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Reminds me of this app that is supposed to clear up your brain when staring at the screen for a while https://www.paulkeeble.co.uk/posts/cff/

Exactly. I was actively reading until I reached that first example. Someone giving me such responses would make want to slap them in the face. Are you some old version of ChatGPT??…

3) looks like you read 'underlined' as 'undefined'

You may find https://jctools.github.io/JCTools/ interesting

Related: https://github.com/pcdv/jocket Drop-in replacement for java.net.Socket using shared memory (and optionally, futex for notification)

On my phone (Pixel 5) I don't need to unlock to take a picture (double click on power button) or switch to the next song (slide menu down, click Next). Not sure if it helps. Have n…

Why the ** do they have to use a 8.9MiB png as hero image? I guess it was generated by AI?

That was a surprising downvote. I was referring to this: "it is customary in Lua to start arrays with index 1" [1] Not being a native English speaker, I may have phrased something …

I had two encounters with Lua many years ago. The first to write "stored procedures" in Redis (I forget the correct terminology). It allowed to improve the performance of Django en…

IntelliJ has become pretty powerful with Git these days. Squashing, dropping commits, rebasing. Even interactive rebase can be done in a few clicks. I sometimes pop up IDEA to do s…

This article made me conscious of my use of the mouse: I realize that I move it only with a ~3cm square, which allows to reach all corners of the screen by only moving my fingers, …

Under Windows 11, a "dev drive" can also make a big difference. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

Yep, I was not excluding muscle memory when I said it had to do with muscle. It is true that breathing through the nose seems effortless (at least when resting). The "reeducation" …

I did the same 25y ago, as prescribed by my allergy doctor. It was called (translation from French) "breathing reeducation", and it was roughly interval training: breathe fully in …

I write (at least) 2 kinds of tests: - TDD, which as you say describes the system's behavior. But it often deals with the nominal cases. It is hard to predict all that can go wrong…

> Point and click is 2 dimensional. I would have said point and click is 3-dimensional. Otherwise, how can you read the text through the edges of buttons before clicking?

I bet you didn't use many HiDPI displays during the last decade ;)

I have a 2014 MBP that was working fine (except for some screen defects that I did not get fixed before it was too late for the warranty)... Until I left it in my basement for a fe…

I viewed it on Firefox for Android and I immediately had to jump to reader mode for the same reason. But I tend to use reader mode on most sites anyway because it's an easy way to …

One thing that bugs me (with no solution in this site) is the Breakpoints panel that opens everytime a breakpoint is hit. In Chrome, this is not a big issue because the panel is on…

Same boat. Feels like I bought my Pixel 5 yesterday and it feels like new, no way I'm going to trash it. It's unlikely I will buy (or recommend) another Pixel if they don't extend …

Related science fiction novel: The Ice People (La Nuit des Temps) by Barjavel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_People_(Barjavel_novel...

Because it means that it can be used as a library in pure Go programs.

(phonetically) related: weboob https://pypi.org/project/weboob/