Programming and Education
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Alexandru Nedelcu ☛ Cancellable HTTP requests via Scala's Tapir
This sample is using Tapir for describing HTTP endpoints. For the server backend, Tapir is configured to use Netty. And for the client making HTTP requests, it’s using Sttp, powered by the standard async-http-client. And I’m also using Cats-Effect, as the effect system because it rocks, with its interruption model being best in class.
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Carl Schwan ☛ Conferences in September
After having participated to both Qt Contributor Summit and Akademy, I ended up going to a few more conferences in September.
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Education
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Rlang ☛ Making R work in government
This year’s Ihaka Lecture is about making R work in government. It was delivered by Peter Ellis, the Director of the Statistics for Development Division at the Pacific Community (SPC).
A lot of the talk is based on very direct comparisons between R and other software: [...]
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Open Access/Content
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Techdirt ☛ Gates Foundation Shows That ‘Gold Open Access’ Was A Mistake, And ‘Diamond Open Access’ Is The Future
Preprints are a key element of diamond open access, where there are no charges for either the reader or the researcher. The momentum behind what was once a fringe approach seems to be growing. Last year, the open access group cOAlition S made an important move towards diamond open access based around preprints. In July of this year, the Global Diamond Open Access Alliance was announced at a UNESCO event. The switch by the Gates Foundation from supporting gold open access to requiring preprints is another important signal that diamond open access is the way forward for the widespread, free dissemination of academic knowledge – something that copyright has prevented for too long.
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BSD
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DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ Lazy Reading for 2024/09/29
Tab cleanout! How computers remained unpatented. (via) 50 years of New Worlds magazine, archived. (via) THE CYBERIZER, Mk.2. Cyberdelia 2024 – look at the D20 and 2D16 drink menus for fun. Small Internet protocol roundup. (via) You Have Installed OpenBSD.
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Python