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lvillani

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    Comment #48939427

    Interesting. OpenRouter classifies the Moonshot provider as ZDR. I wonder whether they have a ZDR agreement or it's a misclassification on their part.

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    Comment #48045811

    Not the OP, but I just downloaded the latest stub from an M2 MacBook Air using Safari and it appears to be an x86_64-only binary: % file /Volumes/Steam/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/ste…

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    Comment #37340771

    It is only kept on the device. Sources: - https://www.apple.com/business-docs/FaceID_Security_Guide.pd... - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204587 - https://support.apple.com/gui…

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    Comment #22906326

    On macOS you can search menu items via Shift–Command–QuestionMark (or by opening the Help menu). Most toolbar actions are also exposed as menu items, so this lets you essentially s…

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    Comment #22821670

    Some apps offer to move themselves to /Applications on first launch. Still, there's the possibility of users clicking "Cancel". Even then, it's a bit more code to write, test and p…

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    Comment #22820707

    Another reason could be to ensure that you have at most one copy of the application ever, since you can force it to install stuff always at the same location. On an unrelated produ…

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    Comment #22627390

    You have to take into account the helper and renderer processes. A freshly launched instance takes around 250 MB on my system. It consumes more as you open files that trigger lazy …

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    Comment #18231064

    Yes! Thanks for releasing this and making my life easier :) I have an old app deployed to App Engine. The app itself is rock solid and chugging along fine (I touch it once a year o…

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    Comment #18055556

    AFAIK Google doesn't do that anymore. Source: https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-tractio...

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    Comment #18055519

    FastMail. It's one of the few third party hosts to support push email on iOS with the native Mail app (it's a custom protocol based on APNS), since Mail doesn't implement IMAP IDLE…

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    Comment #17690241

    It depends. I used to have my own email server. Having to manage yet another public server is a stress on its own. Having to worry about server backups, security, DKIM, SPF, DMARC,…

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    Comment #17621543

    I read this as HipChat’s own export function having problems handling large amounts of data. I’m not sure how this is Mattermost’s fault.

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    Comment #17556657

    > since modern thermal pastes are non-conductive, there is no real downside to an enthusiastic application of paste except for making a mess I recently re-applied thermal paste (an…

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    Comment #17539354

    I tried to create a secondary email address on Gmail and Outlook.com and they both required me enter a phone number. Ended up using Protonmail instead, which allowed me to register…

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    Comment #17080807

    His knowledge is solid, sure, but would you really want to work with someone who has such a strong inclination to cheat and deceive? I certainly wouldn't.

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    Comment #16325633

    I strongly doubt that they were able to shrink Darwin/iOS down to the Cortex M0+ that the AirPods have. I would love to be proven wrong, though.

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    Comment #16137168

    > written by Zuse (after whom SuseLinux is named) I was under the impression that SuSE (now SUSE) stood for "Software und System Entwicklung" (Software and System Development, tran…

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    Comment #16126416

    > I wish there was an equally useful feature to get back to the bottom. WhatsApp shows a small button in the lower-right corner once you scroll up a few messages for this purpose. …

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    Comment #16126087

    If you think this is weird, what about the "shake to undo" thing? :-) Seriously, try to e.g. delete an email from the system's mail app, then vigorously shake your phone in anger. …

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    Comment #16125564

    > on iPhone X when you accidentally click top left corner of the phone where the clock is - for some inexplicable reason the whole conversation scrolls all the way to the top, whic…

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    Comment #16085914

    shellcheck ( https://www.shellcheck.net ) is an absolute godsend when writing Bash/POSIX sh scripts. It catches so many errors that I think it's a must have in every programmer's t…

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    Comment #15841866

    I was under the impression that they were going to decommission the EdgeRouter line as more and more features get added to their UniFi line. (I have both and my EdgeRouter X feels …

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    Comment #15730067

    I have a late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro and I've been using High Sierra since the GM release and I haven't seen any of those problems. No visual artefacts in Xcode, either.