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Comment · 2 years ago
Didn't you see someone else? If it's physical, it should be way easier to diagnose than most.

Edit: I mean someone who specializes in hearing.

Comment · 2 years ago
They have more to fear from apps under the Chinese government's control. How does that dismiss the parent's claim?
Comment · 2 years ago
Everyone else can ignore every coding guideline your team sets up, that’s why code reviews and managers exist.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's not a separate language, you can just start typing your programs right now.
Comment · 2 years ago
Did you get "connection reset by peer" when you sent a bit too many requests perchance? I've never found the source of that in my programs. There's no server logging about it, connections are just rejected. None of the docs talk about this.
Comment · 2 years ago
Every datapoint reduces the number of people it could belong to. CPU + browser + browser version + OS + major OS version can narrow it down by a lot.

Then add resolution, IP address location (which VPN they use is also a datapoint), which time they are active at, etc. and you can get a good almost-unique identifier.

Comment · 2 years ago
Slightly off-topic: why does git have such a near-monopoly on VCS? Mozilla might use something different, but I haven't come across a new project that used something other than git in at least years.

Usually there are at least a few choices with different compromises. Browsers, OSes, languages, editors, all have multiple actually popular choices.

Does git win because of the decentralized, everyone-has-a-local-repo aspect? Or the staging area, which I understand other VCSes don't have? Or just speed or reliability? Or just being in the right place at the right time?

Comment · 2 years ago
I don't imagine the best people crying at being forced to use VSCode instead of CLion.
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Comment · 2 years ago
That sounds stupid, thanks. Guess I'll be careful when I set up lambdas.
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So the lambda function will survive, but billing will still go to zero when the lambda's last execution finishes, right?
Comment · 2 years ago
That's only going to affect part of your apps though. Last I checked, Firefox on Ubuntu finally had a kind of pixel-perfect scrolling, but it wasn't smooth and didn't keep momentum if you let go of the trackpad while scrolling fast. That just feels bad, even after getting used to it.

And Qt apps will scroll differently than the GNOME project's apps which will scroll differently than other Gtk apps. It really feels disorganized and unfinished.

Comment · 2 years ago
The cursor moves the same way, it's just a bit harder because you can't let go of the cursor and start over from the corner of the touchpad with more room to move once you've pressed. But thanks to acceleration, you can move fast towards e.g. the left, slowly move back to the right (covering a much shorter distance), then move fast back left to finish the travel, if you missed it the first time.
Comment · 2 years ago
That's why I mentioned Ubuntu; if anyone has incentive and resources to contribute to all these projects and get smooth scrolling working it's Canonical. If _they_ can't, I guess that means the whole community is screwed on that side. Maybe it's going to work 20 years from now, when we've moved on from trackpads to AI voice interfaces.

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