Cyberdog

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by Cyberdog 4y ago
What a very websitey web site. My first thought when I saw that home page was "boy, I bet if I keep scrolling, there's going to be empty areas on the page where things obnoxiously animate into place" and BOY HOWDY. For your f
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Or the power it takes to continuously spin hard drive platters regardless of whether a data transfer is actually happening. Or, as stated in another subthread, the reduced energy usage per gigabyte involved in transporting SSDs versus large
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Dare I ask, what is your source on this?
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
This feels an awful lot like an XY problem, so forgive me for asking this, but for what purpose do you need the key repeat rate to be faster than the maximum? Is it just a matter of wanting the speeds in macOS and Ubuntu to match up?
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
As a web developer, I certainly agree that doing this sort of stuff using web techs is almost certainly like using a howitzer to swat a fly, especially when security is a concern, and I'm kinda surprised… well, not surprised, but more
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Given roughly equivalent line waits, I've found human checkers tend to be much faster if you have more than a handful of items - they know where the barcodes are on the items so they don't have to play the game where you try to fi
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
So would it be possible to install software or hardware which always returns a "success" from the card reader hardware without it actually doing the transaction and give everyone who uses that machine free food until someone figur
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
As a huge fan of the Portal games, I feel your pain. I really miss them. Unfortunately Valve doesn't really seem to be in the market of making actual games anymore, so we'll probably never see a 64-bit upgrade. But like I said, I&
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Well, I wasn't really bringing it up as proof of Mac superiority, but it's certainly a better experience than one can get from non-native programs. I personally don't get all the hate for Xcode, but whatever. To each their ow
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Steam exists on Mac, and while there are plenty of games that don't have Mac ports that I wish I could play (Stray being the most recent), there are still enough to keep me perpetually backlogged, and the limits are probably best for m
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Let me try restating my point: Windows users know how to be productive in Windows. How many of these people will be willing to give up that knowledge for a Mac that may be faster in terms of brute speed but with which they will, at least in
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Neither of those are Mac applications. One is an Electron pile of ass and the other is a Java pile of ass. See Xcode or Nova for examples of real Mac IDEs/editors. But note that my post was not just talking about development tools. I g
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
> It's a $2,000 laptop running the same OS as a $900 laptop, running the same git binary that you execute on a $35 Raspberry Pi. I don't see it. I suppose you're right if you do absolutely everything on the command line, b
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
To be fair, the original author of the quoted article is probably doing most of the smoking of things. All Gruber did is restate it and add the obnoxious political snipe at the end. Windows people, how much faster would a non-Windows machin
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Please try accessing that prototype with JavaScript disabled, and see why I feel this is also the wrong approach for the successor to classic forums. Just put the web page content onto the web page. Nobody ever died by doing that.
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Well, their Wikipedia article is biased and somewhat counterfactual, as they always are whenever they possibly could be. Kiwi Farms only loosely moderates non-illegal speech, so there are edgelords dropping slurs, yes, but that there are no
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
XenForo is IMO currently the best general-purpose forum system out there. Tons of features while still keeping the essence of traditional forums; paginated, non-threaded lists of posts which aren't powered by gigantic globs of JS doing
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Then why did you join HN?
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
They swapped the parameters (after a long period of either order being valid, then the old order being deprecated) to more closely match those of explode(). It was a bug fix if anything; the old form should have been more "offensive&qu
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Can you confirm that Dart desktop apps are actually desktop apps and not Electron apps or similar?
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Yes, Swift UI is awesome, if you don't fear making a UI in code as opposed to a drag-and-drop UI editor (the former always "clicked" better with me than the latter anyway, perhaps due to my web dev background). Really wish it
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
PHP tends to be remarkably conservative in this regard. Things which are scheduled to be deprecated will typically just throw a warning for a major version or two before being removed entirely, and the migration documentation is very thorou
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Remember Skype? How it could run in the background and get text messages and calls and not really cause any problems? And then Microsoft bought Skype, and every subsequent version just kinda got a little shittier? And then MS puts effort in
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
This sort of confusion could have been avoided if they had just said "the source code to this program is now free to distribute under the (MIT|BSD|GPL|etc) license" from the beginning. Nobody knew what exactly the intent of this n
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Oh, okay, interesting. I didn't realize there was a whole record label behind it.
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Japan seems content with "Japan" for now but they have been trying to get English speakers to say Japanese names with the family name first recently, but it hasn't really caught on outside of state organs. Note this NHK artic
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
That poor kid has been studying for two and a half years now. I really hope she's able to pass that test; it seems like a real nightmare. That aside, do we know the claim was really bogus? The article doesn't seem to mention that.
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
> Regarding your other point, characters like `*` won't need escaping within character class. Really? Huh. I've been escaping them anyway, and I think I'll continue to do so just to avoid ambiguity when reading patterns. I
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
Haven't tried it since I'd rather not sign up for an account. But regarding this example: Minimum eight characters, at least one letter, one number and one special character >> ^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*d)(?=.*[@$!%*#?&am
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by Cyberdog 4y ago
> But you can do that by accidentally pressing numpad 0 instead This "feature" always trips me up. For those unaware, pressing 0 through 9 will jump the playhead to 0% through 90% of the timeline, respectively. I can understand

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