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With the release of Unicode 16.0 this September, I may finally be able to use my own language's script. But I am not sure if OSes will directly support the latest version of Unicode immediately. How long should I expect these changes to be available on my local OS?

With that being said, I would like to work on creating my own font, maybe also migrate a few corpuses from the wrong script to the original, new one, as well as work on transliteration.

All of this is impossible for a single person - but I would like to take it slowly. What would be a good place to start? Do I need to keep anything else in mind while starting on this journey?

The person I am talking about is Dr. Palaniappan Manickam aka Dr. Pal, a board-certified gastroenterologist from Sacramento, California, who is also a YouTuber. He's created various videos targeting Indian netizens, most of which are decent, but not without adding his own twist of misinformation, that are considered unscientific - some of them have been debunked here and here (auto-captions available).

I can't help but think why YouTube would immediately remove videos that spread misinformation, but only when it affects the western world, but not the other part? Clearly, this guy's video is in English, he participates in collaborations with other misinformation-peddling YouTubers - the consequences of which a few percent of the billion people in India have to face - which is still, a lot of people? Sure, you can complain that it is the responsibility of the Indian government - but they are themselves in this business of pseudo-science. When there's no one taking responsibility, I can't help but feel helpless about the lies people will hear.

Edit: And to why this matters, there's an on-going case in the Supreme Court of India. Said "guru" sold Coronil kit, and mocked dying doctors. What did the kit do? It had high concentration of lead. Dr. Cyriac Abby Philips fought against it - and the system tried to punish him.

I have forge accounts from three respective sites: GitHub, GitLab and Codeberg. In all of these forges, I've opted to use secret e-mail. The reason for this is that when I had my original e-mail, I was spam-bombed job roles by a company from Shanghai within the Linux foundation, called Zilliz. Apparently, they extracted emails from git patches or something, I don't know much about it.

I want it to be configured, such that when I clone projects from respective sites, I will use their respective secret emails. However, the issue with this is that it is only configured for SSH, and not HTTPS-based URL - when I forget to fork and clone, and instead directly clone the repo from where it originally was, that is where I start to have problems - I can no longer commit, because I did not associate HTTPS URLs with an e-mail. I could, but the git config becomes really messy.

So far, I've come up with a setup that makes use of the if-clause supported by git. But the worst thing about configuring this is that it is so damn painful - I have to setup three different SSH keys, followed by setting up the config, and then also make sure that the keys are working for each sites individually, as well as check that the if-clause is working properly for email. Finally, I also have to create another set of SSH keys for signing commits, and at last, a allowed signer's file so that I can verify my own commits locally, all of this process is so damn frustrating. And again, the same mess on another desktop.

Is there an easier way to go about this?

By project, I am talking about a "virtual" instance. I get to use a computer on their server, but how? Are those virtual machines, or containers?

If the former, then why - given how virtual machines have a large overhead? If the latter, then containers have a low degree of isolation compared to VMs, right? I've also heard about K3 and K8 before, but I don't know exactly what they are, and what role they place here.

And speaking about either of them - how are they introduced through a backend - by using bindings? Or is there a port-equivalent to pass instructions, similar to how we connect to a database?

I saw the video for C23 by ACCU, and I couldn't help but feel that C2x has gotten a bit stricter than what I had learnt. Since this is based on my intuition, and that is not reflective of the reality, I was wondering if modern versions of the language post C99 is a little bit strongly-typed?

This is a small program I've come up with, with the intention of finding the root of a perfect square. I wanted some comments on the performance impact, as well as the use of resources.

#include "square_root.h"

static uint64_t power(uint8_t base, uint8_t exp) {
    uint64_t result = 1;

    while (exp--) {
        result *= base;
    }

    return result;
}

static uint64_t seed(uint64_t radicand) {
    uint64_t a = radicand;
    uint64_t n = 0;

    while (radicand /= 100) {
        a = radicand;
        ++n;
    }

    return ((a < 10)
        ? ((0.28 * a) + 0.89)
        : ((0.089 * a) + 2.8)) * power(10, n);
}

static uint64_t heron(uint64_t x, uint64_t s) {
    while (s != power(x, 2)) {
        x = (x + (s / x)) / 2;
    }

    return x;
}

uint16_t square_root(uint64_t radicand) {
    return heron(seed(radicand), radicand);
}

#ifndef SQUARE_ROOT_H
#define SQUARE_ROOT_H

#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stddef.h>

uint16_t square_root(uint64_t radicand);

#endif

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14245877

My main laptop is dead, so I'm on a potato laptop with a 6th gen Intel i3 processor and 4GB of RAM. I have IceCat installed, but I really don't like the defaults it provides.

Maybe I am in the wrong here, but from the Arkenfox page, I've read that having way too many extension is bad - there's an unbelievable amount of these plugins. IceCat being on the older ESR version is a big no when it comes to security. Last but not the least, I want to create a separate, non-secure profile to use normal pages, but IceCat has hard-coded blocks on several websites.

And that is exactly why I'm looking to move to LibreWolf. But the issue is that there is no pre-built binaries available for my distro. I've waited the entire day for this browser, and I'm tired of having to come back to a frozen desktop, or build fails while waking from sleep.

I'm trying the build once again, and I just wanted to know how long it takes to build, so that I can leave it uninterrupted.

My main laptop is dead, so I'm on a potato laptop with a 6th gen Intel i3 processor and 4GB of RAM. I have IceCat installed, but I really don't like the defaults it provides.

Maybe I am in the wrong here, but from the Arkenfox page, I've read that having way too many extension is bad - there's an unbelievable amount of these plugins. IceCat being on the older ESR version is a big no when it comes to security. Last but not the least, I want to create a separate, non-secure profile to use normal pages, but IceCat has hard-coded blocks on several websites.

And that is exactly why I'm looking to move to LibreWolf. But the issue is that there is no pre-built binaries available for my distro. I've waited the entire day for this browser, and I'm tired of having to come back to a frozen desktop, or build fails while waking from sleep.

I'm trying the build once again, and I just wanted to know how long it takes to build, so that I can leave it uninterrupted.

Here's the program:

rna_transcription.c

#include "rna_transcription.h"
#include <malloc.h>
#include <string.h>

static const char lookup[] = {
    ['A'] = 'U',
    ['C'] = 'G',
    ['G'] = 'C',
    ['T'] = 'A'
};

char *to_rna(const char *dna)
{
    if (!dna)
        return NULL;

    char *rna = calloc(strlen(dna) + 1, 1), *start_rna = rna;
    if (rna)
    {
        for (; *dna; dna++, rna++)
        {
            if (!(*rna = lookup[(int)*dna]))
            {
                free(rna);
                return NULL;
            }
        }
    }
    return start_rna;
}

rna_transcription.h

#ifndef RNA_TRANSCRIPTION_H
#define RNA_TRANSCRIPTION_H

char *to_rna(const char *dna);

#endif

I can't help but wonder how much of a waste of space the array would be. Surely, using a map is better, right?