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qiller
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Comment #49036053
Counterclockwise, correct.
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Comment #49025649
Actually, paper orientation was a big help too. Used to tilt the sheet so you write almost bottom-to-top, that way you at least don't smuge the writing right away, and hopefully th…
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Comment #49024035
Always found that writing stuff down helps me to remember things better, whether studying something, prepping for an exam, or in general. Didn't even matter if I didn't look at tho…
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Comment #48079010
Interestingly, quite a few places that should treat query strings transparently make a lot of assumptions about their structure. We ran into that when picking a new CDN, some provi…
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Comment #47747456
For completeness, there is also Peirce’s arrow aka NOR operation which is functionally complete. Fun applications iirc VMProtect copy protection system has an internal VM based on …
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Comment #46710686
Big nod. I've been trying to register our company to sell customized products. It's been quite an ordeal with document rejections etc, and at the end they just said the rejection i…
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Comment #45752978
We battled https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1331370/... for over a year, and finally decided to move off since there was no any resolution. Unfortunately our API…
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Comment #45629193
Loved Borland IDE at the time. I still miss Ctrl-KB/KK (IIRC?) style selections from time to time. These days Far Manager (via far2l) or MC kind of scratch the itch for quick TUI e…
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Comment #45621648
Impressing, but I can't believe we went from fixing bugs to coffee-grounds-divination-prompt-guessing-and-tweaking when things don't actually go well /s
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Comment #45497750
Would be great if they provided at least some guidance how to keep this thing on topic. Even the official demo https://chatkit.world/ is not restricted, it happily chats about what…
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Comment #44716398
Like when Claude suddenly decides it's not happy with a tiny one-off script and generates 20 refined versions :D
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Comment #44714413
I'm ok using a limited resource _if_ I know how much of it I am using. The lack of visible progress towards limits is annoying.
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Comment #44576426
One problem I find is that a lot educational content has moved into YouTube and videos (monetization be damned). I have no time to watch 10mins of rambling and ads for a quick tip,…
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Comment #44006156
GLTF standard covers a lot of PBR (physically based rendering) properties for materials.
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Comment #41734486
Since when "Add emojis for clutter and noise" became an USP...
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Comment #41638084
Looks interesting! Reminds me of XMLSpy JSON Grid view - https://www.altova.com/images/json-editor-grid.png Any plans to make an editor on top of this?
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Comment #41450872
Took a bit of hunting to figure out what that is: makes tiny origami flowers: https://blog.rahix.de/flower-machine/#paper-flowers
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Comment #40884496
Technically it's possible to see most of my code on github, but most of it definitely wasn't intended for sharing, mostly protection from losing it. A number of SmartThings device …
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Comment #40853013
The pace of javascript ecosystem is annoying at times. The first issue is due to deprecation of md4 hash and can at least can be worked around which may allow to avoid upgrading _s…
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Comment #40777672
Shout out to my go-to https://dotnetfiddle.net/
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Comment #40467963
See ya from 54198743. Weird how I remember this one better than any of my phone numbers
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Comment #40391400
Love that Thunderbird is moving forward. The UX work is great, and looks like they are finally getting to some more deeply buried issues too, like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show…
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Comment #40009265
I just wanted it to show a clock in a huge font so I could see when I needed to rush back into the "office" when taking a break or making coffee. Alexa Show became useless after a …
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Comment #39859064
It’s still quite monolithic. The issue is that it is a more complete engine than, let’s say Three, so the scene graph makes use of pretty much everything. Even you don’t use them, …
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Comment #39768947
There was Scaleform, and it looks like it's been discontinued along with Flash - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleform_GFx