Beej Jorgensen @ beejjorgensen @lemmy.sdf.org

Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej's Guides.

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2 yr. ago

We need a competitor badly.

Reminds me of sdf.org.

We were there 6 days ago. Mostly fine except they couldn't change the monitor at the gate to show the proper destination. I wonder if it was this!

I'm the same generation. My flowchart is: known contact, answer. Unknown contact, voicemail. Automatic VM transcriptions are great.

Yikes. Back to Newegg for me!

I don't know the details behind it, but it sure takes its sweet time figuring it out. I've let it sit 20 minutes before giving up.

Yeah. Under a second to the launcher, and (just timed it) 6 seconds to load and run my existing world.

I haven't measured it, but I can tell I'm noticably slower on standard editors than Vim.

When I had to match against misspells I found Levenshtein distance to be most useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance?wprov=sfla1

Really? Mine launches in a few seconds. Maybe I haven't explored enough. 😁

It should never be illegal to link to a thing. To host illegal content, sure, that should be illegal. But making it illegal to say where some thing, legal or not, is located is asking for all kinds of trouble.

I can't find the link, but I read that some Canadian news organizations were using URL shorteners to post their own news to Facebook to get around the block.

I started using one of the userspace oom killers a while ago and have been much happier. Instead of the system becoming unresponsive, suddenly Slack just dies. It's great.

But the sweaters!

I played quite a bit of solo mineclone2/voxelibre. Really good stuff with a surprisingly short wishlist on my part.

It's silly, but one of my favorite things is that it fires up the launcher in under a second. Reminds me of when software wasn't bloated halfway to hell. 😁

And in politics, too!

"Sorry, Tennessee! And Oregon. And Minnesota. And Alabama. And..."

It does now--it didn't in the past.

Looking around, I don't think that's true. Lots of bad things are freely said about Mozilla and the people running it.

The local Uber eats clone here has the submit order button off screen. Reuters on Android sometimes has the top bar of the webpage shift down over the content. A video conferencing site used by my medical provider won't connect the video. The 3rd party comment section on our local news site sometimes lays out the controls off screen. The Lemmy PWA on Android used to crash on startup (recently fixed yay!!)

FF is my daily driver and 99% of things work fine, but I've definitely found a few sites where they clearly didn't test it. I still have Chrome installed for those rare occasions I need it.

And I don't even necessarily blame Firefox for this. I used to do web dev back in the day and I remember making my shit work across multiple browsers. Maybe Firefox is doing it right and Chrome is doing it wrong, but everybody targeted Chrome because it has a zillion percent of the market.