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homebrewer

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    Comment #49065601

    Christ. Imagine if bridges, skyscrapers, dams, cars, airplanes were designed and built like that. I vibeslopped thousands of pages of blueprints, nobody reviewed them, but another …

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    Comment #48979944

    It's better than any of them for random bullshit you've found somewhere on the internet since it provides a far stronger security boundary than any standalone pdf reader. For trust…

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    Comment #48979846

    Here's the actual video for those unable to use adblockers and unwilling to deal with kotaku's ads: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X_w6fo4KVy0

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    Comment #48952444

    It's been fairly unstable recently, pages sometimes render for several seconds which I've never seen under MariaDB. Used to be instantaneous, always. Sometimes (maybe 5% or less) t…

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    Comment #48932305

    Firebird can be embedded, although neither the database itself, nor the embedded mode are as popular as they once were. It's a fully featured database though, with everything you e…

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    Comment #48922296

    https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filter...

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    Comment #48915024

    Firefox already has "forget this site", which removes all traces of you ever visiting the site, but it's only available from the history modal. Been there for probably decades, yet…

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    Comment #48883861

    https://ghostty.org/docs/features/ssh

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    Comment #48880373

    Is this not what you want? Seems like it's part of the SQL standard. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/19/ddl-property-graphs.html

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    Comment #48869605

    Cookies can be encrypted and signed and contain whatever information you want, not just some random token that has to be looked up in the database to be actually useful. This is wh…

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    Comment #48844697

    Ghostty, TigerBeatle. The other two poster children.

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    Comment #48721783

    They receive updates on time. I've been supporting a few LTSC machines for friends and relatives, haven't ever seen them receive any unnecessary junk through Windows Update. Just b…

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    Comment #48649305

    I've long wished for rich western societies to run extensive student exchange programs with low income countries. Living even one year in most of the world will change your outlook…

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    Comment #48596506

    It was neglected during its last few years at Sun. Oracle started moving it forward at never before seen pace, while mostly maintaining backward compatibility (unlike .NET that "di…

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    Comment #48521557

    No, it's completely valid. The arch home page warns you that you're the one responsible for your system, and get to keep both pieces when something breaks. Everything is assembled …

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    Comment #48521404

    A package maintainer has to be interested and willing to support it. Sometimes packages get dropped from the official repositories into AUR when the maintainer loses interest, and …

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    Comment #48521368

    I don't know how it works these days, but a few years ago GitHub was happy to give away usernames from users who haven't touched their accounts in a long time to anyone who asked. …

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    Comment #48501832

    And for some reason you're describing it as it's a bad thing. I don't care much for tailwind, but bootstrap is still used for intranet applications, and is an excellent pick in tha…

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    Comment #48473514

    Your own link says that a proper package manager (e.g. pnpm) supports this out of the box. If there are other use cases that really need post-install scripts, you can whitelist jus…

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    Comment #48473463

    One distinguishing feature is their optional install strategy: running packages directly from compressed archives instead of unpacking them into node_modules. https://yarnpkg.com/f…

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    Comment #48357582

    This has been improving recently; one large project built on several heavy libraries that I've been supporting since 2018 currently installs ~180 dependencies without loss of funct…

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    Comment #48357431

    How large a project do you typically use dotnet for? IME dotnet dependency situation is a tire fire, not a month goes by without another dependency biting the dust or going fully c…