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What is the max number of function keys for a keyboard?
Quick backstory:
I am looking at building a custom mechanical keyboard (custom case and firmware) I was looking around and found a site that gave me keycodes for javascript and it shows there are 32 ...
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Open unity application via command line wih application's graphics off
On Unity documentation we can see there is a way to run a standalone player via command line without the graphics by typing -nographics
I'm using the following command on a mac terminal, but it is ...
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Why rsync keeps sending same files each invocation?
I'm using rsync to copy file from Linux to Mac over SSH.
My command looks like this:
rsync \
--exclude FOO \
--exclude BAR \
-e ssh \
-rclpvih \
--delete \
--stats \
/local/...
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Unable to redirect `coproc` streams using FD 5 and 6, but not 3 and 4. Why?
On OSX, while attempting to expose a service implemented as a bash script, and started with coproc, to a client implemented as a bash script, by passing the IO streams of the service to the client, I ...
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Copy interrupted and difficulties to take it over by relaunch with cp -u or rsync
I have a huge data to transfer between 2 macOS (1.3 TB).
Unfortunately, my copy from mac1 to mac2 (by mounting the concerned directory of mac1 on mac2 as network directory), the copy with 'rsync' (...
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lsof is not working for me on Mac OS X 10.13 - gives error, I'm trying to find process accessing a specific IP address
lsof isn't working for me. I'm trying to use instructions in posts such as How do I find out which program and process ID accesses a given IP address in macOS? to find which process is accessing a ...
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Possibility of running a MacOS VM at decent speeds on a 3960X
I wanted to know if I could run a MacOS VM at decent speeds on a System using a Threadripper 3960X. It needs to be fast enogh for me to build iOS Applications on it and run an iPhone Emulator to test ...
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ssh -X warning: X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0
When I run ssh -X my_host I get the error:
"X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0". (ssh -Y my_host gives the same error)
My host is a Gentoo Linux machine and my client is a macOS ...
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Cannot format microSD card
My microSD card I have used in a MavicMini drone does not work anymore. Last time it worked was before the drone's crash. The drone did not break, but the microSD card that was used in the drone acts ...
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How do nested relative symlinks behave across operating systems and with git?
Across operating systems and when using git, I am trying to figure out how a relative symlink behaves when it is "inside" another symlink.
Here is an example:
a (file)
b (folder)
a (...
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How to prevent people to see my password when I'm tytping it? [closed]
How to prevent people to see my password when I'm tytping it ?
For example, if I type Canage01 and my sister look at me focus on my keyboard when I type it, she saw it.
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Custom shortcuts (gnome/kde/linux styled) in osx
I have recently changed jobs and they gave me a MacBook to work with. The problem is that I have zero experience with this OS (I have used different linux boxes since I can recall) and I cannot get ...
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Command 'date +%W' does not return week 00
Manual page for date(1) says:
%W week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
I assumed there exists a week number 00, and I handle such week in my program, but once I decided to ...
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"Renaming" Dropbox (Personal) folder as a plain Dropbox folder? Looking for smylink command on all OS
Dropbox's desktop client will create two separate Dropbox folders if one uses a linked personal account with an enterprise account (in my case, this is a Dropbox account within an institution's own ...
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Convert .wav to .mp3 with specific codec using LAME
I have two audio files, One is .mp3 format ( extension is .wav but the file is .mp3 ) and other is actual .wav format. I am trying to convert actual .wav format same as first .mp3 file.
First .mp3 ...
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