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by eviks 11mo ago
Browsers are slow to startup, that's a common complaint for various browser-based apps, you must've heard that?
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by eviks 11mo ago
this is a macOS release, ios is already past 1, it's 1.4.0 Though I've made the mistake of updating it following this announcement, and now I couldn't even type the url since the url bar didn't jump up to be on top of a
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by eviks 11mo ago
Interesting, looks like another opportunity for Chrome to avoid the Safari mistake > slow. There's some suggestion that the Apple implementation is running on a single core, so maybe there's room for improvement. Though their o
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by eviks 11mo ago
Yes, that's a good idea since Control is the most common keybinding modifiers, so helps in other apps as well (likewise, using Cmd on a Mac would be preferable to using the literal Control)
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by eviks 11mo ago
> A note on defaults. A problem with customised setups is that they mean you can’t pick up your friend’s Emacs setup and use it > can be mitigated by sticking with the ‘language’ of the system No? You're still going to be mistake
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by eviks 11mo ago
> Changing basic key bindings is the quickest way to vitiate that symbiosis. Unless you change those as well > All to say: learning emacs movement keys pays off. It can also cost you RSI, so not worth it
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by eviks 11mo ago
Just as an idea: you could try a more complicated setup where physical key positioning matches the movement direction, so Q would always be upper-left. Then at least the first jump you'd be able to do without reading, though then for t
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by eviks 11mo ago
> It does nothing a mouse can't do with one click. But the you'd need to take the hands off keyboard, also it might be slightly more precise as a typo is less likely than a less-than-perfect mouse movement
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by eviks 11mo ago
Yes, that's a "paradigm shift" in behavior, so you need to force yourself to use it for some time to evaluate it properly
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by eviks 11mo ago
Should've made it a nice round billion and sprinkle the necessity of AI to usher in the new era of meteorology
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by eviks 11mo ago
> closed a feature request from 2021! > It’s a classic fixit issue: a small improvement that never bubbled to the priority list. It took me one day to implement. One day for something that sat there for four years > The benefits of
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by eviks 11mo ago
> VSCode is an IDE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code Now try to follow your own sources, both links for that sentence call it a code editor with MS doing the correct reverence " happy with using
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by eviks 11mo ago
Visual Studio is the competition to IntelliJ
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by eviks 11mo ago
Visual Studio is the one to compare to "any other heavy IDE", vs code is slow as a text editor due to chrome, not its ide features , and there are plenty of code editors with plugins that start much faster, though I won't mak
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by eviks 11mo ago
> VSCode (polished, fast, ...) and Explorer (paleolithically slow, In what world is VSCode fast when its startup time is multiples of Explorer (which had in recent news decided to preload itself to mask that issue) and they are the resul
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by eviks 11mo ago
> Considering Apple’s focus on consumers first What does it mean specifically for the OS? What were the exciting improvements you've noticed that would entice that switch? Is the liquid glass design that is making it harder to read
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by eviks 11mo ago
> AV2 .... further improve the image compression. ( Edit: Also worth pointing out current JPEG-XL encoder is no where near its maximum potential in terms of quality / compression ratio But at what cost? From this the en/decodin
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by eviks 11mo ago
Maybe they'll do it right this time > The team explained that other platforms moved ahead. Safari supports JPEG XL, and Windows 11 users can add native support through an image extension from Microsoft Store. The format is also conf
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by eviks 11mo ago
> An apology (with guarantees and plans for improvement with oversight) is better than put a low price and call it cost of doing business How when this is a 0 price of doing business? And there is a plan: "the University has increas
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by eviks 11mo ago
> They will not take responsibility for their actions, and they will not compensate you for the damage they caused. They will just offer you a small amount of money and hope that you will forget about it. Paying for a wrongful action is
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by eviks 11mo ago
But you wouldn't say "a branch", you'd say "branch A" Similarly it'd be "first branch" or "branch 1", so not that ambiguous.
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by eviks 11mo ago
They're related via that concept of "first" (though 0 might be more apt)
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by eviks 11mo ago
This is mostly useless information since it has no context of what's going on, so can't really separate noise from signal. Much fewer user complains about cancellations due to various issues is more valuable.
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by eviks 11mo ago
That's why they should copy Vivaldi and allow custom context menus where you can add/remove/rename. Customization is how you rectify those centralized UI mistakes
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by eviks 1y ago
They're might have exhausted their centennial budget of cooperation on trivial things!
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by eviks 1y ago
It can't be the same. The package is public, so you get some benefit of other people reviewing and your tools notifying you of issues. Or do you really mean you ignore all that info?
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by eviks 1y ago
Does every single small package have a guaranteed security profile of left-pad?
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by eviks 1y ago
> comply with FCC regulations and advertiser demands. Or with a politician not liking a comedian? How would you rate the clarity of that rule? But also, so does YouTube has standards to comply with laws, regulations, and advertiser deman
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by eviks 1y ago
Media creators have always criticised those controls and their dynamic, so neither is there anything unusual here in this post Though > traditional networks relied on... clear standards this was never true
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by eviks 1y ago
> I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me. Sorry not everyone has such a prim

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