alpaca128

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by alpaca128 8y ago
On a related note, while scrolling towards the second half of the article, the site started breaking apart in front of me. By the time I reached the comments the whole article had become invisible, seemingly blocked by a pop-up background t
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by alpaca128 8y ago
Unfortunately YouTube also deletes the title when a video is being removed. I regularly have a couple of "deleted video" entries in my favorites list and I don't have the slightest idea what these videos were about.
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by alpaca128 8y ago
I too have a Blackberry(Passport) for three years now, and if it breaks I'm planning on getting another one. The reason is simple: The OS is amazing and still ahead of all competitors in aspects that are important to me, it does everyt
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by alpaca128 8y ago
This is just a matter of target audience. I think if you want ordinary people to use your OS a flickering boot will get noticed and not make a great first impression. The users who don't care at all about it are probably already using
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by alpaca128 8y ago
Agreed. I use !bangs so regularly I don't even notice it except when I sit at another PC and it doesn't work. And I often use the QR feature to quickly send links to my phone.
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by alpaca128 8y ago
It is irrelevant what may have happened between Apple and Intel. Apple decided to put a CPU into a case that can't handle its heat. We can safely assume Apple knew full well about this and still threw the thing onto the market acting a
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by alpaca128 8y ago
The linked article mentions that one of the people involved died due to an infection after a mosquito bite in the same time period, but that there's no known case where anyone was injured due to stuff in the tomb.
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by alpaca128 8y ago
What I find just as bad are autoplaying videos popping up somewhere at the side or sometimes even staying at the edge of the screen when you scroll. They usually don't get blocked by adblockers and are just as annoying as pop-up ads wi
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by alpaca128 8y ago
Is there a way to point it to a different Firefox installation path? It only looks at Program Files{x86} and then quits as it doesn't find the FF installation at Program Files.
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by alpaca128 8y ago
With a long tap the phone would immediately "bounce" back a bit, while holding the finger down would delay that. I'm not sure how reliable that would be, though.
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by alpaca128 8y ago
Who/what created the creator then? And please don't say "the creator has always been there", because the same could be said about a universe to make a creator redundant...
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by alpaca128 9y ago
Sounds good and I really like the design choices regarding file management and sync, but honestly I don't see any advantage over just using plain Vim(which is already tuned to my preferences). Paired with a few plugins it offers all th
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by alpaca128 9y ago
The current consoles are using AMD/ARM processors, probably they aren't affected that much. It could be still a problem though, considering many console games use all kinds of hacks to barely run at the target resolution/fram
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by alpaca128 9y ago
A relative's phone calls got disconnected very regularly until she covered the antenna with tape. If nobody in the real world had any issues with it nobody would have discovered it in the first place.
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by alpaca128 10y ago
Path tracing is just like ray tracing with randomized deviations of the rays and reflections, and this is repeated many times to reduce the noise. This can also be done with shadow rays to some extent, for soft shadows. (But it seems like e
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by alpaca128 10y ago
> I think that with dyslexia printed words are slightly easier because it's easier to see the edge of the ink What e-book reader have you tried? The more expensive Kindles have a high resolution, on my Paperwhite the edges of the le
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by alpaca128 10y ago
It's not just psychological. According to some measurements the cold light from screens, neon lights, white LEDs etc. causes an increased heart rate, making it more difficult to fall asleep. The Voyage is supposed to have a warmer back
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by alpaca128 10y ago
What happens if I just change the password immediately afterwards? I guess they won't check every single account, but if they check mine would they assume I told them the wrong password?