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by zajio1am 4y ago
There are plenty of evidently anti-user features like disabling zoom, disabling selection and so, i wonder why say Firefox even supports them.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
28" 4k has ~158 dpi, so it makes sense to use 150% scaling for it, considering that canonical dpi is 96. But it is important to consider disadvantages of 150% scaling in general. While text and vector graphics could be rendered properl
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Or i could just use a font with good hinting, enable proper grid-fitting (or even bitmap font) and have crisp fonts even on low-dpi screen. So i can have 43" 4k monitor and plenty of space on screen.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Pretty much agree. In BIRD, we use autoconf, but not automake, instead we just use GNU make directly.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
There is a common way to solve this kind of setup, just run IRC client on a server within screen, and then log from these devices to the server and re-attach screen.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> but maybe with a few tens of bucks more three of the terrible limits could be removed: the limitations in the color attribute Today, i think it is an ingenious design feature, if we consider memory size and bandwidth as a hard constrai
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by zajio1am 5y ago
For me as a non-american, the concept od 'dad jokes' is totally alien. From perceived usage, it seems just as a different phrase for puns, with some negative association.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> My short summary of this: pretty much every x86 client system since 2012 has shipped with working UEFI support That is AFAIK not true for industrial boards. For example current PC Engines APU2 boards just have Coreboot-based BIOS witho
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Now it is your turn to explain to me how does this fact contradict my statement that the drawback of such paradigm is that it makes it useless as a store of value? Well, nobody contradicted that statement, as that is generally accepted
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> If you open your distro package manager and look at the dependencies for an end-user app, it will not list header-only libraries Well, it will list them in build dependencies (e.g. build-depends in Debian).
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> We currently have a strange situation where the devices that are easy to use are the most open and the most locked down ones, and the middle-ground is punished by policy. Yes, but that is a result of legal framework, where handling and
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Someone living in US cannot be jailed for advocating genocide, but can be fired from work for disagreeing with latest woke positions. Here i can be jailed for advocating genocide, but cannot be fired from work for disagreeing with latest wo
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> shouldn't countries be allowed to decide whom to trade with? One have to distinguish country and its citizens. Sanctions is not just 'country decides whom to trade with' but 'country restrict freedom of its citizens
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Because things go “puff” and you can’t seem them doesn’t mean the problem is gone. In many cases it is, because proper incineration leads to chemical degradation of waste to simpler compounds. There are still some ash and flue gases th
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Firefox ESR on Linux PC.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
For me, scrolling on your website is unusually slow and with unusably high latency. Not sure why.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
AFAIK for 4K/60Hz you can just use USB 3.2 with DP 1.4 alternate mode with 2 lanes for DP and 2 lanes for USB.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
From the performance PoV, PCIe/Thunderbolt dock is clearly better than USB-C, but there are also other factors: 1) Thunderbolt dock requires Thunderbolt port, while USB-C dock works with just much more common USB-C + DP alternate mode
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Also part of the big drop in uninsured was the lining up of people to the wall with the weapon of the tax-man cocked, saying "pay up or else." Yes, but that is also true for (AFAIK) most public health systems. I live in a cou
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Today, people from Ukraine are glad of products of such war machine companies.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
I do not know about US university customs, but on a university (in Europe) which i attend the only purpose of intermediate grades for a course (if they are used) was to assess whether a student is allowed to go for the final exam of the cou
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> KING US Government charging 20-45% income tax > DUKE Apple charging 30% App Store tax Note that Income tax is in reality earnings tax (as expenditures are generally subtracted), while Apple/Google fee is based on just income.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
There is a way to improve font sharpness with current freetype2 by setting variable: FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 Unfortunately, default behavior for freetype2 is blurry.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Agree that politicians are to blame here, but SESTA / FOSTA laws have bipartisan support, not just from the religious right.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> What are examples of moral panics on the "left" (American interpretation) end of the spectrum? Children exploited for child labour by Roblox?
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Basically, they are trying to set up a synchronous channel over what is essentially an asynchronous medium. Yes, it is just a workaround for missing features of explicit seession begin/end that are in other mediums. > This is e
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> I'm a huge fan of no hello & "just ask" in our future world of async work. That is just a conflict between people who prefer async and who prefer sync communication. For sync communication, "hello" and &quo
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Not the Parlor kind, but more leaning towards libertarian values and the foundational principles of the United States. Yes, but as noted by Scott Alexander: The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to f
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by zajio1am 5y ago
I wrote about just international money transfers within the same currency, not about currency exchange. These are different and independent services. It is true that the bank has high spread, so i do not use it for money exchanges, just for
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> About 1.7% are ... According to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/ it is more like 0.018 % than 1.7 %.

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