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by u801e 6y ago
> As far as punctuation, ending periods actually have negative emotion in text vernacular now for younger audiences and should almost never be used in 1-1 messaging. It seems that people read too much into the intent (imagined or real) i
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by u801e 6y ago
> Every single time I was told that I was throwing my vote away or voting for one of the major party villains. The refrain essentially is that you must vote for the candidate we say is most likely to win and if you don't, then you&#
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by u801e 6y ago
Slack used to have that benefit when they had their IRC and XMPP gateways online. I know there are clients out there that leverage the API to do the same thing, but it's essentially re-inventing the wheel covered by numerous existing
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by u801e 6y ago
> I believe you, but I think you're hitting something completely unique to your setup and external to Slack. That's entirely possible, but this problem has persisted throughout multiple versions of Firefox and Fedora. For all
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by u801e 6y ago
I'm using Firefox on Fedora 31, but this seems to be an issue across multiple OS versions. The machine is a Dell Ultrabook with a Core i7 processor and 16 GB of RAM.
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by u801e 6y ago
> standard client across multiple operating systems In my case, it's suboptimal. There's a multi-second delay between when I type and when the characters show up on the screen. If I were able to use an OS specific client that
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by u801e 6y ago
Though I wonder if it would perform as bad as Slack if people were forced to use an Electron client in a web browser.
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by u801e 6y ago
I'm forced to use Slack for work and I notice that there's a multi-second delay between my keyboard input and when the characters show up on the screen.
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by u801e 6y ago
If only they would accept a detached PGP signature based on the contents of the document ...
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by u801e 6y ago
> Airbags are not designed with the bodies of children or infants in rear-facing carseats in mind. According to FMVSS 208, they're tested using an unbelted 50th percentile size male dummy. That's the reason they deploy with mor
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by u801e 6y ago
> You have to check for replies aggressively or you can’t have a conversation I've found the easiest way to do that is to click on your username on the front page, and then click on the comments link. Any replies to your comments w
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by u801e 6y ago
> Up until around 1990 or so 55MPH was the maximum speed limit The NMSL (National Maximum Speed Limit) was enacted in 1973, modified in 1987 to allow 65 mph speed limits on rural interstates, and repealed in 1995. Many states in the sout
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by u801e 6y ago
> My mind races thinking about the ways to configure a data stream to lose so much speed. Not quite the same peripheral, but the 1541 disk drive was designed to be backwards compatible with older Commodore models. As a result, it had a v
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by u801e 6y ago
That actually comes from ed and vi. The g command would search for a line that matches a given regular expression and run the following command on that line. The v command was the inverse (search for lines that don't match the given
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by u801e 6y ago
git send-email and git imap-send can send to a mailbox (the latter can be used to upload files to an IMAP folder). I don't know of a command that could download patches from a mailbox (though it would be nice if git provided one that
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by u801e 6y ago
This is the reason that self-diving cars that require human intervention is a flawed concept. We should be designing vehicles that we manually control, but have a computer take over when needed.
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by u801e 6y ago
I don't think that editing comments that you didn't make should ever be a feature. This is something that could easily be abused to make it appear that someone else said something they didn't actually way.
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by u801e 6y ago
I haven't tried all of the xpra options, but it would be a matter of starting an instance on the remote machine and then running the command to attach to it in the local machine. I suppose that you could start a terminal session on the
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by u801e 6y ago
> it's a bit annoying if all you want is one window from the remote machine. You should try xrdp. It can work like X forwarding (single application window forwarding), but you can also attach or detach from a running application (li
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by u801e 6y ago
You should look into xrdp. It's like X forwarding, but with the ability to detach and reattach to a running application like screen or tmux.
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by u801e 6y ago
> Cool, except people choose to be parents, and when you do that you accept the additional work involved in that. Yes. That's why parents will get before and afterschool child care, daycare, find a relative, or hire a babysitter to
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by u801e 6y ago
The fundamental assumption is that people will either ask how to do something, or read the documentation/manual. It's not that we'll try to figure out how something work by experimenting. When I first started using UNIX/
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by u801e 6y ago
> To get a new bearer token (good for any number of API calls or SMTP submissions) you log into a web site and request a new token. Is the bearer token used as the password in the SMTP transaction? Could the same one be used for IMAP ac
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by u801e 6y ago
> you'd think a company with an division dedicated to authentication would support what the industry considers the best 2FA solution: WebAuthn How would WebAuthn work with someone using a mail user agent connecting via SMTP?
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by u801e 6y ago
> Git would be useful in replacing email-based collaboration, but the switching costs seem too high. Git was originally designed on an email based workflow for software development (hence the commands am, format-patch and send-email). Fo
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by u801e 6y ago
> When people talk about "unit tests", a unit doesn't refer to the common pattern of "a single class". A unit is a piece of the software with a clear boundary. It might be a whole microservice, or a chunk of a mo
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by u801e 6y ago
I was several hundred miles north of the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse. I walked around the path outside my office during the event. Even though it wasn't total, there was a noticable dimming outside and it actually started f
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by u801e 6y ago
> I meant like GitHub and competitors, which let you attach comments to specific lines and files and such Github does allow you to filter the diff down to the commit or jump to a particular file within the diff. Commenting on a line in
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by u801e 6y ago
> perhaps because they tend to use git alone instead of higher-level software that would help them break down a big single commit git is capable of breaking down a large diff into manageable pieces (e.g., limiting a diff to a single file
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by u801e 6y ago
> Okay, back to the people who need Slack open for their jobs. It's a requirement at my job, but no one is required to respond right away. Just in a reasonable time frame. Sometimes I have to wait 15 to 30 minutes before I get a r

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