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Side note, @foone is a great account to follow on Twitter if you're looking for weird Hardware hacks and commentary on tech.
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At a job I worked at, we had servers that were given several internal IP addresses to map to external IP addresses. One day, one machine just ... stopped having a bunch of those IP addresses. They were just gone. We didn't understand, troubleshot as much as we could, and eventually just gave up and went "forget it, just try restarting the machine." It worked. It's amazing what weird states a computer can get into tha…
Bit flips from cosmic rays happen all the time. It's inevitable that they sometimes change state in deleterious ways.
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(I feel like we jumped topics from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28597895 ) JIRA's Search is far worse than the regular JIRA hotkeys. The Enter key will incorrectly tab-complete JQL just before executing the search. Meanwhile, the Tab key doesn't tab-complete and instead focuses the Search button (which lets you execute the uncorrupted JQL). You have to actively train yourself out of how everything else works…
Gitlab is another culprit for this and their UI/UX is growing to be as awful as every other complex enterprise tool on the market. The search/filter box on the MR and Issues list has the appearance of accepting free input, but what you need to do is use some ridiculous no-code query UI to click your way to a valid query. I can't type 'author: xxx' into the field, because that will tell me that searching that way is u…
I don't know how many Polish people who owned a Radeon card in the 2000s are there on HN but I'm sure they can all relate :-) as the card software would overwrite the key combination used to type the letter "ć" and open the Catalyst Control Center instead. Argh!
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Same generic keyboard debouncing in use in all 3 instances on the windows end? I know windows drivers debounce mouse clicks because I had a really old mouse that would double and triple click by accident on Linux but not in windows. I might be wrong, but changing the device might not affect it if the different devices are handled by shared runtime code
Sounds like a reasonable explanation for physical keyboards—if the new keyboard used by the OP was identical to the keyboard on their machine, I can see how Windows might reuse the same device driver instance since it has already been loaded into memory. But what about the on-screen keyboard? Do on-screen key presses get routed through the keyboard device driver too?
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last post: > so I think I should make it clear that when I say "I love tumblr" I mean I love the userbase, at least most of it (obviously not the cyberbullying people with death threats part), and not the staff. the staff have no idea what they're doing and are only making the site worse He/she loves Tumblr :)
Foone is a they.
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Oh. My. God. I have been wondering why when I come back to my PC after it being asleep I've been on random squarespace login pages. I usually tap esc a couple of times to wake up my computer.
I learned years ago to use as “safe” a key as possible to wake up my computer, so I settled on Control. Wish I could remember what led me to that decision.
> tumblr is fractally broken. it's not wrong in any specific way, it's wrong at every possible scale.
Once, many years ago, my company was working with Tumblr on some kind of integration, and for some reason, the engineer I was working with emailed me a filed called something like tumblr.php that was the “show the main blog page” source. It was one of the most spaghetti-ish overly-long unreadable pieces of shit I’d seen in decades. So this excellent set of tweets does not surprise me in the least.
But if you could stomach working with the code the catered lunches from Dos Toros and Luke’s Lobster were epic.