Lex-2008

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by Lex-2008 4d ago
Turns out, Wayland has wl-copy: https://man.archlinux.org/man/wl-copy.1 (i was also interested :)
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by Lex-2008 2mo ago
timestamp corresponds to Oct 08 2025, so probably the last time the file was modified
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by Lex-2008 6mo ago
not OP, but my current solution is to have a link which says "click to show email", with javascript handler that changes that link's href (and text) to email address, which is somehow computed. For example, by taking page URL
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by Lex-2008 7mo ago
my favorite "easter egg" hidden behind File -> Exit menu item of jspaint.app... I still remember how it blew my mind the first time I saw it!
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by Lex-2008 8mo ago
not a Linux expert, but I believe that at the very least it's time sensitive: after consumer process reads it, it's gone from the pipe. Unlike env vars and cli argument that stay there.
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by Lex-2008 8mo ago
not OP, but for some it might be availability of latest versions packages (say, you've heard about new major version of Bash or Vim being released today, and wondering how soon it might be available in your distro packages), and, as so
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by Lex-2008 9mo ago
i initially misread "2015" as "2025", too... But no, it was part of SQLite for ten years already!
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by Lex-2008 9mo ago
interesting, but can't you use "Index On Expression" < https://sqlite.org/expridx.html >? i.e. something like this: CREATE INDEX idx_events_type ON events(json_extract(data, '$.type'))? i guess
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by Lex-2008 10mo ago
re: SSH - I once heard that in China they can throttle SSH speed so it's usable for terminal work, but not for copying files or browsing web.
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by Lex-2008 1y ago
I believe pressing + should open "Select files" dialog prefilled to select all files (and dirs), pressing Enter confirms it. My Midnight Commander 4.8.33, however, remember previously entered mask, and if no mask was entered - the
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by Lex-2008 1y ago
To be fair to Arch, you can always subscribe to their RSS or mailing list if you want to be notified about breaking changes
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by Lex-2008 1y ago
Let's start with an extreme example: each day more people die in traffic accidents, than by falling from a 10-story building. But still, we all can agree that driving a car is safer than falling from a building. Why? Because driving a
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by Lex-2008 1y ago
Hey, thanks a lot for the atom.xsl! Used it to learn a lot while converting main page of my blog to an Atom feed half a year ago.
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by Lex-2008 1y ago
yep, article also mentions them: > I was disappointed to find out that the UK’s Royal Mail discontinued international reply coupons in 2011. The only alternative that I could think of was to buy some US stamps.
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by Lex-2008 1y ago
I like your comparison with self-built storage, but comparing $20/TB/month with other CLOUD offerings, we see: * hetzner storage box starts from $4/month for 1TB, and then goes down to $2.4/TB/month if you rent a 10
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by Lex-2008 1y ago
Thank you for this comment! Only it made me re-read this word correctly
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by Lex-2008 2y ago
Just now it was 4th on HN fromt page, and now it's gone... Interesting how it works - I was expecting it would use Volume Shadow Copy, but no, it's something different: > By using WindowsNT Driver technology, Snapshot chains it
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by Lex-2008 2y ago
wobbly windows - did you know that they're still available in modern KDE Plasma Desktop Environment? No need to actually miss them! :) https://userbase.kde.org/Tips/Enable_fun_desktop_effects_on_...
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by Lex-2008 2y ago
ffplay?
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by Lex-2008 2y ago
From the article: > Servers store passwords in the form of hashes, so even if a hacker steals the database, they see the hashes, not the actual password. So as I understand it, the article assumes that someone hacked a website where you
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by Lex-2008 2y ago
> "server side rendering" with a GPU instead of sending more JavaScript Some 7~10 years ago I remember I saw somewhere (maybe here on HN) a website which did exactly this: you gave it an URL - it downloaded a webpage with all i
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by Lex-2008 2y ago
I'd buy such a device. Currently in holding on to my last pair of SSDs from pre-QLC era, refusing to buy anything new
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by Lex-2008 2y ago
Safari, Firefox, or IE? Note the text says: > Should work on Desktop with Chrome or Edge.
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by Lex-2008 2y ago
Not sure about $ sign, but ^ probably comes from ADM-3A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A#Legacy And here is a photo of its keyboard: https://twitter.com/toresbe/status/1756800589340549609
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by Lex-2008 3y ago
Also worth noting that you can run Windows 1.0 in the browser: https://archive.org/details/windows-1-0
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by Lex-2008 3y ago
can it be fairphone?
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by Lex-2008 3y ago
These sites might be advertising things that usual ad networks would prefer to stay away from, like online casinos. Moreover, in some countries, it might be explicitly forbidden to advertise gambling.
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by Lex-2008 3y ago
I was bitten by too-short commit messages few times already, when someone asks me "why is it done this way?" - I check git history to find my own 3-year-old commit with message "it should be done this way"... Since the
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by Lex-2008 3y ago
> Communications between country leaders were fast and reliable Maybe they were fast enough by 1939 standards, but it seems that in 1960s communication between Moscow and Washington was considered to be "not fast enough". Quoti
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by Lex-2008 3y ago
recently I learned that reading the article through archive.is shows the whole content: https://archive.is/Eea8R

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