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noisem4ker

1,276 karmajoined vor 11 Jahren
Computer engineering graduate, now back-end developer.

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noisem4ker
·vor 5 Tagen·discuss
Same goes for the Italian "imposta". It's a direct translation of "set up", but not a verb anyone would use to mean "setting up a program", and I've never seen an installer named "Imposta.exe". Maybe they had an example of such a poorly translated program, though, which warranted adding a special case to the list. The correct verb would be "installa", which was already covered by "inst".
noisem4ker
·vor 15 Tagen·discuss
Cookies are not the basis of the law, which is about tracking in general, abstracted from the exact means and implementation details.
noisem4ker
·vor 16 Tagen·discuss
Brazen lying.
noisem4ker
·vor 22 Tagen·discuss
Hardly anyone, and in fact they eventually brought back the "up one level" toolbar button.
noisem4ker
·vor 24 Tagen·discuss
The fact that your password manager wouldn't offer to fill-in the password field of the fake login page (due to the domain being unknown) should make you raise an eyebrow.
noisem4ker
·letzten Monat·discuss
I just tried and it started playing Daft Punk on YouTube Music.
noisem4ker
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
> they won't last long

I wish that was the case for people with insincere communication practices. On the contrary, they seem to embody the sociopath stereotype that ultimately climbs ladders.
noisem4ker
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
It depends on your definition of "decent". Legal: yes, simple: maybe not. Search in past threads.
noisem4ker
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
> Where else would you put that stuff?

A "Centralized thumbnail cache" in the user profile folder, where it's been for a long while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_thumbnail_cache

> so that it alway perfectly mirrors

Who cares? It's a cache.
noisem4ker
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
> Thumbs.db

Windows has been storing thumbnail cache in the user profile folder since Vista (2006).

It's been 20 years. Time to let it go.
noisem4ker
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
> there was a time where Microsoft was offering free license transfers

I don't think they ever stopped. Maybe they ceased advertising it, but installing Windows 10 over 7 or 8 would silently inherit the license far past the original terms. The time-limited offer was just a FOMO-inducing marketing scam.
noisem4ker
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
You can still manually switch to a "Related" tab. On the mobile app, you scroll down a bit and the tab header appears. In the browser, there's probably a way to automate it with an user script.
noisem4ker
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Forbid they criticize Apple products that are in the very subject of the article.

Will you be around to police the discussion the next time something having "Microsoft" in the title is submitted and the shit-flinging-at-Windows-and-the-PC-world contest starts regardless to any relevance to the topic at hand?
noisem4ker
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Yeah, I'm not part of the cult.
noisem4ker
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss


  Invoke-WebRequest 'https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest' -OutFile firefox_setup.exe
noisem4ker
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
It's kind of both. Hyper-V is a bare-metal (type 1) hypervisor. Windows runs virtualized, one level above it, in a privileged (host) VM, next to other (guest) VMs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V#Architecture
noisem4ker
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Well-hinted fonts such as Consolas are indeed very rare.

I think I've only found Liberation and Hack to appear decent on standard density display. Roboto Mono is nicely shaped but blurry. I think Noto Mono used to have hints but dropped them. It was hours spent trying out different fonts only to ultimately go back to msttcore-fonts for me.
noisem4ker
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
It's way beyond dictation. Medics I know (fresh postgraduates who used LLMs to help write their R code for statistical analysis for their research) are starting to treat it as one of their peers for domain reasoning, e.g. for discussing whether the conditions for a heart transplant are met. They're indeed in the "wow, this thing is human-like" stage, just not in the "let's delegate to the super brain, and then rubber-stamp the result at the end if it looks good" one we seem to be in... perhaps yet.
noisem4ker
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Your experience may be valuable, and in fact made me think, but I also think the brashness of framing everything in the "adapt or die" ultimatum is unnecessary and off-putting.
noisem4ker
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
I don't think they were appreciating that HTML could be read unrendered. I think they meant that it was up to the browser to render HTML with sensible but unspecified or otherwise user-specified styling (the browser is supposed to be a "user agent", remember?) before web designers started aiming for pixel-perfect control through CSS.