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by netmare 6y ago
It's a mofo™-styled website, with eye-piercing white backgrounds and mile long lines. It's as minimalist as it gets, unless you consider vowels superfluous in prose. Joking aside, yes, it looks bland on a PC. However, I would rath
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by netmare 6y ago
The original firmware also supports resuming from the last played position in podcasts and audiobooks. Whenever you select a partially listened item, you get a prompt to continue from the last point or start from the beginning. It's re
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by netmare 6y ago
I'm still using the original Clip I got back in 2008. It's not supported by Rockbox, but I'm perfectly happy with the last official firmware. The OLED has deteriorated, but it's still fine indoors (it was almost impossib
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by netmare 6y ago
Initially I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of annoying popups, flashy design and cookie policy whack-a-molery. I managed to read a couple of sentences before the page dimmed and a "subscribe to our free newsletter" box slowl
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by netmare 6y ago
I love it. As an older Windows coder, it's one of the few things on HN I can fully grasp. There's no monads/shaders/ML/business involved--just plain old C. Almost everything else posted here makes me feel depressed
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by netmare 6y ago
There's always 355/113. It's roughly approximate to 6.6 digits† and strangely it's been easier for me to remember than 22/7. † https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/05/22/best-appro
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by netmare 6y ago
There was and it was called Mercurial. It was exactly the same thing, but designed by ordinary people (i.e. not those working on the Linux kernel). As such, it ended up having less market share than zipped folders with hilariously increment
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by netmare 6y ago
Heh... I've run into this bug myself recently. Get-Date '...' returns a DateTime object of Unspecified kind, i.e. neither Local nor Utc. By design, such objects are interpreted as Local by ToUniversalTime() and as Utc by ToLo
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by netmare 6y ago
Alternatively, you can replace the 'www' with 'i'.
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by netmare 6y ago
Diaspora comes from the Greek "διασπορά", which literally means dispersion of any kind, not necessarily ethnic or cultural. It may sound OK to native Greek speakers (like me), but the English meaning in a bit different. I believe
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by netmare 6y ago
I remember when they were testing the aerodynamics of something in Mythbusters and needed a quick way to create laminar flow. Grant's solution was to cut both ends of a pack of drinking straws and put it inline with the airflow. Such a
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by netmare 6y ago
Not only that, it also caused the app I'm using (Readability) to go back to the article list. I usually get a blank screen, but this is first time I've seen it fail so spectacularly in years. Does anyone know what the site's
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by netmare 6y ago
Windows does automatic parameter marshaling for system messages (0 to WM_USER-1), which WM_SETTEXT is a part of. Since the meaning of the parameters is well-established, the system can allocate memory in the target process and replace the p
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by netmare 7y ago
Sometimes I've yearned for a 'Serious' checkbox, similar to 'Dark mode'. Depending on mood and context, I'd love to turn off all the cuteness and baby talk I've encountered in error messages and mail respo
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by netmare 7y ago
It also doesn't preserve creation time, which is really inconvenient for us Windows folks. I think that's optional metadata in POSIX, so Go doesn't support it and the devs are reluctant to use platform-specific code to implem
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by netmare 8y ago
By converting to uppercase you lose information. There's no magic way to avoid this, unless you store the original. Greek also has this problem with stress accents. For example, both "γέρος" (old man) and "γερός" (s
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by netmare 9y ago
Has it stalled, though? Perhaps they don't see it as a worthwhile feature to focus on. I'm OK with that, even though I'd love to see it implemented. Firefox, OTOH, finally resolved a much more trivial issue 17 years after it
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by netmare 9y ago
It's about being able to display multiple rows of info in each item of the emails/threads panel. Something that I found quite useful in Opera Mail, e.g.: https://d2.alternativeto.net/dist/s/60b72ca2-7a26-
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by netmare 9y ago
I recently got the ST3000DM008 model, so time will tell. :) I was aware of Backblaze's previous reports, but I doubt they are valid for consumers. A couple of cheap drives in a tower case with occasional read/writes and hundreds o
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by netmare 9y ago
For me it was the fact that 'pictures', 'show' and 'fuel' can be either verbs or nouns. Since I first parsed 'pictures' as a verb, it went downhill pretty fast.
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by netmare 10y ago
Probably a Scandinavian one. I've heard that forming an LLC there requires filling a single form. Maybe their taxation & insurance is that simple as well. After researching similar matters in my own country (Greece), where you have
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by netmare 11y ago
That's just a silly rumor. The only examples I've seen of programs using strings to do version checks are Java ones. The function that returns "Windows 95" for Win4.0.xx could simply have been made to return "Window
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by netmare 11y ago
Automattic make money from Simperium and they provide Simplenote as a freebie to showcase the technology I guess.
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by netmare 11y ago
I've been using a different one ( http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt ), which is roughly the same size. However, their entries seem quite different (only 1921 common domains out of 11356+13586 total). Maybe they shoul
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by netmare 11y ago
The tricky part is that the [a,b] and (a,b) in your original examples are not list/tuple literals, but a target_list according to Python's grammar [0], which can be optionally enclosed in parentheses or brackets. To be honest, I
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by netmare 11y ago
I also call them 'mew' and 'new' in English, but their modern names are 'mee' and 'nee'. I'm not sure what the ancient Greek pronunciation is, but I think that's where the 'ew' sou
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by netmare 11y ago
"Lamda" is the modern pronunciation, while "lambda" is the ancient one, apparently. However, for the letters Μ and Ν they use the ancient Mu/Nu, instead of the modern Mi/Ni, so I fail to see the logic.
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by netmare 13y ago
Yeah, that's pretty messy. As an Opera user I had no idea that other browsers used Ctrl or Alt for access keys. That's just a recipe for disaster. Opera's Shift+Esc combo guaranteed no clashes with browser shortcuts, but it w
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by netmare 13y ago
This is an inherent problem with web apps, since they're an app within an app. There are two different contexts fighting each other. Who's to say that Ctrl+S should save the app state or the page? Whatever we choose as the default
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by netmare 13y ago
A human would have probably noticed the "6 characters" part. I bet this was done automatically.

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