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| Edit | Post #294001 |
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— | 8 days ago |
| Edit | Post #294001 | Initial revision | — | 10 days ago |
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A: What's the protocol for keyboards to communicate which keys were pressed? Keyboards usually natively send "key codes". These have to do with the physical location of the key on the keyboard and how the keys may be multiplexed. These key codes are received by a driver that knows about the specific keyboard. What happens after that is specific to the operating system. ... (more) |
— | 10 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293941 |
Why should anyone answer your question when you've asked it simultaneously to different groups? You are asking multiple independent groups to do the same favor for you. That feels like volunteer abuse to the volunteers, and is worthy of downvotes.
Animations are a difficult way to get informatio... (more) |
— | 15 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293958 | Initial revision | — | 16 days ago |
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A: reasonable to mandate sending attachments in a separate follow-up email to ensure that the recipient receives at least one message? In addition to what Michael said (+1), this would be quite annoying to recipients. It would be a hiccup in my workflow, and I'd think less of the sender. Their inability to fix their email system shouldn't be my problem. If you're sending legitimate email with legitimate attachments, they really... (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293952 |
-1 for an answer that is just scraped from elsewhere. (more) |
— | 17 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293925 |
-1 for the cross-posts. (more) |
— | 17 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293941 |
Right now, this question is at +0,-4 and your rep is -59. Clearly the users dislike what you are doing, yet you continue doing it. I can't say for sure why others downvote, but I suspect all the cross-posting is a significant part of it.
Personally I'm fed up with it, your excessive use of ani... (more) |
— | 17 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293943 |
-1 because this answer is just a copy of something elsewhere. Worse, it doesn't give us any reason why we should believe whoever "davidgo" is. "Some random guy on the internet said ..." isn't a valid answer.
I didn't follow the link, and shouldn't have to. Answers here should stand on their own... (more) |
— | 18 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293715 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: How do I stop Gmail from silently dropping legitimate email? Google is notorious for being very picky, having significant false positives, and not caring. Most likely they aren't discarding these mail messages, but refusing to accept them in the first place. This can happen easily when the sender doesn't have all that latest anti-spam technology turned on ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293633 |
The point of the exercise is to reduce the storage size of the repository. When I said it would be nice to keep the history, I meant the sequence of commit comments. I don't expect to be able to do diffs on files that are deleted. I'm OK with never going back to those files. As I said in the ques... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293629 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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How to delete old files in GIT while keeping history? I'm far from an expert GIT user. I'm usually the only one working in a repository at a time, and know how to do the basics like committing snapshots. I still have to look up how to create and merge branches on the relatively rare occasions I need to use them. We have some repositories that have ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293592 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: Why does copying an image from Chrome and pasting it into MS Paint reduce its quality, and how can I prevent this? This is just a wild guess, but it seems more likely to me that the resolution is lost when copying, not pasting. For example, maybe Chrome is copying the image as displayed on your screen, not the image stored on the server. Try pasting to a different app. If you get the same resulting resolutio... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293388 |
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— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293388 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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A: How to automatically select new bulk downloads, and delete downloads deleted months ago? Write a script to find the old files. Once you have a full treename of a file, it's trivial to delete it. Pretty much any command shell should be able to do this. Here is an example using my scripting language, ESCR: // SHOWOLD date // // Show all the files in the current tree that are ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293316 |
Post edited: Added Edge and Windows versions. |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293316 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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How to open PDFs in Acrobat automatically from MS Edge? In a previous browser, when I clicked on a link that was to a PDF file, the file opened automatically in Acrobat. That was what I wanted, until MS forced using Edge. How do I get this same behavior in Edge? I looked thru the Edge settings, and in Cookies and site permissions there is PDF docum... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292284 |
Get a non-smart monitor? (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289365 |
*"Here's your soup, but next time please don't make a mess"* has been shown over and over again to not work. It is interpreted as *"blah blah here is your answer"*. Your carrots simply don't work in this context. The only way to get the attention of people like that is to not allow them to have th... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289365 |
One of the pitfalls of Elsewhere is that they didn't enforce quality enough. Crap needs to be dealt with quickly and decisively. Link-only posts don't belong here. We don't want the OP to get the desired result from a crappy question, else he (and others watching) will be back doing it again. Tha... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289365 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Closing "unclear" questions That question seemed to mostly quotes from elsewhere. I can see the point to it having been closed due to being link-only. "Unclear" is probably the nearest handy close reason. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #288855 |
This was tried early on, and found not to work. Note that the communities that did import SE content are clumped near the bottom in activity. I think this is Writers, Outdoors, and Photography. Maybe there are one or two more.
The search engines seem to ding us for having duplicate content. So... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287876 |
Yeah, real power users don't use a mouse. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287347 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Adding option to pandoc call from RStudio This is admittedly rather ugly, but you could move the PANDOC program to elsewhere, and replace it with your own script. That script can add command line arguments, then run the real PANDOC. One issue is that you'll have to re-do this every software update. Like I said, it's ugly. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287151 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287151 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: How do I make Xbox stop telling me that I have a free game pass on Windows 10? I have Windows 10 but don't have this problem. That may be because the first thing I did when I got the machine was to go thru all the settings I could find, and shut off anything I didn't want. Go to the main Settings. On my machine at least, there is an option called Gaming. Try going there a... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287143 |
Let's be clear. Did you or did you not create the posts on the other sites yourself? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286903 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How to make git push/pull work again? I fixed the problem by re-installing GIT. I also updated to the latest version instead of re-installing the existing version. I was running version 2.32.0-64 and am now running 2.37.2.2-64. However, the version update was unlikely the fix since the old version worked fine until a few days ago. ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286902 |
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286902 |
@#36377 It fails too. See addition to question. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286902 |
@#8046 See addition to question. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286902 |
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286902 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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How to make git push/pull work again? I have a bunch of GIT repositories on my laptop, which have their "origin" set to repositories on GitHub. After a commit in a local repository, I do git push -u origin master to update the remote repository on GitHub. This was all working fine for a long time, up until a few days ago. Accord... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286755 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How can I see old photos, so far down a Facebook page that scrolling down freezes the browser? I don't know anything about Facebook or Simple Autoscroll, but the first thing to diagnose this would be to remove the plugin. Remove or disable Simple Autoscroll, then see if it still freezes at the same place. If it doesn't, then you know Simple Autoscroll has a bug and not to use it. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286734 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Does embedding an image, in an email, debauch its appearance or quality? This is up to the how the email client displays the images, which is something you as the sender have no control over. For embedded images, the client usually re-sizes them to fit in the preview area. With attached images, the image file is viewed in a separate app, which is presumably optimized fo... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286580 |
500 GB SSD ... 300 GB of family videos ... Windows 11 consumes 200 GB ... 100 idle GB.
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286214 |
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— | about 3 years ago |