Teckla

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by Teckla 3y ago
8GB/128GB goes a lot further on a Chromebook than it does on creaky, old, slow, bloated Windows. And Chromebook prices are very good. I recently got a Chromebook and I'm amazed at how snappy and fast it is. And its built in Linu
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by Teckla 3y ago
Nothing like that is happening here. RTO is not inherently immoral Commuting to/from an office (releasing a lot of CO2 and pollution) when remote work is an option can easily be considered immoral these days.
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by Teckla 3y ago
It's not really a 100% replacement for all of VS Code's features, but there is a pretty big overlap in functionality that may meet most people's requirements: Notepad++
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by Teckla 3y ago
(It would be cool if dormant tabs can just hold the URL, and kill all memory requirements when dormant after N period of time..) The problem with this is that a lot of web pages don't handle this gracefully. You don't end up b
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by Teckla 3y ago
> All survey participants are professional software developers (or a related field), employed at Google. This is not even remotely a good representational sample of software engineers.
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by Teckla 4y ago
I've seen people admonish developers to do this for over 30 years now. I've never seen a developer or group of developers be successfully able to deftly navigate the complicated politics around actually doing so. There's a
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by Teckla 4y ago
In my opinion, the Principle of Least Surprise applies here. Go is defaulting to surprising (unexpected) behavior.
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by Teckla 4y ago
The crypto functions supported by browsers may change in future. Could those crypto functions built into the browser be replaced with JavaScript implementations?
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by Teckla 4y ago
Same here. Searching for Briar shows Signal. I can't find Briar on the iOS app store at all.
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by Teckla 4y ago
Casting from any T* to void* back to T* is always safe. Are you sure this also applies to function pointers?
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by Teckla 4y ago
I have to disagree with you here. Sideloading is either "too hard" or "too scary" for many users.
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by Teckla 4y ago
Unfortunately, if scrum (and story points and sprint commitments and the whole works) is mandated from above--as it usually is--even the best manager won't be able to prevent many or most software engineers from working in a constant s
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by Teckla 4y ago
My first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer. My second computer was a Commodore 64. Other than the CPU, the Commodore 64 was better in every way. Graphics, lowercase, SID for sound, real interrupts for data, keyboard... so many other reas
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by Teckla 4y ago
Or go spelunking through modern Go code. Variable names that are so terse it hinders reading and comprehension.
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by Teckla 4y ago
I like, and use, Discord daily, and like it a lot. But I have to agree: Eventually , management will start to more aggressively monetize it (i.e., "pull the rug from under their free users"). Truly free (e.g., IRC) alternatives s
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by Teckla 4y ago
Or just use a popular, stable, free IRC network such as libera.chat. A lot of very good IRC clients are available for free. IRCCloud is a good starting point for a lot of people: excellent UI/UX, a free tier, and a very inexpensive pai
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by Teckla 4y ago
IRC has always been free and you can search as much as you've logged... The biggest problem with IRC has always been its lack of server-side history.
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by Teckla 4y ago
Speaking just for myself, after perusing Fuchsia source, the code seems eye-wateringly "clever," pretty much everywhere. I'm doubtful many people would be able to read it or contribute to it very effectively.
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Let's just kill the silly myths(ypsidanger.com)
3 points by Teckla 4y ago|0 comments
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by Teckla 5y ago
And, if you turn off automatic sample submission, the Windows Defender icon in the task tray displays a scary exclamation mark, warning you that you might not be secure.
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by Teckla 5y ago
My iPhone 8 connected to my Bose SoundLink II has the same issues! Glad it's not just me.
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by Teckla 5y ago
I prefer a blinking cursor, otherwise I often find it hard to find the cursor on the screen. Also prefer block cursor to underline cursor for the same reason.
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by Teckla 5y ago
If Apple settles, wouldn't that incentivize other developers to sue Apple for the same and similar reasons? I'd think Apple would want to win the case to discourage other developers from doing the same thing.
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by Teckla 5y ago
I often use my iPad Pro like a laptop -- at a desk, with Bluetooth keyboard -- for extended periods of time. Very frequently, I use my wired headphones and charge the device at the same time. I'm glad I can do that without some dodgy e
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by Teckla 5y ago
I've run a Minecraft server on a $10/month DigitalOcean VPS for years. What you describe has never happened to me. Have I just been lucky?
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by Teckla 5y ago
Scepter [of Goth]? Milieu?
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Darker Corners of Go(rytisbiel.com)
2 points by Teckla 6y ago|0 comments
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by Teckla 6y ago
Every time you do something that you do frequently during the day -- for example, pick up your phone to use it -- stop for a few seconds and mentally ask yourself, "Is this real?" Once you're in the habit of doing that, you&#
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by Teckla 6y ago
There are literally two citations immediately following that sentence in the Wikipedia article.
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by Teckla 6y ago
CentOS is Community Enterprise OS. Enterprise is right in the name. "Enterprise" isn't right in the name. "ent" is. Until a few weeks ago, I didn't know what the "Cent" part of "CentOS" me

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