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by gecko 2mo ago
My favorite alt time is definitely the ancient way of doing things: there are twelve hours during the day, and twelve hours during the night. Yes, this means that the length of an hour at night is different from the length of an hour during
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by gecko 2y ago
I will say that a lot of that RAM is going to creature comforts that aren't about apps getting worse per se. For example, everything is running double buffered images and windows in HiDPI. The era you're talking about, application
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by gecko 2y ago
Uh, that title is...wrong...
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by gecko 2y ago
I'm in PowerShell 7.4.2 and they're definitely absent. I hadn't thought to install directly from GitHub, given part of the whole shtick of winget is it's The One True Package Manager and bundled, but I can't say I&
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by gecko 2y ago
I was super excited to see this comment, but I don't seem to have those cmdlets, even though I'm on Windows 11, fully updated. Are you sure you didn't install something extra?
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by gecko 2y ago
I mean, it is a country of laws. Just...some of those laws are pretty bad. For what it's worth, the Court in this case is narrowly focused on correcting a lower court's interpretation of the Copyright Act, not something in the
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by gecko 3y ago
I'm not sure you understand how WSL works: it's just the native `curl` binary for whatever Linux distro you're using in WSL. On both Ubuntu and OpenSuSE, which are the two I have installed, --cacerts works as expected, becaus
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by gecko 3y ago
I love the concept of Fossil being in SQLite, but there's a reason that Mercurial invented revlogs and Git tries to keep related objects close to each other in packfiles. Sometimes, you really do need a dedicated file format optimized
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by gecko 3y ago
Isn't that literally just slightly different colors? I don't remember meaningful differences between OS/2 1.3 and the Windows 3 line. I always thought that was part of why WinOS2 worked well: the Win32 apps looked like the ol
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by gecko 3y ago
It hasn't changed radically, but it has changed. Wikipedia actually has a nice write-up if you want the details, but support for symbolic links, transactions, and partition resizing are all things that have materially improved my lif
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by gecko 3y ago
It'll reset the engine control unit (ECU), which will cause your car to run rough constantly as the computer has to relearn how to adjust the engine tuning from scratch every drive. You'd be better served using a trickle charger.
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by gecko 3y ago
I'm happy to always have London, but I could do with forgetting most of Cambridge.
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by gecko 3y ago
As an aside, I do think that targeting Mono was the right thing to do for the universe, as it butterfly-effected tedu into writing weird and wonderful technical blog posts for the next ten years :p I've never figured
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by gecko 3y ago
(Since you're answering arbitrary Fog Creek questions) In retrospect, do you think it was a mistake to make kiln hg-centric at first? No; I think it was a mistake to not also support Subversion out-of-the-box. Our custom
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by gecko 3y ago
Everything you're asking about happened after I left, so I have no idea. I didn't even know they'd discontinued FogBugz for Your Server. [Edit: We did discontinue Kiln for Your Server while I was there. We nuked that because
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by gecko 3y ago
There's an imdb trivia item[0] about how you and Liz disagree about whether it was a shush, but it's unsourced, so it was hard to put much stock in it. This is a much more satisfying answer. Liz thought I shush
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by gecko 3y ago
This is honestly quite a trip to read (I'm the Benjamin Pollack in the movie). I did want to make two small corrections, though: In one scene, she’s being interviewed on her birthday. Nobody remembered, so she had to buy hers
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by gecko 3y ago
It's worth noting that Compose Multiplatform, which makes the same core decision, actually has a pretty solid accessibility story ( https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/blob/mast... ). It&#x2
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by gecko 3y ago
Can you explain what you mean? Multiple insertion points is kind of The Point Of Helix (and Kakoune, for that matter)
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by gecko 3y ago
It's worth noting that OpenSuSE is one of very few distros in the Windows store, and the only one other than Ubuntu with really solid put-of-the-box interop (e.g. adding Linux apps to the Start menu). I'm really curious if that&#x
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by gecko 4y ago
You're correct. And they didn't "revert", as GP is saying, but rather added junction points such that "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data" is the same as C:\ProgramData, and that junction poin
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by gecko 4y ago
I mean, even the IIGS wasn't really an Apple II in a real sense. Classic Apple II programs did use the IIGS' CPU, but were otherwise basically running on the MEGA-II (which I think is also how the Mac LC did Apple compatibility,
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by gecko 5y ago
Generically, anything by Microsoft will historically have used UCS-2, and will use UTF-16 these days, so this is utterly unsurprising to me as an experienced Windows dev . Conversely, Linux (and POSIX, more generally) deciding that filenam
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by gecko 5y ago
The title of this article had me do a double-take: C and C++ development on Windows is great . No sanity is needed. But that's not what the article is about. What the article is about is that the C runtime shim that ships with Visual
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by gecko 5y ago
You can do that right now, albeit not directly in the import: it's done via an explicit `lock.json` file ( https://deno.land/manual@v1.16.4/linking_to_external_code/in... ). I'm tempted to agree that hav
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by gecko 5y ago
I’ve written about why FogBugz failed before, but it basically came down to Atlassian having vastly better marketing, being much more willing to support every edge case instead of being opinionated, and having a better pricing model. Unrela
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by gecko 5y ago
Is there a definitive fork yet? I've been waiting for the community to coalesce around one of them.
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by gecko 5y ago
> If Russia had a secret sci-fi weapon like this it would be very stupid (and completely useless) to waste it on US-diplomats. ...like...you are aware the Russians used polonium traceable to their reactors to publicly poison individuals
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by gecko 5y ago
Smalltalk is traditionally done in a proportional font. Short methods, and an editor that only does one method at a time, help that work out.
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by gecko 5y ago
I thought the Foenix was canceled. We had a discussion about it the last time the Commander X16 came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23801266

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