otterlicious

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by otterlicious 3y ago
It has had a single window mode since Gimp 2.8 was released in 2002. Unfortunately it's not the upstream default, but a lot of Linux distros set it that way anyway. https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-concepts-m
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by otterlicious 4y ago
LineageOS will keep providing OS updates long after Google stops providing updates for those Pixel devices, so you wouldn't have to buy new hardware or switch to another OS in a year.
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by otterlicious 4y ago
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/job_artifacts.html#a... make_tarball: script: - tar cf dist/tarball.tar.gz project/ artifacts: paths: - dist/tar
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by otterlicious 5y ago
The live images with firmware are here: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/image...
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by otterlicious 5y ago
There is an HTML5 Citrix client and it's a more terrible experience in every way. I hear there is an official HTML5 RDP client now too that is probably the same. Even newer "cloud-native" entrants like Amazon WorkSpaces have
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by otterlicious 5y ago
Or if you're blocked by the root password prompt add `init=/bin/bash` and make your filesystem writable if necessary with `mount -oremount,rw /`
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by otterlicious 6y ago
I've never used Slack but in Microsoft Teams there are Teams and Channels and they pretty much map 1:1 to Discord's Servers and Text Channels. You cannot leave individual channels of a Team though you can mute them and you have ev
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by otterlicious 6y ago
I guess you are thinking this tool is required because you are coming from Google Chrome extension development where you need a compiler tool to create CRX files. This is not the case for Firefox extension development. It uses plain ZIP f
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by otterlicious 6y ago
I guess I must have fat-fingered the domain and the second article down in the history. Any chance of bigger touch targets on mobile already? ;-P
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by otterlicious 6y ago
When I wrote this comment the link pointed to the cairographics.org homepage, not Matthias' email.
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by otterlicious 6y ago
Nothing on this page says the project has been abandoned and the last commit is 3 days ago: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/log/
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by otterlicious 6y ago
VMware still works great for older operating systems. I've had nothing but trouble with Hyper-V and VirtualBox lately. It's sad because VirtualBox used to work okay but the legacy AMD NIC and SoundBlaster drivers have been bitrott
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by otterlicious 6y ago
Acquired isn't defunct. The archaically named entity that owns your local telco cabinet almost certainly still exists: http://www.centurylink.com/static/PDF/AboutUs/DoingBusiness/...
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by otterlicious 6y ago
Yes, in whitespace significant languages whitespace is significant. I could complain that my editor doesn't figure out how to fix all of my braces if I hit a button, after all I got the indentation right and can visually see the struct
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by otterlicious 6y ago
I want to completely disable clipboard management so it wouldn't remember clipboard history (which is a security issue) and wouldn't clear the clipboard as soon as I close the window (extremely inconvenient - I often want to open
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by otterlicious 6y ago
The compilers can be downloaded for free by anyone as part of the Build Tools for Visual Studio. These restrictions only apply to the Visual Studio IDE.
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by otterlicious 6y ago
Provide a rooted phone by default. Going back to carrying boatload of cards again is not an option. Google Pay doesn't (officially) work on rooted phones. There are lots of other things like that, which is why it makes a lot of sen
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by otterlicious 6y ago
Peek-A-Boo 4-U cancelled the following... There is a pending payment requests section in PayPal. The buyer finally noticed it and cancelled it. You would think they would expire these after some time. Imagine if the buyer completed the pa
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by otterlicious 6y ago
I learned from this guide (well the PyQt4 version). It starts off small and works up to the kitchen sink if that's what you need: http://zetcode.com/gui/pyqt5/ There are a few others here: https://
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by otterlicious 6y ago
If you want NumPy support in particular you basically have to use CPython. The only other implementation that really supports it is PyPy which is not in any sense more lightweight.
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by otterlicious 6y ago
I worked my first couple years of college as a clerk at the main campus library. I remember the librarian assigned to the Political Science department among others explaining that our circulation software had been deliberately configured to
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by otterlicious 6y ago
If you're on a phone you might get tricked into thinking it is paywalled by the giant advertisement for the print replica of the article but if you scroll down past that you can view the article in its entirety.
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by otterlicious 6y ago
There are 8P8C copper SFP(+) modules so that isn't really a barrier. Anyway, what you're looking for is something more like: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/qsw-1105-5t
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by otterlicious 6y ago
There is no ambiguity. http:username:password@example.com/thing.jpg http:username:password@example.com:8080@example.com/thing.jpg But they might have picked a different delimiter for that in this alternative future. Or perhaps
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by otterlicious 6y ago
A port. RFC 1912 states "Labels may not be all numbers, but may have a leading digit (e.g., 3com.com)."
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by otterlicious 6y ago
In an alternative future where the double slashes didn't exist we would just use the colon. http:example.com/thing.jpg :example.com/thing.jpg
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by otterlicious 6y ago
Grandma isn't going to YouTube and looking up the "Holy Trinity Church Sunday service", she is just clicking on the link the deacon sent her. As long as the page it sends her to has a play button like her VCR remote she will
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by otterlicious 6y ago
Did /proc/fd not exist back then or did these guys just not know about it? ;-)
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by otterlicious 6y ago
* KDE has gone through CVS, SVN, Git, Redmine, ReviewBoard, Phabricator and now GitLab for various source control needs over the years, all while still using Bugzilla for bug tracking. There is a lot more intertia to overcome. * GitLab (and
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by otterlicious 6y ago
Gitlab is replacing Phabricator but not Bugzilla. Gitlab issues are going to be used for developer task tracking but Bugzilla will continue to be used for end-user bug tracking.

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