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by abrowne 9y ago
Two words: Reader View
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by abrowne 9y ago
Did they say they bought a pound at a time? The coffee I but is also sold as $ n per pound, but it's sold bulk, and I buy about ⅓ pound at a time, since that will last me a week or so.
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by abrowne 9y ago
I'm pretty map-aware and a bit of a pre-planner, but even my usual usage is to choose a destination and have Google give me directions. (Then maybe I'll tweak it or whatever.) Same with my 65-year-old dad who still buys a folding
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by abrowne 9y ago
Even calling them "historians" makes them (and their methods) seem more similar to modern historians(') than they were.
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by abrowne 9y ago
I think it's related to calling the boat "a grumpy little man".
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by abrowne 9y ago
Honest question: Can't you just open a new browser window then?
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by abrowne 9y ago
Fair enough – I certainly wouldn't mind a Qt version of Firefox – but as a user of GTK+-based desktops – lately mostly MATE, but also Xfce and sometimes GNOME – I like Firefox's GTK+ integration
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by abrowne 9y ago
Firefox already (ab)uses GTK+. Tabs in the titlebar will be optional.
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by abrowne 9y ago
Not particularly, I can't remember it not being there.
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by abrowne 9y ago
Tagentially, since Fx 57 will also kill legacy extensions like Htitle¹, I'm glad CSD (tabs in the titlebar) on Linux is showing some recent activity: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283299 1: https:&#x2F
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by abrowne 9y ago
Pinned tabs, with a notification for new activity?
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by abrowne 9y ago
> i'm not a fan of the wasted space around the centered but not-wide-enough url bar (urls are truncated even in the screenshots) Somewhere previously I saw a mockup screenshot that showed customizing the toolbar, and the URL bar was
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by abrowne 9y ago
Live mockups here (found via a link in Bugzilla; I don't know how accurate they are, but S[tephen] Horlander is a Mozilla designer): https://people-mozilla.org/~shorlander/projects/photon/Mocku...
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by abrowne 9y ago
> in the past was used primarily on servers Embedded devices, yes, but ARM on servers is more like ARM's perpetual future.
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by abrowne 9y ago
That was MS, not the carriers.
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by abrowne 9y ago
How about giant rats? https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/mar/05/h...
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by abrowne 9y ago
I think they meant paternalistic https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paternalistic
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by abrowne 9y ago
I think you mean jaguars.
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by abrowne 9y ago
> You can't just put a shiny UI in front of an IMAP server and get this sort of functionality, Have you tried FastMail? They use Cyrus... > you have to write your own mail server ... but I concede they (FastMail) do sponsor most
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by abrowne 9y ago
This link is a Readability-style view of https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/us/chinese-students-weste... It looks good, but it's a not good canonical link for sharing.
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by abrowne 9y ago
IIRC browsers in Win 8 "Metro" mode had some exceptions, like they could run non-Metro code in the background. This time around they don't seem to be offering this exception.
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by abrowne 9y ago
Yes, I meant Creative Cloud.
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by abrowne 9y ago
What's "major"? No Office (only OneNote), no Adobe Acrobat or CC...
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by abrowne 9y ago
Ditto Minnesota.
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by abrowne 9y ago
Apple-rhubarb (or pear-rhubarb) crisp is also great!
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by abrowne 9y ago
Mesh curtains?
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by abrowne 10y ago
You realize that in most cases "disabling UEFI" is really enabling a poorly-tested emulation of BIOS running on top of UEFI?
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Amazon Wants to Put a Camera and Microphone in Your Bedroom(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by abrowne 10y ago|1 comments
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by abrowne 10y ago
> Water is [...] highly illiquid Do you mean ice or steam? ;-)
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by abrowne 10y ago
There's one in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota¹, but AFAIK it only serves the downtown, i.e. large government and office buildings and hospitals. 1: http://www.districtenergy.com/

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