Kwpolska

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by Kwpolska 2y ago
All JSON serializers worth their salt can serialize a single string to JSON, so the simplest way is to do json.dumps(the_string) and mark the string as safe so that it doesn't get escaped twice.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
For articles with more complicated layout needs, the HTML version could be simplified, uglier, designed with wider accessibility in mind. But the PDF version would be the one where the pretty, print-friendly layout could shine.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
It would be good to figure out how many people actually care about printability. Perhaps what you could do is: 1. HTML is the primary format for articles. Authors can do whatever tricks they like in CSS, but are encouraged to make their lay
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Perhaps it's checking which apps can handle links?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Nothing stops you from using the classic theme on XP, and conversely, you can enable the eye-candy themes on 2003.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Windows 8 and 10 have a real ribbon, Windows 11 went back to a normal toolbar.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
I certainly wouldn't, the ribbon has much better discoverability than tiny toolbars. And Office 2003 performed reasonably well with HDDs anyway.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
That seems like a very long-winded way to say you hate on-call, which is a completely normal thing to do. That said, is on-call effectively mandatory or very popular in the US startup world? Because here, in the European established company
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
My company is using hosted Office 365 e-mail. Their trick with server-side IMAP is well-known, and makes some sense for the Outlook mobile apps. But it does not excuse not having recent messages cached.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
I’m using the new Outlook. It’s generally fine, although my biggest issue with it are infinite loading screens. This is a desktop e-mail client, it should not require an Internet connection to show e-mails, especially recently received e-ma
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
You can try to reorder them. Whether or not it remembers the setting is another question.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Let's start with corporations. You know, those that invented the term "carbon footprint" to redirect blame for climate change to consumers.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
There are tradeoffs to that. If your CI logic is in shell scripts, you will probably get worse error reporting than the dedicated tasks from the CI tool (which hook into the build system, or which know how to parse logs).
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
If I want to use a program once, I’ll just use a portable version. And I’ll be angry if it decides to add itself to the context menu of all Explorer files. But I agree, for things I use more often, installers are the way to go, and I am not
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Those users would probably refuse the recovery and boot the system from a CD/floppy to recover manually.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
If only folding phones weren't prohibitively expensive, fragile, and most notably completely pointless...
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
I'm not a classic Mac OS expert, but the way it works seems extremely convoluted and un-Apple-like. Instead of copying the mini system folder to the desktop and asking the user to copy the files to the real system folder, couldn't
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The system seems inefficient, as the sticky notes look the same. So Kasia has to go to the cupboard and check what to buy.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The term "Free Software" sucks from the marketing point-of-view, as ~everyone except FSF fanboys understands it to mean "price = $0". Sorry, that ship has sailed.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
For RMS specifically: https://stallman-report.org/ The GNU project has an extremely utopian and unrealistic vision of open-source.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
On the one hand, having less RMS and GNU software in the world is better. On the other hand, I'd prefer for basic system tools to be provided by an established and well-funded project, and not just switch to something written in Rust b
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
He couldn't control the foundation, but he could say "integrate a crypto wallet or I'm not donating any more".
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
OS widget libraries aren't always big enough to solve all problems. On the web, there are many frameworks that provide widgets for typical use cases. But even if you have a library with hundreds of widgets, you can still make a terribl
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
I don't understand how the author managed to connect iPads running a toy operating system with Microsoft's serious business operating system not being supported on older hardware.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
[citation needed] Why would Google pay to be the default if the majority of users would have a different engine?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Blink is a Google project, primarily maintained by Google employees.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
I don't want my browser to be dependent on Marc Andreessen. And he doesn't want to do things useful to humanity anyway.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Drag and drop controls exist on the Web for decades. How did Microsoft mess theirs up so that it doesn't work on Firefox? (I actually had that exact issue yesterday; I managed to do it on the Android app, and didn't think this was
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Windows 95 came on 13 floppies. That version excluded most fancy features, you can't compress ~360 MB to ~22. Windows 11 could also "fit on a set of floppies" - although thousands of floppies would be completely absurd, it is
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Some people are too lazy to read docs, so they ask the bullshit generators instead.

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