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by kps 4mo ago
“I don't like the keyboard I bought.”
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by kps 4mo ago
Joey Ramone never wrote a song about U2. +1 point for Joey Ramone.
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by kps 4mo ago
Probably gaming metrics. “87% of users used my team's program this month!” Who cares if 87% of those did it unintentionally? That's some other team's problem.
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by kps 4mo ago
Start with ECMA-48 https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/st... Then find DEC and XTerm extensions https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html
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by kps 4mo ago
> Fill with what stuff exactly? Yes, exactly. Cloning, as a process creation primitive , is the one thing that doesn't need to be concerned with other stuff. > … a git-subprocess forked from a web server … That's pulling in
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by kps 4mo ago
> No other object creation API works by copying an existing thing and then modifying it. Clone-and-modify is pretty common in CAD. > You don't create a new file by copying an existing one and then modifying it. Clone-and-modify i
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by kps 4mo ago
Fork is conceptually simple. Without bringing in any other layers, you start a process with the one thing known to exist: yourself. Otherwise you need multiple steps to create a process, fill it with something to run, and arrange for it to
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by kps 4mo ago
> Every letter seems to transfer some of its weight onto neighboring letters, even those in a previous paragraph with quite a large vertical gap! This is probably astigmatic halation. For me it looks something like this: https:/&#x
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by kps 4mo ago
Which supported boards will do 5V I/O?
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by kps 4mo ago
> Of course it is and always has been. Somewhere Walter Duranty is looking up and smiling.
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by kps 4mo ago
I still have my 16C, and it still works perfectly. I got it in a swap for a 15C and 11C, so I got the reissue 15C when it came out, and it's not up to the quality of the original.
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by kps 4mo ago
KDE tries to do this with Activities¹ (I personally haven't found it useful). ¹ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/17/streamline-plasma-with-acti...
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by kps 4mo ago
Too young to remember cable TV?
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by kps 4mo ago
Wayland is a major regression for accessibility. People have been raising that for years, but always shouted down by the brigade with the motte-and-bailey seesaw between “Wayland replaces X11” and “Wayland is just a protocol”.
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by kps 5mo ago
>One of my pet-peeves with C projects is that it's so often more or less "works on my machine" “All the world's a VAX” https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/CYgWkWdWCcQ/m/t
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by kps 5mo ago
Me too. Maybe someone can find a data source and vibe up a mapofmetals.com in the same style.
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by kps 5mo ago
That wouldn't let them say “AI”.
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by kps 5mo ago
Yeah, I used to use iOS with text one step above the default size, and text was often cut off. I have a problem with astigmatic halation that makes ‘dark mode’ difficult to read. Since iOS 26, multiple aspects of the system have been made d
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by kps 5mo ago
> It isn't because no ISA implements add like that MIPS does (did?). And VAX, IBM/360, ....
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by kps 5mo ago
V as in VSCode.
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by kps 5mo ago
> The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse The fundamental advantage of vi is that it doesn't have a mouse. If you were born with three arms you can go for sam or something.
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by kps 5mo ago
vi sure was progressive; it added a full 2D video terminal mode to ex, which was an extension of ed, which was based on Thompson's addition of regular expressions to QED.
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by kps 5mo ago
KDE Connect may work for you. (You don't have to use KDE.)
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by kps 5mo ago
It may have been Tajo (XDE) though a quick search doesn't find any documentation of multi-click _older_ than Apple's. Star definitely didn't have multi-click.
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by kps 5mo ago
> - Tabs. Should have been a generic window manager feature.
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by kps 5mo ago
‘Took out usability features to make them "look nicer"’ is exactly how Steve Jobs gave us the double-click, undiscoverable and timing-sensitive.
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by kps 5mo ago
Non-phone non-Apple devices often have a TRS microphone input separate from the TRS headphone output.
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by kps 5mo ago
Where are those ‘mark of the beast’ cranks when you need them?
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by kps 5mo ago
Those beam springs had the second-best feel ever, after the Selectric. Then the Model F cost-reduced (and thickness-reduced) it, and the Model M further. > The downside is how tall and aggressively angled the keyboards are, which are ver
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by kps 5mo ago
Naked singletons in your locality.

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