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by ptspts 3y ago
Indeed, the vertical scrolling behavior on mobile (Chrome) is terrible: it is flickering, and it is jumping around the site randomly, and it doesn't let the user see what was a few lines below the current text. Please don't ever o
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by ptspts 3y ago
Most modern C++ compilers provide inline assembly. However, the syntax is compiler-specific and target-specific. Also it's (almost) impossible to use generic types with such inline assembly.
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by ptspts 3y ago
Sometimes some shows are not available or you get different voice languages if you watch your Netflix from a different country.
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by ptspts 3y ago
Also the software restrictions on the linked Netflix page seem to be arbitrary. When I download a movie in a DRM-free .mkv file, I can play it in all my browsers, all media player apps (typically VLC and MPV), and the HDMI version doesn&#x2
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by ptspts 3y ago
On Windows, the standalone Netflix app and Netflix in the Edge browser support 4K resolution.
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by ptspts 3y ago
I think this part of the proof is precise. Which sentence is handwavy for you? “e is between 2 and 3” can be considered common knowledge, it easily follows from thd proof that its defining limit converges.
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by ptspts 4y ago
The zig tool can also do this conveniently for programming languages C and Zig.
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by ptspts 4y ago
There is “no way” to subvert this FizzBuzz interview when writing code in Python 3 only. def inf_range(a): while True: yield a a += 1 def take(n, it): return [a for a, b in zip(it, range(n))] def fizzbuzz():
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by ptspts 4y ago
Is it possible to build proper noise insulation, which makes the house as quiet as the a house in a quiet neignorhood, to a newly built, modern apartment house? I think it is, but construction companies are trying to savd a few cents, and t
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by ptspts 4y ago
Where is the actual, platform-specific business logic in the source code of this software? All I was able to find was https://github.com/Slackadays/Clipboard/blob/6fd7e6b695ebe57... , which opens the X11 conn
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by ptspts 4y ago
On my Ubuntu, there are many cross-assemblers (including ARM, RISC-V and PowerPC) and linkers available in packages. These packages have binutils in their name. Once installed, the assembler command has -as at the end of its name, and the l
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by ptspts 4y ago
Even if not, it's affordable to hire a programmer for a few hours to migrate the code to the newer API.
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by ptspts 4y ago
Not all YouTube videos with spoken text have automatic captions.
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by ptspts 4y ago
Shameless plug: my earlier project StaticPerl, statically linked Perl 5.10 for i386 Linux and FreeBSD: https://github.com/pts/staticperl Differences: * Actually Portable Perl runs on more operating systems, StaticPerl
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by ptspts 4y ago
Depending on the task to be solved, a Bash script (using AWK, Coreutils etc.) executes much slower than the correspinding Perl or Python script, and having to run slow scripts often interactively can have a strong negative impact on develop
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by ptspts 4y ago
If such a high charging power level is needed anyway, does requiring USB-C charging make the power brick any larger?
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by ptspts 4y ago
Another relevant meaning of signed pointers is pointer authentication.
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by ptspts 4y ago
Was it common for pre-1995 CRT displays to work at 60 Hz?
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by ptspts 4y ago
Is there a precise, published-in-advance definition of cheating in the chess contest rules, or are the contest organizers allowed to shift goalposts as they see fit, and ban a player from future contests because of any arbitrary reason they
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by ptspts 4y ago
It would be great if devbox displayed the recommended command to install Nix upon first run. First users of devbox shouldn't be expected to know the details on how Debian packages Nix.
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by ptspts 4y ago
Possible reasons: 1. The JVM executes bytecode much (~10 times) faster than the CPython VM. 2. Unlike the JVM, the CPython VM and bytecode are not compatible with older or newer versions of CPython. (The differences are small, but they add
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by ptspts 4y ago
Not yet, because Tk itself hasn't been ported to Cosmopolitan Libc yet.
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by ptspts 4y ago
How do I get free beer at Oktoberfest?
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by ptspts 4y ago
Once I needed to catch an early flight, and no Uber drivers were available in my vicinity. But most of the time Uber and Lyft worked for me. If there is a train to the airport, I usually prefer it, because it avoids (unpredictable) traffic
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by ptspts 4y ago
I'm explicitly looking for laptops with full HD display resolution, not more. I prefer the crisp pixels of low-resolution bitmap fonts.
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by ptspts 4y ago
The zsh rm command doesn't with too many (say, 100 000) files, execve() fails with: Argument list too long. This works and it is relatively fast (runs rm in big batches): find ... | xargs -d '\n' rm --
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by ptspts 4y ago
Also, this can make me bounce: ,,payment failed, please start again with an empty shopping cart''. It happens on quite many webshops.
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by ptspts 4y ago
Is this supposed to recognize a single digit? For me it can recognize only half of the digits correctly. What is the use case for sich a low-precision image recognition?
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by ptspts 4y ago
A shell script provided by the app author can automate setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH and running the binary. It's very convenient for the end user. Lots of programs are shipped to Linux this way.
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by ptspts 4y ago
From Zürich to Munich by direct train is now 221 minutes instead of 245 minutes. It'z faster, but I wouldn't call it way faster. By bus it's 225 minutes, but the bus is often up to 30 minutes late.

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