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811.
by abrowne 11y ago
It does in Ubuntu starting with 15.10 (as I mentioned). I don't know about Debian.
812.
by abrowne 11y ago
Another (fairly) recent improvement for apt, but on the UI side, is the apt command [1]. It "combines the most commonly used commands from apt-get and apt-cache. The commands are the same as their apt-get/apt-cache counterparts
813.
by abrowne 11y ago
Google search the URL and follow the link. Works for FT, WSJ and many others who have some agreement with Google.
814.
by abrowne 11y ago
There aren't really many decent small phones. I have a first-gen Moto E, and it's about as big I as I'd like, but the new versions are larger. Same with the Moto X. The best current options seem to be the Sony Xperia Z x Com
815.
by abrowne 11y ago
I loved my Motofone too. I've also been thinking a smartwatch might be the best chance for a small phone these days. Thanks for the link to the Pine.
816.
by abrowne 11y ago
I think 90–100 minutes is perfect. Anything longer and I'd prefer multiple episodes.
817.
by abrowne 11y ago
Key sentence: "It's developing the software with $100 million in funding from Hong Kong-based Tsinghua Unigroup International, a subsidiary ultimately controlled by the Chinese government and the prestigious Tsinghua University i
818.
by abrowne 11y ago
And it looks like it includes redshift-gtk to give it graphical controls. Most packages I've used (Fedora, Ubuntu) split them up as redshift and redshift-gtk, and I've only never installed redshift-gtk, despite running a full Gnom
819.
by abrowne 11y ago
More about "grue" in other languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_of_blue_and_green_...
820.
by abrowne 11y ago
I've enjoyed using Airbnb, and I think the same about myself, but it's hard to rent a place and only get considerate guests.
821.
by abrowne 11y ago
Microsoft scans URLs included in Skype chats to e.g. warn about malicious sites, so that part at least can't be solely P2P.
822.
by abrowne 11y ago
I don't use iOS, but if I did, I'd use it just for multiple search engines, awesomebar history search, and history/bookmark/tab sync.
823.
by abrowne 11y ago
firefox: chrome for safari.
824.
by abrowne 11y ago
While you can plant fruit seeds, the fruit you'd grow won't be very similar to the original. That's why most fruit are propagated by grafting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_tree_propagation
825.
by abrowne 11y ago
Linux distributions can and do support Secure Boot. I know Fedora, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE do. FreeBSD is planning[1]. [1]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SecureBoot
826.
by abrowne 11y ago
The tweet says "V8 is replacing its baseline JIT with an interpreter, not unlike JSC and SpiderMonkey".
827.
by abrowne 11y ago
> The fact that Denver, Kansas City, MO and Omaha all flank the state and contain more developed business centers also makes company development unlikely. > I wonder what has made Minnesota so successful. These are related. Between Ch
828.
by abrowne 11y ago
It could also be a desire for linguistic purity: pinc may have been borrowed first but then someone though it wasn't "Welsh enough" so they coined (the rather logical) gwyngoch .
829.
by abrowne 11y ago
I don't know if any language lacks compound words. Your first example is shard with English: (River) Dart + mouth -> Dartmouth (also Plymouth), Dart + moor -> Dartmoor.
830.
by abrowne 11y ago
The mobile i5, at least he dual-core U-series, do have hyper-threading.
831.
by abrowne 11y ago
If it's any consolation, these BBC {Future, Travel} articles are generally pretty insipid.
832.
by abrowne 11y ago
My Mac is only connected to Gmail to sync contacts, but when I authenticate with Google, mail is in the list of permissions. Now I'm worried this could happen to me, even though I don't have mail checked.
833.
by abrowne 11y ago
Krunner is my favorite part of KDE. Glad it's part of this project.
834.
by abrowne 11y ago
I'm not a regular Fedora users, but I was following this enough to notice that it was not default until version 22. There were builds for testing via copr (like PPAs for Fedora).
835.
by abrowne 11y ago
This too is my reason for looking forward to Gtk+3!
836.
Firefox nightlies for Linux are now using Gtk+3(glandium.org)
166 points by abrowne 11y ago|123 comments
837.
by abrowne 11y ago
Two words: reading mode.
838.
by abrowne 11y ago
That would annoy me too, but I've never noticed it. My main laptop is a Core 2 Duo, so not a speed demon. Have you tried with extensions disabled and/or with a new profile?
839.
by abrowne 11y ago
That was my thought too. It answered how and when , not why .
840.
by abrowne 11y ago
As I posted elsewhere in this thread, with click to play your browser still reports to the website that you have Flash installed. Sites still often don't send non-Flash content unless they thinks you don't have it installed.

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