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ferzul
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ferzul
6y ago
not really, you just find the file (using the full features of your finder) and open it the same way you always would. constrast that with windows, when you just choose “open”, then find the file and open it.
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ferzul
6y ago
fine for me, firefox/android
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ferzul
6y ago
yeah but everyone else had 800x600 or 1024x768 if they had a good screen. they existed, but they were not common.
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ferzul
6y ago
but the rules constantly change and at least sometimes require root access - painful when you do that upgrade and now you can't type
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ferzul
6y ago
which is helpful if the three languages are russian, english and japanese
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ferzul
6y ago
if you ordered before the 22nd may, it will be shipping soon and you'll get an email when it starts (they said shipping began on 28th, but i haven't received my email yet). if it was after that date, you'll have to wait for t
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ferzul
6y ago
but it would be nice to pay a bit more and get 4k.
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ferzul
6y ago
> I always wondered, what is the use case for hibernate. You have to dump the entire RAM on your SSD, and then read it back on resume. Incredibly wasteful and slow, if your RAM is 16GB+. > Suspend is something else; but I haven't
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ferzul
6y ago
but it's very hard to do. if you have some arbitrary requirement (for me it's hidpi[0] and enough ram), it may be very hard to find a provider who meets your requirement, or a review for a product that is on the market. (today, it
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ferzul
6y ago
what were pre-unix file systems like? it sounds like storing bytes in a file in a directory which is a kind of file was innovative, but it's effectively all there is today! i know old macs had various attributes - e.g. you could store
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ferzul
6y ago
they have about a billion underutilised resources. why should it mean a thing for their world trade?
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ferzul
6y ago
that's the advantage of being a hegemon. the e.u can: - throw its lot in with the u.s and take it when it hurts - throw its lot in with another aspiring hegemon and take it when it hurts - do what it taker to go it alone.
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ferzul
6y ago
get your own domain name. then you can move between webmail providers quite simply: just change the mx records and you can shift between most reponsible providers. it incurs a small cost. i setup a gmail redirect when i switched to fastmail
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ferzul
6y ago
which is why it should be segregated from the products people find useful
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ferzul
6y ago
php purges shitty ideas quite frequently. for instance, i just upgraded some class Foo extends Bar { public Foo() { this->Bar(); } } business since it's going away soon. likewise, magic quotes.
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ferzul
6y ago
there's also pubnix (public unix-like servers), gopher, and a new protocol called gemini (which adds simple links and viewer-owned formatting to to gopher). i think there's certainly something to the idea behind more restrictions,
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ferzul
6y ago
correct me if i'm wrong - i only spent a hours with rust: doesn't dbg! run at compile time? and therefore your example is still compatible with type erasure?
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ferzul
6y ago
> In US a convicted pedophile with own pedo-island, and connections all over the elites, media and government disappears from the prison cell in a dubious suicide where all cameras stopped working and many other "coincidences"
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ferzul
6y ago
well i don't know how many, but if it's two, isn't that two too many?
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ferzul
6y ago
that's the kind of response from a ceo i want to see. normally, i would just expect “We did something that was unpopular. please buy our other product. also, the word apologize occurs somwhere here but it does not carry any of its sign
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ferzul
6y ago
i've just got an upgrade and gnome on xorg on ubuntu seems to have really great retina support, such that i feel like i must be dreaming. last week, windows was better (altho important programs occasionally crashed). right now, gnome&#
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ferzul
6y ago
yes, i found the first example quite surprising. there doesn't seem to be any request to copy the string; it is simply unintuively copied/produced three times. i would prefer the language have some kind of `dup` or something, whic
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ferzul
6y ago
isn't: let x = 1:x cyclic, but without closure? unless closure is so broad as to capture essentially any haskell value. it's not going to be obvious when there is a cyclic reference (e.g. if you use `let x = repeat 1` ins
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ferzul
6y ago
> Since immutable values can't create cycles, no memory will be leaked. this is not generally true. in a lazy language, you can certainly say: main = mdo y <- f x x <- g y return y the requirement is
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ferzul
6y ago
because the powerful party is more powerful
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ferzul
6y ago
the arguments were about why they should. specifically mentioned were costs transferred from the corporation to the employee
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ferzul
6y ago
give people one email address and computers another.
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ferzul
6y ago
you might not know where the timezone boundary is - they move, or you're new to the area. alternatively, there could be a daylight savings boundary in between, so it is only in the same timezone for half the year. the fact that america
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ferzul
6y ago
they spend a lot of time with these requests i think. “sing me a song”, “are you insane” etc
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ferzul
6y ago
your average idiot is intelligent. your average digita assistant can barely assist and has no fingers.
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