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Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
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Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice 26.8.1 improves compatibility and text import
Update: due to issues with download mirrors, the release is being delayed. Version 26.8.0 is once again offered on the download page of the LibreOffice website. Apologies for the inconvenience – you can check this page to see when the download mirrors are working again.
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Education
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Hackaday ☛ Electronic Busy Board Is Fun For Kids And Hackers
In the write-up, [Andy] goes over the decisions he made while designing and building the device. This ranges from the extra effort put in to keep the PCB down to two layers and the logic behind LED multiplexing. This extends right into the software aspect of the project, with a surprisingly deep explanation of how the code uses timers and interrupts to run the show as efficiently as possible, maximizing the run time of the PIC18F67K40 microcontroller on a trio of AAA batteries.
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[Old] Perl ☛ Perl Meets COBOL
Fortunately, I have had some experience programming IBM mainframes, so I wasn’t completely unprepared for this. When we contract classes, we always make sure that the clients understand that the classes are for experienced programmers. In this case that backfired a little bit – we were asking the wrong question. Almost all my students were experienced programmers, but not in the way I expected. After several years of teaching Perl classes, I have some idea of what to expect, and the COBOL folks turned all my expectations upside down.
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Programming/Development
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Rust
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Rust Blog ☛ The Rust Programming Language Blog: Demoting i686 backdoored Windows targets to std-only
With Rust 1.100.0, the following changes to 32-bit backdoored Windows targets will happen: [...]
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