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Re:NeverSSL on Saturday November 02, 2019 @10:22PM (#21431642)
I think he's including the transfers from twitter in the 55kb (which is over 50k of it), which wouldn't cost him anything personally
Re:Evolution of the Scrollbar on Saturday November 02, 2019 @10:05PM (#21431556)
Windows also advances by page when clicking in the gutter, BUT based on the handle size it seems like the example scrollbars are not demoing a large enough scroll area to show both behaviors.
Re:Why to use ‘python -m pip’ on Saturday November 02, 2019 @08:40PM (#21431196)
Do the problems it purports to solve just not interest you or did you have an alternate suggestion?
Re:Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins on Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:20PM (#21415753)
What do you think was the issue?!

- fellow crappy-quality-sleeper

Really wish I knew what this said
One that sticks in my mind was the help file for mIRC, as a kid trying to script my irc client, it was pretty damn useful.

(Of course moved on to ircii, bitchx, etc.)

Re:Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges on Saturday October 26, 2019 @11:35AM (#21364270)
Is this something you'd need to arrange with each carrier? The article says they didn't expect them to fly to Iran.
Re:Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to run £2.9bn over budget on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:47AM (#21069785)
There are still countries which build them fairly quickly compared to the global average

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/2027347/south-korea-s...

And hope you don't have any commas into your data?
Re:Instagram influencers: Have we stopped believing? on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:32AM (#20793501)
I tried to look this up and found a story, but nobody was struck by the chair...
Re:Down the Rabbit-Hole on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @08:44PM (#20691723)
Maybe I misunderstand your comment, but @taviso was recalling a story that seems to be from 2010.
Re:Pure JavaScript WiFi QR Code Generator on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:39AM (#20497404)
From the description on the page:

> You need to print this with a light color on the bottom and a darker color on the top layers, otherwise it will not scan correctly.

Re:Give Firefox a chance on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:28AM (#20256188)
Blink is to Chromium/Chrome as Webkit is to Safari

Webkit and blink are browser engines and Chromium/Chrome are both browsers, but Chromium doesn't include the closed source pieces that Chrome does.

> The solution was to Marshal calls from F# to libuv and achieve 5 Millions (at least) bid requests/s on 16 threads (this solution scales with cores/NICs).
Re:I do not use a debugger (2016) on Sunday May 05, 2019 @01:57AM (#19831405)
Can you recommend specific python debuggers? I recently had to debug some py3 remotely and ended up using VS code, which worked but had some hiccups.
Re:Producing industrial hydrogen from biomass on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:43PM (#19437752)
Saw this thing in a sappy movie that had a character with cystic fibrosis:

https://www.afflovest.com/

They make it sound fancier than just vibrations though

It is on windows too:

https://tableplus.io/windows

Re:My disabled son’s gaming life in the World of Warcraft on Sunday February 10, 2019 @03:44PM (#19129914)
I was a bit unclear. There was an actual memorial created. There was no evidence found that the user Karyn was a real woman who passed away. (The theory put forth in the news article was that it was a male role playing as a female).
Re:My disabled son’s gaming life in the World of Warcraft on Saturday February 09, 2019 @11:07AM (#19122944)
It's in the linked page, but the story was not actually true
Re:The 773M Record “Collection #1” Data Breach on Thursday January 17, 2019 @12:25AM (#18928595)
The password itself is not sent. You can read about it here:

https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-v...

Re:A map that shows how territorial wolves are on Saturday December 08, 2018 @10:40AM (#18635723)
I figured perhaps there were untracked wolves bordering the tracked ones, so the green pack may not have it the worst.
From the comment on commit which removed 50,000 lines of code: `The only supported platform is now Linux/x86-64 with JIT+FFI+GC64.`

And the readme: `Reduced code maintenance footprint ~50% by removing #ifdef features that are not required for Linux/x86-64 e.g. Windows support, 32-bit heap support, and non-x86 backends. This is a necessary short-term expedient to make the code maintainable while we bootstrap the project.`

I wonder how that 50,000 lines was broken down by feature...

Assuming a typo here, but I would be surprised if the output contained "3"
Re:Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:34PM (#17824360)
It's called "Face to face"
Re:Hello Qt for Python on Saturday May 05, 2018 @05:33PM (#17003961)
I'll echo this.

I've maintained a production PyQt based app for 7-8 years (started on PyQt4/py2, moved to PyQt5/py3, but I evaluated PySide as well). It involved wrapping another Qt library for use from python. I found the bindings I created based on SIP (which is what PyQt is based on, both written by the same author) to be overall easier to create and smaller in size.

It's great that we're getting Qt backed bindings but Phil Thompson has done a wonderful job with PyQt over the years and I really would've liked to see it become the official library somehow.

Re:Hello Qt for Python on Saturday May 05, 2018 @05:23PM (#17003910)
You've been able to automatically translate types going back to PyQt4 (it's the default for PyQt5, wasn't changed in PyQt4 due to backwards compatibility IIRC, but you could opt-in). As mentioned elsewhere PyQt offers properties, decorators for connecting signals and slots, etc. I found the APIs to be very similar overall.
Re:NirSoft Freeware (2008) on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:05PM (#16853751)
I tried searchmyfiles, and it's alright, but the best search tool I've found for windows is "Everything" by voidtools ( https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/ )

I occasionally use it on a multi TB windows fileserver at work and after it does the initial index (which is really pretty fast because it uses the NTFS journals) searches are pretty much instantaneous. (I also use it at home, it's just less impressive after using it on that many files at work.)

It is possible to create an OEM install disc.

I've done it once in the past and it wasn't super complicated. It looks like it might be harder to find the oembios files now, but I bet you can still accomplish this if you're determined.

https://superuser.com/questions/539714/windows-all-oem-activ... has some details that could get your pointed in the right direction

Re:Why undertakers are worried on Friday April 13, 2018 @08:30AM (#16829319)
The show was "six feet under"

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