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karatchov

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    Comment #48845670

    Never heard of Bun or Jarred before today I enjoyed his blog post about the migration to rust, it is an impressive feat if real ! I didnt see anything bad about Zig in the post, on…

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    Comment #48844836

    You are missing the big picture here The AI literally was able to do a year's work of a top notch developer team in just 11 days (mainly because of a lot of human intervention, oth…

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    Comment #25342260

    I have a similar generic receiver, with some "not genuine" hardware ID. I just force select & install the signed microsoft drivers. The trick works in all versions of windows that …

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    Comment #23732078

    Ive been using Openwith on firefox and chrome, and it works flawlessly It needs a launcher (aka native host client) to start the 3rd party app, in this case mpv with the correct ar…

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    Comment #21098972

    The main reason I want to jailbreak my ipad -sideload apps that cant get to the app store, not just for piracy,example :file manager, adblocker, firewall ... Sure its doable withou…

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    Comment #20678740

    I actually tested gnome and didnt like it.(I cant recall the exact reasons) I also spent considerable time with other DMs (kde5, lxde and unity), and ended up liking xfce I think i…

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    Comment #20674809

    I tried multiple desktop managers. Everyone had its own perks. Coming from windows, xfce felt the most natural for me. I also considered implementing the feature, but it was out of…

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    Comment #20674754

    Never said it was useless, it was a feeling of using an unpolished product.

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    Comment #20674691

    Sure ! I see it as very basic feature for a modern desktop/window manager.

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    Comment #20674628

    I used the default window manager that comes with xfce. I tried setting up other window managers in xfce, and come to the conclusion it is not straightfoward, and the integration w…

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    Comment #20674105

    I've tried using linux desktop for daily use multiple times. Xfce was usually my choice for its simplicity and snappiness. But, there was this 1 simple thing that made me lose fait…

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    Comment #20334170

    There is much direct and easier way to pass a link or the current page's URL to an external program using "open with" browser addon + owclauncher (https ://github.com/mbooga/owclau…

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    Comment #20334140

    On firefox/chrome/opera for windows, you can do this easily with "open with" addon +/- owclauncher

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    Comment #20333981

    Just my 2 cents: I've been using a combination of firefox/chrome with youtube-dl/mpv+youtube-dl for a while This comes very handy for playing high quality youtube videos on low end…

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    Comment #19866436

    Tunisian here. The part about the goverment failing on mutiple fronts and trying to get popularity is mostly true. Comparing to Venezuela on the other hand is ... an overstretch at…

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    Comment #6949813

    Hy Being an old RAC then vWorker freelancer, I totally share weland's view. Lately, I restarted on freelancer.com, and the amount of WTF moments that I faced are quite substantial.…

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    Comment #1831661

    I'm sure this is not the perfect answer since hotspotshield redirect somehow google search pages and force ads on every page. But you can get the ads away with a simple rule in .ho…

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    Comment #1760890

    I have been using RAC sporadically for 2 years now, but didnt even manage to make the tenth of that number ! Do you have a suggestion/advice on how to boost my business ?

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    Comment #1594933

    It seems that everyone here started programming at the age of 7, reverse-engineering at 12 and hacking banks by High school Anybody who started late, and still like it?

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    Comment #1540921

    and how do you know about this ? I use the very same trick with youtube and many other flash based sites. And flash ALWAYS use the browser's settings (at least in opera and firefox…

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    Comment #1443517

    Please, anyone can recommend a good tutorial to understand C++ functions arguments ? I'm starting coding in C++ and seeing this article makes me more confused.

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    Comment #1432434

    well you can simply type "w" then your search in the address bar