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by xpil 3y ago
Can you elaborate? I have been using GreenShot for ages now and haven't had a single issue with it. It works perfectly well on my 4K monitor. What issues are you experiencing?
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by xpil 4y ago
Agreed! I also use DECT based headset (Poly i.e. ex-Plantronics - recently acquired by HP) and it is amazingly good. Range up to f*ckintillion meters (anywhere within the house or garden basically), up to 8 hours use on a single charge (I r
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by xpil 4y ago
I was a heavy Google Reader user. When it disappeared, I switched to NewsBlur. NewsBlur is great but it lacks one particular feature: an RSS feed for a folder of blogs. (or a category of blogs, potato - potahto) So I switched to self-hosted
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by xpil 4y ago
My personal record is 11 months on Mint. I have also used Ubuntu, Fedora and (a long time ago) SUSE. But as you say, sooner or later something comes up that forces me to go back to Windows. Things like poor GPU performance for certain appli
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by xpil 4y ago
So annoying.
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by xpil 4y ago
Same here
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by xpil 4y ago
> (...) in subsequent SELECT, DELETE, INSERT, or UPDATE statements The annoying part is that certain RDMBS engines (MySQL for instance) require you to write the INSERT keyword before any CTEs. So, your T-SQL or PGSQL query: `with cte1
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by xpil 4y ago
> Which don't? Redshift (a PostgreSQL derivative, more or less) can run an INSERT with a join, but cannot do an UPDATE with a join.
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by xpil 4y ago
>> Unlike SELECT, these operations don't feature JOINs or subqueries or any other magic that brings together tables. This is a false statement. Both INSERT and UPDATE support JOINs and subqueries / CTEs. At least according t
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by xpil 4y ago
I've been using their 42 inch monitor for a couple of years now. Before that, I worked on a curved 50 inch Samsung TV but it was a bit too large. 42 inches is a sweet spot for me. 2-monitor setups suck. If I had to go multi, I'd a
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by xpil 4y ago
I faced the same issue. Turns out, you need to disable ad-blocker in order to be able to sign-up with a Google account.
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by xpil 4y ago
I have both YubiKey and SMS 2FA active on my Google account. However, for SMS purposes I got an extra phone number that nobody knows (well, nobody but me, Google and my phone provider) and that is inactive except when (A) I need to use it f
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by xpil 4y ago
Kia Sorento suffers from a similar problem: after powering on, it shows a list of (up to three) profiles with the "accept" button at the bottom of the screen. Frequently the "accept" button is initially disabled (for wha
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by xpil 4y ago
Is this even turning-complete?
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by xpil 4y ago
Same here, stopped drinking alcohol years ago, switched to non-alcoholic beers. There is a huge choice of them everywhere and local pubs are required by law to have them on offer. Re social drinking, never felt any peer pressure, not now, n
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by xpil 4y ago
I have been using Vivaldi for years now, on mobile (Android). Gave up after their recent update. Why? Because they changed the layout of the "reload" button. Previously, I could simply double-tap the "V" menu to reload t
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by xpil 4y ago
This vividly reminds me of "The Washing Machine Tragedy", a story in the "Memoirs of a Space Traveller" book by Stanisław Lem. Highly recommended to any fan of house automation.
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by xpil 4y ago
This vividly reminds me of "The Washing Machine Tragedy", a story in the "Memoirs of a Space Traveller" book by Stanisław Lem. Highly recommended to any fan of house automation.
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by xpil 4y ago
"The cost of an apartment in Shenzhen, China’s answer to Silicon Valley, was equal to 43.5 times a resident’s average salary as of July" I stopped reading after this. There is no mention whether the cost means a monthly rental pri
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by xpil 4y ago
I agree - the list is truly impressive. I ran a quick spot-check and it looks like most of these blogs are of medium to low activity. Having 1000 blogs in your RSS reader with an average of 1 article per month per blog results in reading 3
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by xpil 4y ago
As I work mostly on MSSQL Server, the sweet spot for me is SSMS with RedGate SQL Prompt. For non-MSSQL things, it's usually DBeaver. No need for a new IDE for me.
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by xpil 4y ago
I am just reading it now and it is better than anticipated.
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by xpil 5y ago
"Fiasco" is a continuation of "Tales of Pirx the Pilot", although the connection is loose. I love it, too. One of his best works.
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by xpil 5y ago
I was recently evaluating Mermaid for one of my projects but I could not get mermaid-cli to work (one of 3rdparty npm libraries was broken) and I needed a way of automating graph creation. Does anyone know if there is a decent tool similar
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by xpil 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/
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by xpil 5y ago
I've been using TC since when NC was a thing. Got a proper license for it some 10 years ago, when I could finally afford it. One of the most irreplaceable bits of software ever (at least for me).
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by xpil 5y ago
I do not agree. I used to work on a hybrid basis for about 5 years (until Covid). It was approximately 40% from home and 60% on-site but the employer was flexible. Since Covid, I'm working 100% from home and while it has some advantage
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by xpil 6y ago
I've been using NewsBlur since G killed Reader. Great service!
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by xpil 6y ago
I started switching away from Whatsapp about 18 months ago. I decided to go for Telegram (although I use Signal as well). So far, I managed to convert... 17 people. Out of approximately 1200. It is a lost case. WhatsApp is practically every
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by xpil 6y ago
I just finished a 6 months no-caffeine trial, and there was literally not a single thing that changed in my life for those 6 months, except for the lack of tea/coffee (I replaced coffee with roasted grain drink for the 6 months). No wi

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