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pentium166

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    Comment #48832106

    Because that display mode is often also sluggish in the scenarios where you would reach for it, including client-side input handling, and it loses information like the radius of in…

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    Comment #48186081

    Slow car computers aside, it doesn't really make a difference in the scheme of things. Spend the time backing up now or later. Also, maybe you need to use your trunk and you'd rath…

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    Comment #45439966

    wkhtmltopdf is pretty out of date at this point and headless Chrome/Chromium or something that wraps them is probably a better and safer, roughly equivalent, alternative. Docker mi…

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    Comment #45439839

    I assume combining 2+ documents. For example, attaching a cover page with document owner/version control/lifecycle information to an existing PDF.

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    Comment #44839504

    I agree that stacking multiple modal dialogs should generally be avoided, and if whatever you're doing is complex enough you should consider whether it needs to be in a dialog at a…

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    Comment #44836323

    I've been trying to use HTML's native popover and dialog recently. The promise of not having to write/import focus traps, better integration with standard platform "cancel" UX, the…

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    Comment #40004384

    Probably finding someone who will pay them to be a Crystal developer.

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    Comment #39678647

    The font choice is likely your browser's default, as the code doesn't appear to specify one at all. The repo's demo uses a monospace font.

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    Comment #36408843

    > If anyone else remembers this incident and can link to a source that'd be great for my sanity. This incident was Casey Muratori raising an issue about Windows Terminal performanc…

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    Comment #32306575

    If you need features offered by the self-managed Enterprise version of a Hashicorp product, I've heard the price tag is something like low six figures per product.

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    Comment #30387396

    I've only played around with LXC/LXD a little bit, what are some of the Ubuntu image issues? I did a quick google, but the first results seemed to be questions about hosting on Ubu…

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    Comment #30309445

    Relatedly, I was recently horrified to learn that not only will Excel (and LibreOffice Calc) automatically parse formulas in plain CSV files, but there is also a formula that will …

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    Comment #29190578

    I would guess it's a combination of Framework not having the same deal the big OEMs are getting, OEM grift, and based on the price, Framework appears to be selling retail Windows l…

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    Comment #27361247

    It seems reasonable to me (for a compose-in-prod setup). The standard setup (at least for Rails, in my experience) is that the web server and background job processor will have the…

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    Comment #25282920

    Ruby on Rails lives inside a long-running application server. In development, it has dynamic class loading and will reload on file changes, but in production an app can have a leng…

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    Comment #23402949

    It looks like the customizable variant of the P1 Gen 2 has different GPU options (including iGPU-only) based on what processor you choose, while the X1 Extreme Gen 2 has a Geforce …

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    Comment #16786858

    I don't believe Envy vs XPS is apples to apples, HP's Spectre laptops probably compare more favorably in terms of build quality. Have you looked into that line at all?