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prg318

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    Comment #47608207

    Yup! You can even get Android Auto to work without Google Play: - https://github.com/sn-00-x/aa4mg

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    Comment #39068869

    To respond to your edit, yes - it seems like the app is down - nothing seems to load at all on the Browse tab or anywhere else...

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    Comment #31505391

    s/reviews/paid promotions/

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    Comment #30792984

    I've worked at a shop with a lot of legacy code and a very fragile build environment. The myriad of scripts that source scripts that source other scripts to produce a working build…

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    Comment #29553838

    Modern Vintage Gamer has confirmed that the Analogue Pocket works with both the GB everdrive and the GBA everdrive in his Analogue Pocket review [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/wat…

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    Comment #27848474

    This is not always true. Fedora maintains over 100 RedHat exclusive patches for grub2 alone: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2/tree/rawhide Some of these are pretty question…

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    Comment #27354636

    yt-dlp actually does have the same issue (at least when connecting from the US): ./yt-dlp.sh " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR8s72aouNE " [youtube] rR8s72aouNE: Downloading webp…

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    Comment #22326699

    Milkdrop lives on in ProjectM, the community maintained open source fork of the final milkdrop source release: - https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectM There's even pulsea…

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    Comment #19808678

    SDL1 can be installed alongside of SDL2. Same with GTK and Qt. I really fail to see the issue here. If a developer of a Qt4 application doesn't feel like updating to Qt5, users can…

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    Comment #17851945

    Lucky for you. I have really come to love zsh's sh and ksh emulation features for this very reason. I have worked in various work environments where setting up a build environment …

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    Comment #17851704

    So long as you don't need to "source" any of these POSIX-compliant scripts into your environment... A shebang'd script cannot affect the environment of the parent process

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    Comment #15027278

    The article is from 2013 but I believe this is what he is referring to: - https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/08/how-the-p...

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    Comment #11023637

    If setting up an IRC client is a large barrier to entry for a coder, I would have some serious doubts about the merits of their code.

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    Comment #11013593

    To be fair to your first point, if you set up a bouncer or use a client inside of screen/tmux you can absolutely catch up on what was said earlier in IRC.

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    Comment #9891388

    Firefox is blocking the external javascript because the site is being served over https but the scripts are not. You can see this in the console: Blocked loading mixed active conte…

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    Comment #9535491

    Firefox absolutely does that for you [1]. You can even run your own sync server if you are into that sort of thing [2]. Works on all desktop platforms and mobile platforms that fir…

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    Comment #7942168

    You might want to look into roundcube [1] which is another PHP webmail application that has a very nice UI,, (more) mature codebase, and is on an (arguably) better license (GPL3). …

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    Comment #7812489

    SourceForge recently forced their users to change their passwords [1] because of an attack on their infrastructure [2]. Pure speculation but I'm not sure if that had anything to do…

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    Comment #7790061

    Tldr: this guy doesn't like when people use tldr Edit: oops didn't see he was a mod now his post makes more sense

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    Comment #7703994

    HN _may not_ be the best place to ask for copyrighted NES/Famicom ROM files (i bet they aren't too hard to find though) However, you might also be interested in checking out some "…

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    Comment #7696360

    Thank you based god!!

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    Comment #7675129

    Running a daemon in screen can also been useful when for whatever reason the daemon accepts commands via stdin. I know a lot of game servers do this. For example, with the Quake3 s…

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    Comment #7609831

    NVIDIA actually does a great job with their binary blob drivers and they are much more reliable than the AMD Catalyst drivers for Linux. It sounds like your problem lies with compi…

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    Comment #7175009

    Looks like the menu widget and icons are not using GTK for whatever reason. It may be worth pinging the KeePass developers with a screenshot showing that the GTK theme is not being…