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by netmare 3y ago
I remember doing this years ago, but it longer works on Firefox out of the box. Setting a custom page for a new tab requires an extension. Apparently, that's for security reasons: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/
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by netmare 3y ago
Even worse, some use Linux as their desktop OS. Imagine that...
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by netmare 3y ago
This is exactly the reason I gave up on SO. It was so disappointing to see the "frist!" answer get votes, even when it was factually incorrect. By the time it took me to think and write a half decent phrase the original answer had
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by netmare 3y ago
Yeah, a text-mode equivalent inside the console would have been much better. Something like the TBrowse system of dBase/Clipper I was using back in the 90s. Ah, the memories...
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by netmare 3y ago
I find it ridiculous that Chrome, Edge and Firefox are all currently around v115. It's just a marketing term now. I've seen Firefox and Thunderbird major version numbers change for simple bugfixes. A release date would be enough.
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by netmare 3y ago
It's obviously satirical. If so, the author is brilliant. Otherwise, well... I mean just look at the project show cases. Included are the usual colossal cluster^Wframeworks that power our decaying software infrastructure. Personally, I
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by netmare 3y ago
Windows/PowerShell users should know there's a builtin cmdlet for this, Out-GridView. I mention this because I've used it for viewing objects in tabular form long before I realized it allows interactive selection. For example
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by netmare 4y ago
For some reason Google Fonts rendering is just awful on my (Windows) machines. I tried to investigate, but got nowhere. They seem extremely jaggy and with uneven strokes, like they were only tested on 4K displays. I don't have the budg
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by netmare 4y ago
You all jest, but I'd kill for curated tags on HN. There's a lot of content here I don't really care about and it's steadily growing larger. Nothing wrong with the site, just personal preferences.
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by netmare 4y ago
I did, but still got no SMART values. Speccy works though and I'm sure I've also run smartctl successfully on this laptop in the past.
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by netmare 4y ago
Well, negative feedback loops are generally more useful than positive ones. At least in electronics...
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by netmare 4y ago
The only thing I used from them was their Mercurial hosting. That didn't go well...
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by netmare 5y ago
It's bitterness from having your dreams crushed. I used to read Raymond's blog and share his passion for correctness and efficiency, but it seems like mockery now.
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by netmare 5y ago
> After a while you'll notice you are sending everything back. What about shipping costs? When you're buying something the seller is usually paying for that in bulk and including it in the retail price to boast "0-cost shi
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by netmare 5y ago
Ha, so I was right in my adjacent comment. BTW, that's how I've also instinctively pronounced REvil in my head, too.
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by netmare 5y ago
Perhaps @lordnacho couldn't decide between ARE-Evil ('A@r-'i:v@L) and REEvil (r'i:v@L), so @3np suggested REvil (r'Ev'Il). J/k, I'm just showing off `eSpeak -x`'s output, which as a non-native En
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by netmare 5y ago
I'd say that modern dictionaries are made for readers, while older ones were for writers.
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by netmare 5y ago
A clickbaitey site I visited recently detected incognito mode and would not let me in. I don't remember if it had a simple overlay or missing content, since I immediately went away.
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by netmare 5y ago
Same here. It's very off-putting, no matter how interested I am in the content. Some other such deterrents for me are the usual autoplaying media, newsletter popups, and blog-spam recommendations. Lately, I've also included in-you
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by netmare 5y ago
This has been ruining my reading experience on the web for years. I remember fondly an old Opera version (10-15 years ago) that would briefly display a dotted line on page up/down to mark the boundary between pages. It was such an amaz
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by netmare 5y ago
It's too much fun for me too. Blushing faces and clapping hands look like kindergarden drawings, not consumer-oriented at all. I guess some people are more serious than others. :-*
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by netmare 5y ago
I've been using KeePass with Syncthing for some time. No problem if you only need to update the database from a single location and access as read-only from the rest, but there are also solutions for shared updating.
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by netmare 5y ago
Here in Greece, taxis are quite expensive. Think 5-10 times more expensive. They're faster and more convenient, sure, but not for everyday use.
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by netmare 5y ago
There's a mouse shortcut for Duplicate Tab in Firefox: middle-click the Reload button! It blew my mind when I read about it in some random thread a couple of years ago.
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by netmare 5y ago
So it's like the poster in the mythical workshop: Repairs can be fast, cheap or proper. You can only choose two of the above. In this case, our choices range from 1 to 3 it seems.
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by netmare 5y ago
There should be a difference between the "official Facebook of X" and the "official site of X". Billy Bob and Aunty Jane should be free to communicate to the world via Twitter, but the government, IRS, emergency services
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by netmare 5y ago
Command/type aliases and autocompletion make this a non-issue on the console and advanced code editors. Personally, I don't mind the verbosity even when using plain editors, like Notepad2, my text/script editor of choice. Ext
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by netmare 6y ago
What do you mean? It's just a static HTML table and it looks fine on both my Android 11 phone with Opera and in Firefox's Responsive mode on the desktop. It may not be mobile-friendly, but that's not inherently bad, especiall
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by netmare 6y ago
This is very nicely done, but I still prefer the simplicity of < http://davidbau.com/colors/ >. Despite being only 2-dimentional, I find that layout strangely more intuitive. I think the author manually tweaked the
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by netmare 6y ago
That's a neat trick, especially in emergency situations. 0118 999…

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