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tuxlifan

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    Comment #34525374

    Anecdotal, about 15 years ago I had good success with using USA site ASINs on a European site but about 5 years ago I only got "not found" results so I stopped trying and do the "t…

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    Comment #34525273

    And weirdly, if there were no trees around [it], it wouldn't even be [called] a forest. I would love to hear from a botanist/banana-related person what a bunch of banana plants are…

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    Comment #34525150

    I always assumed the check digit was included as safeguard for barcode scanning. Upon a quick reading of the Wikipedia article on EAN-13 it appears that there is some parity to det…

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    Comment #30742066

    This is amazing, fun and educational in one package! Thank you! Sorry this post got very long ;-) Having difficulty settings like * tourist main streets / squares, maybe some (reno…

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    Comment #30464717

    TIL: nocp is so much shorter than nocompatible :-) I just really really wish my minimal comfortable setup would not need to include set mouse= on all "newer" machines/vim versions …

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    Comment #30464689

    On my Ultimate Hacking Keyboard I have a mapping of (left)space+q to produce Esc which for this combo I hit comfortably with my left hand thumb + ring finger. On other keyboards I …

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    Comment #30464604

    I'm guessing you want :%s/^pick/s/ to replace "pick" at the start of line with "s" on all lines? If you execute it once in vim you can recall it later with just typing :%↑ and conf…

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    Comment #30323730

    I have no idea about the odds and didn't bother to look up the timeline but I can give you some anecdata and tell you exactly why I might have theoretically been the 4th lurker-bec…

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    Comment #18009940

    > - Infinite scroll allows you to find information faster, even from not so notable sources That is the opposite of my experience. I used to be able to skip, say, 5 or 8 pages of r…

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    Comment #18009742

    For opening hours I now often use http://openpoimap.org/ It can be a challenge sometimes to find the right category to activate to get the markers but when using the search box it …

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    Comment #17994417

    I thought that would be a big problem for me, too, being used to inverted-L shaped enter keys basically my whole computer life. After a few days I stopped worrying because the UHK …

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    Comment #17994352

    > the wire in between the two pieces limits one of my use cases curious about your use case. Would 3 meters of cable help? https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/faq

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    Comment #17994302

    > [...] text-based config! (Especially since one could then put it under version control.) At least for the VCS part: The config is saved in ~/.config/uhk-agent in a json file (don…

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    Comment #17994228

    I have the UHK with Cherry MX Brown switches and my old MS Natural (105KB?) which I had purchased second hand. I feel that my UHK keys require less force than the Natural. My Natur…

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    Comment #17993981

    Preamble: I've so far only used my UHK for "regular text" usage, i.e. writing text, CLI, browsing and some light wasd + trackball gaming... I've also activated an option for the le…

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    Comment #17932574

    Thanks for pointing that out! I've always thought it was depending on how far from the vertical edge (i.e. current value) I click that I either get a "drag" (if clicked close enoug…