Kwpolska

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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
So many Web designers put zero thought into how their page looks when it is not loaded or not scrolled exactly past the trigger. So many sites say "0 happy customers", because someone thought showing incrementing numbers is cool.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Not all problems cause exceptions.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
If you read the post, a more accurate title is "I don't know what generics are but I'm implementing a programming language anyway".
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
If Microsoft had not acquired GitHub, there would not be GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions is a mediocre knock-off of Azure Pipelines, and it was launched after the acquisition.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
> Store your files, download and stream media, run a Bitcoin node, and more — all in your home. Run a Bitcoin node? No, thanks, I don’t want my files anywhere near a crypto bro cloud box.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
At $DAYJOB, we used to have a few internal use Azure Functions (which we’ve migrated to AWS Lambda). My favourite Azure weirdness was a warning message that said some Blob Storage-related thing was about to expire. We hadn’t set up any Blob
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
The Latin letters look rough too.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
While virtually all fonts support characters outside of ASCII, there are few fonts that support all of Unicode. Unifont aims to be one of them.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Nah, there’s just one size in this case (16x16).
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Were they so unoriginal that they had to steal the "fc" abbreviation from the Linux distro as well? (In the Linux distro, it comes from the original name "Fedora Core"; the abbreviation is most visible in package version
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Here is an example of the Builder pattern that illustrates my point: https://www.baeldung.com/java-builder-pattern#bd-classic-bui... Let’s remove the category argument and you get this: Post post = new Post.Builder()
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
I've read that book, and it felt very childish and condescending. Design patterns cannot be applied in every language. While some patterns are applicable everywhere, many of them provide replacements for missing language features. For
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
In the telecom world, that would be a pretty terrible business model, as the list of entities who would need a copy of the standard is relatively short.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
The free tier for EC2 expires after a year, and the eligible t-family instances have low resources and extreme CPU throttling if you try to do anything more serious with them.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Why is that needed, and how would you know if it’s out of spec?
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
They would need to know what a COM type library is in the first place.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Their add-in seems quite simple, I imagine there would be no meaningful difference between using the classic .NET Framework 4.8 and .NET 10.
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
The library that caused breakage for the OP is a good example: https://github.com/softwaremill/quicklens
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
Icons in menus do follow the 2025 HIG: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... The author is criticising 2025 macOS for not following the 2005 HIG. This is not reasonable criticism, the HIG are
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by Kwpolska 10mo ago
The takeaway of upgrading your libraries when upgrading major language and framework versions applies beyond Scala. Especially when the libraries abuse magic language features (and far too many Scala libraries do) or otherwise integrate dee
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
What is the magic solution that will make people migrate? Non-image-based mainstream Linux distros, like Ubuntu, tend to be stable and don’t randomly break. Random breakage happens in Ubuntu, but it also happens in Windows, and probably in
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
Just like the recent Bazzite post, this page is full of buzzwords, but fails to explain what it actually is. It’s an image-based Linux distro. Which is nothing groundbreaking, and a solution looking for a problem, because classic Linux dist
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
It’s saying something that your post lists all the negative aspects of movie theaters and positive aspects of watching at home without actually specifying why “Movie theaters still win on a couple fronts”.
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
They will own it, and then what? Will Claude Code end every response with "by the way, did you know that you can switch to bun for 21.37x faster builds?"
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
If you go with the defaults, they might be. But if you manually define the letter for your external drive, it will keep it forever. (I have my external drive set to X. I’m not sure if Windows would respect that assignment if I had plugged i
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
Depends on your setup. These days, I have a D drive for sharing data with the Linux install I never use. I used to have a D drive for user data (to keep them safe when reinstalling Windows) back in the 9x/XP days (and my CD drive was E
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
> GitHub has been useful to store all repositories of the Dillo project, as well as to run the CI workflows for platforms in which I don't have a machine available (like Windows, Mac OS or some BSDs). The post does not mention CI an
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
The deployment may be simple, but at the same time, the Gerrit code review workflow is terrible.
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
Even Microsoft used the Clippy nickname in their 2001 campaign about getting rid of him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant#History
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
> In my case, first I tried using the latest Python 3.13.9 both from Windows 7 (bad idea due to resource fork loss) and macOS 10.14.6 Mojave, but neither worked: it seems like that version of Python was just too new. I then retried with

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