eviks

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by eviks 7mo ago
> knew I wanted to use the latest and greatest first-party foundation. That meant writing a WinUI 3 app, using the Windows App SDK No it doesn't? That's "the latest", but not "the greatest", and as "a W
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by eviks 7mo ago
They warned you!
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by eviks 7mo ago
> PDF optimized for on-screen technical reading PDF isn't optimized for that, like now, reading the article a phone, I couldn't properly check out a chapter because PDF is awful in optimizing itself for a smaller screen
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by eviks 7mo ago
The usual proof is whether law enforcement agencies can force the company to share such data
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by eviks 7mo ago
> your IDE or formatter dare not help you Get the ones that do help you! Problem solved, enjoy your clean reading experience!
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by eviks 7mo ago
> two artists collaborate on an album, which one gets the album in their folder? Both. Links exist > What if you want to sort all songs in the display by publication date You click on the "pub date" column > metadata data
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by eviks 7mo ago
The reason is to protect the innocent, of course, they're mostly clueless about security! But I don't know the level of practical benefits for this measure, superficially seems to be rather low, but then (assuming silly usability
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by eviks 7mo ago
Feels like you're talking to your own strawman re. whether hiding password length makes sense, which I specifically didn't address, only pointed out that the arguments I've quoted do not support the change.
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by eviks 7mo ago
> sudo password is the same as their login password — one that already appears as visible placeholder dots on the graphical login screen. Hiding asterisks in the terminal while showing them at login is, in the developers’ estimation, sec
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by eviks 7mo ago
> superficial superiority only comes from the ecosystem, not some inherent trait But since real users live at the level of the ecosystem, what's hard about understanding that they can't replace a lacking ecosystem with "in
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by eviks 7mo ago
What are the practical issues with "cluttered" registry? But also, you can use special apps to track installations and do advanced uninstallations for ~clean uninstalls. Likewise, you could even spend time tracking settings. So ye
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by eviks 7mo ago
...is close to non-existent Otherwise it wouldn't take years to unbreak the simple stuff like taskbar positioning! > Thank you for holding us to a high standard "We" apologize for failing to do that! > moving core Windo
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by eviks 7mo ago
> just that it would be a lot easier to write a new linter by forking And I never said about the relative ease, you've moved the goalpost there yourself. $1m required to maintain is much less than $10m required to create, yet when y
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by eviks 7mo ago
> and offering digital self-solve solutions as an alternative But you don't have those as a real alternative! Yes, you do have some "digital", but it's of the same awful quality as this mandatory 15min rule.
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by eviks 7mo ago
> the time to develop it [not] from scratch in their free time, or the money... How do you think the magic of open source resolves this issue? Think about this for it to make some sense > I would simply fork The only simple part here
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by eviks 7mo ago
Indeed, this is the miracle app, not the primitive "power toys"
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by eviks 7mo ago
They did, 2 of 4 mentions don't have "full-scale". Count before laughing.
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by eviks 7mo ago
But you're not balancing anything, just saying that you are
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by eviks 7mo ago
> but people are going to start throwing out the obviously LLM written reports rather than have to validate each claim, So nothing will change as Apple is renown for throwing out reports?
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by eviks 7mo ago
> and having accurate colors in my photo editing apps Should've stayed in the terminal where the distro wants you to be!
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by eviks 7mo ago
> Entitlement and bullying of open-source maintainers is not appropriate, and it's understandable that the developers lash out after feeling beaten down by entitled users. Is it not understandable that the users lash out after being
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by eviks 7mo ago
> No print publication on the planet does this. Of course they do, there are ads and unrelated articles on the same page , or, for magazines, full page ads interrupting your reading experience, or flashy callouts. Paper is just a much mo
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by eviks 7mo ago
So why isn't pip done?
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by eviks 7mo ago
The same things that prevented "community" from building the tool in the first place
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by eviks 7mo ago
> users are greeted by what I call Z-Index Warfare Nice term! > Or better yet, inject the newsletter signup as a styled, non-intrusive div between paragraphs 4 and 5. If the user has scrolled that far, they are engaged. They're e
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by eviks 7mo ago
Tiny fail at undo: insert 1 before E, Ctlr+Z, move left/right: left editor moves around E, right editor moves around the nonexistent 1 And for real "action" there should be a delay/pause button to simulate conflicts like
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by eviks 7mo ago
> If this behavior were to be corrected, many problems would arise, including: > Almost all dates in current Microsoft Excel worksheets and other documents would be decreased by one day. Unless your fix adds a day to make them stay th
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by eviks 7mo ago
Apple hasn't supported that, by the way, there are apps where you simply can't download the "latest compatible version" Also you can't "buy it" even for free apps, you must've tied it to your account
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by eviks 7mo ago
So you'd remove space and tab from Unicode?
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by eviks 7mo ago
Not forcing apps to drop support of fully functional phones, especially over poorly designed visual gimmicks? Imagine you don't upgrade to iOS 26 and don't lose out on any of the app updates?

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