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Re:Ten Lines of Code That Changed My World on Sunday September 27, 2026 @01:42PM (#49868932)
Another fun one for a bit of shenanigans:

  #define true ((rand()&15)!=15)
We have tried reaching out to their sales multiple times but never get a response.
Re:Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser on Sunday December 08, 2024 @05:50AM (#42356407)
Surfingkeys is my preferred extension
Re:Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released on Sunday January 14, 2024 @03:52PM (#38994333)
Not exactly the same but various basic HTTP server implementations are presented at https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Web_server
Re:It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:27PM (#37647498)
Additionally, there is https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors

I personally find it a bit easier to use with better docx support.

Re:So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:41PM (#37513838)
What happens when your business has a portfolio of products/services over multiple departments, spanning various platforms, and only one consumer mobile app uses Unity for an augmented reality component that's not a core offering (premium feature)?

Should Unity still be entitled to the same cut?

Re:JSON Schema Store on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:45AM (#37219469)
Re:Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @02:00PM (#36422001)
This looks really awesome. Are there any plans to support teams that do not use VS Code or GitHub?
Re:Reddit Strike Has Started on Sunday June 11, 2023 @11:57PM (#36288279)
I can no longer access subreddits I have been subscribed to. They are also no longer listed in my subscriptions.

Private subreddits are indeed invitation only

Re:“Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4 on Saturday May 20, 2023 @06:48PM (#36016364)
The most elegant is certainly sleepsort. Maybe not the most efficient, but definitely elegant.
For coding problems that DDG can't answer, I've been falling back on phind.com instead with reasonably good results.
Re:Ask HN: What's on your home server? on Friday January 06, 2023 @11:48AM (#34277098)
I use Cloudflare to proxy a number of self-hosted HTTPS services, which is great.

I still haven't found a solution to obscure, geo-filter and WAF arbitrary TCP/UDP.

Spectrum Enterprise seems like it is capable but not really the answer for a personal server that handles megabytes of traffic a day.

Re:Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:25PM (#33897203)
btop instead of htop instead of top
Re:Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:53PM (#33536196)
This looks great!

One minor thing I'd like to see, and I don't know if this is to do with the underlying calendaring spec, is the differentiation of physical location and online meeting.

Some events may have both and I have found the "Join" buttons on desktop notifications for Outlook/Teams to be pretty convenient.

Re:JetBrains – Addressing the New UI Comments on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:10PM (#33253174)
I really prefer the new look. I don't need or want labels in my field of view all day for buttons that I learned the purposes of years ago. If there's a new icon I don't understand, I can simply hover over it for a second.

I tend to rely on keyboard shortcuts and fall back to Search Everywhere (double shift), so the first thing I do on a new install is hide the menu bar.

I find the extra bit of whitespace helps with less travel and accuracy when switching to mouse.

The new UI has been a net positive in my personal experience.

Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @02:46AM (#33243798)
I haven't really used VSCode, so I can't really compare, but as a long time user of JetBrains IDEs I too really enjoy the new interface.

I mostly use keyboard shortcuts and when I don't know the combination, I rely on the Search Anywhere (double shift) and Run Anything (double ctrl) functionalities.

I find the new UI less distracting and the new VCS menu is a nice addition.

I also wonder how much technical debt has accumulated in the previous UI that is being addressed by a refresh.

Re:Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe on Monday October 17, 2022 @04:40PM (#33239247)
Also proprietary and relatively new on the scene:

https://www.jetbrains.com/space/

Re:New XPS 13 Shows the Price of Going Too Thin on Sunday June 12, 2022 @04:51PM (#31718145)
I have a 9550 and I remember the battery recall.

They called me, explained the issue, and offered to either pay for shipping them my laptop or to ship me a battery with instructions on how to swap it it out myself, warranty preserved.

Maybe it's because I purchased it from their site and they had my contact details.

I was hoping this would eliminate the coil whine and random ticking I had since day one which they claimed was to be expected. Sadly, I still live with it.

The soft touch coating on the palm rest has now also started to degrade and go tacky.

This is interesting. It looks a lot like the experimental UI I've been using via the Material Theme plugin for about a year.

https://imgur.com/hiCRTFd.png

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8006-material-theme-ui

Re:How to write a Git commit message (2014) on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @06:40AM (#31178346)
After working on a number of projects that tried to apply conventional commits properly, I found something like this to be more effective and sustainable.

Specifically, I'm quite fond of https://gitmoji.dev

- Commit messages are shorter, even with ticket IDs.

- Commit log is easy to read

- Less prone to typos (chroe vs chore)

- Easy to enforce with push rules

- Easy to generate changelogs/release notes

- Easy to measure (metrics)

- Helpful IDE integrations

- It's a bit more fun than conventional commits

See https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi for an example

Gitflow, and its various flavours, has been a popular alternative. Though it seems trunk-based is considered the preferred standard due to emphasis on achieving a stable main branch, simplified pipelines and faster cycle times. This requires a bit more maturity to get right if I'm not mistaken as you need good automation, test coverage and code review practices.
You can set wshada|rshada to occur on FocusLost|FocusGained.

https://neovim.io/doc/user/starting.html#shada-read-write

Re:Show HN: Clone your voice and speak a foreign language on Monday January 03, 2022 @10:37PM (#29791012)
I don't think so. At ANZ bank, you authorise every call to the bank by saying the phrase: "My voice confirms my identity". (You repeat this multiple times when registering)
Another open-source, open-pgp based password manager worth mentioning is https://www.passbolt.com/
I assume this approach doesn't auto-fill forms?
Re:Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression on Saturday January 04, 2020 @11:28PM (#21959630)
This isn't a function of an AUR helper but rather makepkg itself.

In makepkg.conf, ommit compression by specifying:

    PKGEXT='.pkg.tar'
More information can be found at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg#Tips_and_tricks
Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox on Monday December 30, 2019 @07:19AM (#21912816)
The difference is quite noticeable for me when using Atlassian's Cloud products. May their framework is simply optimised for Chrome.

I also really do hope Firefox gains hardware video acceleration on Linux some day.

Re:Guide to Software Defined Radio on Friday December 20, 2019 @04:36PM (#21847577)
I recommend getting one from here: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/

Great hardware with driver/software compatibility

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