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Comment · 1 month ago
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by saying "I routinely try, in several browser, to find a tab among open tabs, a bookmark among open bookmarks," but if you - like me - keep hundreds of open tabs in a couple of dozen windows and you can't find the tab you need at the moment, then you may be happy with the Firefox extension tabFx...
Comment · 1 month ago
> Brains do much more than output language.

Hmm, what do you think about? Unconscious control of the body's processes? REM-phase dreaming? Reaction to hallucinogenic substances? Automatic actions of trained fighters (soldiers or martial arts practitioners)?

Are they critical to distinguish actions we attribute to humans from "non-human" ones?

I don't see any human activity not directly, or at least indirectly but closely linked to the use of language.

Comment · 3 months ago
Russian bot detected?
Comment · 3 months ago
Lol! Does it matter? Using an unclear acronym in the first reference to an object, besides adding energy waste (for the execution of unnecessary searches by users unfamiliar with the subject), may only give the author of the comment the thrill of "being well informed, an insider".
Comment · 3 months ago
[citation needed]
Comment · 3 months ago
You dare to compare a Wikipedia article (even a short one) to an SE "article," which is, according to SE's own rules, narrowly and up-to-the-point concentrated on an equally narrow formulated question?
Comment · 3 months ago
Exactly. It allows for a consistent pattern:

cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3 | ... | cmdn

Comment · 8 months ago
>A product can be both

LOL... A tent is a single product. What about a car? Do you expect to pay separately for the aluminum in the motor and gearbox, as well as for the entire car?

Comment · 9 months ago
Is the described method good for Enterprise and IoT Windows versions?
Comment · 11 months ago
>They just want you to log in. This costs nothing.

You pay with your data...

Comment · 1 year ago
>> What matters is domain age, IP, and compliance with DKIM/DMARC.

>Maybe it was my IP, but I cycled a few with my hosting provider and none of them made a difference. If I am unable to reliable obtain a 'trusted' IP, what good does it do?

That's true. I have a Class C IP range and a domain registered for 30 years and yet Gmail still started ignoring my email server a couple of years ago...

Comment · 1 year ago
Perhaps, but if you set your browser language to US English you have dates displayed as MM.DD.YYYY and there's no way to change it neither to European nor ISO (YYYY-MM-DD) format.
Comment · 1 year ago
Your concept appears to have coherence until you consider that numbers are not necessarily expressed in decimal notation. What about hexadecimal numbers in filenames? Should they be sorted your way?

And what about very long strings of digits in the filenames - so long that they are too long for even the longest available numerical representation? In some apps, they are converted to floating point...

Comment · 1 year ago
It seems nobody remembers the reason for the F-key assignment in the original i.e. Norton Commander... The assignment was very logical and easy to remember (and use) on the original PC keyboard, where F-keys were located in two columns on the left edge of the keyboard: F1, F2, then F3, F4, and so on. You can immediately see the advantages of the F9 location (the leftmost key at the bottom) and of the proximity of the Browse and Edit keys. I used my left thumb to press F10 - it was in the correct place almost without palm movement...

Nowadays I almost don't use Mc (except for file manipulation) because the Linux version has a serious weak point - it blocks the most important keystroke in shell: Tab. It is of course traditionally reserved for panel switching but this role could be deactivated when instead a single command line zone MC would allow to have a multi-line (in NC it was 3 or 4 line) zone for the shell scrolled display. This way it would be possible to have the full-size panel display (with the Tab switching panes) and one keystroke away reduced-size panels with full functionality of the shell tab key in the alternative panel mode... Another disadvantage is the complicated way of changing settings (especially the colors and file attributes display format) in practice forcing trial and error mode... True, it's not needed often but spending hours on it is rather deterrent.

Comment · 1 year ago
Until there are no unified, standard solutions this is too difficult to be achieved in practice.

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