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by thijsvandien 4y ago
I can attest to that. Several I tried before went bad soon, or were impossible to keep on because they were too warm or pushing against my eyes. Although I'd still rather sleep without when feasible, this one saves the night sometimes.
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by thijsvandien 4y ago
I fairly recently bought a fanless Shuttle barebone with a modern Intel CPU, that produced unbearable coil whine. It too became silent when kept busy. What solved it was disabling C-states and P-states.
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by thijsvandien 4y ago
If you're on Microsoft 365, there's outlook.office.com, though that probably doesn't compare to the Windows desktop version either.
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by thijsvandien 4y ago
To the contrary, niches can be small worlds where stories spread quickly, since everyone knows each other.
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by thijsvandien 4y ago
Mostly because it builds self-contained executables that are virtually guaranteed to work. Nowadays this is much less of a thing, but we are talking about the day and age of DLL Hell.
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by thijsvandien 4y ago
It can though, if you install the ARM build of Windows (in a VM), which translates instructions like Rosetta 2 does: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/overview#suppor... .
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by thijsvandien 4y ago
My goto for useful examples is tldr : https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr .
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by thijsvandien 4y ago
I don't expect that to be very special. Embedding Python is a common thing to do, and boils down to using the interpreter as a library: https://docs.python.org/3/extending/embedding.html .
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by thijsvandien 4y ago
Yes, their desktop clients were mainly written in Python (with Qt) and shared a lot of code between platforms. Right now I'm looking at their installation folder under Windows. It still comes with python38.dll, as well as a whole bunch
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by thijsvandien 4y ago
> Personally, I think that the existing PostgreSQL behavior (NULLS DISTINCT) is the "right" one I find this to be at odds with IS DISTINCT FROM, which is false for two NULLs.
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by thijsvandien 4y ago
[2017]
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by thijsvandien 4y ago
Same here. In addition, it's incredibly versatile, has abstractions that I like, and ships with the right amount of stuff. Most importantly, it never gets in my way. I just keep coming back to it.
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by thijsvandien 4y ago
At least they're not going to "spend more time with family".
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by thijsvandien 4y ago
As much as I like Lazarus, I wouldn't recommend it for complex data visualizations by someone skilled in web tech.
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by thijsvandien 4y ago
Indy is very popular, especially among Delphi users (shipped with it): https://github.com/IndySockets/Indy .
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
This is a common way of expressing italics in plain text. Not that it's needed on HN, because here one can use asterisks and get actual italics .
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
So many people around me love using Picasa. It offers everything they need in a user friendly fashion, and no more. Such a shame it was abandoned.
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
One reason could be that 3.8 is the last version to support Windows 7, which (despite EOL) is still widely used.
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
Switched a couple of months ago. The only thing I miss is the ability to quickly generate a public link. Otherwise it's excellent.
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
I don't mind a subscription nearly as much as the push to the cloud though.
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
This looks nice, but even though you ship internationally, how am I going to have my bike serviced on the other side of the world?
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
I'm totally with you. Whenever I tried to build anything with Django, I soon went back to Tornado for its glorious simplicity. Being able to quickly see how something is implemented is worth much more to me than any magic I mostly end
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
It is clearly stated that this is a gesture to existing customers who would like to keep their backups but can't pay right now, or even think about that.
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
This is about them not losing their backups exactly because they have other things on their mind (than paying for storage).
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
Firebird can be used either with or without a server. It's also possible to switch from one to the other while keeping the exact same database file.
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
Just what my nightmares are made of.
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
I surely can't be the only one who isn't price sensitive at all. 3x market rate? If that means it gets done well, happily.
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
Reliable professionals for just about anything. There's a ton of stuff I'd happily leave to others at a premium price, if I could only rest assured that they'd do it properly. I simply don't know where to look.
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
Tornado is an absolute feat of engineering. Shout-out to @bdarnell.
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by thijsvandien 5y ago
So if I understand correctly, you buy things at the thrift store that are offered online for at least $20 more, to then do the same?

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