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otterlicious

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About otterlicious

Outlook on the streets, vim in the sheets

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    Comment #37928968

    It has had a single window mode since Gimp 2.8 was released in 2002. Unfortunately it's not the upstream default, but a lot of Linux distros set it that way anyway. https://docs.gi…

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    Comment #34200572

    LineageOS will keep providing OS updates long after Google stops providing updates for those Pixel devices, so you wouldn't have to buy new hardware or switch to another OS in a ye…

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    Comment #31188910

    https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/job_artifacts.html#a... make_tarball: script: - tar cf dist/tarball.tar.gz project/ artifacts: paths: - dist/tarball.tar.gz https://gitlab.c…

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    Comment #28182658

    The live images with firmware are here: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/image...

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    Comment #27417036

    There is an HTML5 Citrix client and it's a more terrible experience in every way. I hear there is an official HTML5 RDP client now too that is probably the same. Even newer "cloud-…

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    Comment #27176935

    Or if you're blocked by the root password prompt add `init=/bin/bash` and make your filesystem writable if necessary with `mount -oremount,rw /`

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    Comment #25271658

    I've never used Slack but in Microsoft Teams there are Teams and Channels and they pretty much map 1:1 to Discord's Servers and Text Channels. You cannot leave individual channels …

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    Comment #25221875

    I guess you are thinking this tool is required because you are coming from Google Chrome extension development where you need a compiler tool to create CRX files. This is not the c…

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    Comment #25078081

    I guess I must have fat-fingered the domain and the second article down in the history. Any chance of bigger touch targets on mobile already? ;-P

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    Comment #25076922

    When I wrote this comment the link pointed to the cairographics.org homepage, not Matthias' email.

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    Comment #25076688

    Nothing on this page says the project has been abandoned and the last commit is 3 days ago: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/log/

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    Comment #24898737

    VMware still works great for older operating systems. I've had nothing but trouble with Hyper-V and VirtualBox lately. It's sad because VirtualBox used to work okay but the legacy …

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    Comment #24877173

    Acquired isn't defunct. The archaically named entity that owns your local telco cabinet almost certainly still exists: http://www.centurylink.com/static/PDF/AboutUs/DoingBusiness/.…

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    Comment #24854256

    Yes, in whitespace significant languages whitespace is significant. I could complain that my editor doesn't figure out how to fix all of my braces if I hit a button, after all I go…

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    Comment #24772991

    I want to completely disable clipboard management so it wouldn't remember clipboard history (which is a security issue) and wouldn't clear the clipboard as soon as I close the wind…

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    Comment #24483955

    The compilers can be downloaded for free by anyone as part of the Build Tools for Visual Studio. These restrictions only apply to the Visual Studio IDE.

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    Comment #24472731

    Provide a rooted phone by default. Going back to carrying boatload of cards again is not an option. Google Pay doesn't (officially) work on rooted phones. There are lots of other t…

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    Comment #24307525

    Peek-A-Boo 4-U cancelled the following... There is a pending payment requests section in PayPal. The buyer finally noticed it and cancelled it. You would think they would expire th…

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    Comment #24248278

    I learned from this guide (well the PyQt4 version). It starts off small and works up to the kitchen sink if that's what you need: http://zetcode.com/gui/pyqt5/ There are a few othe…

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    Comment #24181100

    If you want NumPy support in particular you basically have to use CPython. The only other implementation that really supports it is PyPy which is not in any sense more lightweight.…

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    Comment #24173970

    I worked my first couple years of college as a clerk at the main campus library. I remember the librarian assigned to the Political Science department among others explaining that …

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    Comment #24122281

    If you're on a phone you might get tricked into thinking it is paywalled by the giant advertisement for the print replica of the article but if you scroll down past that you can vi…

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    Comment #24101835

    There are 8P8C copper SFP(+) modules so that isn't really a barrier. Anyway, what you're looking for is something more like: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/qsw-1105-5t