PlunderBunny

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by PlunderBunny 7d ago
I’m sure I’m not the only programmer that developed a habit of resting my finger on the F5 key at a certain point in my workflow, and then had to unlearn it just because of the stupid touch-bar (Still using my 2019 Intel MBP with stupid tou
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by PlunderBunny 7d ago
Haha - the number of times I’ve accidentally hit F1 and ended up looking at some variation of ‘page not found’ in Edge…
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by PlunderBunny 9d ago
The only winning move is not to play.
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by PlunderBunny 10d ago
I wonder why it has 'photomaxmix' just sitting at the end of the 11th paragraph?
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by PlunderBunny 16d ago
In a shared source, I wonder if it would be useful to make a theme that used brighter colours for segments of code that were more ‘contentious’, I.e. had a lot of changes? I guess it doesn’t work because a lot of contentious code is re-writ
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by PlunderBunny 19d ago
Maybe you can two-finger pinch to shrink the web page to the grid view, then close the page from there?
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by PlunderBunny 20d ago
Sure, but I can imagine the more expensive airlines worrying that the ‘optics’ of spraying your passengers down aren’t great (to be clear - I’m not objecting and I’d rather they do it). I wasn’t suggesting they retrofit to existing aircraft
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by PlunderBunny 20d ago
As a kid (in the early 70s) I remember the air hostesses walking down the isles with a spray can. They don’t do that any more, but I wonder if or why they don’t add lower concentrations of the aerosol to the air conditioning at the end of t
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by PlunderBunny 27d ago
Some of the ideas for BTRON sound (to my naive understanding) like OpenDoc. Can anyone familiar with OpenDoc comment?
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by PlunderBunny 29d ago
Yes, and I imagine that’s why - in the minds of their lawyers - doing anything with the book (other than destroying it) is arguably less safe than destroying it
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by PlunderBunny 1mo ago
I don’t think it’s a sure thing that training a model on a work is considered a duplication in the sense that ripping a CD might be for example - unless I’ve missed something, that’s what hasn’t been decided in court. I think they see destr
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by PlunderBunny 1mo ago
I wouldn't characterise it as 'undercover cop...' but perhaps it might be fairer to say that until it's tested in court, no-one knows, so they (Amazon etc) are taking the 'safe' path of destroying the books?
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by PlunderBunny 1mo ago
There was a post on HN a few months ago showing the stages of post-processing on a photo of a Christmas tree in a room - the original photo was unrecognisable. I would find the link, but I’m balancing my phone on my knee while trying to eat
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by PlunderBunny 1mo ago
If I listen to music and then do something else, I no longer hear the music. So I hardly ever listen to music because I’m always doing something else!
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by PlunderBunny 1mo ago
We replaced our 2010 Ford Transit (diesel) with a 2022 Ssangyong (LDV) eDeliver 9 (battery electric), and one of the benefits I didn’t expect was just how much quieter it is in the cab - a conversation with my partner when we’re driving is
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by PlunderBunny 2mo ago
I’m still on my iPhone 12 mini, so when I have to eventually replace it, I’ll upgrade to a iPhone 13 mini.
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by PlunderBunny 2mo ago
What downsides for the _average_ driver (who just wants to go from A to B comfortably and safely) does an automatic have? Back when I still drove a non-electric vehicle, I really appreciated an automatic giving me one less thing to think ab
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by PlunderBunny 2mo ago
I also have an EGO mower, and in addition to the advantages you list, I would add that they’re less noisy and you don’t end up breathing exhaust fumes. I don’t even understand why anyone would use a petrol mower at this point, except for so
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by PlunderBunny 3mo ago
I worked on a Win32 app that used space-padded strings, i.e. the destination string was padded with spaces, but there was still a null on the last byte. You had to use special versions of the string functions for length, copy etc. I’m not s
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by PlunderBunny 3mo ago
"open wide..."
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by PlunderBunny 4mo ago
Yeah, but Peter Thiel skipped the line for his NZ citizenship: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/334094/us-billionaire-sp...
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by PlunderBunny 4mo ago
I have similar feelings. When I started working at my first job, we were trying to make our enterprise product so easy to use it would be like 'a piece of software you'd buy on a CD at the supermarket.' (this was the late 19
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by PlunderBunny 4mo ago
As a New Zealander, I'd like to hope he 'did nothing' to get that citizenship, but I'm afraid it probably wasn't nothing.
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by PlunderBunny 4mo ago
I've wondered about this because I've heard the same thing from my partner - in Engineering school in Spain, she was told that waste aluminium as a building material should be avoided because it was so expensive to recycle. But we
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by PlunderBunny 4mo ago
See also headlines that refer to “shark infested waters” instead of “human infested waters”.
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by PlunderBunny 5mo ago
I use VMWare Fusion, (version 13.6.4 because 25H2 has a bad scrolling bug that makes it unusable for me) and it does implement bi-directional copy/paste, and you can also drag files in and out of the VM (there's a few tricks requi
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by PlunderBunny 5mo ago
So if I wanted to run Windows ARM on an Apple Silicon Mac, what's the best option(s) that make full use of the hypervisor? I'm aware of UTM [0] but the second paragraph of the article makes it seem like UTM is a software emulator
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by PlunderBunny 5mo ago
Yeah, I thought Cook would stay on until the end of the Trump-admin in order to keep ‘swallowing the dead rats’ so that the next CEO would have a clean plate.
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by PlunderBunny 5mo ago
Even if he did have a Mac with the continuity feature enabled, I suppose the lock-screen won’t accept a paste from the clipboard of a Mac. (If it did, he could enter the correct passcode in any text editor on his Mac, copy it to the clipboa
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by PlunderBunny 6mo ago
I remember when the hard drive on my PowerMac 7200/90 started to fail (I was told that some of the ball bearings the platter rotated on were broken [0]). When the drive detected a 'wobble' on the platter, the entire computer

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