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Comment · 9 months ago
I should vibecode my own Onshape.
Comment · 1 year ago
LLMs made things a lot easier but before them I wished there was a stackoverflow but paid, so you could pay someone for an answer if they happened to have specific information.

You could kind of emulate it by buying stackoverflow upvotes, then placing that as a bounty. Its not exactly money but it made it more comfortable (and successful) than hoping someone answers for free.

Comment · 1 year ago
They do have some sort of sleep but its very inefficient so Lenovo Thinkpads actually go into hibernation after an hour or so of sleep, to avoid the user waking up to an empty battery.
Comment · 2 years ago
Set ‘media.default_volume’ to 0.3 or so in about:config.
Comment · 2 years ago
Don’t fall for this. It’s too good and I can’t get out now since nothing else than vscode supports it.

Dependencies, env vars, dev databases, ports, everything all written up in code and ready to use once you open the workspace. All without messing up your host pc. Works also via ssh.

Comment · 2 years ago
Some iOS 15 phones like the 5S/SE have no newer comparable phones which makes upgrading difficult. Oh dear, I suppose not browsing the web is another option.
Comment · 3 years ago
I’ve always wondered why the backtrace just kind of stops midway to when you finally handle an error, instead of showing up to the `?` where the error happened. I’ve been using anyhow’s `with_context` to add helpful notes to each usage of `?` to get around it.

I’ll have to check if this macro is an easier solution!

Comment · 3 years ago
Any way to get Firefox ESR without untrusted third party flatpacks? On normal firefox you can’t run your own extensions…
Comment · 3 years ago
Buying a movie from google for that certainty sounds pretty good huh. I wonder if the purchase might also dissuade any accidental deletions of a google account.
Comment · 3 years ago
We weren’t supposed to talk about fight club
Comment · 3 years ago
With higher latency the experience suffers. As an example liveview page navigations work via websocket which is not cacheable so navigating back/forward always needs to make a request. You really need some edge setup like fly, or only serve a geographically local audience.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, sounds right. When trying out Fedora I installed the fcitx5 tools, added some env vars and virtual keyboard settings and rebooted. Then I had CJK working on a virtual keyboard device.

It’s just very different from MacOS and Windows where you just add a keyboard layout and you’re done, that’s why I was curious. Admittedly I love the amount of customisation options on fcitx.

Comment · 3 years ago
For what I understand in order to use CJK languages on Linux you currently have to install not a keyboard layout but a separate input device which makes getting started quite difficult. I wonder if the pop-os devs have anything up their sleeve for that.
Comment · 3 years ago
I have tried all sorts of Electron, Java and Web Postgres clients but HeidiSQL, despite limited Postgres support, is just way too usable in comparison. Maybe it speaks for the datatable implementation of Delphi but I’m not sure.

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