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dainank

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About dainank

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    Show HN: Interact with inactive macOS windows without selecting the window first

    macOS requires users to 'select' a window first before being able to interact with UI elements within. This leads to more clicks, and I personally found this tedious. Furthermore, …

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    Comment #48743011

    Indeed! You can even configure it to open the last set of open browser tabs as per default, saving you a `ctrl+shift+T`.

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    Comment #48717376

    Out of curiosity, what makes their hardware 'brilliant'? I often hear this but never actually looked into why. What is your take on that?

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    Comment #48560854

    It is gaining more contributors and starting to be relatively compliant with most browser standards. Alpha release is expected EoY. I am optimistic for its future.

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    Comment #48556749

    The Ladybird browser could potentially be a nice alternative in the future: https://ladybird.org/

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    Comment #48553856

    Dune Messiah in a nutshell.

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    Comment #48551087

    I know it is only a partial solution, but I saw with some companies that LinkedIn provides a way to verify a user works at such a company. This is done via sending an email to a co…

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    Comment #48458308

    I agree that such a claim is a stretch, however, I personally love the minimalist look (it has its own charm). Saying it 'looks like the stylesheets failed to load' is your own exa…

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    Comment #48367363

    I had a similar experience with a Microsoft Outlook account. Supposedly this is done for legal reasons. Once an account violates certain laws, companies 'allegedly' have no choice …

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    Comment #48203837

    Mistral AI and the Luxembourgish government also have a strategic partnership: https://gouvernement.lu/en/gouvernement/stephanie-obertin/ac...

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    Comment #48177554

    I believe nature is all there is. If we could replicate a human brain several times, and make each 'human brain' receive the exact same input data (sounds, sights, smells e.t.c.) f…

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    Comment #47946941

    > eBay bought it in 2005 for 2.6 billion dollars. Nobody really understood why eBay wanted it. Then Microsoft bought it from eBay in 2011 for 8.5 billion dollars. Isn't that the re…

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    Comment #47830858

    Maybe `wudo`? Windows Sudo!

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    Comment #47703613

    Indeed. The bigger problem is also that consistently the most played games are multiplayer competitive titles with anti-cheat software that is only written for Windows (and sometim…

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    Comment #47703571

    You are overthinking it. It is neither a strategy nor keystroke saving (although technically with shift its 4 keystrokes as opposed to 5 for Linux and quite a few saved for Windows…

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    Comment #47703181

    I think for people who are browsing this site, it will certainly be easier than expected. For the average person, most likely not.

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    Comment #47700218

    I think there is a lot of talk (and this is good), but very little action. Market share is still incredibly low for LNX. I believe only a small subset of people actually attempt th…

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    Comment #47597525

    I think it is also interesting to realize that we have had a huge population boom since the last 50 years or so, thus currently, the entire world population alive makes up roughly …

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    Comment #47563607

    In my experience, I am only connected with people I have worked with at some point, while taking the effort to mark posts as 'not interested' whenever it felt like ai-crap or borin…

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