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by snazz 5y ago
The JetBrains IDEs at least start on Haiku (or they did at one point): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18893648 Not sure how good that experience is but it's very impressive nonetheless.
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by snazz 5y ago
If the author has kept the same power supply/charger this whole time, it's certainly possible that that could be a lemon too.
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by snazz 5y ago
Even just keeping software updates, backups, and your personal data up to date on both a laptop and a desktop can be frustrating. Two Macs could be doable because of the level of syncing that iCloud provides, but I'd probably still nee
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by snazz 5y ago
The HID drivers that come with your operating system work fine, but you’ll be missing out on any manufacturer-specific customization features (nonstandard buttons, remapping, DPI settings, lights, etc). I also don’t tend to install software
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by snazz 5y ago
To extend that analogy, I choose a regular bicycle because I ride for fun and exercise, not speed. But if biking were a serious mode of transportation for me, I would get one that gave me the most assistance possible so I could go faster an
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by snazz 5y ago
Helvetica definitely was not designed with screens in mind—Apple replaced it with San Francisco for both a legibility and a brand cohesiveness purpose. That said, this feels like a weird argument given that Twitter didn’t use Helvetica on a
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by snazz 5y ago
I’m also a big fan of the diskutil command line utility.
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by snazz 5y ago
These came to mind right away and work for both macOS and Windows: - Upload to a cloud storage service of your choice and download on the other end—Google Drive is very fast - Use iCloud Photos (there’s client software for Windows too) - Pl
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by snazz 5y ago
Yep, ST’s unsaved default workspace is completely reliable for me—it’s survived power outages on my desktop (while I was actively typing) without a hitch.
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by snazz 5y ago
LTSC versions are officially supported for 10 years, so some version of Windows 10 will be supported for at least a decade. Windows Server 2019/client v1809 LTSC is supported until 2029, for example.
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by snazz 5y ago
Yes, although you have to set it up manually if you’re using a more bare-bones Linux distribution or something like that.
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by snazz 5y ago
I remember a period last spring and early summer when parties and gatherings were getting "busted", but I don't think the enforcement of restrictions on private gatherings has been meaningful for the majority of the pandemic.
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by snazz 5y ago
Suburbs and rural areas differ greatly from major cities in this regard.
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by snazz 5y ago
Having each app run in the background and manage its own notifications can work, but also causes battery life issues with more apps.
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by snazz 5y ago
It definitely feels like you get some free low end torque in a hybrid as well.
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by snazz 5y ago
One potentially misleads readers of the journal, the other introduces security vulnerabilities into the world’s most popular operating system kernel.
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by snazz 6y ago
In a way, yes, but the outing of going to the movies with people is a different social experience that many people are missing right now.
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by snazz 6y ago
The system I'm typing on runs Windows Server 2019, which has the Windows 7-era calculator and very little ability to use UWP apps, and I still do my math with Speedcrunch, Desmos, or an emulated TI-84 Plus CE via CEmu. The Windows 7 ca
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by snazz 6y ago
> It's so easy to configure and run your own mail server Is it? Is dealing with IP reputation, getting your emails accepted by major providers, and being on the hook for fixing everything yourself very easy? I haven't tried, so
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by snazz 6y ago
VS Code can do that as well (I think it might be how they implement WSL support too).
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by snazz 6y ago
More than just underlying code; it's directly based on Gentoo and it uses Portage. See the first line of the Wikipedia article on Chrome OS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS
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by snazz 6y ago
It's a little easier to use and easier to manage for most people compared to a traditional Linux distro.
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by snazz 6y ago
That's awfully confusing! What a coincidence that two graphics stack developers have such similar names.
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by snazz 6y ago
Fugaku, the current most powerful supercomputer, is Arm-based.
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by snazz 6y ago
This isn't anything equivalent to a zero-day in a web browser, for instance. It's trivial for Facebook to patch and it can't fit in a "slot" filled by a previous bug. Note that vulnerabilities in a specific web ap
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by snazz 6y ago
I'll guess that your screen brightness is set too high.
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by snazz 6y ago
Facebook allows people hunting for bugs to find them on approved subdomains following their bug bounty policy.
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by snazz 6y ago
AirPlay exists for that exact purpose, but I haven't seen anything confirming or denying whether spatial audio works with AirPlay.
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by snazz 6y ago
I'm not saying it's accurate :) But I still appreciate that the Dark Sky feature isn't artificially limited to a particular date. They have a nice error bar on the temperature that gives you an indication of how much it'
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by snazz 6y ago
Dark Sky (whose future is in question due to the Apple acquisition) has a Time Machine feature that lets you see weather pretty much arbitrarily far in the future: https://darksky.net/details/40.7127,-74.0059/2020-

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