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FreeFull··on Get Started with Tmux
IIRC, tmux was originally developed inside of screen, so ctrl+b was chosen so it wouldn't conflict with ctrl+a
FreeFull··on A new model for faster-than-light travel that uses conventional physics
But if you travel at close to the speed of light (without exceeding it), the universe will age 200 years when you take a 200ly trip. In which case, I'm not sure if there is any benefit to dragging around a bubble of spacetime?
FreeFull··on 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
Yeah, it'd definitely be visible. I imagine it'd be like looking at an air bubble while underwater, in terms of refraction, except that air doesn't have surface tension so the boundary wouldn't look quite the same.
FreeFull··on 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed
It's partially fixed now, it'll show the "Quit and Close Tabs" dialogue now if you check "Warn you when quitting the browser" in the preferences.
FreeFull··on Rust Foundation: Hello, World
Mozilla has brought this on themselves. I just hope that Firefox itself will be able to stay on a productive path, somehow.
FreeFull··on Solar flare-style rocket thruster ‘could send astronauts to outer solar system’
This is misleading: The reason that iron fillings form lines instead of just spreading evenly is that nearby fillings interact magnetically with each other, rather than anything to do with the field of the large magnet having "lines". Magnetic fields are continuous over space.
FreeFull··on Uniwidth Typefaces for Interface Design
In this case, the problem is that the Recursive font doesn't actually contain the Arabic and Japanese characters, so the browser is falling back to another font. If you use a uniwidth font that actually contains all the characters, this should work.
FreeFull··on Gitlab removes its 'starter' tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
Doesn't matter that you get more if you don't make use of it anyway.
FreeFull··on Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment
Supposedly Hot Dog Stand looked really good on monochrome monitors, at least.
FreeFull··on The Wonderful Uses of Asbestos (1942) [video]
They still use coca leaves to make the syrup, just with the cocaine removed.
FreeFull··on Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux
For those using Arch linux, this seems to be the AUR package for Planner: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/elementary-planner/
FreeFull··on The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019)
Yeah, the sodium part can definitely be a problem for some people, although for healthy people sodium won't actually make blood pressure go up.
FreeFull··on Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020
If the masks come with a hydrophobic coating, then washing them significantly reduces their ability to effectively filter air.
FreeFull··on Why does Linux have so much trouble sleeping and waking?
Windows 10 has a setting where it'll wake up the machine to run Windows Update, and it's on by default. Perhaps if you turn that off, the random wakeups will stop.
FreeFull··on Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
I'm doubtful about this. Even though Android uses the Linux kernel, its userspace is completely different; There isn't much overlap in the APIs you can use on Android vs ones you can use on desktop Linux, besides a few things like openGL and syscalls.
FreeFull··on This is how I git
Alternatively, instead of `git reset HEAD^` you could do `git commit --amend` to merge further changes into the latest commit
FreeFull··on C/C++ vs. Rust Performance
I also suspect that goto is missing not because of potential misuse, but because it's actually difficult to implement given all of Rust's other semantics.
FreeFull··on How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around
While that's true, pancreatic cancer is nasty enough that even with prompt treatment, there was a good chance he'd succumb to it anyway, although he'd definitely have way better chances.
FreeFull··on Chaos Ink
I have tried the page again, and now it actually works as intended. I suspect the shader got updated/fixed?
FreeFull··on Chaos Ink
I also get a flickery mess, on Linux + Firefox 81 with Haswell Intel Graphics. I suspect that there is some sort of uninitialised buffer/variable somewhere, and different drivers handle it differently.
FreeFull··on Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account
Deactivation is what Facebook directs everybody to, but there is actually a way to completely delete an account too. With an actually deleted account, you have to create a new one, there isn't a reactivation option.
FreeFull··on Overloading by Return Type in C++
Rust also supports it, and it's actually very commonly used. For example, the function `Default::default()`, where Default is a trait that you can easily implement for your own types, too.
FreeFull··on Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat
Photons have zero rest mass, but energy itself has a gravitational effect too. It's even theoretically possible to create a black hole entirely out of light https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)
FreeFull··on Discovery Suggests the Solar System Has Two Planes of Orbital Alignment
With regards to b., I think the article is saying that one comet plane is in alignment with the planetary plane, but the planetary plane itself is off by 60° from the galactic plane.
FreeFull··on The campaign against plastic is harming the planet and the public
Glass is made out of the same stuff that's already in some very common minerals. The two main risks are sharp pieces, and the potential to focus sunlight and start a fire. Otherwise, it's about as dangerous as sand.
FreeFull··on Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes
From what I've seen, the majority of Android malware either comes from Google's Play Store, or gets included on the phones by certain OEMs. F-droid in particular, due to its open source requirement, hasn't ended up hosting any malware so far.
FreeFull··on Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes
F-Droid does not offer any form of payment, anyway. All the apps offered by F-Droid are open source and the majority of them ad-free, and it's honestly a fantastic resource for me. It actually has quite a lot of apps, including games, productivity tools, utilities, and other things. Something like this wouldn't be possible at all on Apple's platform.
FreeFull··on Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes
On Android there is the F-Droid software repository, and there is no issue of competition with the Play Store. Would things be different on Apple phones?
FreeFull··on 433% Keyboard
I know that at least Linux does support additional F keys beyond F12, since there used to be computers/keyboards that had them. I'm not sure how having more than 255 keys works out, though, I haven't looked into how USB HID handles it.
FreeFull··on Go’s Major Versioning Sucks – From a Fanboy
It's not like putting the version into the namespace is necessary for this, though. Rust's Cargo will let you use multiple versions of a library too, without extra namespacing.
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