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by pferde 5y ago
Also, if your commit message has parts that say "also, this", "also, that", don't be lazy and break those alsos into separate commits!
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Websites with mountains of ads have simply become normal and accepted. It's sad, but it happened.
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I too used MPD in various scenarios for maybe a decade, but sometimes last year it stopped working with pulseaudio, and no amount of tinkering seemed to fix it (other apps worked with PA like a breeze, but not MPD). So I replaced it with Qm
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I think it was even "all avatars MUST be cute animals".
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Maybe.
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Why? The site's raison d'etre is to make subtitles readily available for downloading by anyone. What is the purpose of locking it behind authentication? What did that realistically achieve?
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I think "broism" originates from colleges, and is then carried over to businesses by new, young employees who never had the necessity to actually grow up and become decent people. Therefore it is not a geographically focused pheno
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That's very likely. Hetzner already offers cheaper ipv6-only dedicated servers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29471986
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That, and the added fun when you try to bridge two organizations' networks and find out that some internal ranges are used by both. It can be "solved" using various NAT schemes on one or both sides, but the network setup gets
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It could be that the more experienced developers are just burnt out in trying to give that kind of feedback, and instead just grit their teeth and get through the code base as they need. Meanwhile the newer, less experienced developers prob
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> I'm going to look forward to the sci-fi space films where the drama is survival in a hostile environment, and infinitely prefer them to war films. So, movies like The Martian? I wish I could come up with more examples, and I hope
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I did exactly that at work, when I inherited maintainership of a legacy internal software program, which until then has been developed with the same "version control" approach as DF - a folder/zipfile per release or per featu
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The predators of computer gaming (EA, Ubisoft, Activision) are already eyeing NFTs and blockchain for their next generation of "online services": https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59167668
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Be that as it may, openat/mkdirat is still useful if one wants to avoid TOCTOU, just like grandparent post suggests.
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And yet most people keep trusting them with their code on Github. If people were smart, there would be Freenode-level mass migration away from GH the day the Microsoft purchase was confirmed. But no, everybody will only scream once Microsof
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Not incompetent, they just don't think of the Internet as a place to get information. Most people, from what I observed, view Internet as a place to buy stuff, be entertained, and perhaps to talk to people. The idea that you could get
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by pferde 5y ago
Yeah, I did not notice it was not a new post (although it was new, and a good read, for me). For some reason, it jumped at me as new in my RSS reader. Thanks to whichever mod added the tag! :)
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Old CSS, New CSS (2020)(eev.ee)
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You don't even need to create usernames/passwords in advance - you can just send your friends custom one-time URLs, which will allow them to enter their own desired usernames and passwords. https://zeratax.github.io&#x2
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There is QMMP, which has been my daily driver for many years, and is still under active development. https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/features.php
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You are correct. I've seen this kind of notification used together with small avatar pictures of users who are typing - I think it was in Element. Then again, in practice I found that if more than two or three people are typing at a gi
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Yes, it's certainly different from what you see on today's most popular platforms, and if done visually right (a big "if"), I think it could be very nice.
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"Bob is typing..." "Bob and Phil are typing..." "Bob, Phil and 3 others are typing..."
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You say Matrix is not a protocol, and then you go on and compare it to another protocol. By your own logic, you are comparing apples and oranges here. Make up your mind, either it is a protocol or it isn't. Oh, and Matrix is plenty ext
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Kudos to you. It takes a big man (or a woman, or anything inbetween) to admit being wrong.
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I was thinking of learning sign language, but what's stopping me is the impression that it varies across countries or regions (one of the hints is that ASL stands for "American Sign Language", I think we have something else h
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I can't believe this needs to be pointed out, but it's not an either-or proposal. We can have signals such as this one, as well as efforts to curtail human trafficking.
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And since Gitter is being turned into a frontend for Matrix, you might as well just have a Matrix room for your project. Or several rooms, grouped together in a "space".
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Microsoft already does offer PTP on Azure, and nobody calls it EEE. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linu...
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I have seen a windows app with a text field whose max character count was somehow determined by system font size - probably a crude way to make sure the entered text fits the hard-coded field size. The problem was that this field was used t

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