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sgtlaggy

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    Comment #48117989

    > if you're SSHing into a server to fix a problem, it's possible that /usr/bin/emacs won't be there You don't need emacs on a server. TRAMP is built-in and can open remote files in…

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    Comment #48000439

    On the topic of accessibility, the contrast of the text in the "up to date" bubbles is very low. I can barely see the yellow one, let alone read it without significant eye strain. …

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    Comment #47954272

    My mouse is set to 400 DPI, acceleration off (libinput flat profile), and default (0) sensitivity (range -1.0 - 1.0, no change at 1.0). Had similar settings on Windows, games have …

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    Comment #47830273

    Similar to the XML config you mentioned, WoW uses/used a plaintext config file where a realmlist URL can be set.

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    Comment #46340902

    Music might have higher quality audio-only files as provided where Youtube might have it combined with video and a generic compression algorithm applied as with all other uploaded …

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    Comment #43020552

    > everyone inside the plane gets cooked in 39 seconds From the video, the 39 second figure is for the cockpit if the pilots don't get their masks on in time. The passenger cabin wo…

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    Comment #32002599

    Concurrency in Python is a weird topic, since multiprocessing is the only "real" concurrency. Threading is "implicit" context switching all in the same process/thread, asyncio is "…

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    Comment #30872591

    I've also been using WizTree for quite a while, but recently learned WinDirStat scans the filesystem instead of trusting the NTFS metadata because it can sometimes be incorrect(?) …

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    Comment #25795720

    I have mostly the same feelings, though my only experience is with WoW and Payday 2 addons. A big gripe of mine is there's really only one namespace. If something is exported, it g…