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901.
by tom_ 3y ago
Stop being so dramatic. The exact same code will still compile today, and you'll get your window in 10 lines or whatever. And anyway, it's not a window - it's a message box. (You could probably put an honest-to-goodness windo
902.
by tom_ 3y ago
I've done this for personal projects for years, for exactly the reasons you state - other than user re-education, my projects don't have enough users to make an impact. For GitHub releases, I get the CI script to do ``git log -1 -
903.
by tom_ 3y ago
I've always found tea acceptable at a wide range of temperatures. Room temperature to boiling, it's all good, same as water. (But not same as red wine or beer, the other 2 types of liquid I will drink.) I do admit this rule does
904.
by tom_ 3y ago
Apparently it's more like 333 K.
905.
by tom_ 3y ago
I did wonder whether his point was that he'd followed all the precepts of his training to the letter, and the dodgy beaker was the unsuspected weak foundation. But then, later in the thread... > I did a lot of small things wrong, in
906.
by tom_ 3y ago
I assumed the point was that your comment "dumping a membrane board in the landfill like OP apparently does" was a misrepresentation, as the author was doing the exact opposite of dumping the keyboard in the landfill! Whether this
907.
by tom_ 3y ago
I've got a Logitech G403. It's got a little DPI switch button behind the wheel, which you can reprogram to act as the middle mouse button: https://www.logitechg.com/en-gb/products/gaming-mice/g403-he
908.
by tom_ 3y ago
It's outnumbered by the wrong-hand-drive countries that surround it, so LHD cars kind of have to be legal even if only to accommodate lorries and tourists.
909.
by tom_ 3y ago
And yet here you are, doing this.
910.
by tom_ 3y ago
Evergreen: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
911.
by tom_ 3y ago
I assume the point, not that it's being put very well, is that the bar for events that render one unavailable, possibly for some unpredictable period, is now lower. Things that previously might not even have registered can now take peo
912.
by tom_ 3y ago
I’ve been using a command interpreter other than cmd for over 20 years.
913.
by tom_ 3y ago
Teams has at least 2, maybe even 3 people working on it.
914.
by tom_ 3y ago
It only searches the names.
915.
by tom_ 3y ago
It sounds like you have opinions about how the team members should behave!
916.
by tom_ 3y ago
If the rest of traffic is driving 15 mph faster, clearly it isn't difficult to ignore the people driving slowly. So if anything, surely it's the people who want them imprisoned who should be punished. Their crime? Poor priority ma
917.
by tom_ 3y ago
Does node do static type checking?
918.
by tom_ 3y ago
It's not a leak if the memory is still referenced! A garbage-collected system can never leak memory.
919.
by tom_ 3y ago
Depends on the tune... some of these sound more like mods or xms, made up of samples rather than synthesized notes (the synthesized nature being one of the distinguishing characteristics of the chip tune).
920.
by tom_ 3y ago
I haven't found the performance of cloud jira anything to write home about! I'm sure web apps don't actually have to perform like shit, but it seems like they always do.
921.
by tom_ 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_...
922.
by tom_ 3y ago
Indeed, and I've found the same myself - my comment was about the reliability of the OS sleep functionality, and deliberately says nothing about the wisdom of never rebooting! I have actually found both Windows and macOS generally pret
923.
by tom_ 3y ago
I reboot most weeks, just to make sure the right stuff happens when I do. (I try to do it in the middle of the day, so there's time to sort out any matters arising.) A couple of times I've discovered I've forgotten to set stu
924.
by tom_ 3y ago
How to stop Windows installing updates behind your back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18157968 If you don't/won't/can't use the group policy editor, I got a lot of mileage out of hibernating
925.
by tom_ 3y ago
I've found sleep very reliable on macOS, and both sleep and hibernate reliable on Windows. I once had my work PC unhibernate and not pop up the login box. The computer appeared to be running normally otherwise; I just couldn't log
926.
by tom_ 3y ago
Where is this option in Visual Studio 2022, and Xcode?
927.
by tom_ 3y ago
You can't waste energy. It can't be destroyed!
928.
by tom_ 3y ago
Written by some people whose code you are getting paid to not run! On the plus side, since it's a 300 line Python script, you can read it (which does not involve running it), figure out what it's doing, explain it to somebody else
929.
by tom_ 3y ago
That approach uses DEBUG to do the assembly, and then you generate a string in QBASIC containing the assembled bytes. BBC BASIC had the assembler built in, so you'd put the mnemonics in the program code and the interpreter would genera
930.
by tom_ 3y ago
Which standards didn't it adhere to? Plenty of reasons not to use it for anything significant, but I've used numerous 6502 assemblers and the BBC BASIC syntax is/was pretty normal. Standard mnemonics, standard addressing mode

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