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Re:Go fonts on Thursday November 17, 2016 @06:46PM (#12982945)
I used to use Pragmata, but have since switched to Iosevka. It's similar in width and also supports ligatures.
xcape in Linux for this.
Re:Homebrew 1.1.0 on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:31AM (#12892313)
I assume it's because 1) it's not really needed, and 2) it prevents shady packages from executing scripts as root.
Re:Sublime Enhanced on Monday August 01, 2016 @07:04AM (#12201473)
Is this from experience? I've switched back to regular vim from neovim because of platform support, but I've never had stability issues when I did use neovim.
Re:Google Begins Rolling Out Google Play Music Family Plan on Thursday December 10, 2015 @09:35AM (#10710747)
Available in Canada too.
FYI, the display size filter is wonky. Filtering up to 13" ignores 13.3" when it should probably include it.
I'm assuming "high DPI screens" was the intention.
I don't disagree, but burden of proof.
Also adds Powerline symbols, which is great. Some of the patched ones don't work well. I'll try this new one alongside Input Mono which is my current monospace font of choice.
Re:Income of an uber driver on Saturday July 18, 2015 @01:34PM (#9908189)
The costs include TWO new cars and a ton of other miscellaneous fees. I'm sure that the point being made is valid to some extent, but the calculations are way out of proportion.
Re:Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @07:40PM (#9894718)
In vim, set separate timeout and ttimeout values to get around this. Specifically, set the former high fit regular commands and the latter low to avoid issues like slow Esc processing.
Re:Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @07:38PM (#9894705)
Do you mean daylight saving time? The time zone changes, but Unix time is UTC so it's unaffected.
Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak on Sunday July 12, 2015 @01:01PM (#9874063)
Pretty sure there are some settings you need to enable in about:config to get H264 working in Firefox (assuming you have the right gstreamer stuff installed).
Well objectively it's less finger travel and more home row use, so it has its merits. The issue is that qwerty is such a de facto standard that you'll run into many layout issues using dvorak.
Re:Samsung disabling Windows Update? on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @01:23PM (#9773060)
It's confusing when you address Linux this way. Most Linux distributions are not for-profit, so they're going to have any staff going to businesses. Plus, even if they did, they'd have to offer support, which they aren't able to.

The only distributions that can do that are the enterprise paid ones, and those are mostly meant for the server side. AFAIK there isn't really an enterprise desktop distribution of Linux really intended for that kind of use. Linux on the desktop is what it is -- it's an option for those who want it. Market share is not a big consideration at all.