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by j1elo 4y ago
Yeah I was already formulating my rant to complain about web pages that are not able to show what essentially is text and images, without supporting JavaScript... But now that I saw the site, I can understand that the need is justified, giv
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by j1elo 4y ago
EDIT: ok I read other comments and learned that it's mostly a US-specific, cultural thing. I'm impressed that people in the US are still sending SMS, to be honest. Even with cheapest or free SMS, more modern chat apps became mains
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by j1elo 4y ago
Are you not worried that permanent, 24/7 connection to the charger, will destroy the battery, make it blow up, swell, or something in that line?
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by j1elo 4y ago
I always liked the feeling of looking at a well-formatted piece of code. But discussions about formatting always ensued with coworkers. Lately, I've been deriving immense satisfaction from pressing Ctrl+Shift+I inside VSCode, and havin
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by j1elo 4y ago
Problem is, this still makes sense in some cases but doesn't in others, and stow, as it is, doesn't care about the distinction. For example, on a machine where ~/.config/autostart/ doesn't still exist, I do no
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by j1elo 4y ago
It's 2022 and I still use this program since I read that article so many years ago. It's handy but sometimes a bit of manual preparation must be done on a new clean machine. For example if you want to stow only some files under ~&
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by j1elo 4y ago
Valgrind is an amazingly useful tool. The biggest pain point, though, has always been to read through and process the huge amount of false positives that typically come from 3rd-party support libraries, such as GLib. It provides some suppre
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Our dot files are always growing with small helpful bits like this one :) Thanks for the idea!
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One thing I'd like is a cd command incantation that when given a file path, it just changes to the dir containing such file. It is such a common need (for me at least) that I'm surprised the standard cd doesn't do it already.
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by j1elo 4y ago
From today's conversation about Thunderbird 102: yes, it seems running a 3rd-party client has a high chance of receiving a ban. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31914288#31915716
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by j1elo 4y ago
Wait, do you mean that if you write inline PlantUML source such as in your example, an "example-diagram.png" is generated from that code and loaded by the image tag? That sounds too advanced although I could see an Sphinx doc plug
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You can, some people do it from time to time, but in general terms it is not a common practice in the platform, at least not among the people I follow.
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- " If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. " For all the horrible UX that Twitter, is, one thing I really appreciate is that the thought-leader (or anyone, really) was forced to sit down and write Pascal's
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by j1elo 4y ago
There might be an issue with the view that non-programmers have of contributing to open-source. My sample size of 1 is a friend who is a professional UX designer. Once, I tried convincing them to help with some OS project, but the response
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by j1elo 4y ago
And use the so-called "Bash unofficial strict mode", as described elsewhere. I prefer this summary of it, because the original includes stuff like changing IFS (the fields separators) which I agree with the Gist author to not incl
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by j1elo 4y ago
This is a very curious and fun way to put it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57249968 In essence, `undefined` is non-existence. And `null` is existence with a non- (or "invalid", or "unknown") value. A
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by j1elo 4y ago
TypeScript is nice because its null type is explicit. So if a type claims to be bool, it is really bool (either true or false, nothing else). For a nullable variable of type T (including boolean), the type must be explicit about it:
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by j1elo 4y ago
> rust forces you to write correct code And to that extent, due to the lack of GC, you need to provide it (and keep in your head) with lots of extra information that wouldn't be needed with other languages. I find that Rust is too
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Well I agree that it is already a good tradeoff, being able to offload the most intensive tasks to Rust, which is really performant. However my perspective is that of a C++ developer already, so I like Rust as a "better C++"...
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This seems a very interesting addition to the Rust ecosystem. I wonder how much traction it will get, though. Some days ago there was an HN thread about Rust, conversing about the steep learning curve of Rust. The conclusion frequently is t
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And that Linux Mint, a very good derivation of Ubuntu LTS, made the choice to ditch Snap and integrate Flatpak instead in their version of the Software Store.
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With proprietary software: - You might be forced into an "upgrade" which breaks something you rely on GNOME devs are laughing at this very hard right now while they look at your maximize icon. As of today, half baked decisions
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> bitwarden/clients/issues/1620 (open since Feb 2021) Oh, try with something much worse, and open since Dec 2017 (no, migrating to a new place is no excuse at all to mark the issue as magically resolved) https:/&
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The UI and UX of this is superb. Congrats for the nice taste! I enjoy reading my writings from years ago... Are the notes stored somewhere and are they available for re-reading later? Is it possible to download or sync with external storage
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There is this thing called https://750words.com/ which has existed since seemingly forever by today's standards. It is a simple and neat way to introduce the habit of writing 3 pages of text a day.
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What this tells me is that a tool that follows the "huge swiss army knife" style instead of "do just one thing and do it well", ought to have an extra option that provides Profiles for the most common use cases. Otherw
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Mine was just a lighthearted reflection on the issue, but in general I'm supportive of the copyleft ethos. And yes, in this case it would make a lot of sense. Actually my first reaction was to think, " Why are Microsoft themselves
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Hence the full circle to my original sarcastic joke. The OS definition serves a purpose of protecting users, even the bad ones, and maybe that worked when the "bad ones" where a minority with small impact. But nowadays things have
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You're right. I thought your comment was replying that in current implementations (not in the context of QUIC), the NATed peer wouldn't need STUN anyways, as of today. I had lost the context of it referring to an hypothetical impl
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It doesn't look like we can say " licenses like AGPL ". It's more that AGPL is basically the only one in that vein. Remove the A, if you please, but that's pretty much it in terms of variety. On the other hand, read

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