bobbyi_settv

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Comment · 5 years ago
It's not just --help.

When you checkout a specific commit and are now in detached HEAD state, you are by default given the message

    If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
    do so (now or later) by using -c with the switch command. Example:

      git switch -c <new-branch-name>

    Or undo this operation with:

      git switch -
Comment · 5 years ago
That technique doesn't work (as well) when you want a single "else" block that is used when either of the conditions is false, which I think is pretty common for this sort of conditional
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Worse, the klein bottles did nothing to remove my black heads
Comment · 5 years ago
The Mac equivalent of xclip -i is pbcopy
Comment · 5 years ago
> Whats the difference between having sex and being a sexual predator?

I don't think it's necessary to answer this because "sexual predator" was literally Noah's description of himself and his behavior (in those words) in the apology post that led to Wizards no longer wanting to work with him.

Comment · 5 years ago
If I CMD+R on Hacker News, it reloads the page. If I do it on outlook.office.com, it starts drafting a reply to the email I have selected. Reload button does the same thing everywhere.
Comment · 5 years ago
I guess they're going for technically correct since 100% is indeed "a portion"
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Comment · 5 years ago
Microsoft's compiler did not support C99 for a long time because they did not really think of it as a C compiler or a C/ C++ compiler; it is a C++ compiler. Its support for C90 was explained as being maintained "for historical reasons" ( https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an... ), but they had no reason to add support for new standards of a language that was outside the scope of the project.

It's odd for the author to complain about the commingling of C and C++ in compilers and then complain about Microsoft specifically not doing that.

Comment · 5 years ago
As the press release says, menthol was "the last allowable flavor".

It's not the government banning one specific flavor because it is popular with black people. It is the government first banning every flavor except the one popular with black people and now circling back to make the rules uniform.

Comment · 5 years ago
The fact that it can be unlocked with a picture doesn't mean it has no security.

The main use case for phone locking is that you leave your phone in a cab, a bar or wherever else in public and someone picks it up later. That person isn't going to know who you are and have a picture of you. They're still prevented from being able to take the phone they just saw laying around and go through your emails, etc.

Comment · 5 years ago
Could this lead to people intentionally violating terms to try to get their account terminated so that they can get money back for every in app purchase, etc, they've ever made?
Comment · 5 years ago
Did the word "compression" get cut off due to title length? Or is it intentionally being compressed in the original title as a meta-joke? Turns out it's the former
Comment · 5 years ago
> One of the big open questions is "are APIs copyrightable?" The court skirted that question, and instead focused on whether it was fair use:

Doesn't deciding that it's fair use specifically mean that they think it is copyrightable? The fair use doctrine specifically refers to the use of copyrighted material.

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