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Pango Dropping Support for Bitmap Fonts Is Frustrating Some Linux Desktop Users(phoronix.com)
1 points by pmarin 7y ago|0 comments
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by pmarin 7y ago
I know it was just an example but on any Vi clone you can set the default shell: :set shell=/bin/bash
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by pmarin 7y ago
For interactive shells do not matter if is not POSIX compliant. I use csh (the really old one) as interactive shell.
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Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (2015)(answers.microsoft.com)
161 points by pmarin 7y ago|200 comments
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by pmarin 7y ago
I born and live in Granada.
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by pmarin 7y ago
It’s allways fascinating what a crime novelist with a degree in islamic history has to say about Spain.
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by pmarin 7y ago
>Everything in the X11 ecosystem seems to be a pile of hacks on top of hacks on top of hacks. You can say the same thing about any legacy system. X11 is 36 years old, but it was designed in a way that can be extended forever.
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by pmarin 7y ago
The problem is that Wayland never going to reach feature parity by design for security and other opinionated reasons that alienate many power users.
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by pmarin 7y ago
Any window compositor add UI latency to avoid screen tearing.
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by pmarin 7y ago
> Some people find it to be more precise as well, but I don't know if there's any evidence apart from personal preference. On CAD applications is very annoying when the mouse unintentionally register a movement while clicking
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by pmarin 7y ago
How Mozilla know how many people have activated telemetry? Maybe they are making decisions based only in the few minority of user that have activated it.
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by pmarin 7y ago
The kind of questions that don't make sense in a forum where 'Hacker' is in the title.
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by pmarin 7y ago
> non-Linux OS from the boot-loader to a running HTML browser Actually he build from scratch a Unix like OS kernel (like Linux), TCP/IP stack, the userland, services, window server, window manager, 2D drawing library, UI toolkit, t
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Input Latency Reduction(byuu.net)
2 points by pmarin 7y ago|0 comments
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No_color: Disabling ANSI color output in various Unix commands(no-color.org)
16 points by pmarin 7y ago|9 comments
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by pmarin 7y ago
No, It’s not needed. I have been using it without javascript for years.
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by pmarin 7y ago
HN works perfectly with javascript dissabled. It’s a feature
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by pmarin 7y ago
This is probably the reason upvotes still work with javascript dissabled. It’s a feature.
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by pmarin 7y ago
They can’t serve adsense from a FTP server.
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by pmarin 7y ago
You don’t need javascript to upvote and downvote on Hacker News.
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by pmarin 7y ago
Separate UI code from the logic code.
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Let’s Build a Video Card(youtube.com)
2 points by pmarin 7y ago|0 comments
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by pmarin 7y ago
Of course but they are not so narrow focused like often many people use to depict them. In order to justify why there so many forks of the BSD kernel it seems to be an urge for exalting their differences when the main reason is simple polit
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by pmarin 7y ago
> Would you be able to speak to the differences between OpenBSD, NetBSD, And FreeBSD? So far as I can tell, FreeBSD is generally focused on getting the most software and the most drivers, etc, in order to compete with Linux, while OpenBS
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by pmarin 7y ago
Are there many users of NetBSD on amd64? yes What's your use case? Use my computer. It's a good solid unix system without pretending to be something else.
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by pmarin 7y ago
Weird question considering the title of this news forum.
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by pmarin 7y ago
What do you mean by true OSS?
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by pmarin 7y ago
I am sorry I misunderstood your comment.
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by pmarin 7y ago
The normal tclkit runtime with Tk is 6.1 Mb of disk space and 10-15 Mb of ram. The most bloated Tcl/Tk runtime I could find (undroidwish tcl/tk running on SDL + OpenGL and Anti-grain backend) is 23 Mb of disk space and 42 Mb of ra
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by pmarin 7y ago
Another cool Polaroid mod is the thermal paper Polaroid made by Tim Jacobs: https://mitxela.com/projects/thermal_paper_polaroid

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