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wpm

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    Comment #49220607

    Because the registry holds configuration data, and Application Support holds various helper tools and other random crap? The closest analogue to the registry on macOS are the ~/Lib…

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    Comment #49220532

    It also removes the preferences/caches for the app, but not its keychain data.

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    Comment #49220526

    Uninstalling has the same issue on every OS because the OS isn't keeping a log of every file an application creates over its lifetime being installed; it can only remove what it kn…

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    Comment #49213731

    The West used to. It's not impossible.

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    Comment #49213720

    In fairness to Japan, (unfortunately) most transit systems are not friendly to wheelchair users.

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    Comment #49205478

    Except when it doesn't

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    Comment #49172329

    And that's why my monitor is 2560x2880.

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    Comment #49168345

    On Orion the keyboard never popped up on my phone

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    Comment #49150376

    https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tio

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    Comment #49125478

    Yeah and you can flail your head around looking for the arrow or you can just ask. Especially on a busy elevator lobby there might be multiple cars opening at the same time so you …

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    Comment #49111713

    And that 125k includes people who don't smoke and never have. Sometimes the DNA in a single cell just gets fucked up in just the right way to cause cancer. Smoking just increases t…

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    Comment #49110526

    A yard and a meter are basically the same anyways within a reasonable margin of error for lengths less than 5 or 10 meters.

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    Comment #49105715

    Yes, but that only some businesses do that flys in the face of the breathless, borderline psychotic boosterism a lot of us tend to hear quite a lot of, that AI is gojng to revoluti…

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    Comment #49091127

    I thank my lucky stars I don't live a life where such long flights are things I ever need to worry about. God 22+ hours in a plane, sounds like hell

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    Comment #49090905

    Oh no! Anyway

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    Comment #49090345

    This is why have Maxwells Equations in my anki deck, you never know when you're gonna wake up in 1000BC and need to kick humanity 2500 or so years forward.

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    Comment #49079406

    So...we agree.

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    Comment #49077323

    They did absorb them, this price madness began a year ago and they only increased prices last month.

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    Comment #49076937

    I was fine until I just toggled Airplane Mode on and off on iOS 18, seems like some kind of auth issue.

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    Comment #49064862

    Its not "unreadable" syntax, it's terse and unfamiliar. There are many languages with terse and unfamiliar syntax to me that I struggle to read, but only because I'm unfamiliar. In…

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    Comment #49064822

    What other language is it as easy, fast, and painless to work with file contents? I can toss data down and lift it back up with some symbols and a path, none of Python's "errrm, ho…

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    Comment #49064809

    I guess if you're never calling out to any third-party python libraries, that can work. I'd never call Python "portable" though if you have outside dependencies.

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    Comment #49064784

    $1 might also just be the first parameter for a function call, so you might not need that parameter to have a specific/readable name if the function is not very complex or long. I …

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    Comment #49064744

    Given that most alarm clocks only show hours and minutes, I'm not sure micro or nano second accuracy really matters. Provided my alarm clock is within a few minutes of the correct …