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johnh-hn
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About johnh-hn
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Comment #48751779
There is a bug on the current openings page: 1. Click to open either the Department or Location dropdown 2. Click, and hold, with the intent to drag the scrollbar Expected: I can s…
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Comment #48248317
I'm not sure I'd call it furniture, but are you maybe referring to the luggage?
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Comment #46839720
I appreciate your insight, even if the workflow seems alien to me. I admit I like the idea of freeing myself from a desk though. If you don't mind me asking, how much does this all…
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Comment #46360035
Dapper is fantastic, and I'm happy to see it getting some love. It does exactly what I want: provides strongly-typed mapping and protects against SQL injection. It makes it easy to…
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Comment #46133385
Ah, I was wondering about that. Flagging didn't seem like quite the right thing to do, but at the same time I don't see a reason to leave bots hanging around. Thanks Gary, I'll use…
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Comment #46132799
This is a bot. It's even copied the typo from the top comment.
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Comment #45859414
If the checkbox you're referring to is the "Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups" one, then I can't see what setting it changes. It's not the browser.ml.enable flag. I …
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Comment #45859261
In your address bar type: about:config You can search for the configuration options mentioned in the article (e.g. browser.ml.enable) in there.
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Comment #45812549
Just in case you never came across it, I think the second game is much better than the first one. Enjoy the nostalgia trip!
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Comment #45812541
You nailed it. Well done!
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Comment #45811867
I just came here to say the same thing. The raise and lower tools in particular reminded me of it. For anyone who hasn't heard of it before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous_…
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Comment #45532341
It reminds me of a quote from Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. It goes something like, "For distributed systems, we're trying to create a reliable system …
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Comment #45439079
Seconded. I went with C# + Playwright. I tried iTextSharp, iText, PDFSharp, and wkhtmltopdf, but they all had limitations. I had good results with Playwright in minutes, outside of…
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Comment #45415631
I think this is only half of it. Years ago, I worked at a company where my time was split between working on a bespoke platform for an older client and a generic platform that woul…
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Comment #45385094
Much appreciated! I'll give this a go and see how far I get.
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Comment #45385010
Thank you for creating and open sourcing this. I have a question if I may. If a person has the goal of getting into a field like computer vision or machine learning, would they be …
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Comment #45352399
Thank you!
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Comment #45352392
Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for the consideration and for your research too. I am actually largely fine with development as a whole. I've created many workarounds that make…
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Comment #45311584
> You're in the UK: take advantage of the various schemes that allow people with disabilities to get guaranteed first interviews. I didn't know about this! For anyone else who migh…
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Comment #45308303
If you think there is a better way, explore it and find out. I mean that sincerely. What is obvious to you isn't necessarily obvious to anyone else. You never know what may come of…
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Comment #45308271
I've had one idea in mind for a few years now. It's outside of my normal skill set so it's risky to pursue at the moment. But maybe I should start putting a little time into it eve…
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Comment #45307809
It's not obvious what a better method would be.
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Comment #45307734
Thank you for the thoughtful comment. It's funny you mention this, because I've wondered about something similar. But I'm not sold on computers being controlled primarily through v…
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Comment #45307348
Same wishes back to you too. I'm glad you found something.
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Comment #45307184
This could've been written by me. I hope you're doing well.