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toddmazierski 4 months ago | link | on: Ask crustaceans: Did your Android device just mysteriously auto-update apps?

I’m glad you asked. Just a few hours ago, my Moto G5 suddenly turned off and booted back up again. No problems with the device like this until today.

The crashes continued (after about a minute of uptime) until I enabled the “Google App” app. I disabled it months ago to avoid seeing or interacting with the unremovable search bar widget.

I’m very interested in hearing what happened. I have all auto-update functions disabled. Well, at least I thought I did!
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  caleb 4 months ago | link
  
  so now you have to deal with the search bar widget?
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    toddmazierski 4 months ago | link
    
    I apparently do, unless I install a completely different launcher.
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      flyingfisch 4 months ago | link
      
      Arrow launcher is amazing, I don’t know if you’ve tried it. :)
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        toddmazierski 4 months ago | link
        
        I have not. Thank you for the suggestion!

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toddmazierski 4 months ago | link | on: Microsoft/winfile: Original Windows File Manager (winfile) with enhancements

Neat! As mentioned in the README, the author created an original_plus tag if you’re more interested in seeing the historical artifact than the modern enhancements.

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toddmazierski 1 year ago | link | on: Introducing TJSON, a stricter, typed form of JSON

Neat! Inline tagging seems like it might be useful in some contexts.

I wonder if you could express Hexadecimal, Base32, etc. with JSON Schema instead (example), though, which also has support for required fields and conditional dependencies, and is implemented in several languages.
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  bascule 1 year ago | link
  
  The goal of TJSON is to be a self-describing, schema-free format.
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    xcombelle 1 year ago | link
    
    I don’t get why the type should be self describing, looks like that introduce a lot of clutter

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burntsushi 2 years ago | link | on: Which unheard-of tools do you use and recommend?
- par - A really handy utility for reflowing text in a particular column limit. Works well in source code with comments or email quotes. My favorite bit is that the man page contains an apology for its complexity. :-)
- git gui is one of the few tools I’m willing to leave my terminal for. I use it in particular for committing things in patch mode.
- bpython - A souped up Python interpreter. Not quite to the level of ipython, but has niceties like auto completion and doc string snippets.
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  vadik 2 years ago | link
  
  git gui
  
  Not tig?
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    burntsushi 2 years ago | link
    
    I do actually use tig daily but I thought it was just a viewer for history? git gui is nice because it makes effective use of the mouse for patch mode commits.
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      vadik 2 years ago | link
      
      For some reason I was sure tig could commit, but I was mistaken.
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        toddmazierski 2 years ago | link
        
        You’re not mistaken. :-) In tig’s “Status view”, you can stage individual files, chunks, and lines for committing. This blog post is a nice overview of tig’s features.
        
        I use tig every day and often recommend it to colleagues who git add or git add -i.
        
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        vadik 2 years ago | link
        
        I was mistaken about being mistaken! (I normally just git add -p and use tig only as a viewer.)
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  pilkch 1 year ago | link
  
  I’m definitely addicted to git gui and gitg.