pacoverdi

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by pacoverdi 10mo ago
Reminds me of this app that is supposed to clear up your brain when staring at the screen for a while https://www.paulkeeble.co.uk/posts/cff/
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by pacoverdi 11mo ago
Exactly. I was actively reading until I reached that first example. Someone giving me such responses would make want to slap them in the face. Are you some old version of ChatGPT??
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by pacoverdi 11mo ago
3) looks like you read 'underlined' as 'undefined'
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by pacoverdi 2y ago
You may find https://jctools.github.io/JCTools/ interesting
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by pacoverdi 2y ago
Related: https://github.com/pcdv/jocket Drop-in replacement for java.net.Socket using shared memory (and optionally, futex for notification)
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by pacoverdi 2y ago
On my phone (Pixel 5) I don't need to unlock to take a picture (double click on power button) or switch to the next song (slide menu down, click Next). Not sure if it helps. Have not tried the app yet. Edit: sorry, didn't see the
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by pacoverdi 2y ago
Why the ** do they have to use a 8.9MiB png as hero image? I guess it was generated by AI?
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by pacoverdi 2y ago
That was a surprising downvote. I was referring to this: "it is customary in Lua to start arrays with index 1" [1] Not being a native English speaker, I may have phrased something wrong. I find "one-based indexing" in ar
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by pacoverdi 2y ago
I had two encounters with Lua many years ago. The first to write "stored procedures" in Redis (I forget the correct terminology). It allowed to improve the performance of Django endpoints by an order of magnitude. In the second, I
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by pacoverdi 2y ago
IntelliJ has become pretty powerful with Git these days. Squashing, dropping commits, rebasing. Even interactive rebase can be done in a few clicks. I sometimes pop up IDEA to do some non-trivial cleanup in a repo. Even if relatively fluent
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by pacoverdi 2y ago
This article made me conscious of my use of the mouse: I realize that I move it only with a ~3cm square, which allows to reach all corners of the screen by only moving my fingers, while the base of my palm stays "locked" to the de
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by pacoverdi 2y ago
Under Windows 11, a "dev drive" can also make a big difference. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/
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by pacoverdi 2y ago
Yep, I was not excluding muscle memory when I said it had to do with muscle. It is true that breathing through the nose seems effortless (at least when resting). The "reeducation" consisted in a few 30 minutes sessions (probably a
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by pacoverdi 2y ago
I did the same 25y ago, as prescribed by my allergy doctor. It was called (translation from French) "breathing reeducation", and it was roughly interval training: breathe fully in through your nose, then blow into a pipe (connecte
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by pacoverdi 3y ago
I write (at least) 2 kinds of tests: - TDD, which as you say describes the system's behavior. But it often deals with the nominal cases. It is hard to predict all that can go wrong in the initial development phase. - tests designed to
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by pacoverdi 3y ago
> Point and click is 2 dimensional. I would have said point and click is 3-dimensional. Otherwise, how can you read the text through the edges of buttons before clicking?
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by pacoverdi 3y ago
I bet you didn't use many HiDPI displays during the last decade ;)
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by pacoverdi 3y ago
I have a 2014 MBP that was working fine (except for some screen defects that I did not get fixed before it was too late for the warranty)... Until I left it in my basement for a few weeks, i.e. in a slightly cold and humid environment. Now,
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by pacoverdi 3y ago
I viewed it on Firefox for Android and I immediately had to jump to reader mode for the same reason. But I tend to use reader mode on most sites anyway because it's an easy way to get rid of banners (cookies, subscription etc.)
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by pacoverdi 3y ago
One thing that bugs me (with no solution in this site) is the Breakpoints panel that opens everytime a breakpoint is hit. In Chrome, this is not a big issue because the panel is on a separate column (compared to the main panel where variabl
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by pacoverdi 3y ago
Same boat. Feels like I bought my Pixel 5 yesterday and it feels like new, no way I'm going to trash it. It's unlikely I will buy (or recommend) another Pixel if they don't extend the security updates period. Wonder why it is
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WebGL virtual visit of Amsterdam Rijksmuseum(reindernijhoff.net)
3 points by pacoverdi 3y ago|0 comments
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by pacoverdi 3y ago
Related science fiction novel: The Ice People (La Nuit des Temps) by Barjavel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_People_(Barjavel_novel...
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by pacoverdi 3y ago
Because it means that it can be used as a library in pure Go programs.
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by pacoverdi 3y ago
(phonetically) related: weboob https://pypi.org/project/weboob/
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by pacoverdi 3y ago
It also converts 'tu arrives' into 'tu suces'... so yes :)
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by pacoverdi 3y ago
Gboard turns 'demain' to 'fellation' so often that I had to delete the latter from its vocabulary to avoid embarrassing moments
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by pacoverdi 4y ago
Ouch, I had my first one a few weeks ago, 4mm too and this hits home. 3 days before the acute crisis which led me, vomitting with pain, to the ER, the symptoms were weird and not easily attributable to a kidney stone: a few drops of pink ur
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by pacoverdi 4y ago
> I really doubt that WSL2 will be at native speed with the Linux file system I had the same doubts, but when I finally took the time to install it, I found out that I was wrong. One Java program that I use, which is very heavy on the f
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by pacoverdi 4y ago
Thanks, I did not see the FAQ which was hidden underneath the cookie banner :) You may be right. When looking at the side view, the rear of the 5008 seems a little higher, while the height of the front part is pretty similar in both cars.

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