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bowersbros
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Comment #49207869
It's a British colloquial term meaning basic / expected / ordinary
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Comment #49160942
One reason would be that Vercel does the build process, whereas Github pages (afaik) would require you to commit the dist dir
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Comment #48857551
You could already do that by setting a _acme-challenge alias CNAME record, so you can point it to a domain that they control. It's a bit finnicky and the new setup definitely looks…
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Comment #48729840
I had a teacher who told us to make a website using Powerpoint.. Turns out you save save as HTML and any links you put between slides become anchor tags. Pretty neat, but hurt my s…
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Comment #47663640
Any chance you could share those sections of your claude file? I've been using Claude a bit lately but mostly with manual changes, not got much in the way of the claude file yet an…
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Comment #30243596
That first article is a decade old.
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Comment #23964897
Only a few of these i found annoying, but its good to get a fix for the Previews and GitHub-Style Inline Diffs
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Comment #23021257
But _most_ of the time you'd be using the one in your city. If you are from Manchester, UK and you live there, how often do you need a taxi app that works in Bangkok, or NY, or Osl…
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Comment #21410006
Old School Runescape is where you want to be
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Comment #18658005
Things like large documents don't make that any easier though. Scrolling through a large document can take a while, but a scrollbar allows you to get to somewhere else often quite …
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Comment #18502057
To be fair, he works for Microsoft, its entirely possible he maintains one of their OS repos.
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Comment #16982451
I can't see anything about the 33.0.0.0/8 range being reserved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses
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Comment #16287154
Note that EU customers of Stripe get a drastically nicer 1.4% + 20p charge.
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Comment #16275556
A better solution would be to use the status bar at the top, similar to how it changes when "In call". Have it change colour, and say "1 new Mail notification" etc, and if you tap …
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Comment #15348282
This is commonly solved using Amazon S3 and single-access tokens I think? Pretty hefty work involved in getting it reliable, would be nice for a "drop in" solution.
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Comment #15346262
Haproxy supporting `.map` functionality is the biggest selling point to me. It allows for SSL protected custom domains for a user of a SaaS app in a really easy to do way. We use i…
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Comment #15149501
The problem being solved there is being able to see further in the dark.
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Comment #14916027
Those 25 countries are where to _seller_ can be based. Stripe allows purchases from over 135 countries. https://stripe.com/docs/currencies#charge-currencies
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Comment #14774589
A huge backwards incompatible change
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Comment #14701963
As I understand it, repairs are expensive, but general maintenance is less, because there isn't as much to maintain.
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Comment #14612379
One of the issues we had with wkhtmltopdf was that we use Angular for our views, and we have a view for an invoice, and the ability to print it. We wanted the same view to be passe…
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Comment #14606555
Do you have a mailing list where I can say my bank is with "Halifax let me know when you support them securely?" I'd like something like this, but I wouldn't want to give the bank …
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Comment #14502676
Any chance I can get in on the beta for this? I've done the Load balancer and block storage beta? @gmail.com
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Comment #14442056
because the artwork is of a nude 10 year old.