mr_custard

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by mr_custard 5y ago
Fair enough. I just checked the AdGuard support forums. They agree that this feature can't work with the Content Blocker approach on macos. There's no way they can get any hooks into the browser, so interstitial ads will remain ju
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by mr_custard 5y ago
Why are you even bothering to type such things? I'm not talking about iOS in this sub-thread. The discussion here is about Safari on macos in the present day, not the effed up macos of the future. Can we just have a discussion about th
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by mr_custard 5y ago
Hmmm... just tried AdGuard on a couple of high profile web sites using Safari. Sure, Adguard is working to some extent. On the first site - no ads. Whitespace where the ads would have been because content blockers can't interfere with
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by mr_custard 5y ago
Ooh. Thanks danaris! I thought I'd already tried AdGuard in the past... but I may be mistaken. Will install today and give it a spin. Ah cool: The Adguard website says that they've just added M1 support. I think M1 support was pro
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by mr_custard 5y ago
Do I believe that I'm Apple's target market? No. Do I believe they care about me as an individual? No, not really. However... I'm not seeing how your comment is relevant to my statement that I don't want to use Apple&#x2
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by mr_custard 5y ago
> I don't use Safari I really want to like Safari and I try every release, but I can't use it for more than a few minutes because the adverts that get through are just so unbelievably bad (to someone that isn't used to see
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by mr_custard 6y ago
I don't diagree with you on some of the Dyson products being gimmicky with a premium price tag, and the air purifier does look suspect to me. However, the Dyson v11 cordless vacuum I just bought is phenomenal. It has far better suction
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by mr_custard 6y ago
That's been my impression for as long as I can remember. Very puritanical compared to, say, Europe... and yet violence is no problem. I honestly don't think that I'll ever understand what the hangup with nipples is all about.
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by mr_custard 6y ago
Agree - This GitHub theme is unfortunately too dark. Which is a shame, because I was genuinely excited to read that GH has released a dark mode. I use many dark mode themes and have even created them. The important thing to constantly keep
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by mr_custard 6y ago
> Clojure and F# are my two favourite languages and I have similar experience Same. I have worked in both F# and Clojure profressionally. I love them both for different reasons. As a fun thought experiment, I have often tried to force my
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by mr_custard 6y ago
It's just one of those things where the different context between countries doesn't translate well. In the UK, if you say "TCP" everybody knows that you're talking about the antiseptic phenolic liquid that can be us
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by mr_custard 6y ago
A lot of people don't seem to mind building on top of tech owned and developed by a telecommunications company - Erlang.
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by mr_custard 6y ago
> The only members of the ML family that I'm aware of are Ocaml and the flavours of Standard ML. Only Ocaml is fit for production. F# is also a member of the ML family and is totally fit for production.
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by mr_custard 6y ago
Came here to ask the same thing. Infuriating as hell that we are forced to pay for something that not only we don't wish to use or support, but it also inflates the Windows sales figures and percieved install base vs Linux installed ba
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by mr_custard 6y ago
Electron contains the Chromium browser code, yes. But you still have to render to that browser. Electron also contains a back-end Node.js process and a bunch of related JS APIs for building and hosting these apps. Anyway, I accept your poin
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by mr_custard 6y ago
"Consider minimalist browsers like Min ..." Oh! Exciting! I dutifully went to check out the Min browser web page. "Oh shit, it's another Electron app". Noped it out of there.
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by mr_custard 6y ago
Many people seem to be comparing Janet and Clojure here as if one had to choose to use only one or the other. Most of my daily work is done in Clojure or ClojureScript and that will continue to be true. However, I am excited by what I'
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by mr_custard 6y ago
Disappointed? Not at all! I worked with it many years ago. Whilst WCF made some notable improvements over what existed within the ecosystem before it, it was still a sprawling, complex PITA and full of developer friction. Killing it off in
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by mr_custard 6y ago
Oooh. Nice details. I have bookmarked all of this info.
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by mr_custard 6y ago
Thank you for taking time to write a detailed response.
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by mr_custard 6y ago
Thanks. When you say "without much issue", have you ever lost more than a few hours to "required tinkering" over those years, or was it pretty much plain sailing? Anything else I should take a look at? What would your i
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by mr_custard 6y ago
It sounds like a number of things p *ed you off, but what was your biggest gripe with the Apple stuff? Or perhaps it was everything (!).
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by mr_custard 6y ago
Excellent! Now the positive news is rolling in :-) Looking at that 7th generation model now. Actually... that looks really nice. And 20.04 LTS would be pretty good for me.
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by mr_custard 6y ago
Ahh... good to hear. I have been keeping an eye on the system76 stuff too - not just Dell. For a long time system76 seemed to only make laptops with large keyboards with extra number pads and asymetric mouse pads which put me off (many manu
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by mr_custard 6y ago
Thanks. I'm am aware of this. I research this all the time, and regularly come away disappointed. I don't know if I verbalised clearly enough, but I have actively wanted good options for years, and I'm always open to whatever
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by mr_custard 6y ago
Useful figures, so thanks for providing those. It's been a few months since I last looked into the latest prices. I agree with you that it's still worth it. However, I feel that without comparing the OS and tight OS integration, t
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by mr_custard 7y ago
The in-app notifications are nnoying for sure, but I've never received emails from them. Email prefs are here: https://www.netflix.com/EmailPreferences Marketing prefs are here: https://www.netflix.com/
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by mr_custard 7y ago
I appreciate your positive encouragement and that you took the time to write. I'm glad that you jumped in at the deep end and that it worked out so well for you :-) I'm still not convinced that it would be good for my wellbeing an
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by mr_custard 7y ago
I read through this quickly, but I couldn't find any mention of pair programming not being suitable for sensitive and introverted people - especially those that suffer from anxiety and other mental illnesses that can be made worse by t
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by mr_custard 7y ago
Quite simply, advertising is visual pollution; whether it be on large billboards, on bus stops or freestanding in the middle of the sidewalk. It's visual pollution and it has ruined our towns and cities. I'm excited to read this a

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