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Comment Post #291170 Does https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-google-chrome help?
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24 days ago
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Answer A: Best practices for small, internet-critical company's ISP for maximal uptime
> [Comcast] said normally small businesses get a plan from a second internet provider, for example AT&T, to reduce the chances of the internet going down. I am wondering if that is actually the best solution, or if it is an inefficient use of money. The typical solution to a situation where you ca...
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about 2 months ago
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Edit Post #290179 Initial revision 5 months ago
Answer A: How to create a dump of a complete MariaDB how the data is at a single point in time?
I don't have a ready answer to the question in the title, but with regards to > The plan was to disable the MariaDB service so that no new writes to the database can be made (that have a risk of not being included in the dump). This can be achieved without preventing access to the database engi...
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5 months ago
Edit Post #290150 Initial revision 6 months ago
Answer A: What does this suspicious URL structure do?
I think to some extent, you actually answered your own question, possibly without realizing it. A URL is a specialization of a URI. (Or more technically accurate, a URI is a generalization of a URL.) URIs are required to specify a scheme (`https`, `mailto`, `gopher`, `tel`, ...) but they aren't ne...
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6 months ago
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6 months ago
Comment Post #290062 I found a workaround for my particular situation: [Windows Setup can read the `autounattend.xml` file from separate media](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/automate-windows-setup?view=windows-11#use-a-usb-flash-drive). That was enough to address my immediate p...
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6 months ago
Comment Post #290081 I seem to recall that you use Mac OS X. If you're running that `git` command in a terminal, you might be able to use `awk` to transform the commit hashes into usable links. Try something like: $ git log | awk '/^commit/ { print "https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/commit/"$2 }' You can do th...
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6 months ago
Edit Post #290062 Initial revision 6 months ago
Question How to add a file to a >5GB bootable UDF ISO?
I have a moderately large ISO image (>5 GB)[^1] to which I want to add a single file[^2], and I want to do that on Linux (preferably using only software which is available in Debian's main and contrib sections). I also need to do so without breaking the bootability of the image. After a lot of web...
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6 months ago
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8 months ago
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Answer A: Determine encoding of text
Determining the encoding of binary data representing text is a notoriously difficult problem, which basically comes down to probabilities. UTF-8 is one of the few exceptions that I know of, because even absent a byte order mark or out-of-band metadata about the character set and encoding, UTF-8 ha...
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8 months ago
Comment Post #288386 You should be able to open the DOM inspector and in the middle pane (the per-tag styles list) use the `:hov` feature on some element to see how the hover interacts with the rest of the document tree.
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10 months ago
Edit Post #287505 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Answer A: Adding option to pandoc call from RStudio
I assumed that RStudio would get the path from somewhere, rather than it being hardcoded, and based on the response in a comment thread, that somewhere is `RSTUDIOPANDOC` in `.Rprofile`. So you should be able to adjust the path there, to point RStudio at a wrapper script that adds the parameter yo...
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #287373 Hi AZeed, and welcome to Power Users and Codidact! I'm afraid this question isn't really answerable *as it stands*, because "why" is inherently guesswork and opinion (unless someone in a position of having access to likely-privileged information sees this and decides to answer, any attempt at answeri...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #287373 Question closed over 1 year ago
Comment Post #287340 Building slightly on Olin Lathrop's suggestion, does rstudio actually invoke `pandoc` using an absolute path? I'm thinking that if it doesn't, you could put a small script in some directory that occurs before /opt/homebrew/bin in your $PATH. On the other hand, if it does, consider from where it gets ...
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #287170 @#36377 I've added another possible solution (and a half).
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over 1 year ago
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Comment Post #287170 @#36377 I'm glad I was able to help.
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over 1 year ago
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Edit Post #287170 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Answer A: Setting a cookie with a userscript
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Greasemonkey will let you do this, at least not directly. Per GreaseSpot's description of `@run-at document-start`, that value maps to when `document.readyState == 'loading'`. Per MDN, this maps to that "the `document` is still loading". As far as I can tell ...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #287048 Question closed over 1 year ago
Comment Post #286871 The domain name you used is actually registered by someone. I edited the question to use one of the RFC 2606 reserved domain names instead. Please edit further if my edit changed the meaning of the post.
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #286871 Post edited:
example.com is among the domains reserved by RFC 2606 for example purposes; please use those instead of someone's actual registered domain name
over 1 year ago
Comment Post #286831 Is it a hard requirement to use `cp` for this, or would other file-copying tools also be acceptable? (I imagine `rsync` just might be useful here, for example, but haven't looked in detail.) You tagged this "linux", so are we to assume GNU coreutils `cp` or do you need POSIX `cp` compatibility so tha...
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #286781 Given only an image, I think about the best we can suggest is to use an image editor (either GUI or command-line-driven) to make the change; that's clearly suboptimal, because it's going to be extremely specific to this one instance. But if you include *how* the image was generated, and ideally also ...
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #286770 It's worth noting that the comment actually was posted; twice, even, presumably because you tried again once. (It would be great if you can confirm that you retried exactly once.) I have deleted one of the two threads so as to not clutter up the page and risk the discussion being split between the...
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #286631 I'm all for letting people express themselves, so *please* don't take this as an attempt at censorship because it really isn't, but *please, think twice before you use the word "undoubtedly"* when introducing whatever problem you are asking about. You tend to use that one a lot in questions that you ...
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #286631 A footnote reference isn't itself a paragraph, so the formatting for it is not a paragraph style; thus it's hardly surprising that you can't customize paragraph styling for it. I don't have an installation of Word handy at the moment, but since border formatting appears to be available based on the s...
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #286599 It would probably be beneficial if the question specifies the version number (by release number or build number) that introduced this behavior. Can you edit to include that information?
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #286554 Considering how much can be done with either, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if that setting can be changed through a Powershell script and/or using WMIC. That said, I don't really know where to begin looking for the correct incantation.
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almost 2 years ago
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Edit Post #286391 Initial revision almost 2 years ago
Answer A: reduce gzip archive size if files are similar
That Wikipedia quote is correct, yet somewhat wrong or at the very least misleading. A key term to understand is the window size (sometimes called the block size) of a data compression flow. By necessity, every compression algorithm works on chunks of data. These chunks of data can be large or ...
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #286379 Sometimes graphical programs will emit diagnostic information to wherever they were started from. If you're starting the browser through the GUI, this will usually be invisible, but if you start it from a terminal, you'll be able to see it. I don't have access to a Mac, but it shouldn't be much more ...
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #286378 Firefox stores your profile with settings in a hidden directory named `.mozilla` (actually `.mozilla/firefox/<something>`) under your home directory; in \*nix parlace, `~/.mozilla`). If you uninstall and reinstall the browser through the package manager, that would normally leave that directory untou...
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almost 2 years ago
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about 2 years ago
Comment Post #286102 @#53919 It's not just the first paragraphs; the whole question appears to be identical, including imgur image IDs and link targets.
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about 2 years ago