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gcmrtc··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
Its a company. They don't give a single flying fuck.
gcmrtc··on Rules of good writing (2007)
Hi Scott! Yes, racists are wrong and calling them out works.
gcmrtc··on An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
Strong with the weak, weak with the strong.
gcmrtc··on Racket-embed-images-in-source-text
Because the whole thing is about embedding images as text, so the interesting bit is not showing the image, but the resulting encoding in the racket source.
gcmrtc··on The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”
> The park could contain loose soil on the edge of a cliff, so any vehicle driving there could cause a landslide that topples the vehicle over the cliff and could kill anyone on the beach below. No vehicles in the park.

That would be a terrible phrasing then. It should have been phrased something like "Landslide hazard, no weight more than 1ton allowed anywhere in the park." or something in that vein.

gcmrtc··on Artists must be allowed to make bad work
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wYwB3lJAbYY
gcmrtc··on Julia 1.9.0 lives up to its promise
This is the opinion of Dykstra: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF
gcmrtc··on We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot
Looks like that lawyer guy is not new on hacking stuff: https://matthewbutterick.com/

Not exactly the curriculum of a twitter weirdo.

gcmrtc··on YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos
AFAIK twitch deletes your saved streams after some time.
gcmrtc··on Hit me with a wrench all you want, I can’t tell you my password
This happens to me with pins. Basically I don't remember the numbers, just the shape they form when entered in the keypad.

I recently opened a new account with a bank and their app has a randomized keypad and now I'm screwed.

gcmrtc··on Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B
Take a look at seedboxes.
gcmrtc··on PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)
You're right, and donwvotes are from that kind of people.
gcmrtc··on Darker Corners of Go
> Honestly? Not everyone wants (or should have) to do that in order to touch some Go code

For hobby projects maybe, if it's part of your job you should know what you're doing and read the fine manual (basic documentation in this case).

gcmrtc··on Fired App Reviewer Sues Apple
Well, that is what most of your users would have done anyway. You dealt with a reviewer instead of multiple angry users that couldn't log in, looks like the review process works.
gcmrtc··on Linux from Scratch 10.0
Same experience with Gentoo and Arch.
gcmrtc··on Krita 4.3.0
Me and my daughters love Krita. Even with a cheap pen tablet it's a lot of fun. I set up a monthly payment of 1€, a small contribution to its development.
gcmrtc··on Racket is 25
I don't know why "application performance" is brought up here, do you mean adoption?

I think Racket is a pretty bad choice, I'm from Italy and here you find that word in news about mafia and organized crime, so imagine the kind of association it bears with it.

Naming things is hard, but sometimes hackers seem to choose to make it harder... https://racket-lang.org/new-name.html

gcmrtc··on Ask HN: How do you search for $string if a webpage “supports” infinite scroll?
You'd have the same problem with pagination, you'd need to Ctrl+f on each page.

Solution? Use the website's search form.

gcmrtc··on Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as 'fbclid' and 'utm'
I don't get this.

My solution is to use uBlock Origin and block tracking altogether.

This still allows GA to track you, it just removes some information from the tracking beacon.

gcmrtc··on Doing a database join with CSV files
Also csvkit, xsv is way faster but less feature-complete (based on my experience last time I used both)
gcmrtc··on Doing a database join with CSV files
The problem most of the times is correctly parsing the CSV files.
gcmrtc··on Grumpy Website – a blog about everything wrong with modern web & tech
I think people are stupid, it's our right to be and things should be designed with this in mind.

I agree that using the world "stupid" could be ill-receive and other words could avoid this problem, but with the right audience this shouldn't be a problem.

gcmrtc··on How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?
Quake 3 (now Quakelive or Quake Champions): rocket launcher, granade launcher, plasma gun, nail gun.
gcmrtc··on Grumpy Website – a blog about everything wrong with modern web & tech
If you open more than one draw at a time you would unbalance the drawer and it would tip over, falling on you and possibly injuring your feet and damaging your stuff and the floor.

This safety mechanism is not there if the drawer is embedded in a larger frame where tipping over is not possible.

Sometimes it's not bad UX, it's just the thing trying to protect you from your stupidity.

gcmrtc··on Going from macOS to Ubuntu
Why `&& true` after that apt command?
gcmrtc··on German city offers $1.1M to whoever proves it doesn’t exist
In Italy we have an entire region (Molise) that doesn't exist.

Do other countries have their own non-existent places too?

gcmrtc··on Show HN: Turn an Excel file into a web application
I've been able to learn vim because the web is full of high quality content that will teach it from the basics in a way that's compatible with my mindset.

I never had the same experience learning Excel, maybe the problem is my mindset. The only learning experience I enjoyed about excel is 'You suck at Excel' by Joel Spolsky.

Can someone recommend a good Excel learning path for someone in this situation?