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St Yorre is my favourite. I will have to seek out this Rozana !

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I remember around 25 years ago being in the big music hall in Philadelphia and feeling a bit like I was inside a giant cello.

The cheapest seats were in the coolest place architecturally because you were right up at the back, closest to the ceiling, which really was a bit like in these instrument photos.

Some pictures here from a quick search: https://voithandmactavish.com/projects/the-kimmel-center/

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You can get nasties like legionella growing in tanks if the temperature is hot but not hot enough to kill them. The insides of these tanks can be filled with oxidised metal bits too.

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When I was a kid I worked in a double glazing factory. Some of the old timers demonstrated just how hard it is to break a piece of toughened glass to me by whacking one with a bit of wood right in the middle of the pane, really really hard. Nothing happened. Then the dude tapped it really quite gently with a glass breaker in the corner (where it can't flex as much he said) and the whole thing exploded into those little cubes you see on the ground in dodgy car parks.

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Forklift is the one I settled on as well. I had the experience you describe with Path Finder before and finally I gave up.

Forklift has a couple of things that annoy me daily though. Often I will have to refresh a pane to see a file I know has recently been added. Eg in downloads. I may even have navigated to downloads after the download finished and it's still not visible until I refresh.

The other is that it doesn't reuse existing tabs if I "reveal in finder" or whatever, so after a while there's a million tabs open, most pointing to the same directory.

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I have a (badly made) variant of kill sticky that I use on my phone. It kills sticky, then messes with any code blocks it finds to make them full width and use a smaller font.

It drives me mad when I'm reading articles with embedded code blocks where the code has less room than the prose and sometimes a bigger font!

It works well on eg this page (https://www.programiz.com/swift-programming/inheritance), but maybe someone that knows what they're doing can make it work on GitHub. It'd be nice to not see those line numbers taking up half the width.

I'm on my phone so I've only the bookmarklet to hand:

   javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20i%3Bvar%20b%3Ddocument.querySelectorAll(%22body%20*%22)%3Bfor(i%3D0%3Bi%3Cb.length%3Bi%2B%2B)%7Bvar%20el%3Db%5Bi%5D%3Bif(getComputedStyle(el).position.match(%2Ffixed%7Csticky%2Fgi))%7Bel.parentNode.removeChild(el)%3B%7D%7Dconst%20c%3Ddocument.querySelectorAll(%22html%22)%3Bfor(i%3D0%3Bi%3Cc.length%3Bi%2B%2B)%7Bif(%22hidden%22%3D%3D%3DgetComputedStyle(c%5Bi%5D).overflow)%7Bc%5Bi%5D.style.setProperty('overflow'%2C%22scroll%22%2C%22important%22)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%3B(function()%7Bvar%20i%2Cj%2Cb%3Ddocument.querySelectorAll(%22pre%22)%3Bfunction%20setPropertiesOuter(el)%7Bel.style.setProperty('margin-left'%2C%22calc(-50vw%20%2B%2050%25)%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('margin-right'%2C%22calc(-50vw%20%2B%2050%25)%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('font-size'%2C%2211px%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('text-indent'%2C%220%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('border-left-width'%2C%220%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('border-right-width'%2C%220%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('border-radius'%2C%220%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('padding'%2C%2210px%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('width'%2C%22100vw%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('max-width'%2C%22100vw%22%2C%22important%22)%3B%7Dfunction%20setPropertiesInner(el)%7Bel.style.setProperty('font-size'%2C%2211px%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('text-indent'%2C%220%22%2C%22important%22)%7Dfor(i%3D0%3Bi%3Cb.length%3Bi%2B%2B)%7Bconst%20el%3Db%5Bi%5D%3BsetPropertiesOuter(el)%3Bvar%20descendants%3Del.querySelectorAll(%22*%22)%3Bfor(j%3D0%3Bj%3Cdescendants.length%3Bj%2B%2B)%7BsetPropertiesInner(descendants%5Bj%5D)%7D%7D%7D)()

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I remember hearing an interview with Richard Hipp where he said he pronounced it as you do ("rhymes with kryptonite" I think he may have said, or perhaps "like a mineral").

I'd always pronounced it in my head S-Q-L-Lite up until that point, but I much prefer this other way that I'd never considered. It rolls off the tongue easier and adds a bit of fancy.

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After driving a new Mercedes Vito (I can't describe how insane the controls of this vehicle are, but it has capacitive-touch buttons that you have to swipe to change the stereo volume ON THE STEERING WHEEL), I long for controls that look like this:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/11/20/multimedia/00xp-m...

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Such a great theme tune. That scream from mumm-ra is the icing on the cake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooVDv8kuzXY

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There's one on that page:

https://syntax.fm/show/779/why-sqlite-is-taking-over-with-br...

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I only half-conveyed what I was aiming to; I'm able to do what you're describing by editing the search-results scratch-file then saving it. The changes propagate to the target files with the save.

I've had a look though, and you were right: it's due to an extension that I can save from the scratch file:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jakearl....

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In VSCode if you do super-shift-f for find-in-project, at the top of the results pane, just right of where it's marked "x results in y files" there's a link button titled "Open in editor" which I believe does what you're describing. I'd actually forgotten about it until I read your comment so I'll start using it again now.

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Can anyone explain how this works? Are these satellites in a similar orbit to GPS satellites? Do signals from cell phones etc include timestamps? Or is there a high resolution way of detecting the direction of a signal?

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Maybe you already know this, but when I used to use sublime I'd save those dozens of files with cmd/ctrl-alt-s (save all open files). I think this is a universal-ish command for well-behaved applications on both windows and mac.

I miss sublime for how slick the ui feels, but I abandoned for the same reasons as you.

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One place I've seen it used was a lib by a guy called DHoerl for reading images that are too big to fit in memory (this was years ago on iOS).

A very over-simplified and probably a bit incorrect description of what it did was to create a smaller version of the image - one that could fit in memory - by sub sampling every nth pixel, which was addressed via mmap.

It actually dealt with jpegs so I have no idea how that bit worked as they are not bitmaps.

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Thanks!

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Could you post that script somewhere for us? I'd be interested to see if there are annoyances I'm just living with in there.

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That's a bit I find surprising. I would have thought that working out if the pad was up to the job would be one of the easier rocket-science tasks they were faced with.

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Can you tell us a bit about a project you've embedded it in? Was it done to provide a scripting interface to an application? Something else?

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I agree with the sentiment of every response I've read to your comment so far. The agressive tactics, paywall, general sense of sleaze all make me actively avoid following medium links.

But even ignoring all that, medium is the worst place for any article about programming because the code blocks do everything to make it harder to read them. There's no syntax highlighting, the lines wrap and the container the code is in pads the text to make a narrower column than the body of the article.

That's the opposite of what I want. Especially on mobile! It's one of the sites that make me wonder if its developers have ever tried using it.

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