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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
Apple is pretty successful.
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
It also ties you to a desk. If you're working in one location, a desktop PC would be more cost-effective and more performant. If you need mobility between desks, a small form factor PC would be easier to carry. And if you are an employ
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
You’re unlikely to find a 1998-era Web page still running a 1998-era SSL stack. SSL was expensive (computationally and CA-cartel-ically), so basically banks and online shopping would have used SSL back then.
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
The linked post contains three cases of Markdown syntax (underscores) leaking into the text, where actual italics were likely intended. This is the most basic Markdown syntax element failing to work. The problem CommonMark is trying to solv
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
The Gmail app takes 175 MB on my Android phone. That’s better than iOS, but still a lot for an e-mail app.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
How is preventing delivery of legitimate email due to the sender's software being misconfigured "good for you"? Also, RFC 5321 [0] says: > SMTP clients that [...] do not maintain queues for retrying message transmissions t
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Why is this a problem now, but was not a problem for the past few centuries? This class had 36 students, you could grade that in a single evening.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
There is no single established framework/language for backend Web development. There are many options, all valid, differing in popularity based on their qualities (or sometimes just hype). Ruby used to be cool around 2010, but it lost
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Reporting valid issues does not grant you the right to abuse the issue tracker.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
This title only works if the numbers are actually useful. Those are not, and there are far too many numbers for this to make sense.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
It’s not Python asking for donations, it’s the Python Software Foundation. Which means donations won’t necessarily go to improving Python or running PyPI, but your money might end up funding a conference in Trumpistan, outreach for the worl
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
How does the big white search box at https://pypi.org/ work? Why couldn’t the same technology be used to power the CLI? If there’s an issue with abuse, I don’t think many people would mind rate limiting or mandatory authent
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Re the second point, it specifically collected valuable codes that shouldn't be widely shared, e.g. employee discounts. Re the third point, the algorithm would skip stand down for users who weren't likely to be testers (based on
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Death penalty for engineers, and a slap on the wrist for CEOs.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
> The Supreme Court’s […] opinions are typeset in Century Schoolbook from that family. Originating in the 19th century, the typeface features more expansive proportions, balanced stroke contrast, and an elegant form, exuding a far more a
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
This document is typeset in New Century Schoolbook.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
You're asking if going from a high level language to a low level language on steroids is difficult? Pointers, manual memory management, and the design by committee standard library are not fun.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Google stopped caring about a good user experience a long time ago, shareholders want more AI slop, not regular searches. I've changed my default search engine to DuckDuckGo, it's much saner overall (although I sometimes need to f
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
And even if you allow XHR and add options to a <datalist>, it still has terrible UX.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
I'm not a fan of making ssh the primary access mechanism for a service. Just make a simple Web panel for managing VMs, and actually explain on the service on the Web page.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
> create TUN devices Is that possible and useful with exe.dev? The docs say: On the networking side, we don't give your VM its own public IP. Instead, we terminate HTTPS/TLS requests, and proxy them securely to your VM's w
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
GitHub repo link returns 404.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Word’s autocorrect inserts en-dashes.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Trusting LaTeX to automatically distribute tables and figures produces not-very-readable documents with tables and figures interrupting content (e.g. page 12). > The default LATEX compiler in both cases will likely be pdfLaTeX, and to ma
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Legacy carriers run a hub-and-spoke model. Ryanair specialises in direct flights. If I can choose between a direct flight with Ryanair, or a connecting flight with a legacy airline, I'm going to choose the former to limit time spent in
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
This site links to https://areweloongyet.com/en/ > Even though the Loongson Corporation has yet to release the remaining volumes of the LoongArch manual, thanks to a wealth of public information such as publicly ava
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Why are Linux packagers so trustworthy? In most distros, they're a group of volunteers. The group is smaller, but it's not impossible for someone with malicious intent to get the keys to the kingdom and upload packages with embedd
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
The library in question is a malicious fork of a library which reverse engineered the undocumented WhatsApp Web API. Good luck making a slop generator reverse engineer an API.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
IEEE Spectrum is full of uninspiring blogspam, like this post.
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> If you want to avoid this issue altogether, consider using a source generator library like Mapster. That way, mapping issues can be caught at build time rather than at runtime. The only winning move is not to play. Mapping libraries, e

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