silon42

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by silon42 3y ago
Yeah, USB switch for keyboard/mouse is the reason I expect to be using USB-A (or the "illegal" adapter) for few decades more.
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by silon42 3y ago
I believe Swift does something similar.
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by silon42 3y ago
Should make a plugin for pidgin...
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by silon42 3y ago
5 (on nexus 5) for me, but in general, I agree
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by silon42 3y ago
Certainly not... skimming back and forth is the default most of the time...
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by silon42 3y ago
This might work (not free, but works for me): https://www.exquilla.com/
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by silon42 3y ago
This sounds like a one of the few good reasons to switch to Wayland, if this can really be disabled.
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by silon42 3y ago
On a modern PC, Esc key is Esc key... whatever the application wants to use it for (99% time, cancel some UI operation). To me it's insane that one of the most used key command has a 1 second delay in the terminal. Or that typically Es
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by silon42 3y ago
+1 I once refactored part of my code for headers to only #include forward declarations (and few generics, of course), except where really needed (implementation) It made compile times 2x faster, probably could get 3x if fully done.
340.
by silon42 3y ago
I've used it several times to crash the program, with cleaner stack trace than the abort() library function.
341.
by silon42 3y ago
I don't trust my phone with my passwords store, they are on a password manager (some in firefox, some in other sw) on a laptop (and backed up to another encrypted machine).
342.
by silon42 3y ago
When my dad saw a queue of tourist cars on a weekend around half of the ring of the capital city he said that if this really causes global warming, this must be banned immediately.
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by silon42 3y ago
Personally I prefer stackoverflow and such, because I can see different answer including wrong or non-applicable ones which don't solve my exact problem.
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by silon42 3y ago
One card, same experience... nouveau was quite reliable... it was a dual graphics laptop, so I later switched to Intel to get more battery life. On another laptop (with nVidia Optimus, I believe), it was not usable (at least not for externa
345.
by silon42 3y ago
Same here... MATE is the default... can't really migrate to Wayland then.
346.
by silon42 3y ago
Or more realistically, another JVM language. I actually wouldn't mind a subset of Rust that targets the JVM.
347.
by silon42 3y ago
I've always thoght GUI designers/devs should have a Mouseless Friday (incl tochpad).
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by silon42 3y ago
This what basically what a Saga is... a process that uses custom protocols to resolve the state of multiple entities to a consistent valid state. Sure, avoid Sagas when possible (use a DB transaction if you can merge microservices), but whe
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by silon42 3y ago
How about people disabling JS by default?
350.
by silon42 3y ago
A true AI would write a retraction itself.
351.
by silon42 3y ago
Except that Java is regularly decompiled by people's IDEs.
352.
by silon42 3y ago
So, maybe AOSP should become another Linux desktop?
353.
by silon42 3y ago
My first question... I'd not want to crush the soil if possible.
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by silon42 3y ago
dist packages are a must for software written in Python that is part of the distribution itself.
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by silon42 3y ago
Just last week I had to parse arguments again after a long time in a script of mine. After some googling, getopt was chosen due to it's simplicity.
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by silon42 3y ago
Yeah, I'm on android and RCS is not enabled.
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by silon42 3y ago
yeah... IMO Android 5 I think was more or less the optimum (Nexus 5)
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by silon42 3y ago
including replaceable WMs
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by silon42 3y ago
Huh, no? Tt's very easy to do it incorrectly. It's at best equal... unless there is some SQL driver/client somewhere that disallows hardcoded strings everywhere (that would actually really help).
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by silon42 3y ago
A purist would support removing strcpy, etc... but that wouldn't go well, so adding an improvement is acceptable.

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