j1elo

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by j1elo 3y ago
Coincidentally, yesterday I was talking with a friend about which terminal we use, and how I went from the default gnome-terminal to the more capable konsole, moved by a silly bug: "Select all" doesn't select _all_ text, but
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by j1elo 3y ago
Good to know! Indeed some hiccups are expected. I don't need 2FA mule most of the time, but when I do, mine is an old phone flashed with LineageOS, no Google services at all, only F-Droid and otherwise manually installed apps. Working
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by j1elo 3y ago
It's been 2 years since I read your initial comment on using an SMS mule [1], and I'm curious how's it going, you know, that phone you have plugged in at your office in a corner :) No battery swelling? I copied the idea and d
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by j1elo 3y ago
Would that work, though? I've never looked seriously into it, but my feeling is that distros will delete old versions as newer ones are uploaded: When I run " apt-cache policy git " in my Ubuntu, I only see a couple versions
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by j1elo 3y ago
For me, it solved A LOT of cases where users said "your software install fails", "the software doesn't run", or similar claims. They tend to be complicated to troubleshoot: people try setting up new software in an a
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by j1elo 3y ago
Bots will get sophisticated. This all seems to me that in a decade we'll be having the same discussion, with the same excuse, but eventually the proposal from big corporations will be to require plugging-in a government-issued ID card
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by j1elo 3y ago
Software engineering is like if a car was built and thus "finished", but the systems it depends on (like roads, and gas stations) changed every N years (with N < 10). Imagine the gas stations (operating system) changed the kind
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by j1elo 3y ago
That kind of rethoric doesn't fly too far... Your original point was > Plenty of people are using Word, Powerpoint, and Excel 2003 just fine Are you claiming that a reasonable majority (for the sake of discussion) of this plenty o
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by j1elo 3y ago
It's proven that mass marketing works. Tell me how a minority of informed and caring users can avoid on their own that a single large scale bad actor pours millions over millions of dollars to convince the uninformed masses about whate
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by j1elo 3y ago
On the other hand, mind where and who those people are. $14 is probably peanuts for a wealthy software engineer living the SV life and a 6 digit salary, so if those are the ones writing, no surprise they might think like that. Nothing wrong
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by j1elo 3y ago
You made it sound like even for a simple site, JavaScript would be a necessity and we should expect websites to not work well without it. I was actually about to concede that it's OK if JS has eaten the world (see my closing thought)..
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by j1elo 3y ago
I wrote a similar article for the Knowledge Base of the Kurento project I'm maintaining: https://doc-kurento.readthedocs.io/en/latest/knowledge/nat.h... Visualization is the more powerful tool to help re
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by j1elo 3y ago
I'd say it's about priorities (i.e. very much related to cost, but with slight differences). That's why I mentioned the lack of people who cares. If you as a manager care, or if a dev with enough decision power cares, it will
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by j1elo 3y ago
Look. I agree with you, in the core idea. There have really been advances in technology, but for each step made with brilliance and prowess, there have been 3 steps back with laziness and carelessness. Some applications of the newer tec
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by j1elo 3y ago
Yeah but I am afraid every other website on the Internet is not done with the care and good craftsmanship that the gov.uk applies to its website. I wish, though! But then so many web devs (and so many of their managers, too!) would be lost
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by j1elo 3y ago
That might be a very misleading statistic. What if more than 0.2% of people wanted to disable JavaScript, but in the end surrended to the fact that those pesky web devs never test their creations with JS disabled? I know I am one of those w
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by j1elo 3y ago
Great quote!!! Thanks for the reminder that the first case of such disrespect to the reader came way earlier than internet forums :)
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by j1elo 3y ago
I really felt like shaking this person like the xkcd comic guy shakes the screen... It's one thing to talk about something and just casually never following up. That's bad enough already. But giving a precise date , and promisin
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by j1elo 3y ago
> I am going to try to schedule the testing done this Friday, October 24th. So WHY didn't you open up your editor on the 25th and let us the World know about the results (or lack thereof)??? I hate so much the utter lack of discip
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by j1elo 3y ago
> library use is orthogonal to language. > assume that there are only C and JS Not so much ignoring other languages, as just talking about the one which coincidentally (or maybe not) is the one that usually attracts most conversat
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by j1elo 3y ago
Your comparison is a bit disingenuous. I thought that the reasonable point of comparison was obvious, so let me state it in case it's not: * For this C program: Let's say a default install of a Debian system, with GCC and Make ins
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by j1elo 3y ago
To be honest, I must admit to believe that whoever else did this same tool with JavaScript, no doubt would have used a package.json that needed to download at least a couple hundreds of dependencies.
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by j1elo 3y ago
Like most of us, I've had this discussion an infinite number of times, never reaching an adequate agreement. I myself have always used 4 spaces for C++ codebases. Spaces provide fixed width and consistency, regardless of the code edito
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by j1elo 3y ago
Fully agree on both of these messages. This is the only thing I don't agree: > warnings are useless Warnings are useful, to (no surprise here) warn me about possibly problematic stuff. That's why my C++ builds are usually
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by j1elo 3y ago
Well, for that specific case (it was a well defined block that could be all selected and commented out in order to disable it), your technique would have worked fine, true :) But of course it can get tiring and not be very practical if the
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by j1elo 3y ago
I'd categorize not being able to convert "unused thing" errors into warnings during development iterations as one of "The Bad". Just today I had a couple blocks of code which were causing erratic issues. Wanted to s
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by j1elo 3y ago
Naturally, the project couldn't miss having a "bug" report which asks to move the code to a different Git host . https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme/issues/18 I get the ideals are on po
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by j1elo 3y ago
From your first link, it seems the decision to use a different new domain stems from difficulties getting the server's HSTS policy right, and it even seems they had a similar issue in the past with having the store as a subdomain [1].
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by j1elo 3y ago
> it is not so motivating to be offered $1000 if $330 of that immediately disappears I get how 1000 is better than 670, but on the flip side, that's 670 extra that you didn't have before, right If it's about where the li
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by j1elo 3y ago
I get the fenix as it is a whole different concept than a bird. But why exactly do we need a different color of mushroom? Isn't that just threading too lightly?

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