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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Apple used to sell Macs with Intel (integrated), AMD, and Nvidia GPUs. In other departments, they also had multiple vendors and chips. The Apple Silicon transition streamlined the product lines, but before, there were tons of drivers, and m
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
I agree with magic links being bad, but passkeys aren't the right solution for multiple devices either, because it requires sharing the account or password manager they're saved in between devices, and I'd rather keep my priv
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
This seems extremely limited to just four container properties, completely ignoring the child item properties, which are quite important in flexbox as well.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
How is 5G (which isn't super successful or groundbreaking) related to the games people play?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Immediate bans might be related to the country you're in. This is a US retailer, and there is zero reason for someone outside of the US to visit that site. Blocking foreign visitors allows them to ignore GDPR, for example.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Windows Terminal has a ton of options these days. Last time I used Apple's, it had very US-centric handling of Alt/Option, unlike iTerm2.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Disabled by default until 7 months ago.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Looks like a case of print() debugging making it into production: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/63ec2bb0b95078a97a... https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blame/5db0f7
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Xbox is irrelevant to TPM in Windows 11 (as are Microsoft keyboards and mice). Surface has a fairly small market share.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Editors may also be a team decision in some places. Some teams are using features unique to one IDE, for example.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
It's not irrational if you keep in mind that Bench had done a hard and sudden shutdown 3 days earlier.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Sources at the end without any references to them in the text is not a good way to cite things. There’s no good reason to use images in your post, other than the one graph. Images of text are a necessity on Twitter, but this is a real web p
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
This should have an option to allow using system fonts (e.g. Consolas) to replace the proposed garbage fonts (such as https://www.codingfont.com/MajorMonoDisplay ).
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
And by the way, pasting screenshots instead of linking to sources is very uncool.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Microsoft Access/JET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Database_Engine
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Adding an easter egg command to your chat app is trivial. Actually making it good, stable, usable is not, especially if you prioritize easter eggs.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
How do you encode that into a requirement that won’t be thrown out by the courts as libel or targetting a specific manufacturer?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
They can’t be banned from participating in public tenders without due process. Tenders tend to have the price as the most important factor in choosing the winner.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42524568 If you want to donate to the legal effort, the CCC has started a legal fund: https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/das-ist-volli
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Name one business started this century that uses mainframes. If there were any compelling reasons to use them in the modern times, there would certainly be some companies using it. Mainframes are legacy cruft used by businesses that had the
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
TIL it stands for "Project Object Model". It sounds like a backronym or made-up name to me.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
You don't need a full-blown IDE to write HTML. Maybe for Python. But for languages like Java, you're leaving a lot of productivity and error prevention on the table.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
JetBrains Rider for C# is equally awesome. And you don't need to paste XML snippets for dependencies, it's in the GUI.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
JetBrains IDEs are highly extensible, and they have support for AI completions. Nevertheless, I think that the assistance and navigation features in IDEs are much more useful than auto-generating half-broken code.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
You can board a train within a few minutes of the departure time. You can just enter the train station and walk to the train you want to take. Train stations tend to be in the city center, where it’s very easy to get to. Boarding an airplan
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Most transit systems tend to optimize getting to the city center. Getting to the airport is usually harder.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Applying some leeway to the numbers would make this a nicer experience. There are some destinations which are e.g. 3 hours 2 minutes away — they only appear when 4 hours are selected, but it would make more sense to show them in the 3h buck
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
They are an interface on top of Express Elixir, not Elixir.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The most popular way to transfer money between friends in Poland is a BLIK-to-phone-number transfer. Those transfers are done from the banking app. I don’t need to know someone’s account number, I just need their phone number. BLIK transfer
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
This German association funds a lawsuit entirely in Poland involving only Polish parties. And sadly, we don’t use the Euro, but rather have our own trash currency, so at least a currency conversion will be involved.

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