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You absolutely do not say you-ber in english
Re:Flatpak – A Security Nightmare (2018) on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:49PM (#23522470)
I've found appimages to be a bit of a pain in the past because they're portable, so you need to have a place to put them
Hating a group of people is not innocuous.
...how exactly does your system background colour include personal information?
Re:First stable release of Ubuntu Unity 20.04 on Monday May 11, 2020 @12:03PM (#23143549)
You absolutely can get it by installing the package!

https://itsfoss.com/use-unity-ubuntu-17-10/

That's the beauty of desktop Linux Imo. If you change your mind, you can just change whatever you want on the fly

Re:My blog is now generated by Google Docs on Sunday May 10, 2020 @08:30PM (#23137651)
Tilt your phone.
Re:Custom Game Engines: A Small Study on Friday April 24, 2020 @05:54PM (#22973323)
Slight correction: Minecraft used lwjgl 2 as an OpenGL binding. It never used libgdx.
Re:Firefox's low-latency WebAssembly compiler on Saturday March 28, 2020 @08:24PM (#22715364)
May I ask why
Officially it's macOS now.
Re:Should you self-host Google Fonts? on Sunday February 23, 2020 @04:47PM (#22399769)
Dyslexics
I used to have an amd hackintosh with an a10, and I used premiere pro and Photoshop all the time with no issues.
Re:Sam and Max Hit the Road on Sunday June 23, 2019 @04:07PM (#20258347)
Keep an eye out on gog.com, there's some cool point and click stuff on there. Teenagent isn't bad, and I think it's free on gog
Re:GNU APL 1.8 on Sunday June 23, 2019 @03:48PM (#20258241)
The creator of APL was actually originally from my town. Unfortunately that's the only interesting thing about my town.

Cool language though, the use of symbols as keywords is... Interesting, but a neat idea

Re:Show HN: GitHub Repository Card for Every Web Site on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:33PM (#20187521)
I agree that it's probably safe, but SVG can contain script tags.
Toast is the official ux name for a popup notification.
Just a heads up, HN butchered the title
I'd use ELinks or Links2 over Links, AFAIK the originall Links is no longer maintained. There's also partial JS support in ELinks which fixes some sites that require it.
oh, duh.
clojure is lisp on the jvm. not sure about elm.
Oh my god, I've been looking for something like this for like a full year. This is awesome.
Because it's fun, mostly.

Also I have a lot of trouble actually remembering things and keeping my projects straight. By writing blog posts, even if I don't publish them, I can keep things straight.

I also needed to use picsofbread.com for something.

Re:Revisting the gui.cs framework on Thursday April 25, 2019 @06:22PM (#19753040)
Gtk# is... OK. I've used it a little bit and for the most part it implements everything the C/C++ version does.
True. Or it gets rolled into mongodb as a sort of .net version
Not saying setting itself as the default browser is a good thing or anything, but Firefox also pins to taskbar automatically. Chrome does too IIRC.
Re:Visual Studio 2019 Released on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:58PM (#19575877)
Unfortunately, C with MSVC is dead. Personally nowadays I prefer to use cygwin and vs code, it's a good pair for pure c development when I need it. No real ides for pure c though...
Re:How to Design for the Modern Web (Satire) on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:56PM (#19575851)
I immediately got a giant prompt to sign into medium that greyed out the page and showed up offscreen...
Re:Back to PC after 14 years on a MacBook on Saturday March 30, 2019 @05:54PM (#19532120)
Also can't go wrong with the various BSD variants
Re:Mui – user interface made of wood on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:53PM (#19437444)
Yeah, unfortunately. Awesome but impractical.
Re:A journey from Python to Go on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:52PM (#19437436)
I've been a python programmer for years, toyed with go a bit. My next project might use it, beautiful language. What c++ should have been

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