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ShrpErinaceidaeon Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones

"(Sorry about that, but we can’t show files that are this big right now.)"

1.3MB and it's actually raw code. Amazing.

ShrpErinaceidaeon Designing the Scylla Userspace Disk I/O Scheduler (Part 1)

Can I ask why you'd love to get rid of it? (Not intended as a challenge to the idea of getting rid of it, just curious why)

ShrpErinaceidaeon Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

Having both Atom and VS Code installed on recent hardware I can say VS Code definitely feels snappier in multiple aspects. It's hard to believe both editors share Electron roots.

And not to make this an X is better than Y comment, but the much better (in my experience) high-DPI handling with VS Code does the same. I wonder what exactly VS Code does to manage to be the only Electron based application that I've used that scales properly across multiple monitors at different DPIs.

ShrpErinaceidaeon Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2 VPS

You can depending on how recent they are.

ShrpErinaceidaeon Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2 VPS

No, you can get actual money for them.

ShrpErinaceidaeon Space Shuttle vs. Buran

Why did I get the vibe I was reading pro-Buran propaganda in 2016?