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by Kwpolska 4y ago
Browsers sometimes try adding things to URLs to try and make them work. Firefox tends to add https:// if http:// fails, perhaps some browsers are adding www.
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
> Python, Makefiles, YAML, C, Objective-C, C++, Groovy, Java, shell scripts, Markdown, and plain text files > - JetBrains various IDEs - haven't really given it a fair shake yet. But I want one editor I can use across all the lan
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
It’s convenient if you also have something that automatically builds your code when it changes, and then refreshes the browser (that latter part isn’t necessary). That way, you don’t have to think about saving before switching to the browse
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
Were they showing the private data to everyone, or just to the person whose account was used for the scraping? If it’s the latter, then this is also not a crime, it is just someone accessing data they have been authorized to access, but in
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
Remote access?
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
If you know how Docker works, it’s much easier than messing with all sorts of different services with different requirements. It’s just “add the thing to your docker-compose” and you don’t need to know how to set up PHP on a server or what
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
Your first point is easily solvable with `sudo apt remove snap`. It also solves a lot more problems and gets rid of broken software.
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
You’re aware that Microsoft To Do is effectively the new Wunderlist, correct?
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
Substack is a paid newsletter thing. Some Substack newsletters might have some publicly readable entries, but the user experience on Substack is geared heavily towards getting the thing in your e-mail and paying for it, not free reading on
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
If you want to do some harm, you’ll jump through any hoops, including signing up for mailing lists. But if you want to make a meaningful contribution, and you’re faced with too many absurd requirements, you might just give up.
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
Ukraine is in a place in which an army is required for survival. But does a peaceful country surrounded by an ocean or by peaceful countries — say, Iceland or Austria — need a large army?
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
I switched from pass to KeePassXC/Keepass2Android (with my .kdbx file living in OneDrive). It’s a much more convenient experience on all platforms. Transparent sync via OneDrive, simple self-contained files and apps, no git and no PGP
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
Their main argument is “no telemetry” (or sometimes “no cemetery tracking”…), but VS Code has a setting to disable telemetry [0], and I would trust that it’s really disabled if you set it so (why would they lie about something quite trivial
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
I agree, signing NDAs left and right for random companies isn’t something I’d do, that’s too risky. If the interview falls through, I would prefer to disappear from the company’s databases (GDPR is great for this).
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
Microsoft Office does that: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/licen... It might be technically a violation, but nobody’s going to send a license audit to a private citizen.
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
On macOS, the installers provided by python.org aren’t the best way to get Python either. (pyenv or homebrew would be better; python.org installers do weird things and have no uninstaller)
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
This is blogspam that largely quotes a 1996 article: https://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Q-and-A-With-Brian-En... They also called some random YouTube video “Brian Eno’s remix”.
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
The user interface of LibreOffice is garbage. The ribbon is much more discoverable than toolbars and menus (and no, LibreOffice’s ribbon imitation isn’t as good as the original). And if you’re talking about Excel… LibreOffice Calc doesn’t h
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
What, exactly, makes Windows so bad you compare it to a “lead-laced watter supply”?
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
Safari refuses to use locally-installed non-standard fonts to render web content. You’re stuck with the fonts Apple ships, or web fonts.
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
That’s not the point. This is supposed to be a stack that gets you the system font on Windows, Android, Apple platforms, and maybe Ubuntu. It looks the same way the rest of the OS does, unless the user did something weird (eg. install Aveni
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
Arial is a cheap knock-off of Helvetica. Helvetica does look great in print or on high DPI screens, and Arial manages too, but it’s not so great if you’re dealing with a 96 DPI screen and small font sizes.
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
Emojis are Unicode characters, and some emojis appear in all sorts of fonts, but the more fancy emojis, as well as the color renditions of emojis, appear only in the system color emoji font. The font is changed in the middle of the sentence
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
The point of the system font stack is that your site’s typography resembles the typography of the entire platform. It might look differently on different platforms, but it matches the platform you’re on. Sans-serif will get you ugly fonts,
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
caniuse shows green for all modern browsers, and this blog post from 2017 talks about Windows 7 and the Windows Classic theme. Where are the actual issues?
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
Oddly enough, the page doesn’t use the font stack it proposes. They moved Segoe UI to the end of the list, before Arial, so Windows users who installed Roboto will see Roboto instead.
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
The discovery experience is terrible. There’s a feed of recent comments, but the largest and most noticeable piece of content is the podcast artwork, not the comment text (and the layout feels a bit unintuitive). To find podcasts, I would n
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
In the times of GDPR and CCPA, there is no excuse for not having a simple way to delete your data. You should be able to revoke consent and remove your data as easily as you provided consent.
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
They are recommended for docstrings, but not for comments in general. The compiler has a special case if the first statement of a function/class/module is a string (doesn’t have to be multiline), and it puts that string in the __d
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by Kwpolska 4y ago
What’s your full tech stack and OS, and how much swap/pagefile do you have? My personal Windows machine has 8 GiB, and it’s quite easy to fill it up by just running Firefox (with far too many tabs) and WSL, let alone an IDE.

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