Sophira

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by Sophira 5y ago
Even v4 was too much for me. I liked the UI pre-v4, and for the longest time after v4 released I would use the FF2 theme (back when themes meant more than just putting an image on your chrome - but that's a whole post by itself) and
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by Sophira 5y ago
GMail is not a closed platform like Wave was, though. In fact, it's one of the few tools Google offer that's designed to let you communicate with people who aren't on a Google platform.
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by Sophira 5y ago
Is there a particular reason why you copied my comment[0] word-for-word? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30799945
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by Sophira 5y ago
Tom Scott made a wonderful video a while back about open APIs, and about how they (mostly) died out[0]. It's currently called "This Video Has 51,973,714 Views", and I personally believe it's a great watch. [0] https:&#x
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by Sophira 5y ago
Sure! I've cleaned up the CSS a little bit since it was originally only for private use, and published it under CC0 at https://userstyles.world/style/3825/hacker-news-underlines-c... . You should be able to u
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by Sophira 5y ago
The design of HN has similar issues, honestly, especially on links you've already visited: https://matrix.theblob.org/hn-original-style.png Which parts are links? Which aren't? It's a little more obvious that
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by Sophira 5y ago
The video is the "Sardaukar Chant", not an ad for chocolate.
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by Sophira 5y ago
How would one go about doing this? I've never been able to get it to do that.
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by Sophira 5y ago
> and finally your very safe and secure OS running. That's the one running on the Intel Management Engine, right? Or at least Intel would like to believe that's the case. Jokes aside, I may be missing something. The BIOS came
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by Sophira 5y ago
I've only just begun using FreeCAD (and CAD in general, especially parametric CAD), but one of the problems I've seen when sketching on a plane has been the topological naming problem[0]. I don't know how it's changed si
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by Sophira 5y ago
My favourite desktop calculator so far is Qalculate![0] for similar reasons, and I basically never have the keypad shown. It uses libqalculate, which also provides an executable version that's usable on the console, which I also use of
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by Sophira 5y ago
> The NotPetya wiper worm was released by the Russian government, the NSA has never been accused of anything similar. Of course it has. The NSA was accused of created Stuxnet, the worm that targeted Iran industrial control systems (such
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by Sophira 5y ago
Heads-up: You linked to Beyond LFS, the book for extending an already finished LFS system. The book for installing LFS is https://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/read.html , which also has a regular and a systemd version.
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by Sophira 5y ago
The copy is extremely manipulative. They're playing on the idea that users will think "Bigger ads? Why the hell would I want bigger ads? This is obviously a trick to try to get me to click that.", when in actual fact, Microso
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by Sophira 5y ago
The problem is that the DIV that contains the main text has the attribute 'style="opacity:0"'. Presumably, this is something that the JavaScript turns off. A lot of sites like to do things like this for some reason. I ha
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by Sophira 5y ago
> You have this the opposite way round to what's happening (and the description). It only compiles on a Friday, i.e. when the sub takes no arguments. Isn't that what the parent said, going by your quote? They said "the f
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by Sophira 5y ago
This is generally correct, but your final analysis is slightly wrong and this is a perfect example of why Perl can be difficult to parse. If you add a 1 to the end of the "f/1;#/+" line, so that it becomes "f/1
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by Sophira 5y ago
My guess is that this is because it was publicly editable and was being vandalised, according to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30306105 Feels like it would have been better for them to make it view-only
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by Sophira 5y ago
It's not just the words though, here. Being called to the principal's office is an exceptional occasion. If they were called to the office that many times, they'd see through the words and recognise that the adults were out o
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by Sophira 5y ago
The closest I've found to having a modern experience to programming in that manner is DragonRuby Game Toolkit [0]. It's not free (with some exceptions for eligible users and indie game developers), but it does offer a standard ver
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by Sophira 5y ago
I know someone who bought a copy of Windows 10 for their computer, because they asked me to help install it. It was definitely not an OEM thing, and the packaging had a USB drive in it.
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by Sophira 5y ago
Also, while not a legal threat, "My questions are about your process for when I do submit a request." strongly implies an intent to submit a legal CCPA request in the future. Using "if" instead of "when" would
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by Sophira 5y ago
One thing I do want to point out is that "not allowing any apps to interfere with 911 calls" is much more complex than it sounds: 1. What about someone who has a tablet (with no cellular functionality) but has a VoIP app installed
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by Sophira 5y ago
The description seems to say that you can dial out on the toy, but it connects via Bluetooth to the mobile device to do so: "Connects to your mobile device with Bluetooth® wireless technology to make and receive calls through your exis
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by Sophira 5y ago
The point of taking a copy of the repo is that you don't have to use git itself to get back to a known state, which is important when it's a tool that you're experimenting with and you're not sure on its use. There'
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by Sophira 5y ago
I didn't know that vim could do this! I've always assumed that undo/redo (u/^r) were my only options. For anyone else who didn't know, try ":help undo-branches" or take a look at https://vim.fan
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by Sophira 5y ago
While you're technically correct that the specification doesn't specifically say that you can't have a CNAME on the root domain, it is still true that you cannot have a CNAME on the root domain because DNS requires that y
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by Sophira 5y ago
Genuine question: Is there any naming issue with this project considering that there exists an emulator called Bochs which could be used to run x86_64 programs on non-x86_64 systems (albeit via the route of actually emulating a full machine
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by Sophira 5y ago
And although OBS is most well known for being incredible streaming software, the fact that it can handle smooth video recording from games too (since once you have streaming you can pretty easily have recording too) means it's also dis
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by Sophira 5y ago
And, of course, the bug where OpenOffice wouldn't print on Tuesdays! [0] (It turned out to be a bug in 'file', not in OOo.) [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161

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