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by twarge 6y ago
Quickbooks for Mac uses sqlite for its file format and this allowed users to query the books with any SQL browser! Alas, they encrypted the file starting two years ago.
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by twarge 6y ago
The super thin USB-C 2.0 cables are just ideal for charging. The thicker ones with the USB 3+ signaling are great for high data rates. Just pick the one you need for the job.
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by twarge 6y ago
USB-C is a great system. Power delivery is incredible and works really well. Having different capabilities in host, device, and cable is, of course, completely natural. I wouldn't want all my cables to be thick and expensive thunderbol
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by twarge 6y ago
They show a fictional render of the main chip surrounded by four large gold coated leadless packages. What are those supposed to be?
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by twarge 7y ago
ChibiOS' CDC works great. Don't know about licensing, but it's fine for non-commercial use.
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by twarge 7y ago
In my experience their stuff has a surprising amount of friction. It also used to be buggy, but it's not that anymore. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it feels a little like they're just not getting the basics right. J
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by twarge 7y ago
The very first versions of TeX did fewer things, but they did them really perfectly.
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by twarge 7y ago
The manual seems to quickly disqualify the system. The numbers don't line up in the TOC in horrible ways. Then a little ways down there's a wrap figure that's got a horrible spacing problem. These indicate to me that the shin
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by twarge 7y ago
Real data required: How many people who experienced data loss or other issues have one of the following underlying conditions: 1. Creeping storage corruption that is exposed by the upgrade. 2. Latent configuration issues from running the be
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by twarge 7y ago
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by twarge 7y ago
This constant iteration is exactly how software development works now. By contrast to this, Quickbooks for Mac went through a ground-up rewrite in Cocoa about 10 years ago and has been keeping up with the transitions. It's really beaut
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by twarge 7y ago
Yes!
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by twarge 8y ago
AFAIK Smooth scrolling isn't available on BBEdit, and my eyes can't track the code as it scrolls. If you use Cocoa text views or basically anything from NEXTstep way back in 10.0 your view would be either automatically or triviall
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by twarge 8y ago
As a non-coder (physicist) writing Rust, the thing that really stuck me was that the time between successful compile and flawless operation was significantly shorter than the C and Python I write. Furthermore, this difference when writing
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by twarge 9y ago
Those of you coming from Solodworks beware. There isn’t first class Assembly support. However Realthunder’s Assembly3 work is incredibly promising. https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3
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by twarge 9y ago
2016 MacBook Pro works like a charm for me. It's genuinely more mobile, smaller, lighter. Low-travel keys are faster for typing for me and don't ever mark the screen like some older models. Touch Bar is sometime more useful when u