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that's the entire point of tabs, they can be customized to what the person reading them wants. It's an accessibility issue ( https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nob…

information-optimal compression is "the theoretical minimum number of bits needed to represent data without losing any information, based on the data's entropy", so I think they me…

I'm a software engineer at a company that does all macbooks. I hate my M1 macbook because it's way less reliable then my desktop, both software and hardware. I have to hold the pow…

The website is out of date, last release was actually in may (like smtp4dev) https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/releases/tag/v0.10.0

Github had this planned in their old roadmap... But then they deleted it... https://web.archive.org/web/20220831234107/https://github.co...

More likely to be just standard Mobile IP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP . Fairly standard stuff, can cause some false positives around traveling (I've seen people get fre…

Google asks your kid, and they can pick either way. You can tell them "Hey, this is a device I bought for you, using a cell phone service I pay for, so either reenroll in supervisi…

It's about as much blockchain as git is blockchain, so... not really blockchain at all...

That wouldn't pass a code review where I work... Use a defer to do the unlock

I'd honestly be shocked if "vented and refilled refrigerant" was legal, that sounds like something a shady repairman would do...

fortinet is a cyber security software company, that makes a product called fortigate that does SSL MITM to decrypt and monitor/filter your traffic. Probably want to poke your IT te…

Where I work, IT owns laptops, and is not a part of engineering. Getting things installed on new laptops is apparently not possible. On the other hand, a cloud instance (either thi…

Gcp supports it: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/suspend-resu...

do `export EDITOR="code -w"` `git commit` will then open up the commit message as a temp file in vscode, you can write your message then save and close (cmd-s, cmd-w on mac, probab…

Sourcery!

Well, the easy thing is just let something like Dependabot update your stuff. If you are just wanting "update all my stuff to the latest version", just run `go get -u ./...`?

> Am I to understand that it's common to hand-edit the version constraint on a transitive dependency in your go.mod file? No, run `go get @ ` and Go will do it for you.

I also run windows 10 and have never seen a single ad, anywhere in it. Definitely worth noting that this is on a homebuilt computer, and I paid for a windows 10 pro license. Defini…

That's a bit of a stretch... If someone made a language that directly copied Haskell's type system, I'd 100% call it a non-traditional type system, but there would be nothing novel…

Please see https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/544#issuecomment-36396... and https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/663 . In particular, `For every codepoint of zig source code, i…

I stand (partially) corrected, though everything there does still seem to point towards "tabs tolerated, but the formatter will convert to spaces". I also find it highly amusing th…

It's a part of the ecosystem, and is, AFAICT, saying "tabs are not welcome here". Happy to be proven wrong.

That's... slightly better, but afaict, "allows both spaces and tabs" seems to be "convert tabs to spaces" zig fmt accepts and converts tabs to spaces, \r\n to \n, as well as many o…