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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Being married to a framework is arguably worse than using separate, isolated and composable libraries to handle the equivalent things. You can fight architectural problems of a library easily, but not when there's one inside a framewo
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
I bound these under C-n and C-p. Very convenient indeed!
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Agree. Only the small subreddits with a tight focus work for me.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
To me, HN's "bias" is not so much about left/right, but rather the individualism/collectivism aspect of things. "Regulation is a good tool to weed out the bad stuff; free market can't solve this or that; b
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Mk II was a wonderful no-nonsense keyboard. Super light and had PCB-mounted MX Blue switches. Despite a big & plasticy case it felt like a precision tool to me. I wish I had bought a PCB mounted successor instead of a modern plate mount
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
I still use Flash for youtube (with an add-on that enforces it) because Firefox doesn't seem to be able to handle my 4-monitor Xmonad setup properly with HTML5 fullscreen video. And the process also locks up my soundcard until I kill t
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Probably because of Parkinsons' Law.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Is the NTLMv2 hash even salted?
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
It's absolutely unsafe to handcrank windows while driving, but when is that ever needed? I long for my old hand-cranked-window MB 200D days when my newer Toyota has 3 failed electrical windows out of four. And it's costing so much
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Other manufacturers seem to be able to design devices that have the sturdiness and the battery such that extra cases aren't required in everyday use.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Censor trending topics, for instance.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
But losing color arguably worsens the usability.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
There are three philosophies to deal with multiple workspaces and multiple monitors: * one pool of WSs for all monitors (gnome,mate,win10) * one shared pool of WSs for each monitor (xmonad) * one pool of WSs for each monitor (awesome,dwm,
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
As long as Python actively refuses to support real constants among some other immutability related features, I think the more recent versions of JS are going to get past Python in sheer elegance of code.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
And Xmonad is the only one that gets workspaces right in a multidisplay environment.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Spreadsheets are indeed suited for this very task. But on the other hand, they remain very user-hostile. I couldn't keep my accounts up-to-date if it wasn't for ledger, vim, and the command-line interfaces. Projects like sc or ses
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Not really. I immediately noticed the layout breaks if you use your own font size. Not a good design at all.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Yep. Amarok 2.0 forced me to learn MPD. :)
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Yeah, Office 2000 hit the sweet spot on lightweightness and features.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
It's not even ASCII. Blocks and "double pipes" fall out of the 127-character range easily. I also agree that a lot of the benefits and crude aesthetics is lost on using extra codepages and fancy characters: I enjoy my NetHack
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by pvdebbe 11y ago
Works plenty well with ABP.
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by pvdebbe 11y ago
I had similar progression when I switched to Gentoo in 2007. I would boot into windows maybe every 3 months, and it was always a hassle with the security updates. Wiped out the partition after a couple of years of checking into windows mayb
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by pvdebbe 11y ago
This has a faint scent of an early April fool joke.
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by pvdebbe 11y ago
Buy one of these and see how you can't get any email of it validated. :{ (Seriously, email validation should stop.)
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by pvdebbe 11y ago
"Open source" doesn't mean the code is free to take over. The blog should have used exact terms on licenses and their TOS.
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by pvdebbe 11y ago
I turn off the ads, and I don't expect the Internet to be free.
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by pvdebbe 11y ago
I see.
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by pvdebbe 11y ago
'appens or a-pens?
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by pvdebbe 11y ago
I would like to see the 3.5" floppy do a comeback, for instance as a 1TB+ flash drive. It is large enough that you can comfortably handle it physically and label it, maybe it could be a small throwback to the age of floppies and zip dr
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by pvdebbe 11y ago
Cool. The only thing not yet emulated is the screen blackout forcing you to login or register, but otherwise it's decent.

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