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bbernoulli··on NeverSSL
I think he's including the transfers from twitter in the 55kb (which is over 50k of it), which wouldn't cost him anything personally
bbernoulli··on Evolution of the Scrollbar
Windows also advances by page when clicking in the gutter, BUT based on the handle size it seems like the example scrollbars are not demoing a large enough scroll area to show both behaviors.
bbernoulli··on Why to use ‘python -m pip’
Do the problems it purports to solve just not interest you or did you have an alternate suggestion?
bbernoulli··on Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins
What do you think was the issue?!

- fellow crappy-quality-sleeper

bbernoulli··on NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
Really wish I knew what this said
bbernoulli··on Show HN: I created a portable lightweight replacement for Microsoft HTML Help
One that sticks in my mind was the help file for mIRC, as a kid trying to script my irc client, it was pretty damn useful.

(Of course moved on to ircii, bitchx, etc.)

bbernoulli··on Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges
Is this something you'd need to arrange with each carrier? The article says they didn't expect them to fly to Iran.
bbernoulli··on Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to run £2.9bn over budget
There are still countries which build them fairly quickly compared to the global average

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/2027347/south-korea-s...

bbernoulli··on TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files
And hope you don't have any commas into your data?
bbernoulli··on Instagram influencers: Have we stopped believing?
I tried to look this up and found a story, but nobody was struck by the chair...
bbernoulli··on Down the Rabbit-Hole
Maybe I misunderstand your comment, but @taviso was recalling a story that seems to be from 2010.
bbernoulli··on Pure JavaScript WiFi QR Code Generator
From the description on the page:

> You need to print this with a light color on the bottom and a darker color on the top layers, otherwise it will not scan correctly.

bbernoulli··on Give Firefox a chance
Blink is to Chromium/Chrome as Webkit is to Safari

Webkit and blink are browser engines and Chromium/Chrome are both browsers, but Chromium doesn't include the closed source pieces that Chrome does.

bbernoulli··on 5M Bid request/s, 2ms max response time – The Road to Damascus
> The solution was to Marshal calls from F# to libuv and achieve 5 Millions (at least) bid requests/s on 16 threads (this solution scales with cores/NICs).
bbernoulli··on I do not use a debugger (2016)
Can you recommend specific python debuggers? I recently had to debug some py3 remotely and ended up using VS code, which worked but had some hiccups.
bbernoulli··on Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_operandi
bbernoulli··on Producing industrial hydrogen from biomass
Saw this thing in a sappy movie that had a character with cystic fibrosis:

https://www.afflovest.com/

They make it sound fancier than just vibrations though

bbernoulli··on Azure Data Studio: An Open-Source GUI Editor for Postgres
It is on windows too:

https://tableplus.io/windows

bbernoulli··on My disabled son’s gaming life in the World of Warcraft
I was a bit unclear. There was an actual memorial created. There was no evidence found that the user Karyn was a real woman who passed away. (The theory put forth in the news article was that it was a male role playing as a female).
bbernoulli··on My disabled son’s gaming life in the World of Warcraft
It's in the linked page, but the story was not actually true
bbernoulli··on The 773M Record “Collection #1” Data Breach
The password itself is not sent. You can read about it here:

https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-v...

bbernoulli··on A map that shows how territorial wolves are
I figured perhaps there were untracked wolves bordering the tracked ones, so the green pack may not have it the worst.
bbernoulli··on RaptorJIT 1.0: Lua implementation for high-perf low-level system programming
From the comment on commit which removed 50,000 lines of code: `The only supported platform is now Linux/x86-64 with JIT+FFI+GC64.`

And the readme: `Reduced code maintenance footprint ~50% by removing #ifdef features that are not required for Linux/x86-64 e.g. Windows support, 32-bit heap support, and non-x86 backends. This is a necessary short-term expedient to make the code maintainable while we bootstrap the project.`

I wonder how that 50,000 lines was broken down by feature...

bbernoulli··on WwwBasic – An implementation of BASIC designed to be easy to run on the Web
Assuming a typo here, but I would be surprised if the output contained "3"
bbernoulli··on Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A
It's called "Face to face"
bbernoulli··on Hello Qt for Python
I'll echo this.

I've maintained a production PyQt based app for 7-8 years (started on PyQt4/py2, moved to PyQt5/py3, but I evaluated PySide as well). It involved wrapping another Qt library for use from python. I found the bindings I created based on SIP (which is what PyQt is based on, both written by the same author) to be overall easier to create and smaller in size.

It's great that we're getting Qt backed bindings but Phil Thompson has done a wonderful job with PyQt over the years and I really would've liked to see it become the official library somehow.

bbernoulli··on Hello Qt for Python
You've been able to automatically translate types going back to PyQt4 (it's the default for PyQt5, wasn't changed in PyQt4 due to backwards compatibility IIRC, but you could opt-in). As mentioned elsewhere PyQt offers properties, decorators for connecting signals and slots, etc. I found the APIs to be very similar overall.
bbernoulli··on NirSoft Freeware (2008)
I tried searchmyfiles, and it's alright, but the best search tool I've found for windows is "Everything" by voidtools ( https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/ )

I occasionally use it on a multi TB windows fileserver at work and after it does the initial index (which is really pretty fast because it uses the NTFS journals) searches are pretty much instantaneous. (I also use it at home, it's just less impressive after using it on that many files at work.)

bbernoulli··on ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility
It is possible to create an OEM install disc.

I've done it once in the past and it wasn't super complicated. It looks like it might be harder to find the oembios files now, but I bet you can still accomplish this if you're determined.

https://superuser.com/questions/539714/windows-all-oem-activ... has some details that could get your pointed in the right direction

bbernoulli··on Why undertakers are worried
The show was "six feet under"
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