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by hibbelig 17d ago
The point is that most websites have sidebars, but this one doesn't. Let's say my preferred text width is 10 units. Due to sidebars, most websites require a browser window width of 20 units to show me 10 units of main text. Then
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by hibbelig 18d ago
Making the browser windows narrow is a bad suggestion. Because most websites have some sort of navigation bar on the left and another bar on the right, so we need a wide enough window to get enough of the main text (width). There are very f
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by hibbelig 27d ago
Oh yes. I discovered that there are two scrollbars. By clicking somewhere in the blog text, you activate the inner one and then scrolling with the keyboard works.
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by hibbelig 3mo ago
How's that going with the numbers? Microsoft had this page where they explained that monetary amounts are formatted one way whereas other numbers are formatted another way. I found that most fascinating, but I don't know whether
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by hibbelig 3mo ago
I believe GNU Emacs was created in 1984 or 1985, and it's still going strong. I guess it's not easy to work on it due to the long history, but I understand it's been refactored as the developers went along.
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by hibbelig 4mo ago
Recursion. Very interesting. My daughter didn’t know much about programming, then started CS. The first semester language was Ocaml and they of course used recursion quite heavily and she’d didn’t know it was supposed to be complicated. The
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by hibbelig 6mo ago
I used to be a fan of tiling window managers, but I found out that I tend to use fairly visually heavy apps on a Mac. By this I mean apps that need quite a bit of screen real estate to show everything that needs to be shown: The mail progr
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by hibbelig 7mo ago
I switched from screen to tmux due to rumor about the screen code base. Maybe not a good reason. But I don’t regret it, tmux works well. Just an honest opinion of someone who didn’t have skin in the game. Not sure if it helps.
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by hibbelig 7mo ago
Telnet was available in the 90s. I reckon /dev/tcp is way more recent. GP did say a long time ago.
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by hibbelig 10mo ago
It sounded like something a screen reader would say to help visually impaired visitors. But I don’t actually have a clue what screen readers do say.
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by hibbelig 11mo ago
For the keys you don’t need to type quickly, M-x can also be typed as ESC x. For any character x. So it works well with M-|, but not so well with M-f, for example.
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by hibbelig 1y ago
Your parent explicitly said amd64 which is the same thing as x86_64. Perhaps you misread amd64 and thought it was saying arm64?
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by hibbelig 2y ago
I used to use tiling window managers on Linux, but I found out that my Mac usage contains lots of “graphical” apps that don't like to live in a quarter of the screen or something like that. So I've embraced overlapping windows. I
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by hibbelig 2y ago
Here is one thing: I work on a feature branch off of main. It takes me a bit and I want to rebase my branch onto the newest changes. It seems with the git command line the way to do it is to switch to main then pull then switch back to my f
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by hibbelig 2y ago
I use lazygit as a ui. I like it. I think magit can do way more.
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by hibbelig 2y ago
That’s true but boy howdy does pausing the program at a breakpoint change timing!
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by hibbelig 2y ago
Data point: I develop in Java and I use IntelliJ. I run everything in debug mode. So it’s really easy for me to enter the debugger. But I find that if I have to step around more than a handful of times to find the issue then I forget what h
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by hibbelig 2y ago
It’s very interesting. I’ve tried to observe myself. It seems that if I can see a breakpoint somewhere and then examine state and then see what the problem is, a debugger is great. If, however, it’s something where I need to examine state a
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by hibbelig 2y ago
You’re misunderstanding. In those other apps the behavior is this: you open a document. You put the cursor on line 3 column 3. You use the mouse wheel or trackpad to scroll down to line 600. You hit cursor right. The cursor is now on line 3
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by hibbelig 2y ago
It’s autocomplete being based on words. It knows computer and it knows keyboard and so in English it is trivial to type computer keyboard. In German it also knows Computer and Tastatur, but I can’t use autocomplete to type Computertastatur.
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by hibbelig 2y ago
I recall that inetd started a new instance of the demon for every incoming connection, and this caused lots of processes when lots of connections happened. I don’t recall whether you could tell inetd not to do that.
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by hibbelig 2y ago
I wanted to like dark mode (before it was called that, back in the nineties), and I try again from time to time, but I've never been successful. I'm also not happy with Solarized because it's so low contrast. Some programs ha
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by hibbelig 2y ago
Docker desktop for Mac: dockerd runs in the VM and the client from the host system wants to connect. But of course we all hope that the network it is exposed to is still only on the Mac.
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by hibbelig 2y ago
Thank you. I wonder: is FTP that old? I kind of thought UUCP predated FTP. My parent mentioned email possibly being a special mode of FTP. _some poking around in Wikipedia_ Indeed, FTP is from 1971 and UUCP is from 1979. And the SMTP pa
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by hibbelig 2y ago
UUCP?
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by hibbelig 2y ago
Challenge: which of the letters a to z and A to Z are NOT switches that modify the behavior of ls? I would guess that ls has at least 50 different behaviors based on the switches.
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by hibbelig 2y ago
You may not be aware that it's a false friend. The German word Billion exists, and it means trillion. So the German reader will read the English article (in English, not auto-translated), see the word billion, think “oh that looks fam
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by hibbelig 2y ago
Java is compiled, too. The Java runtime is the JVM which runs byte code.
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by hibbelig 2y ago
Recently graduated, just entered the workforce.
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by hibbelig 3y ago
The relationship between thoughts and proofs is analogous to the relationship between noise and music. It’s a subset kind of relationship. There is also the social aspect: people have to agree on it. Noise becomes music, and thoughts become

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