MatmaRex

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Comment · 3 months ago
In Europe "no 737 MAX" basically means "no Ryanair". Depending on how you feel about Ryanair, avoiding the 737 MAX can be very easy.

In other places, like the US, they may not be practical to avoid.

Comment · 4 months ago
Testing the keyboard.

tasting the rainbow

Comment · 5 months ago
No, KeepassXC has an option to merge databases, it never caused me any trouble. I have a similar setup to parent commenter.
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't think that's true. Some years ago I did a free trial with them (did not pay anything). More recently I decided to actually sign up (for a paid account) and the email address I used for the free trial years ago was not available. I eventually got that username only after contacting support and giving them the date on which I started that free trial, to prove it was me.
Comment · 1 year ago
Broke: Dependency management used for shell scripts

Woke: Dependency management used for installing an interpreter for a better programming language to write your script in it

Bespoke: Dependency management used for installing your script

Comment · 1 year ago
This very article states:

> This long-standing quest, known as chrysopoeia, may have been motivated by the observation that dull grey, relatively abundant lead is of a similar density to gold, which has long been coveted for its beautiful colour and rarity.

Comment · 1 year ago
Their own Gmail client. I have yet to see one that works with normal email.
Comment · 1 year ago
You're right, but the author's approach still works by accident, because ClearType is disabled when drawing text to canvas. I am not sure why that's the case, but I would guess it's because the subpixel colors can only be computed correctly when the background color is known (and static), and with a canvas, the background can be drawn later or animated. ClearType is only enabled for normal text on the page, and many CSS properties incidentally disable it presumably for similar reasons (e.g. 'will-change: opacity;').
Comment · 1 year ago
You can keep your commands simple enough so that they can be executed by both `sh` and `cmd.exe`. If you need anything more complex than invoking other programs, `&&`, `|` and `>`, it's time to rewrite your build script in a real programming language anyway.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you read the linked article, it explains that this is exactly what they do.
Comment · 1 year ago
It seemed to me that the previous poster wanted a way to wait for the result of a promise (in a blocking manner), and I meant that this is available in other languages. You're right that it is not usually spelled "await".
Comment · 1 year ago
You can await in a normal function in better languages, just not in JavaScript.
Comment · 2 years ago
Probably. I've encountered a case where setting `contain` for unrelated reasons noticeably decreased the GPU memory use as reported by the browser: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373066#10096943 (search for "As a bonus"). Wikipedia is pretty light, so in absolute terms it wasn't really meaningful, but I could see that on a more complex site.
Comment · 2 years ago

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