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by zbuf 6y ago
Nobody has said it, but it seems we are reaching a fork in the desktop? For users, not 'right' and 'wrong' here, just two groups whose goals differ. Those supporting X.org are using X very much in the spirit of it; custo
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by zbuf 6y ago
There's no real need to use a name that actually matches the sender. Choose a random word; it's easy to identify later -- from the first mail to your inbox from that address. You'll still be able to filter on it, or know if a
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by zbuf 6y ago
In some fields, Python is embedded as an interpreter into major binary platforms or commercial apps. So in many of these cases the end user doesn't have a choice to use Python 3 until it's on offer. And the vendor has usually inte
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by zbuf 6y ago
Yes it's interesting if this is cited as one of the motivations. That's a problem of a language being oriented around a single implementation. Is it even defined by this implementation? Compare to eg. C or C++. Diversity, and inte
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by zbuf 6y ago
I thought this was parody
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by zbuf 6y ago
Even better, let's just have the default orderFilter be the equivalent of '*'. If there's always a filter, then there's no longer a branch at the point it's used -- that needs to be tested and maintained. I use
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by zbuf 6y ago
Thanks for those trim settings, useful! I'll swap you for these. I don't want any automatic opening of URLs, but I do want to make it easier to copy-paste them: xterm*on3Clicks: regex [^ ''""()<>$+]*
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by zbuf 6y ago
Leaving aside the modest achievements of the code so far, the missing prerequisite to "automatically" formatting SQL is... just formatting SQL. Because SQL (broadly) was designed to be "human" readable in the first place
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by zbuf 6y ago
Le Carré has a cameo that's worth keeping an eye out for, too!
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by zbuf 6y ago
That's the one! But it wasn't Epic. Imagine being faced with this problem. It's not even visually clear what's going on in the picture. That's before you even get to solving the puzzle. Just "identify what we m
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by zbuf 6y ago
Captchas have gone mad. The other day a major service gave me less than 10 seconds to solve a puzzle with a mouse in a maze and some cheese, and subsequently locked out of my account. Actually before I got locked out, I thought I would stan
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by zbuf 6y ago
Share your own "trick" then :) one that doesn't use #define
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by zbuf 6y ago
> But I don't trust WhatsApp enough to share my whole contacts list with them. Trouble is, you don't have to. Your friends have already shared /their/ contact lists. You're already a node in the network, even if
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by zbuf 6y ago
What a crass name.
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by zbuf 6y ago
The OpenBSD developers should be congratulated for the performance on this hardware. I installed OpenBSD on an X270 laptop and everything worked incredibly smoothly and cohesively out of the box. Everything from power management to a sensib
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by zbuf 6y ago
It does! Love it. Anyone who grew up in UK schools will know a prefab classroom hut. So from that description I immediately know what type of reverb the sound will have. Crucially, how different it will be from eg. a high ceiling room in a
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by zbuf 6y ago
Is the Google funding enough to maintain the browser development (and participation in web standards) of Mozilla? It has always seemed like it should be. That focus could be a welcome simplicity to this. Long term you don't want a sing
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by zbuf 6y ago
> Some command-line parsers will auto-complete partial options This sort of behaviour is tortuous, and should be against international laws. Where _adding_ new, unrelated, options to the interface now changes or breaks the behaviour of e
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by zbuf 6y ago
Personally a fan of '--verbose' to be honest. It's clear. "grep -v" anyone?
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by zbuf 6y ago
I should have put a smiley face on the pedantry comment... I get what you're saying, and if this project in question just wants a "hosting service" and to never touch any of its features, then ok. But the broader point is tha
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by zbuf 6y ago
Don't worry, I do understand Git, and I think you've completely missed the point I was making and thus fallen for the exact trap that I'm pointing out :) The huge importance of all that data "that's not part of Git&
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by zbuf 6y ago
I don't have a feeling one way or the other, but I see where you're coming from and I think there's an interesting aspect that many of the folks here seem to be missing. Were this sort of attack to become part of the "no
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by zbuf 6y ago
I do enjoy and agree with the pedantry of your point, but it's difficult to accept that, like many people, they _are_ moving to GitHub, and not Git. GitHub is as much a tool here as Git itself. Unfortunate really, as Git should be the
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by zbuf 6y ago
Yeah this was hugely common in the UK, as you could fit 8 hours of Nicam digital stereo on a VHS tape at long play, for your license obligations. And as a bonus the security cameras as well if you need it. All using readily available consum
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by zbuf 6y ago
I did consider that in my reply. But then the poster is really getting to grips with branching, and so I didn't feel the tool was the weakness here. However, it's worth considering if subversion is actually what you need (I haven&
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by zbuf 6y ago
I became my company's go-to person when it came to other developers (or devlops) struggling with Git. In getting people more comfortable, I found there were two very dominant difficulties/wins for the situation you describe: * Are
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by zbuf 6y ago
Someone with a more detailed knowledge of RISC OS may correct me, but to the best of my knowledge there _was_ virtual memory protection between applications (the article carefully says "worthwhile memory protection") Virtual memor
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by zbuf 6y ago
> ("I don't care if I lose the latest writes - just don't corrupt my database") would be very useful in many situations, and should perhaps be added/promoted in a more clear fashion. PostgreSQL has such a capabil
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by zbuf 6y ago
> You HAVE to commit the journal to disk in a stable fashion - that requires fsync() because without there no guarantee that the data is actually on disk. But does this indicate the issue; that userland only has fsync() API -- it's
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by zbuf 6y ago
For a long time I've been running many apps with a wrapper to disable fsync in SQLite integrations. Its a harsh solution. Am I correct that out of the box it's implementing a full integrity around "commit" -- ie. The dat

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