pmontra

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by pmontra 9mo ago
only if all functions are running toward the light. Vibes of optimism.
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by pmontra 9mo ago
I'm not sure that it's novel but I'm skeptical about the noise to signal ratio for anything that is not an example. I think that a real world file of source code will be either completely polluted by tests (they are way long
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by pmontra 9mo ago
I'd cut off the numberpad of my laptop, center the touchpad and what's left of the keyboard. That would be my ergonomic setup. That laptop served me well but it was a compromise between several factors. I think that at the time th
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by pmontra 9mo ago
An Asian factory of imperial rulers and scales might have had to bear the burden because they have only the USA to sell to. However if they have products that they can sell to all the world and they manage to, why lower the prices to the US
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by pmontra 9mo ago
I disagree on that. I think that the main value of this kind of tools is "no installation required". There are already free PDF editors that can be downloaded and installed once forever. What I used most is Libreoffice Draw: it im
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by pmontra 9mo ago
I visited a distillery in 2020. Their machines were managed by HP laptops running Windows XP. Those machines and those laptops and that Windows XP are probably still there with their old IE browser.
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by pmontra 9mo ago
I use mixed mode: editor and terminal on black background (and US keymap) everything else on white background (and my country keymap.) There is no particular reason for that except habits. I started programming on black background terminals
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by pmontra 9mo ago
I understand the sarcasm but copy pasting a bash or powershell command is faster and less error prone than following the instructions to open menus, dialogs, tabs and clicking buttons, especially in deeply nested UIs.
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by pmontra 9mo ago
I think that the rw directories should not be shared among projects. Maybe there should be separate copies even for what gets mounted into $HOME/.nvm
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by pmontra 9mo ago
And in one year of observations they noticed that the point of the stick followed an 8 shaped track on the ground. I wonder what they thought about it. I attempted to build a naive sundial last year and I was surprised when I saw the sun mo
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by pmontra 10mo ago
> Similar frameworks targeting Windows servers have flourished for years. They are less common on Linux machines. That's good for me, as I develop on a Linux laptop but I never really understood why that is the case. I know that mos
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by pmontra 10mo ago
The employer buys the AI subscription, not the employee. An employee that sends company code to an external AI is somebody looking for troubles. In the case of contractors, the contractors buy the subscription but they need authorization to
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by pmontra 10mo ago
Yes, but how large is the subset of Firefox users that are willing to pay for a browser? Take that number and multiply it either by 10 o by 100 and you get the order of magnitude. I googled this https://www.reddit.com/r&#x2F
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by pmontra 10mo ago
Well, I can't cook very well but I can assess if I like more what I cook, what I buy at the store, what I have at a restaurant. It's usually restaurant > me > supermarket. Packaged food is the worst.
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by pmontra 10mo ago
Maybe that's the reason but the cook also ate less and should be able to compare the taste.
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by pmontra 10mo ago
This site has interesting content but scrolls so horribly on my phone that I stopped after a dozen items. Firefox on Android. Nevertheless I upvoted it in case other people here are luckier than me at browsing that page.
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by pmontra 10mo ago
Printing has always been the most brittle experience of all IT at least since when I started printing in the 80s. To add an anecdote I let a friend print on my HP LaserJet from his Windows laptop today. It detected the printer over Wi-Fi bu
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by pmontra 10mo ago
I believe that in this conversation one party is saying that people have intrinsic rights (see the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and the other party might agree on that but they say that those rights can be enforced only if they ca
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by pmontra 10mo ago
> "DRM/widevine [...] is the graveyard where Linux browsers go to die" Maybe it's not widevine L1 but Firefox has the widevine plugin enabled on my Debian 13. I don't remember I had to do anything except download
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by pmontra 10mo ago
About building web apps: > It could be the continued lack of DOM bindings that have been considered a key missing piece for several years now, or maybe something else or more fundamental. More fundamentally, every front end developer use
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by pmontra 10mo ago
I'd be surprised if Microsoft would sell them Windows licenses or would work with them on drivers if they don't put the Copilot key on the keyboard.
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by pmontra 10mo ago
> Supporting all languages equally future-proves the editor, because who knows which language we will use in ten years? I remember which editors I used in 1990: emacs for most of my code and vi (vim now) for light editing mostly on remot
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by pmontra 10mo ago
My guess: phone get more storage so we can build fatter apps. With RAM and storage getting more expensive maybe developers will face some pressure to deliver slimmer apps but I don't have many hopes for that. It's going to take at
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by pmontra 10mo ago
More than 3x: GMail is 194 MB on my Android phone and the old K9 (which Thunderbird built upon) is 10.60 MB.
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by pmontra 10mo ago
It's more or less what a customer of mine does with its support tickets. We receive the tickets, interact with customers, solve their problem and sometimes in the process we open one or more issues that enter into the backlog. Issues o
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by pmontra 10mo ago
They will setup their TVs with whatever setting makes them sell better than the other TVs in the shop.
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by pmontra 10mo ago
It's on HN front page right now https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/n... Unpaywalled link https://archive.is/20251203115217/https://ww
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by pmontra 10mo ago
Hedge funds? Yes but before than that, armies would use RV to get targets, secrets, etc. There are plenty of wars around the world and a lot of money involved.
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by pmontra 10mo ago
I agree that typing curly braces and square brackets on non English keyboards suck, but typing non English languages on an English keyboard sucks too. I made the opposite of your decision: I brought a laptop with my national keyboard and I
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by pmontra 10mo ago
In my case Android Auto got rid of my car. I bought a second hand car in 2020 and Android Auto had upgraded to a new version a few months before. However my car did not upgrade its software and it probably has no way to do it. So the sw in

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