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cdmckay

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About cdmckay

CTO and Co-Founder at Process Street. Open source developer. https://www.process.st https://www.cdmckay.org

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    Comment #49123171

    100% agree. They added so much new syntax to C# to the point it really is starting to feel like C++++ whereas Java has modernized itself without massively expanding its syntax and …

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    Comment #49020311

    Source: trust me bro

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    Comment #48874572

    I would’ve thought this was the default.

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    Comment #48874541

    I assume you’re talking about Slow Watches? I actually have one and while I love the simplicity of it, it turns out the minute hand is actually the more useful hand. Trying to figu…

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    Comment #48807155

    Really? I use Firefox as my personal browser and everything works fine, including Google sites. Very rarely there’s a government site that needs Chrome, but I definitely wouldn’t s…

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    Comment #48796816

    So you’re cool with letting anyone walk your DNS?

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    Comment #48767275

    After Docker Desktop randomly started consuming insane amounts of memory again we switched to Podman and it was literally as easy as installing it and pointing it at our docker-com…

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    Comment #48721680

    > Windows Lite is a stripped down version of Windows. No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, nothing. Windows Lite is just win32 with a lightweight shell and graphics dri…

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    Comment #48590152

    You can make it so you need a YubiKey to login to 1Password the first time on a new device So just waiting for the password won’t be enough

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    Comment #48575113

    I think that’s the point of the OP. Git is great at certain things but is not a one size fits all.

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    Comment #48432374

    In the article they call out that MARKETING can be date based

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    Comment #48183697

    We could make it so profit wasn’t the prime motivator, instead it’s main motive would be to provide a public good. We would call it a public utility.

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    Comment #47951091

    Or Fedora. I feel like Fedora has the same pragmatic approach (allows non-free drivers, packages, etc.) and is just as easy to use.

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    Comment #47777594

    You can always fork it if you don’t like the choices they make That’s the point the OP is trying to make about the advantage of open source

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    Comment #47729740

    Haha I was thinking the same when I read he hand filed it

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    Comment #47339974

    That only goes one level deep so it’s not much of a guarantee

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    Comment #46709512

    That’s because it uses the WebKit renderer built in to iOS

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    Comment #46599194

    This Rebase only makes sense if you making huge PRs where you need to break it down into smaller commits to have them make sense. If you keep your PRs small, squashing it works wel…

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    Comment #46563995

    You could still support a subset of the most common features like bold, italic, strike, bullets, links, etc. Isn’t the beauty of MD supposed to be that if you can’t render it it sh…

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    Comment #46460523

    In Lima I would say half the cars I see on the road are Chinese, many I’ve never heard of. It’s crazy.

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    Comment #46453876

    I have a Framework 13 running an AMD AI 300 Series with Fedora as my personal laptop and an MBP M2 Pro as my work machine. I would say that the Framework is fine for battery life w…

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    Comment #46433023

    Yeah I tried it and it was still unusable. I barely noticed any improvement.

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    Comment #46429153

    I really wanted to switch to the Proton stack and even tried it for a couple weeks but the search in Proton Mail is so bad I couldn’t use it for even simple things like finding my …