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How do I span and resize on a MacBook?

One benefit of multiline raw string is that you can directly copy/paste a block of characters between the program and its source. Unless there are very sophisticated IDE support th…

As I understand, only children of father's brothers can be prefixed with 堂, because they have the same last name and are traditionally considered to be in the same house. All other…

Sorry but I don't quite understand what the problem here is. Is it about a different character set? Or encoding? Or glygh rendering? The article keeps using "font".

I'm with Google. Many years ago when Google created the censored search site in China, it was the first one that showed the sentence "According to local laws, some search results a…

Maybe every photo using the front camera is a selfie?

I hope a judge will order Apple to make all source code of macOS to be readable by everyone. This does not necessarily mean open source: you will not be allowed to modify and re-re…

> I would say that we are very lucky there hasn't been a WW3. It likely would have casualties in the hundreds of millions. Why so many casualties, if atomic bombs were not invented…

After so many years, I've learned to not click on the maximize button at all. Just double click the title bar and it will fill the screen.

While I am able to switch to another browser (I already did a long time ago), I don't believe I can avoid visiting sites "that show ads from Google". How much can Google collect fr…

Expired and compromised are two different things. If compromised, it will be published in a CRL with a reason flag.

What? No co-occurrence between Fantine and Cosette?

This is my understanding: /dev/urandom is just a blind producer returning any number in some pool; /dev/random is a producer as well as an inspector, it returns the same number fro…

Then the prize should have been awarded to the voters.

Examples or it didn't happen.

The Mini is a 2.3GHz Intel Core i7 with 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3. A new MBP could have more RAM but only the highest 15' model has a matching CPU. Edit: I work from home so mobility is n…

I've used Mac for 8 years (since the 1st gen Intel MacBook) but now I really want to run away. My current Mac is a server-level 2013 i7 Mac Mini with 8G RAM. It's not uncommon for …

I have no idea how much I scored when the game is over. I only got to to see the dog with sunglasses.

Ask the users to download the data? Since they are about photos and videos, why not simply say "if you can provide us your Yahoo account, we will move all your data to Flickr in a …

Modifying local history is not dangerous, so I think mq is good. Never really used histedit and rebase.

Evil, is what Woz says is evil.

If a company is brave enough to close its business in China, what prevents it from doing the same in US?

When Dropbox sees a dup, it does not upload the file at all and therefore you know there is a dup. If I understand correctly, Gmail always uploads the attachment. When there is a d…

Just reading the title I thought the guy created his own C3PO.

Using IDE in programming makes you forget the class methods and type of arguments. Is that the same thing?