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0xADD1E··on Ask HN: Is there a good open-source alternative to Adobe Acrobat?
Between Okular for reading and quick edits, and the qpdf cli for occasional stranger (particularly encryption-related) things, I can’t remember the last time I touched Acrobat. On macOS, Preview.app (with occasional qpdf) also works very well.
0xADD1E··on Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
More or less- Due to the amount of unusual requirements for installing on Apple hardware (such as being kicked off from macOS, to name the tip of the iceberg) the Asahi installer gets used for most (all?) distros running on Apple Silicon. https://asahilinux.org/docs/alt/policy/#installation-procedu...

edit: The minimal UEFI part of the Asahi installer specifically sets up a “normal” environment that other distros (like Nix) can use, it doesn’t actually install a full distro like Asahi Fedora

0xADD1E··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
You mean something like LiveKit, with a basic implementation of user management etc such as https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet ?
0xADD1E··on Swiss' Entire Boeing 777 Fleet Now Has Shark Skin Technology
10k is the altitude above which oxygen masks are required, and any decompression above this altitude triggers the oxygen masks to drop and pilots to make an emergency decent back down to 10k ft.
0xADD1E··on Financial systems take a holiday
For the UK at least, there’s https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json
0xADD1E··on Defenestration of Prague Window (2019)
Given that this is the reason the word “defenestration” entered the English language - I’d just like to remind everyone: it’s only defenestration if it comes from the Prague region of Bohemia, otherwise it’s just “sparkling window-yeet”.
0xADD1E··on On leading underscores and names reserved by the C and C++ languages
I think you’ll find it’s actually called an arrgument
0xADD1E··on All Algorithms Implemented in Rust
So long as it’s never trying to parse a non-digit, the unwraps should be fine. Since it’s using i128s as arguments (and then converting them to strings to do the maths) that should be safe. For actual use, a proper bignum type for the arguments seems like it should be the biggest change needed though.
0xADD1E··on Kill Google AMP before it kills the web (2017)
My personal basics are Adnauseaum (uBlock origin based, makes exceptions for non-tracking ads, and clicks all tracking ones to pollute data), Decentraleyes, HTTPS Everywhere, and multi-touch zoom if I'm on a 2-in-1
0xADD1E··on Developer Tropes: “Google Does It”
It's a single point of failure, sure, but you have to consider... How likely is it that AWS goes down? How likely is it that your internal system maintained by a single person goes down?
0xADD1E··on Writing a Ph.D. thesis with Org Mode
Really just a difference in preference in my experience. I personally really like declarative workflows.
0xADD1E··on AMD Ryzen Mini-STX: ASRock’s DeskMini A300
Light gaming, general use, HTPC, just about anything really. APU is AMD's term for a CPU with a small graphics chipset on it (most of theirs don't)
0xADD1E··on Ask HN: Best alternate client to web-based Gmail? Now that it sucks
I use rainloop for my self hosted. Works much nicer, especially on mobile devices
0xADD1E··on Ask HN: What is the best option for hosting your own mailserver?
I'm also running this setup. Works near-flawlessly for hosting my dozen or so personal email categories
0xADD1E··on What’s the difference between an integer and a pointer?
And what would this change, if authors are working off of the GCC-C files? If you're after a system by which you don't need GCC to run Linux, you may be interested in a concept known as "binaries" which sounds remarkably close to what you're trying to invent here
0xADD1E··on Atom 1.28
Maybe not emoji, but particularly when doing stats-heavy code, I've actually found it helpful to be able to use unicode lambda/delta
0xADD1E··on Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
Oh it gets better. If you look at the appx package names for "Groove music" and a couple others they're still Microsoft.Zune prefixed