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by Kwpolska 3y ago
> Does the corporate firewall block JavaScript? Because loads of them still do. [citation needed] > Does their ISP or mobile operator interfere with downloaded JavaScript? Sky accidentally block jQuery, Comcast insert ads into your sc
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
LLMs can't think.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
Even if there was no AWS product for managed Redis, how many businesses would bother paying Redis Labs and introducing extra latency to their cache server if they could easily set up their own instance on AWS (in EC2/ECS)? Configuring
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
Horizontal centring was never hard in CSS, it's just `text-align: center` for inline elements and `margin: 0 auto` for block elements. It's vertical centering that was impossible for many years.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
> Microsoft, the copyright holder Nope. The entire point of this was testing third-party off-the-shelf software.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
Windows 9x does let users have separate profiles with their own files and settings, even if they aren’t super secure.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
Windows also had FAT16 -> FAT32 and FAT32 -> NTFS converters. In the 90s. But nobody produced blog posts praising them for them, this was just a Windows feature.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
I absolutely despise my ISP’s business arm, but I trust their network arm not to do something stupid. I certainly trust them more than a company in a remote tax haven with a broken legal system.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
> Based in Latvia, OnlyOffice owner Ascensio System SIA was a subsidiary of Russian-based New Communication Technologies.[2] Due to EU economic sanctions targeting Russia, European organizations that used the commercial version of Only
820.
by Kwpolska 3y ago
I tested the free version, their Excel equivalent seems fine, although with some strange limitations in the free version (you can edit Tables in Excel documents, but not create new ones, as creating is a paid feature).
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
I tested this with LibreOffice 24.2.1.2, and it’s far, far from what Excel tables do. The most basic features of an Excel table (Insert -> Table) are (a) the ability to reference cells in the same row by the name of the column, (b) displ
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
What viable European alternatives to Microsoft Office are there? Google Docs is also a US-based cloud service. LibreOffice is ugly, its UX is sometimes worse than Office 2003 (especially Calc, where pivot tables have to be blindly config
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
> People hate Teams/Office because it's so low quality People hate Office? I don't think I've seen any significant hate for Microsoft Office (but I personally hate LibreOffice). > calendar has hardcoded top-down ma
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
The US is not unique in having free speech laws. And those laws aren't a complete free for all.
825.
by Kwpolska 3y ago
I‘m pretty sure ageism is against the rules here.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
Combining package and interpreter management can be a good developer experience for some, but it also means some people can’t or won’t use the tool, because they prefer their OS’s Python, or are forced to use a specific Python. Decoupling t
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
User-friendly URLs with slugs are useful for blogs and other things commonly linked to. But for many other entities, links will be rare, and the central coordination required would just be a waste of time.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
This is why I believe the package management tool should be separate from the interpreter management tool. Downloading a random third-party build can be valuable for some, but most people have a good enough interpreter on their machines. Th
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
Small fonts, very wide lines, small and non-obvious links for actions, bright backgrounds. I use https://www.modernhn.com/ to improve HN readability.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
I never thought you could make HN substantially worse designed, but apparently, here we are.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
Default flags of compilers tend to prefer backwards compatibility over correctness and modernity. Passing flags to make the compiler behave correctly or report all errors is nothing new.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
Sandbox is great in general, but it might not work for working with something deeply integrated into Windows (I remember some installer failing because a Microsoft thing wouldn’t install). > Pristine: Every time Windows Sandbox runs, it&
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
It does require some effort. If Google decides to show a Directions button, you can get Maps and directions from a random location, but you can recover from that. If it doesn’t, the only option is going to maps.google.com (or finding the Ma
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
I once ran a `git clone` from WSL1 on the C: drive, and tried to build a C++ project in VS. It complained that "EXAMPLE.H" was not found. An "example.h" file did exist in the repo, and my code asked for "example.h&q
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
I don’t understand this paragraph. How does it do reference counting if the developer needs to manually increment and decrement the counter? Does the language provide anything beyond automatically allocating an integer and initializing it t
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
How thin is “thin”? If I build a chat app on top of Redis, is it safe? There’s a tutorial on the Redis website: https://developer.redis.com/howtos/chatapp/ — is it a sign that it’s too simple to be distinct? Or I
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
To have customers for their consulting business, they first need to convince people WiX is the way to go, and if there are no docs and developers struggle with building the most basic installer, they would probably try looking elsewhere bef
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
If you’re building something simple (dump files into Program FIles + create a shortcut), WiX is not that hard, and it does not require much understanding of the MSI internals. But the docs just aren’t there to help you and to tell you the f
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
This is apparently a language designed in 2004. In 2004, I'm pretty sure most of the world knew that manual memory management and zero-terminated strings are foot guns and sources of bugs. The sockets and HTTP server samples showcase t
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
The licence forbids > offering a product or service, the value of which entirely or primarily derives from the value of the Software or Modified version How do you define how much value your app derives from Redis? If Redis is the primar

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