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JonathonW
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Produces smaller binaries than bun too-- one of my applications, packaged by pkg for Windows, is about 70 MB (and actually does things; this isn't a Hello World). And it compresses well (must be including library sources in the binar
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I've seen it take anywhere from thirty seconds to a few minutes-- probably depending on server load. And there's never any real feedback that anything's happening (a "you're in the queue" message or something
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Click "Enable Navigation" under the image of the bridge on the top left and eventually it'll switch over to an interactive 3D view where you can walk around. This takes a little while because for some reason they're doin
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Not in a healthy human. Cutting (or partially severing) the corpus callosum connecting the hemispheres of the brain has been shown to have some interesting results along those lines, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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exfat’s reliability “issues” are by design— it’s not journaled, to simplify implementation (and reduce resource use) on embedded devices and reduce wear on flash media. It’s not a replacement for NTFS in applications where it’s already bein
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It may or may not use the Accept-Language header as well, but this is a user setting accessible via the Twitter web UI-- you specify your primary interface language and can specify any number of additional languages that you understand. Th
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And rules requiring a quorum in order to take any kind of binding action. If this were a real-world corporation, this would be a massive failure on the part of whoever set up the organization's bylaws. Since this is Eve, I don'
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The sandbox persists through a restart (to allow for the installation of software that requires a reboot) but never persists after Windows Sandbox is closed. That’s the big distinction from Hyper-V or other virtualization products; otherwis
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Keybase is the closest I've seen to solving the key exchange problem, with their scheme for verifiably tying keys to user identity and user identities to users' online presences (websites, social media, etc.). Unfortunately, it se
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Labels and custom icons on files are stored in extended attributes (implemented as named forks on HFS+; not sure about APFS but the OS presents them all as xattrs regardless of FS) on the files themselves in APFS and HFS+. Custom icons for
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They're using QMK on their prototype keyboard and numpad input modules (which are RP2040-based internally). The interface for input modules to the rest of the computer is "just" USB 2.0, so you could put just about anything t
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From what I was reading, the original Game Boy boot ROM was originally extracted photographically. The Super Game Boy boot ROM was extracted using clock glitching, and the Game Boy Color ROMs (it has more than one) were extracted using a co
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With a microscope, after removing the packaging of the chip (with nitric acid, in this case). The readme in the linked repo goes into detail both on how they produced the image used, and how the image is used to extract the ROM. The ROM it
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Historically, Apple didn't have cursor customization built into the OS-- cursor color customization was new in Monterey (macOS 12) and cursor size customization is only a few releases older (I can't find exactly when it was added
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What are “bog-standard UNIX drivers” and what other GPU vendors supply such a driver that can be installed on a Mac?
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Microsoft's font designers, apparently. (Corbel and Candara both have them, despite it being kind of weird for a sans-serif font-- those were MS-commissioned fonts launched as part of the ClearType Font Collection with Windows Vista
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Elgato's Stream Deck is a more mainstream application of the same approach, with a single LCD under all of the keys. The Stream Deck isn't doing anything particularly exotic with its key mechanism, though (from what I can tell, th
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Airpods Pro are not exclusively reliant on active noise cancellation to reduce noise alone-- the tips seal in your ear canal and provide passive isolation as well, similar to how earplugs or conventional IEMs (in-ear monitors) work. AirPo
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The staging area is where you construct your next commit— giving you a middle ground between your changes in your local working copy and the last actual commit so that, if you don’t want to commit everything that you’ve changed in a singl
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There is an option to turn this off, both globally and on a site-by-site basis (if there's a page or site that you never want to be discarded, you can tell Chrome not to).
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At this point, I'm using SASS pretty much exclusively for nesting (and where required to customize other styling systems-- mostly older Bootstrap). Once I can assume CSS nesting is everywhere I need it, I can probably eliminate SASS
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I'd be willing to guess that the vast majority of applications (if not all) dependent on core-js are pulling it in as a transitive dependency of something else-- most via either a direct dependency on `@babel/preset-env` or indir
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That's C++/CLI; it's still around but isn't really a priority nor is it considered a "core" .NET language these days (it's an optional install in VS2022): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us
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Looks like it is, yes.
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You used to be able to pin it to a corner-- it was removed in 10.10 (IIRC along with a rewrite of the Dock itself) and never came back. Which is unfortunate, because a top-aligned Dock (on one of the sides of the screen) is way more pre
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The first two reference something where there's no strong evidence showing that it actually happened (it's more likely that it was credential stuffing-- using data from other breaches to compromise Disney+ accounts using the same
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Page up and page down in that location is fairly common in business-class laptops; Lenovo, Dell, and HP all do it in at least some models.
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"It" is not generally used in English to refer to people, and generally carries a dehumanizing or even pejorative connotation when used to refer to a person (it's not unheard of to see "it" used as a slur against bi
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Each airport does measure and report the local weather-- that's where METAR data comes from. And busier airports broadcast that data locally, via ATIS or D-ATIS, for pilots in the immediate vicinity to use (either on the ground or on
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If you’re looking for a general-purpose extractor for known, common archive formats, bsdtar is really nice these days; it’s libarchive-based and does way more than just tarballs (extracts zip, rar, and 7z as well as all the common compressi
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