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airblade
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Comment #45465318
This is documented on the Litestream website.
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Comment #42797428
A dimmer switch for an LED light is different from a dimmer switch for a non-LED light. If you try to use an LED light with a “normal” dimmer, it won’t work well.
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Comment #42685177
At first I thought you meant an umbrella that doesn't work very well.
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Comment #39866176
Simple, clean, does exactly what it says. If only more software was like this :)
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Comment #39220673
Actually the NSA is the US’s version of GCHQ.
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Comment #38718292
That was probably it: not being quite perpendicular. Oh well!
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Comment #38708530
That’s very similar to my experience except docking was just too hard. No matter how carefully I tried to match the rotation, 99 times out of 100 I crashed. I still don’t really un…
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Comment #38506324
XML is brittle which makes it hard to work with. One tiny syntax error somewhere and your whole XML pipeline fails. XSLT is powerful but harder to get right than just reshaping JSO…
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Comment #37220173
But those 70 miles can take a disproportionately long time!
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Comment #37174275
Thanks for building this. I agree there's a gap between OSS libraries and high-end products like Scandit. Scanning barcodes is harder than it looks. Or rather, scanning an intact, …
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Comment #36254813
It probably depends on whether you are searching a body of natural language text (use tf-idf) or a list of things (use fuzzy search).
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Comment #36241805
"Not too bothered about styling" is quite important. Datalists are relatively uncommon and I think many users may not know what they are seeing and how they can interact with it. A…
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Comment #34737647
I believe the maintainers regard authentication, rightly or wrongly, as a business-level feature. Not so much the mechanics of checking a user's credentials but how you want to ste…
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Comment #32982113
Look up the Tau Manifesto: it’s all explained there.
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Comment #32136058
I did a similar thing for Volksbank (a German bank) statements using awk: https://github.com/airblade/volksbanker-awk/blob/main/vba
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Comment #29578358
I don’t think there are many people capable of maths like this.
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Comment #29148676
I think you mean not far from Oxford.
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Comment #28189309
Rails will soon default to using ESM instead of Webpack. https://world.hey.com/dhh/modern-web-apps-without-javascript...
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Comment #27772394
> gitgutter is no git diff FYI in gitgutter you can preview the diff for any change (and also edit the hunk and stage it).
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Comment #27131096
This is a nifty idea for a product. Does / will your system import images in spreadsheets?
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Comment #27013030
You can't configure diff-highlight to do that. It 'will find the common prefix and suffix of two lines, and consider everything in the middle to be "different".' [1] To highlight o…
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Comment #23004280
Not sure about vim-fugitive, but vim-gitgutter's hunk previews have intra-line highlighting. I mention it because people often use the two plugins together (and I'm pleased with ho…
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Comment #21838205
So it could read the RFID tag in the passport.