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by II2II 5d ago
I have picked up a couple laptops with French Canadian layouts over the years and have encountered said layouts in French immersion schools, so I'm no stranger to them. That said, I'm not a French speaker, so I never looked into v
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by II2II 6d ago
Perhaps, but I really don't know why a French keyboard would be different in Quebec compared to a French keyboard in the rest of Canada. There is a picture of a MacBook keyboard from another poster in this thread, which is what I would
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by II2II 6d ago
I'm wondering where those Canadian keyboards are used. I live in Canada, have seen plenty of multilingual keyboards, and have seen those symbols perhaps once. Even so I can't be sure it was on a keyboard. I just recognized one of
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by II2II 6d ago
ASCII is a 7-bit code, so there are only so many symbols one can add. Prior to ASCII, you had codes that used as few as 5 bits. Early C had the option to use digraphs to represent various forms of parenthesis, simply because symbols like {}
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by II2II 6d ago
> The biggest barrier was time I am going to agree, albeit from an entirely different perspective. My job has nothing to do with programming. Aside from administrative tasks, my job has nothing to do with computers. Yet I know how to pro
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by II2II 7d ago
Maybe I shouldn't have included that second paragraph, since that's not my point. The second paragraph was more of an expression of frustration with how elements of the Apple user base regard macOS as the pinnacle of user interfac
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by II2II 7d ago
Most of those are subjective details and vary from platform to platform. Fine adjustments for each platform isn't guaranteed to attract many people to Firefox either. After all, the UI/UX of Firefox is good even if it isn't e
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by II2II 7d ago
Behaving like a native application also has tradeoffs. If you're only working on one platform, then sure you will want it to behave like a native application. If you're working on multiple platforms, chances are that you're g
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by II2II 7d ago
It is sad to see Firefox riding various hype trains over the years, but I can't really blame them. Miss the wrong train, and you fall behind and may not be able to catch up. Miss the train to nowhere, and you are only wasting resources
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by II2II 12d ago
I agree with most of what you are saying. That said: alcohol is also a controlled substance, rather than an illegal one. It is perfectly legal for the original person to serve it within the legal limit. They're saying that the liabilit
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by II2II 14d ago
> Nobody wants to pay for what they use, so companies extract value in other ways and you can't complain about that if you're not willing to pay what it costs. I'm likely old school here, but I never liked "paying for
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by II2II 14d ago
The page doesn't make what SPICE is for obvious, aside from linking to other pages, but they are not talking about the circuit simulation tool. (It appears to be some sort of tool for accessing desktops of virtual machines remotely.)
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by II2II 14d ago
I decided to verify the article's claims, forgetting that I had ClearURLs installed, and ClearURLs does not handle this new format. The article also suggests that it cannot be decoded.
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by II2II 18d ago
> Processor operations have to be strongly typed, by definition. Individual instructions assume the data they operate on is of a particular type, but it doesn't differentiate data types in memory. Here's an example where I fo
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by II2II 18d ago
> Practically speaking, we have a word for the kind of "abstractionless" model you're describing: machine code. I mean, even assembler is a bunch of abstractions about 'registers' and 'instructions' tha
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by II2II 19d ago
There are many reasons why C is not a low level language. Take the example: while `asm()` blocks are a common extension to C compilers, anything within the block is (a) compiler dependent and (b) architecture dependent. To choose an extreme
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by II2II 19d ago
EDIT: Just to be clear, the parent's post was originally made in relation to an article/thread called: "LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices". My response was written at the sam
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by II2II 19d ago
> I find that they're often the only thing that will be truthful about a company's intentions. Really? Many years ago, I had to physically sign a license with Microsoft to obtain some software. The license was not consistent wi
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by II2II 23d ago
Why would anyone put themselves through that if they didn't have to? There is the tale of Allen hand coding the bootloader in machine code, but that was because he was on the plane to give a demo. Otherwise, all of the tales I've
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by II2II 24d ago
> i hate being jaded because you can see where things are headed every time on repeat, but i also hate the term "power user" carries a lot of pc gamer energy and i simply could never assess that i know more then the next guy fo
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by II2II 25d ago
There is a bit of a difference between making a explosives and planting a bomb in another student's locker. The former involves taking risks and may have some utility. The latter only results in others living in fear. Call that lame if
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by II2II 26d ago
When people talk about how much better off kids were in the past, I remember stories from my father (who went to school in the 1960's). They involved drugs, knives, and bombs. I had it pretty good in the 1980's.
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by II2II 27d ago
> The most dangerous part of this addiction is that it doesn't feel like addiction. I've started framing addiction as something that we feel compelled to do even when we know it has a detrimental effect on more important aspect
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by II2II 28d ago
It's more like, is it better to be the person who: - sees a waterfall in every river, even when one is not there? - sees the waterfall, and is resigned about their fate? - sees the waterfall, then struggles for survival no matter how h
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by II2II 28d ago
> One thing people go through as they age is an elevation of cynicism and general misanthropy. After decades of being disappointed when naive idealism and speculative optimism fail, one can just get down on it all. It's even sadder
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by II2II 1mo ago
Was it a mistake? It is easy to say that IBM had monopolistic tendencies, because they did. On the other hand, the 5100 sounds like a vertically integrated design and it ended up being extremely expensive. The Datamaster strayed away from I
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by II2II 1mo ago
I think their point is that computers used to defy inflation. Across the decades, computers were getting cheaper in an absolute sense (i.e. not factoring in inflation) and astonishingly cheaper in terms of dollars per unit of performance. E
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by II2II 1mo ago
True, but many of those bits would be learned in some primary schools. It simply depends upon whether they are relevant where you live. That's especially true for names, which is culturally dependent. It is also true for the culturally
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by II2II 1mo ago
Just look at the "falsehoods programmers believe about ..." articles that pop up from time to time. There are plenty of complexities in the real world that people either don't know about, aren't front of mind when they a
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by II2II 1mo ago
> Frankly, I don't think it's practical to expect operating systems to continue to run binaries perfectly in perpetuity. A lot of that is going to depend upon perspective. Take something that is coming up: Apple has mentioned t

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