Andrex

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by Andrex 4y ago
Ars has always been consistently in-depth and technically insightful, somewhere in-between TechCrunch/The Verge and Phoronix/XDA Devs. My only minor complaint is that Ron Amadeo is so transparently bitter about every little bit of
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by Andrex 4y ago
The first sign I should probably stop visiting The Verge was Nilay Patel's fashion meltdown[1] Then a few years later they DMCA'd a bunch of YouTubers making fun of a Verge-produced PC building video[2]. 1. https://www.
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by Andrex 4y ago
I think Google's fears about releasing such technology too early will eventually be justified, but for the time being it's an open question. Maybe "move fast and break things" shouldn't apply to every aspect of tech
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by Andrex 4y ago
As someone using their Voice number as their main number since 2010, thank you!
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by Andrex 4y ago
Hit Ctrl+O in Chrome and pick the file. Sometimes server MIME types (or the download attribute on anchor links) force a download instead of letting Chrome just load the PDF directly. But it can definitely open local PDFs, I chucked Acrobat
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by Andrex 4y ago
Give Linux a try. Even if you did before and hated it. Flatpaks and Proton are really coming into their own. And not in a "year-of-Linux-desktop" way where it's perpetually "almost ready" for 5 years. So many of my
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by Andrex 4y ago
We'd be 15-20 years further down a dead-end, possibly.
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by Andrex 4y ago
> String.prototype.replaceAll 14-year old me hacking up my first JS on Freewebs.com is doing backflips right now. ...And 31-year old me is saying "What the fuck took them so long?"
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by Andrex 4y ago
This is being fixed in Android 14[0], fwiw. 0. https://www.xda-developers.com/android-14-new-apis-app-store...
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by Andrex 4y ago
The last section begs Ex Machina (2014, dir. Alex Garland) comparisons. I'm a little wigged out.
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by Andrex 4y ago
Certain children would probably love cigarettes too, absent proper regulation.
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by Andrex 4y ago
> Shadow DOM seemed like a tightening/winnowing/control thing This is useful when you need to apply constraints on teammates, same as applying a linter to your project's CSS. You need to guarantee your internal components
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by Andrex 4y ago
I was always really bullish on Web Components since the first whispers started... Then I wanted to start building non-JS websites. And suddenly "Web" Components just weren't an option. Now I've dug even further to SSR, a
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by Andrex 4y ago
Nintendo's secret sauce is their historically-huge (way above average) R&D investment. And for all the slack they get about being too traditional, the one thing I can say about following the company for 20 years is you never know w
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by Andrex 4y ago
> It feels a little "anarchist" to say "down with all social media! it's most likely a total net negative! nobody should be allowed to enjoy it because it isn't inclusive of those who might be left out!" The
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by Andrex 4y ago
Google realized this years ago, hence Google Now (the voice interface) then Google Assistant. The problem right now is their backend isn't competitive, but Bard could change that.
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by Andrex 4y ago
If OP had written their comment differently, I would have approached it differently is all I can say. I think my comment history would bear that out. Fwiw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34226798
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by Andrex 4y ago
"Why didn't they just" If you ever start a sentence this way, please, just do 30 seconds of Googling instead of posting the comment.
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by Andrex 4y ago
> This week, with attention on the suspected Chinese spy balloon over the United States, the U.S. Naval Institute posted on Facebook, “When the USS New York was sailing towards Iwo Jima in 1945, the crew spotted a silver sphere flying hi
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by Andrex 4y ago
I'm curious if you've used Chrome OS recently, there's a lot of good work there too. Touch is there if you need it with the keyboard open, then goes into tablet mode if the laptop is convertible or detachable. The touch/
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by Andrex 4y ago
> > browsers are almost unrecognizable in featureset to the point they resemble an OS unto themselves > No one asked for this. My personal opinion is that everything app-like about browsers needs to be undone, yesterday, and they s
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by Andrex 4y ago
> maybe find someone who's a fan to write the piece Objectivity in journalism may not exist, but most poor quality journalism I find is directly correlated to how big a fanboy that person is about the particular subject. You need in
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by Andrex 4y ago
It's an obvious area for a PR boost if the chips are looking down. I can see the HN headline now... "Rust support added to Flutter [34,432 karma]"
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by Andrex 4y ago
This is why dogfooding is extremely important. You want the people making the reams to feel those 1000 papercuts.
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Google Fi customer accounts hacked in SIM attack related to recent breach(9to5google.com)
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by Andrex 4y ago
Switching from GTK2 to GTK3 and online extensions management (npm for Gimp plugins) are what's most exciting to me (even though we've already moved onto GTK4...)
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by Andrex 4y ago
https://developer.gimp.org/core/roadmap/#animation-and-multi... > New XCF format [Discussed] An archive-based format should allow us more easily to load data on-use, therefore allowing much bigger project files
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by Andrex 4y ago
Maybe disclose you're the CEO and founder of Plivo, for people who haven't been following the other threads.
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by Andrex 4y ago
Or the A24 horror version, "Heartphish."
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by Andrex 4y ago
AT&T has always been very bad and not good.

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