I want a way for an application to programmatically request its window to become maximized.

I already have public transit that comes so regularly I don’t need to check a schedule and fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it’s preferable to suffering airports and the city where I live was built centuries before cars were even invented. Is this post maybe about the US?

Ah, OK, I know that Apple tries to sell people wireless headphones that need to be recharged, you’re perfectly right that this is ridiculous.

I’m with you here, I keep it all simple and connect headphones, earphones, mice, … with a cable and it all just works all the time. No batteries to recharge. No pairing to redo. I can’t even imagine how this could possibly fail.

battery

Why do your headphones have battery!?

Unexpected, I’ve never heard this joke before.

Davinci Resolve is also free and supports Linux.

Isn’t that proprietary software, as in, if there’s something that doesn’t work you’ll have to send them a bug report and hope they’ll eventually fix it, but they’ll never give you the source code so that you could fix it yourself?

(translated)

Why? Don’t you trust us to read Attic Greek?

i rent a lawn

Me too (normal where I live, very few people own property in the city here).

I switched to Debian when version 1.1 was released in 1996 and it’s been Debian since then for me, but you youngsters may stay on my lawn as long as you just don’t litter.

I found Dreams from My Father to be a marvellous book and I have recommended many friends to read it. On the other hand, I can’t help being very sceptical towards many of his political convictions and of a lot of what he actually did once elected president.

Like, which town?

The duel took place in the Kabukicho district of Shibuya Ward, according to the article.

I choose Debian for wholly other reasons, twenty years ago now, but during all these years their comprehensive network of mirrors has always been good enough that I never considered switching for that reason, anywhere I moved to.

https://www.debian.org/mirror/list

What are you arguing?

I’m arguing that any claim that the police was unarmed is perfectly plausible, as this is normal for police in the People’s Republic of China.

I’m saying the people in tanks were not unarmed.

There’s absolutely no disagreement about that.

And the students likely didn’t have RPGs.

There’s absolutely no disagreement about that.

The police were not unarmed.

Are you sure about that? Where do you have that information from? That would have been most unusual.

You can’t tell me in good faith that they were more armed than the fucking police!

I have no reason to believe that the students were armed either.

And don’t forget that the army also was sent in there, very armed.

The police were unarmed‽

Police in the People’s Republic of China is normally unarmed (just like police in several other countries, most famously the United Kingdom), so while I don’t know anything about whether they had been armed at that time at Tiananmen square, any claim that they were unarmed as usual seems perfectly plausible to me.

But don’t forget that the army also was sent in there, very armed.

I’ve read The Practice of Programming more times than I care to remember, so simple, so useful.

I don’t understand the point of sending the original e-mail.

There never was any point to it, it was done by an LLM, a computer program incapable of understanding. That’s why it was so infuriating.

killed off a great character (Hemmer)

This was unforgivable.

It depends, of course. If you skip military service and then spend 5 years doing something like a 3 year bachelor’s of business administration then that could surely be seen as somewhat embarrassing. But for most people, 24 years old would be perfectly normal, even somewhat young.