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fastfloon Show HN: All desktop software calculators are wrong, so I had to build my own

  $ python
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fastfloon Reddit Down

hey bored people. reddit is still down... what do i do with my spare time?

fastfloon Urgent/11 – Zero Day Vulnerabilities Impacting VxWorks

vxworks ... have you ever tried to implement something with that ugly hack? -- and seen how nice it can be with other, proper operating systems?

as many already said: not at all surprised.

fastfloon Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

this "desktop app" somehow doesn't want to run on my linux desktop?

fastfloon Programming Fonts – Test Drive

good old misc fixed is missing? https://pasteboard.co/HXsWkSo.png

fastfloon Time to Take a Stand

in the end only US citizens can decide. as a devotee for freedom and a world in peace i am very worried about those citizens' last decision concerning POTUS. i am not a US citizen. and i never felt the need to be one - just because i was lucky to be born in a country where in my opinion there is at least hope left for a better future.

i hope more US citizens "take a stand" like the OP and show how they want their part of the world to be like.

just my two cents - euro cents (a currency used in another union of only 28 states...)

fastfloon Mac System 1.0 (1998)

it feels really strange to me how mac people actually only talk about the visual appearance... ...considered to be not a good trait between civilised people.

fastfloon TempleOS: Naughty Fun with OS Internals [video]

i like the "we have the divine right to access ..."!

fastfloon Magit: a Git porcelain inside emacs

just gave it a try: i love it!

fastfloon What will C++17 be?

i am so sorry for you. and all your excuses...

fastfloon Keyboard innovation is making them worse

the bios swapping of "fn" and "left control" on my x121 had its own problems (it was a bit strange, sometimes the remapped fn key didn't actually behaved like a real control key). so i switched back to the original behavior and learned to deal with it.

a hardware hack would be cool :) letting the fn key electrically do the same thing as the ctrl key and for the rare use of fn use the capslock-key for it :)

fastfloon Keyboard innovation is making them worse

i think the capslock function should be disabled by default. let the key stay there, so people can bind it to what ever they want.

i'm a passionate programmer and im currently typing on a lenovo x121 keyboard and i have to say its one of the best laptop keyboard i've ever used. the only annoying thing is the "nearly useless" "Fn" key left of the left control key. i'm an emacs user and i can not understand why to place such a rarely used key at the place of such an often used key like the left control key!

but i learned to deal with it.

@lenovo: the x121 keyboard is good, but please put that useless fn key somewhere else! like replace the right control key with it! (who is using the right control key?)

all this is about the german x121 keyboard layout.