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flanbiscuit

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    Comment #48312372

    right? everyone seems to be worried about being kind or mean, when the Neutral case is the happy medium. Tone. Avg. Accuracy Very Polite. 80.8% Polite. 81.4% Neutral. 82.2% Rude 82…

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    Comment #48182819

    I was using this but when I switched to iOS I switched to Bitwarden. What are you using for Syncthing on Android? There used to be an official Syncthing app for Android but then th…

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    Comment #48036146

    Found the original article on the archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20111021122406/https://www.wired...

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    Comment #47583219

    Pnpm did this first but I’m glad to see all the others follow suit For anyone wondering, you need to be on npm >= 11.10.0 in order to use it. It just became available Feb 11 2026 h…

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    Comment #47040487

    The Michael Douglas one I’m assuming where Duvall was the cop https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/

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    Comment #47024771

    > There is no set path, allowing players to switch freely between mining, ship-to-ship combat, and alien diplomacy. The broader plot of the game emerges slowly This reminds me of S…

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    Comment #47006121

    > and I caved to the blue bubble pressure Ha! I feel this. I was a long time Android user since the original G1 (aka HTC Dream). Was a strictly Pixel phone user for my last 4 phone…

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    Comment #46921205

    “Do you remember where I put that thing that one time” is a line that pops up in my head so often. I don’t remember the last time I saw this film and this is the 2nd time that it’s…

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    Comment #46648447

    For anyone interested This is the shell script it runs on Mac/Linux: https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/blob/mai... For FireFox it downloads this: https://github.c…

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    Comment #46590346

    ChatGPT is currently integrated into Apple Intelligence. When I ask Siri something I can choose to use ChatGPT for my answer. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-chatgpt-wit…

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    Comment #46502818

    Nice to see other fellow Western NC folks commenting here, I'm in Asheville. I did not know about all of these text only version of major news sites. I'm going to bookmark them. Wh…

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    Comment #46418305

    I learned this back when HTML5 was brand new around 15-ish years ago. If you wanted to use the new tags like , the only “polyfill” needed was some css styles. You can see it in the…

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    Comment #46208510

    Same for me. Worked smoothly in Firefox (MacOS Desktop)

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    Comment #46039166

    yes bun does both of the things mentioned in the parent comment: > Unlike other npm clients, Bun does not execute arbitrary lifecycle scripts like postinstall for installed depende…

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    Comment #45953330

    I needed this post a year ago when I was looking for this exact thing. I did end up going with Puppeteer because I needed it for something else that I couldn't avoid. I use a large…

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    Comment #45903057

    A while ago I was at an agency and we got a client that was a very popular weather app. Things like mapbox and some analytics libs (can't remember exactly, this was 2019) The proje…

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    Comment #45887945

    I was also hoping it was a small phone announcement but it not being part of a keynote didn't give me high hopes. I've been on Android since day 1 but I'm thinking about switching …

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    Comment #45882186

    With Swift SDK for Android, you can write all of your code logic in Swift for both and only need write the native UI related code for Android and iOS. https://www.swift.org/blog/ni…

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    Comment #45857506

    Is Cordova still actively developed? Or are people just rolling their own per OS these days?

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    Comment #45807642

    There was an HN discussion about it 3 months ago with responses from the author, in case anyone is interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44711519

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    Comment #45711891

    I loved Perdido Street Station and The Scar. Haven't read this one but I'm adding it to my list now. Thanks!

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    Comment #45572050

    oh nice! that looks perfect. Will try it out

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    Comment #45570627

    I wanted to develop an alternative to App Timer on Android. I need something more like "App Timeouts". App Timers are per 24 hours, so as soon I hit X amount of minutes, I'm blocke…

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    Comment #45464319

    Even with Android I had to enable the "3-button navigation" at the bottom because they defaulted to Gestures whenever they introduced that (google search says it was Android 10 in …

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    Comment #45445193

    Been looking at this one. I inherited a project and I set it up to use puppeteer and chrome server side to generate a PDF from HTML but it's too much overhead. I want to do this al…