

  • Minor outage at Teksavvy business - anarcat

    This morning, internet was down at home. The last time I had such an issue was...

  • Losing the war for the free internet - anarcat

    Warning: this is a long ramble I wrote after an outage of my home internet. You'll...

  • Jamie McClelland | AI's Actual Impact

    Two years after OpenAI launched ChatGPT 3.5, humanity is not on the cusp of extinction and...

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    Installing a desktop environment on the HP Omen

    `dmidecode | grep -A8 ‘^System Information’` tells me that the Manufacturer is HP and Product Name...

  • 15th Anniversary of My First Debian Upload

    Time flies! 15 years ago, on 2010-03-18, my first upload to the Debian archive was accepted....

  • Thinking inside the box

    Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It...

  • Using actions to build this site

    As promised on my previous post, on this entry I’ll explain how I’ve set up forgejo...

  • Eigen macro specializations crashes

    There's an issue in the Eigen linear algebra library where linking together objects compiled with different...

  • Configuring forgejo actions

    Last week I decided I wanted to try out forgejo actions to build this blog instead...

  • What’s New for FreedomBox in Debian 13 “trixie” – James Valleroy

    FreedomBox is a Debian blend that makes it easier to run your own server. Approximately every...

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    Article Recommendations via FOSS

    Google tracking everything we read is bad, particularly since Google abandoned the “don’t be evil” plan...

  • Getting precise timings out of RS-232 output

    For uninteresting reasons I need very regular 58Hz pulses coming out of an RS-232 Tx line:...

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    Libreoffice Conference 2024 in Luxembourg

    Last year, I attended the annual LibreOffice Conference in Luxembourg with the help of a generous...

  • Extrinsic termination proofs for well-founded recursion in Lean – Blog – Joachim Breitner's Homepage

    A few months ago I explained that one reason why this blog has become more quiet...

  • My Debian Activities in February 2025

    This was my hundred-twenty-eighth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started...

  • Thinking inside the box

    An update to our package RcppNLoptExample arrived on CRAN earlier today marking the first update since...

  • Improving Debian packaging in Kate - Things that I work on in Debian

    The other day, I noted that the emacs integration with debputy stopped working. After debugging for...

  • Thinking inside the box

    A new release 0.1.13 of the RcppSimdJson package is now on CRAN. RcppSimdJson wraps the fantastic...

  • Bits from FOSDEM 2025 | Blog de Paulo Santana

    This year I was at FOSDEM 2025, and it was the fifth edition in a row...

  • Nix Notes - anarcat

    In case you haven't noticed, I'm trying to post and one of the things that entails...

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    8k Video Cards

    I previously blogged about getting an 8K TV [1]. Now I’m working on getting 8K video...

  • Shop scheduling with PuLP

    I recently used the PuLP modeler to solve a work scheduling problem to assign workers to...

  • Reproducible Builds in February 2025 — reproducible-builds.org

    Welcome to the second report in 2025 from the Reproducible Builds project. Our monthly reports outline...

  • Thinking inside the box

    Welcome to post 46 in the $R^4 series! r2u, introduced less than three years ago in...