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divingdragon

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    Comment #47286465

    Really, as an East Asian language user the rest of the comments here make me want to scream.

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    Comment #47179081

    UK ring circuits are typically protected by 30A or 32A circuit breakers.

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    Comment #47021942

    I use the rule ||youtube.com/shorts/*$uritransform=/shorts\/(.*)/watch\/\$1/` in uBlock Origin. (Except that it doesn't work if you click on a short from YouTube's interface - it l…

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    Comment #45091067

    > They did this to micro sd cards on the first switch. What do you mean? From what I know it was bog-standard microSD(HC/XC) with the maximum supported speed being UHS-I with nothi…

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    Comment #40929960

    > Crashes would be avoided by having every train know about the train ahead and behind, and unable to make any move which would cause a collision (ie. it is not allowed to slam the…

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    Comment #40283516

    There is an official way to completely disable and remove Computrace (which I did on my T480), but I don't remember anything that allowed removing ME.

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    Comment #40226169

    Qt 5.15 at this point has been out for 4 years, already out of "normal" commercial LTS and will reach the end of extended commercial LTS next year. They don't have any incentive to…

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    Comment #39764722

    > Even CMD.EXE batch files support LF. I don't know if it is the case on Windows 11, but I have surely been bitten by CMD batch files using LF line endings. I don't remember the ex…

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    Comment #36238319

    I do this all the time. Every once in a while, navigating with the keyboard in Explorer will cause the window thread to hang up in a busy loop and I have to kill it. I have no idea…

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    Comment #35120970

    On Linux you can use `lsusb` to get a cleaner list of all connected USB devices.

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    Comment #34900063

    You can try KiCad.

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    Comment #33383491

    How does this compare to ANGLE or the MetalANGLE fork, assuming I have some renderer code that already works on both OpenGL 3.2 core profile and OpenGL ES 3.0? (We are already usin…

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    Comment #32261861

    Railway is a different problem space than road vehicles. Trains run on fixed tracks, has long braking distance, are much heavier, and accidents can be much more devastating. While …

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    Comment #31203145

    I would rather have my program hard crash on unexpected null than to have it silently ignore potential logic errors. I have never used a language with nil punning, but to me Option…

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    Comment #31071378

    I am failing to see (1). It seems when you drop a file into the help viewer window, it is handled by the help viewer itself. You can try it with a random file. It either displays t…

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    Comment #31071186

    The PoC video showed that the current user isn't in the "Administrator" group (though there is another user "zeroday" in there), which makes it look like not a simple UAC bypass. O…

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    Comment #31070765

    It seems that 7-zip opens the .chm help file using the HtmlHelp [1] WinAPI call. This API call does not even seem to run `hh.exe`. How does this privilege escalation actually work?…

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    Comment #30805297

    > The fix might be a new API that reveals true coordinates… We already have this with `ResizeObserver` using the `device-pixel-content-box` option. [1] [1]: https://developer.mozil…

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    Comment #30050360

    > This was a surprising one to me. Simplified Chinese was expectedly more efficient than Traditional Chinese, but both were beaten out by Cantonese (which also uses traditional cha…

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    Comment #29757268

    > Incidently, I saw Japanese text recently that was quoting both English AND Arabic in the same sentence. And this was in a block of vertical text. That is literally a worst-case s…

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    Comment #29670580

    May I tempt you to file a bug report on bugs.kde.org? I'm not sure if the devs even know about this bug, let alone fixing it. Edit: Ah nevermind, I think I found the relevant repor…

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    Comment #29199461

    Yes in theory, but in practice some Japanese fonts use the yen sign glyph for U+005C, the most common ones being those that come with Windows.

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    Comment #27897676

    IIRC you still need to use a special flag to enable it, right?

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    Comment #27800445

    My childhood LEGO sets might have stated 6+, but nothing stopped me from building them as a preschooler :)

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