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I remember doing this years ago, but it longer works on Firefox out of the box. Setting a custom page for a new tab requires an extension. Apparently, that's for security reasons: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1092024

Even worse, some use Linux as their desktop OS. Imagine that...

This is exactly the reason I gave up on SO. It was so disappointing to see the "frist!" answer get votes, even when it was factually incorrect. By the time it took me to think and write a half decent phrase the original answer had been edited dozens of times. The site was also eager to interrupt me every time to tell me that an existing answer had been edited. They did everything possible to allow the system to be gamed and, well... they succeeded.

Yeah, a text-mode equivalent inside the console would have been much better. Something like the TBrowse system of dBase/Clipper I was using back in the 90s. Ah, the memories...

I find it ridiculous that Chrome, Edge and Firefox are all currently around v115. It's just a marketing term now. I've seen Firefox and Thunderbird major version numbers change for simple bugfixes. A release date would be enough.

It's obviously satirical. If so, the author is brilliant. Otherwise, well...

I mean just look at the project show cases. Included are the usual colossal cluster^Wframeworks that power our decaying software infrastructure.

Personally, I don't trust anything that either stays perpetually under v1.0 or exceeds v10-15.

Windows/PowerShell users should know there's a builtin cmdlet for this, Out-GridView. I mention this because I've used it for viewing objects in tabular form long before I realized it allows interactive selection. For example, selecting desktop files to delete:

    Get-ChildItem -File ~\desktop | Out-GridView -PassThru | Remove-Item

or using aliases:

    ls -file ~\desktop | ogv -pass | ri

For some reason Google Fonts rendering is just awful on my (Windows) machines. I tried to investigate, but got nowhere. They seem extremely jaggy and with uneven strokes, like they were only tested on 4K displays. I don't have the budget to go beyond 1080 at the moment.

This has made me extremely averse to them, to the point where I simply avoid sites using them.

And now they add color...

You all jest, but I'd kill for curated tags on HN. There's a lot of content here I don't really care about and it's steadily growing larger. Nothing wrong with the site, just personal preferences.

I did, but still got no SMART values. Speccy works though and I'm sure I've also run smartctl successfully on this laptop in the past.

Well, negative feedback loops are generally more useful than positive ones. At least in electronics...

The only thing I used from them was their Mercurial hosting. That didn't go well...

It's bitterness from having your dreams crushed. I used to read Raymond's blog and share his passion for correctness and efficiency, but it seems like mockery now.

> After a while you'll notice you are sending everything back.

What about shipping costs? When you're buying something the seller is usually paying for that in bulk and including it in the retail price to boast "0-cost shipping". Surely buyers can't possibly afford sending everything back.

Ha, so I was right in my adjacent comment. BTW, that's how I've also instinctively pronounced REvil in my head, too.

Perhaps @lordnacho couldn't decide between ARE-Evil ('A@r-'i:v@L) and REEvil (r'i:v@L), so @3np suggested REvil (r'Ev'Il). J/k, I'm just showing off `eSpeak -x`'s output, which as a non-native English speaker I've found quite valuable on occasion.

I'd say that modern dictionaries are made for readers, while older ones were for writers.

A clickbaitey site I visited recently detected incognito mode and would not let me in. I don't remember if it had a simple overlay or missing content, since I immediately went away.

Same here. It's very off-putting, no matter how interested I am in the content. Some other such deterrents for me are the usual autoplaying media, newsletter popups, and blog-spam recommendations.

Lately, I've also included in-your-face code of conduct or diversity rules, and fixed-position author portraits in blogs.

For YouTube it's opening with "hey guys!11!", forced hand gestures, manic editing (where pauses between phrases are shorter than between words), and superfluous stock imagery.

Life's too short and it's only getting shorter.

This has been ruining my reading experience on the web for years. I remember fondly an old Opera version (10-15 years ago) that would briefly display a dotted line on page up/down to mark the boundary between pages. It was such an amazingly useful little addition. I don't recall whether it was built-in or an extension, I just remember the disappointment when I couldn't use it any more (either they disabled or it was the time I switched to Firefox).

It's too much fun for me too. Blushing faces and clapping hands look like kindergarden drawings, not consumer-oriented at all. I guess some people are more serious than others. :-*

I've been using KeePass with Syncthing for some time. No problem if you only need to update the database from a single location and access as read-only from the rest, but there are also solutions for shared updating.

Here in Greece, taxis are quite expensive. Think 5-10 times more expensive. They're faster and more convenient, sure, but not for everyday use.

There's a mouse shortcut for Duplicate Tab in Firefox: middle-click the Reload button! It blew my mind when I read about it in some random thread a couple of years ago.

So it's like the poster in the mythical workshop:

    Repairs can be fast, cheap or proper.
    You can only choose two of the above.

In this case, our choices range from 1 to 3 it seems.

There should be a difference between the "official Facebook of X" and the "official site of X". Billy Bob and Aunty Jane should be free to communicate to the world via Twitter, but the government, IRS, emergency services, etc. better avoid the level of indirection. Provided they care, of course.

Command/type aliases and autocompletion make this a non-issue on the console and advanced code editors. Personally, I don't mind the verbosity even when using plain editors, like Notepad2, my text/script editor of choice.

Extra-long command names and deeply namespaced .Net types can be a chore both to read and write, but I find the *nix tools way too cryptic. Never could get used to them, but then again, I've been on DOS/Windows all my life since the 90s.

To be honest, I'd occasionally get frustrated and think about switching to Linux. However, Python and PowerShell are the two things that have kept me on Windows. The fact that they are both open-source and cross-platform is just the cherry on top.

What do you mean? It's just a static HTML table and it looks fine on both my Android 11 phone with Opera and in Firefox's Responsive mode on the desktop. It may not be mobile-friendly, but that's not inherently bad, especially for something that's not meant to be used on a phone.

This is very nicely done, but I still prefer the simplicity of <http://davidbau.com/colors/>. Despite being only 2-dimentional, I find that layout strangely more intuitive. I think the author manually tweaked the color positions, so that may be the reason.

That's a neat trick, especially in emergency situations.

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