Former South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk, the last leader under apartheid and key actor in the country’s transition to democracy, has died, his foundation has announced.
He was 85.
Former South Africa President FW de Klerk dies aged 85 | News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/11/former-south-africa-president-de-klerk-dies-at-age-85
@zleap To be fair schools dont get funding to be soup kitchens. I'm all for feeding kids who are in poverty, I think thats important. But we cant blame school administrators for that, blame the country/state for not funding schools to provide free food to the kids.
Headteacher refuses to feed children who are ‘more than a penny in debt to school’
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
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@zleap That would be cool. Yea id support a patch with that feature if you wanted to submit it. Or anyone. Otherwise I can consider implementing it myself when I have some time. Depends on how things go in Egypt while im there.
To explain puzzling neutrino behavior, theorists have proposed “dark sector” expansions of the Standard Model that could also resolve the Hubble tension and dark matter. New results suggest these theories could be on the right track. https://www.quantamagazine.org/neutrino-puzzles-point-to-the-possibility-of-multiple-missing-particles-20211028/
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@freemo I had an idea for a feature, citing posts
As we can currently embed posts in a website would it be possible to grab post information such as who posted it, date etc and a link to the post (which you can get to by clicking on it anyway)
That way when writing documents it is possible to quote something but then include a full citation in a bibref file.
@zleap@qoto.org @piggo@piggo.space debian is very bad at handling package dependencies, so inexperienced users can easily end up breaking their systems by accidentally uninstalling packages when they just want to install some software or do a system upgrade
it’s part of why i never recommend debian-based distros
RT @tregenza@twitter.com
I have just been suspended by the college. They say I broke the code of conduct but having been shown the conduct they can't say how I broke it https://twitter.com/tregenza/status/1458728698153164804
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OPGames donates $300k to open source including Godot Engine and Blender https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/opgames-donates-300k-to-open-source-including-godot-engine-and-blender #OpenSource #Meta
In another example of wierdness. I have Debian 10 and XFCE 4 onmy netbook, I recently installed
texlive
textstudio and
jab ref
one of these during the install processl decided that the xfce4-panel package wasn't needed, the result of that is that the top and bottom panels vanished, (thankfully the config was not deleted)
Mind blown: the Norwegian public service broadcaster NRK created an open source, web-based TV automation system for studios and live shows that’s used in daily live TV news productions since 2018.
https://github.com/nrkno/Sofie-TV-automation/
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Use of 1D-CNN for input data size reduction of LSTM in Hourly Rainfall-Runoff modeling. (arXiv:2111.04732v1 [cs.LG]) http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04732
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