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Re:StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta on Thursday October 01, 2026 @11:08AM (#49922687)
First-time StreetComplete user here. I just answered a few of these "street has a sidewalk" questions myself. Upon first clicking on one of them, I was able to answer this question for each side of the street individually. The visual selection that you mentioned only applies to one side.
Re:Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) on Sunday April 05, 2020 @02:23AM (#22784110)
I believe hash -d and supsequent expansion of those paths only works in ZSH, which calls this "static named directories" (http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#Static...).
Re:New mandoc feature: -T html -O toc (Table of contents) on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @11:36AM (#18176799)
Similarly, man and woman in Emacs generate a ToC that imenu (M-x imenu) can use.
Re:OpenSSH 7.3 released on Monday August 01, 2016 @12:24PM (#12203669)
The announcement already mentions that ProxyJump is meant to be a simplified version of indirection, not a completely new feature.
Re:JVM JIT optimization techniques on Sunday May 29, 2016 @03:13AM (#11795289)
Or use the reader view.
Re:Mutt 1.6 on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @02:21AM (#11428256)
This is why you don't let cats anywhere near your keyboard ;-)
Re:The text/markdown media type on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:33AM (#11342709)
I agree on the section definitions. It's very hard to remember which underline I need to use because every project (or even document) can just define their own order implicitly. The sphinx project recommends a specific order somewhere in their documentation that I look up every time I need to write rst, but markdowns just-count-the-hashes is much easier.
Re:Python moves to GitHub on Saturday January 02, 2016 @08:05AM (#10826078)
To be honest, I don't find this to be true. To email a patch, you usually have to

* figure out if you can use git-request-pull or git-send-email * sign up for a mailing list (which, depending on the mailing list software the project uses, can take anywhere between a few seconds and annoyingly large amounts of minutes) * optionally figure out how to not receive the whole traffic of the ML or set up custom email filters * figure out if you have to CC the people responsible for the area of the code you're going to send a patch for (which might be written down in a wiki, some CONTRIBUTING file or somewhere else) * figure out if the project wants an extra cover letter for the patch series or not (and optionally search the man pages for how to write one).

With GitHub, I just use [hub](https://hub.github.com/) or an Emacs package or plugins for other editors to

* fork the repository * (without additional tools, I now have to add my newly created remote) * push to my own remote * create the pull request after reading CONTRIBUTING<tab>

which so far has been the exact same workflow for every project I've seen (ymmv of course).

Re:GitLab 8.3 released with Auto-merge and GitLab Pages on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @03:45AM (#10782512)
Note that not all of those use Phabricator as a bug tracker (KDE, lighttpd, LLVM, Haskell, I imagine a lot of bugs for Wikimedia are reported through project chat pages on the wikis themselves).
Re:Berlin public transport in real time on Thursday November 19, 2015 @05:02AM (#10593843)
The same thing exists for regional and inter city trains in germany that the Deutsche Bahn is responsible for: http://www.apps-bahn.de/bin/livemap/query-livemap.exe/dn?L=v...
If by "hardcodes" you mean "can be changed in the configuration file", then yes, that's true.
Re:Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor on Thursday June 25, 2015 @05:44AM (#9776817)
Fun fact: google code now has a " We have some known issues with hg repositories. " banner up since a few days ago.
Re:Yum is dead, long live DNF on Sunday May 17, 2015 @12:27PM (#9560608)
503s for me, here's the article on the Internet Archives Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150517152126/http://dnf.baseur...
Re:F# Survey 2015 Results on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @03:36AM (#9379396)
This might sound a bit stupid, but I was looking into F# a while ago (26 days ago, if the timestamps of the few files I wrote don't lie :-) ) and now I'm wondering I could have found those things (especially RWFP because I usually don't like learning from videos) if I start on fhsarp.org?

http://fsharp.org/about/learning.html does not list them, and going from http://fsharp.org/about/index.html via the "Language Reference" link to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233181.aspx doesn't list RWFP in the sidebar anymore.

It's possible to "lock" [0] conversations on GitHub. This means that only collaborators of the repository are able to add comments to the issue/pull request.

[0] https://help.github.com/articles/locking-conversations/

Some of the movies those kids had already seen are rated 16+ as well.
Re:Has modern Linux lost its way? Some thoughts on Jessie on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @05:18AM (#9026307)
You can just use udiskie (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/udiskie) to automatically mount exernal drives, even if you're not running a DE.
Re:IPv6 Adoption Statistics on Monday December 01, 2014 @01:19PM (#8682673)
They were talking about Austria (in Europe), not Australia :-)
Re:GCC Function Multiversioning on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @02:02PM (#8659084)
That's because gcc is trying to compile it as C, not C++. You need to call the file "test.cpp" or explicitly use g++ instead of gcc to compile it. (You'll also need to "#include <assert.h>" or it won't compile.)
Re:IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991) on Saturday July 05, 2014 @03:50AM (#7991308)
The website doesn't seem to work reliably at the moment, here's the archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20131021002154/http://www.ibibli...
Re:Don’t Be Scared Of Functional Programming on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @02:44PM (#7978813)
That should be "foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f z x) xs" because the function f takes two arguments (the whole thing boils down to "(((z `f` x_1) `f` x_2) ... `f` x_n)").

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