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by vthriller 8y ago
Not only mail.ru, current owner of ICQ, officially dropped support for OSCAR because of new WhatsApp-esque features [0], they also tricked a lot of users into linking phone numbers to ICQ accounts [1], presumably in preparation for Russian
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by vthriller 8y ago
It's a shame that the only thing Gmane v2 effort [0] yielded is just a couple of blog posts. Why did they stop so abruptly?.. [0] http://home.gmane.org
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by vthriller 8y ago
> This automatically split the task into all available CPU cores. GNU sort can already utilize multiple cores, and you can override internal heuristics about whether it's going to be beneficial for one particular input or not with -
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by vthriller 8y ago
GNU sort generates a bunch of temporary files for large inputs, and for a lot of linux folks /tmp is mounted as tmpfs (i.e. it's RAM/swap-backed), but it might do something else on other platforms, or just locate temporary fi
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by vthriller 8y ago
> Most of Firefox is still (8 years later) not written in Rust. <nit>In part because 1.0 release of Rust popped up in 2015, not 2011.</nit>
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by vthriller 8y ago
One of my use cases for long-living tabs is short-living content: pretty often I have a time to take a quick look at it but not to dive deeply nor to stash it (preferably in HTML or something that's just friendlier to grep than quick s
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by vthriller 8y ago
It indeed seems to be from 2017 (if <meta> tags on this page are accurate).
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by vthriller 8y ago
> Technically if you need a patch you can generate it on the fly by comparing both objects Automatically generated patches might not work in the long run in certain situations (e.g. when standard 3-line context is repetitive, making the
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Public-inbox – an “archives first” approach to mailing lists(public-inbox.org)
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by vthriller 8y ago
Aaand we've returned to discussions about hacks designed to make DNS at least somewhat trustful.
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by vthriller 8y ago
Commit logs are also cheap to write, and it's easier for people to realize that whatever you read in "$vcs log" or "$vcs blame" might be severely outdated.
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by vthriller 8y ago
Predictability is a tad subjective (I'll put consistency part aside for a moment here); e.g. you can think of pdf handling this way: lsix is about images first and foremost, so it makes sense to hide everything else, including pdfs, wh
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by vthriller 8y ago
> That "connection" is easiest and more scalable when it's based on real names Is it though? People I know refer to their pages with short urls and nicknames all the time because nobody wants to scroll through bazillion of
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by vthriller 8y ago
> Twitter and its absolute obsession Oh yes, Twitter, that very Twitter that shows me full-screen modals [0] after [0] every [0] other [0] scroll [0] on [0] its [0] mobile [0] website [0]. [0] https://i.imgur.com/q19sqZw.
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by vthriller 8y ago
Not to mention BIOS-destroying viruses from that era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus)
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by vthriller 8y ago
You shouldn't dismiss compression speeds and hardware requirements though, as not all content in the internet is static.
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by vthriller 8y ago
> I guess "just Google for Mu" won't work any more. And it never did work for such an ambiguous term (greek letter? Micron Technology stocks? Manchester United?), unless you googled "mu editor" in which case you&
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by vthriller 8y ago
Page reflow is nothing compared to <canvas>es flying on top of the <video> thanks to some overengineered JS code.
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by vthriller 8y ago
Those rare folks who prefer older Google interfaces might actually consider this a feature, a nice additional reason to ditch modern Chrome.
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by vthriller 8y ago
Chrome flags though die out so fast there's virtually no point in exposing them at all, it's disappointing and frustrating almost every release.
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by vthriller 8y ago
I already find function template syntax (1) a bit more confusing because of consecutive parentheses (I can get used to it pretty easily, but it will always be a bit slower to read), and 2–6 does not make me want to convert to D from Rust.
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by vthriller 8y ago
> My point is that "standard" code is infinitely more readable than either c++ or rust. Still I'm struggling to see any code that is significantly more readable because of D's design decisions , or details on what
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by vthriller 8y ago
> D itself looked and still looks very interesting to me, as it can be […] without having insanely ugly syntax such as c++ or rust (inb4 rUsT iS VeRy ReADaBlE). I did a quick dive into aforementioned stdlib only to stumble upon something
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by vthriller 8y ago
My experience is exactly the opposite. Each time I'm past 200 tabs or something (i.e. all the time), Chrome's UI starts occasionally lagging and glitching, and I'm not even talking about memory usage (overall or even just par
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by vthriller 8y ago
> for some reason we don't have an epidemic of bait-and-switch blogs I've seen a number of social network groups being sold for their audiences and then rebranded to sell questionable things. I've even seen something simil
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silly easter eggs?
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I split file changes into multiple commits all the time. That alone makes many diffs much more readable and changes easier to follow, even if it results in occasional git-log clutter.
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> At least a non-modified bash prompt lets me navigate using some archaic control key combinations You can get vi-like navigation in bash with a simple `set -o vi`
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> How did those drag and drop tools back then handle creating a UI for screens ranging from 400pt wide to 2560pt wide? For simpler forms you'd just set anchoring properties of the widgets in question (akRight/akBottom in Borlan
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by vthriller 8y ago
To me, a person that doesn't (and never did) live in the US, faxes there seem to be even more ubiquitous than this article paints. Imagine my amusement when I registered an Amazon account only to get it suspended with the request to ve

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