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by mrpotato 4y ago
> Even better, its only $399! I think its a great deal at only 50 bucks more than the OLED switch model personally. OP was probably talking about CAD. Base model is C$ 499.00 and the switch is C$ 299.99. *Edit: OLED switch is C$ 349.99
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by mrpotato 4y ago
That line and this: > “Copilot withdraws nothing from the body of open source code available to the public,” Microsoft and GitHub claim in the filing. Reminds me of the "Piracy is NOT theft" meme[0][1] from a few years ago. [0]
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by mrpotato 4y ago
I am sometimes required to have my resume in multiple languages. My current workflow is to create a copy of an english version and then translate it to the language required. Would LaTeX make this easier, using something like templating whe
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by mrpotato 4y ago
Yes, Alt+F4 does close the application (no more process). Clicking on the X closes the window and moves the icon to the system tray, effectively hiding the icon and making the icon on the task bar disappear (or if pinned seem like the appli
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by mrpotato 4y ago
> “Users no longer need to enroll each device for each service, which has long been the case for FIDO (and for any public key cryptography)," said Andrew Shikiar, FIDO's executive director and chief marketing officer. "By
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by mrpotato 4y ago
From a cloudflare email I received 2 days ago: > Cloudflare launched at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on September 27th, 2010. Every year since then, during the last week of September, we celebrate Cloudflare’s birthday by announcing
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by mrpotato 4y ago
A note on the unix tools, if you have git (with git bash I guess) installed, you can add C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin to your environment Path and you'll have access to ls, grep, tail, etc... from powershell.
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by mrpotato 4y ago
Use both! I think one of the main differences is that scoop will install for the local user. Which means you don't have to install stuff from an admin console (I think you can do that with choco but its not the default). I also just ch
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by mrpotato 4y ago
I deleted my FB account about 8 years ago. The only thing that is a minor inconvenience is when people organize events over FB. The events I'm talking about is never from family or friends and usually for local groups or businesses. Ke
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US carriers want to bring “screen zero” lock screen ads to smartphones(arstechnica.com)
5 points by mrpotato 4y ago|3 comments
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by mrpotato 4y ago
This has to be some kind of sarcastic parody or troll post. > The software will not be used or hosted by western corporations that promote censorship The software will not be used or hosted by anyone. (FTFY)
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by mrpotato 4y ago
Having heard about this for the first time, I think it's a great initiative. However, I'm concerned about the liabilities of having vetted a crate only to accidentally (ie non-maliciously) miss some kind of vulnerability. Could th
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by mrpotato 4y ago
> there won't be an incentive to reward people which provide zero value. I am assuming you mean "who don't work" when you say provide zero value. The poor encompass more than just people living in a cardboard box in s
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by mrpotato 4y ago
> You will still want an Uber after 5pm, or a shop or restaurant to be open on a public holiday. No one says this change doesn't apply to people in those industries or in shift work. You have to remember that the idea is more to red
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by mrpotato 4y ago
More feedback: - Order your dropdown alphabetically, it makes them easier to read and find information you care about. - (On jobs page) Type of work has a select all button but all values are selected by default. Change Select All to Select
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Quebec government to pay researchers for discovering vulnerabilities(itworldcanada.com)
2 points by mrpotato 4y ago|1 comments
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by mrpotato 4y ago
I've never really looked into speed-writing before now and after a quick google, it looks like you have to learn a whole new alphabet! I wonder how long it takes to learn and be productive with one of the systems.
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by mrpotato 5y ago
Kitty is cool, I use it on debian, but it is not cross-platform. So I hesitate to compare it to alacritty.
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by mrpotato 5y ago
Made a little mistake (can't edit). CASL is Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation and not Canada Anti-Spam Law.
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by mrpotato 5y ago
If you live in Canada, you can report a CASL (Canada Anti-Spam Law) violation to the CRTC here[1]. The FAQ[2] shows an example of a CASL violation for requiring multiple steps to unsubscribe. [1] https://www.fightspam.gc.ca/e
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by mrpotato 5y ago
A nice comparison. The tipping point for my choosing fastmail over protonmail was that protonmail limits custom domains to a single domain. I have multiple domains and want(ed) the ability to setup email for all the different domains in a s
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by mrpotato 5y ago
I have personally never seen an ad in windows even after all the articles posted about ads in windows 10. Anyways, after a quick search, I found this > Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off https:/&#x2
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by mrpotato 5y ago
Didn't know (but should have) that they had a grid guide! Thanks flexbox https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ grid https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complet
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by mrpotato 5y ago
Neat stuff! Nowadays, I mostly use Cheatsheet[1] to quickly look up things I want to do, but resources like this are always nice for learning new stuff you didn't know about. One piece of feedback is that I would include "+p and &
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by mrpotato 5y ago
haha, when I read OP, I thought exactly of "Hello".
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by mrpotato 5y ago
ICANN's response https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30540188
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Ukraine asks ICANN to revoke Russian domains and shut down DNS root servers(arstechnica.com)
3 points by mrpotato 5y ago|2 comments
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by mrpotato 5y ago
I was also interested in the answer to your question. Here's[1] why AsciiDoc thinks it's better than Markdown. [1] https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/asciidoc-vs-mar...
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by mrpotato 5y ago
I was looking around to get a feel for the changes when I noticed that the colour scheme is different on some pages, I'm not sure why? Red and black (darkmode) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web&#x2F
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by mrpotato 5y ago
> The researchers found that the median security release comes within four days of the corresponding fix. But in some cases, security releases are delayed up to 20 days. I am not really surprised. The people making the security fixes are

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