Timwi

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by Timwi 2y ago
What you find fun or unfun need not match other people's preferences. You can tell us what's fun or unfun for you, but you can't tell other people they're having fun wrong. I personally find a lot of optimization problem
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I've been using Windows for more than 17 years and I have no clue what you're talking about; the term “panel” is not an established term in Windows’ desktop environment.
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First off, there are more TLDs than just .com. Secondly, the majority of people go to websites by googling them, not by typing a URL.
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No, they're much further apart than that. Consider that the total number of asteroids is only 7 digits (i.e. not even ten million) and they are spread out across the asteroid belt that is larger than Earth's orbit.
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by Timwi 2y ago
> When I want to relax after work by playing a game while listening to someone drone on on youtube on a deep and esoteric subject Angela Collier is the answer to your plea.
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by Timwi 2y ago
Yet another science piece that perpetuates the misconception that “the mass extinction killed the dinosaurs”. The clade of dinosaurs is not extinct and it bothers me that science writers don't seem to learn this fact and keep getting i
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by Timwi 2y ago
> It also has the function to render the HTML into an image (Via the "Render" button). Firefox has that built in: right click, “Take Screenshot”. It lets you choose between screenshotting just the visible viewport or the whole
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by Timwi 2y ago
Unfortunately, the # character puts a spanner in the works. The browser interprets it as a fragment and thus ignores everything after it. Since # is very common in SVG (color codes, id references), they break more often than I'd like.
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> do you think they're going to ship something that performs noticeably worse than its predecessor? Yes. Capitalist software vendors do that all the time. Google search has been getting continually worse over the decades. Windows is
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I love that they included a note on the pronunciation of kilometer. It drives me nuts how everyone says it wrong.
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This is just a special case of a broader, more general advice that I follow: Comment on whatever would be surprising when you read the code. When I write code, a voice in the back of my head constantly asks “will I understand this code late
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by Timwi 2y ago
> That string is a valid JSON document No it is not?... A valid JSON document cannot start with ` or with '. You could argue that the poster added ` in the hopes of getting it formatted, but not the '.
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Thank you, this really needed saying. I was wondering if I was the only one who saw it.
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Or just have a command-line option to specify an ignore file. That's strictly more useful because then you're not arbitrarily limited to files named “.gitignore”.
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> Binaries are much more capable than what I’m suggesting, though they are platform dependent. Not if they're .NET/IL/CLR (which is an ECMA standard).
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Google Docs.
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The whole point of the test on this website is to judge subjective color perception, so I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you missed the point of my comment.
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My suggestion would be to require submitters to use that kind of URL from the get go.
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I did actually enable the Annoyances filters after seeing this page, but it still didn't filter it out. “Close the tab and move on” is what I've been doing. I'm just suggesting that HackerNews might be a better website if tha
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by Timwi 2y ago
2015 is 9 years ago. We shouldn't keep comparing Windows/Microsoft software from that long ago with modern alternatives on Linux and Mac. That said, I agree that Visual Studio was extremely slow and clunky in the first half of the
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Or you can run 16-bit Windows 3.1 in DOSBox.
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You're right about "everyone should participate in the system, only taking into account their own success and profit, and nothing more than that" being (at least part of) the root problem. However, this is not a description o
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by Timwi 2y ago
Nebula is not a competitor to YouTube for creators, only for consumers. A true competitor to YouTube needs to allow anyone to upload videos.
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by Timwi 2y ago
What's a good alternative to Google Docs and Sheets that has live collaborative editing?
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For Reddit and Twitter there's already Lemmy and Mastodon.
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Not just modern. This was even more significant on slow connections, so they've kind of always done that. One could even argue that HTML, HTTP (specifically, chunked encoding) and gzip are all intentionally designed to enable this.
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Can people please stop posting websites that pop up a “SUBSCRIBE!!” box when you scroll and make the rest of the page unreadable? It's driving me crazy. We should have a policy to post only clean websites where we can read the content
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Well for me, personally, blue and green are simply not adjacent, so there's no point where green turns to blue without going through an intermediate color. This might well be due to my extreme exposure to computer colors, where the in-
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All of the apostrophes in this article are wrong. The correct character is ’, but this article uses ‘ (open single quote) throughout.
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> I’m genuinely confused by your comment. I'm not, I get what they're saying. If I want to eat pie, I need to bake one first or find someone to bake it every time . If I want to use a software, I only need to write or find the

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