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xolve

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    Comment #49049421

    These are the small but extremely user-centric quality of life features that I like about KDE. Most applications I use aren't KDE based (Firefox, VSCode, emacs, movie) but KWin, Do…

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    Comment #49046439

    I would hate reading a censored book. But a second had book with side notes and highlights is a chief reason for me to buy second hand book. Call it a time traveling mail box.

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    Comment #48053311

    > PC is the last major open platform. In the whole history of computing PC is the only platform where buying a computer means crazy number of options and configuration mixes to cho…

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    Comment #47984989

    Maybe they moved to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CS153Team If not available on anyplace, such a loss!

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    Comment #47364505

    I am sure there is going to be an infinite version of this game!

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    Comment #47299759

    Looks great! I really like how KISS was PS4 interface. Since you asked about the performance. Its really slow on Linux, tried with Firefox an Chromium. I think its because of the G…

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    Comment #46575847

    The title of the blog doesn't do justice to the content. Its not the ad-blockers but predatory ads that harmed the open web more. People still post content and often the monetary b…

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    Comment #46574303

    Some of the key milestones for desktop Linux which I can remember: * Office and PIM apps moved to web, no longer its a requirement. * You can game on Linux out of the box, same per…

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    Comment #46185212

    The bug reports linked on softwaremill and scala GitHub's are precise and surprisingly small fixes! It does show Scala's power in expressiveness. Scala is a great language and I re…

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    Comment #45239213

    Thank the fate for PC to exist! Open nature of PC allowed for truly free/open source software to exist which can be functional without big corporate lockdown. I can fully assemble …

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    Comment #44352902

    I was thinking same! Apart from "coding the website", the problems are also not so hand-curated.

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    Comment #44059115

    Most LLM based code-gen are VSCode forks. This reason would have certainly been on the list.

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    Comment #43867506

    From BSD clause to AGPL, I see it as a huge win!

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    Comment #43525881

    I don't know, sounds like any week.

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    Comment #43522994

    Bengaluru/Bangalore has hotspots (PIN codes are postal address codes) where there are lots of startups, mostly in ecommerce, ad-tech, online education etc. and they have incentive …

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    Comment #42407331

    Popularity of streaming services like Spotify and closed clients, I hardly use Amarok.

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    Comment #42035421

    TIL that GitHub usernames can end with a `-`

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    Comment #41877284

    I didn't mind some science fantasy like this. And I like how the author took this step to solve for lag in communication and it added to the speed and thrill of the story.

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    Comment #41499121

    I agree about threads a lot! Process creation and handling APIs e.g. fork, signals, exec etc. are great when working with single threaded processes and command line, but they have …

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    Comment #41312951

    Thats per domain, not on any pattern of URL.

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    Comment #41307866

    > especially with the add-on for regex URL matching for container selection Which add-on is that? It would be quite helpful.

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    Comment #40209110

    Its refreshing to see that just hate systemd because "its not UNIX way" is not anymore. I see better discussions under this post and in other places around the web.

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    Comment #38375217

    I actually like Victor Mono. Ligatures, italics and cursive comments are my favorite features. It helps me to visually classify different sections of code, without being dependent …

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    Comment #38110361

    Bookmarking this! Also this should be in some wiki!

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    Comment #36869399

    OP, would be nice if you add a license to the repo.