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codesnik
Joined 17 years ago
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Comment · 3 days ago
i wonder if it'll introduce long press as a substitute of right click, and if that'd affect normal trackpad usage.
Comment · 19 days ago
I wonder why there's no even a trace of "orange cats are goofy" stereotype in Russia and neighboring countries, as far as I know.
Comment · 27 days ago
Kerbal Space Program didn't! I wonder if it'd be much harder to simulate real gravity "spheres", with Lagrange points and all. But even without it, in simplified mechanics, planning slingshots and using Oberth effect had been fun.
Comment · 29 days ago
did it backfire to that guy?
Comment · 1 month ago
postgres is sane and consistent. Some things could seem weird, but those usually track to SQL standards, which
are
weird and dated, but at least consistency is still there. On the other hand, I never can be sure where mysql/mariadb decided to
improve
my life.
Comment · 1 month ago
Make a db replica or just a db user account with readonly permissions, and have only those in your env, or docs accessible to agent. It's liberating.
Comment · 1 month ago
it has learned narratives though, and we talk about AI going rogue all the time.
Comment · 1 month ago
one day we'll find out they have only one QA person on the team which develops keyboard among other things, and they have comically alien fingers.
Comment · 1 month ago
AFAIR you can just git clone ../path/to/other/local/repo/.git and it'll use hardlinks, so, basically a copy on write
Comment · 2 months ago
previously cmd+enter would work to "show in finder". New siri-enabled search seem to break that for some reason, but right click menu/show in finder on a found item still works.
Comment · 2 months ago
and some rotation probably inevitable anyway, and non-rotating black holes could be just a mathematical construct, no?
Comment · 2 months ago
recovery features? how do they work? and what smalltalk runtime do you have in mind? I still have a very vague understanding on how changes could be applied to a production running images, or if there is one and preferable way to do that.
Comment · 3 months ago
I wonder what apple will do with returned devices. Are they actually refurbishable, on average, to a condition that's resellable, or will they go straight to recycling just to keep numbers of new sales up?
Comment · 3 months ago
derailing further, it's no organized political movement, and they don't call it immoral but in Caucasus region some men avoid using seat belts as "unmanly", and that's a very social thing. Small plugs into a seatbelt socket to shut up the car audible warning are very common, including taxis.
Comment · 3 months ago
Nice. When I saw some javascript live music arrangement experiments, I thought that forth is syntactically better for that task because of postfix notation - no need to select and execute parts, keywords could be self-adding/playing.