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by arthurfm 10y ago
Now that the MacBook Pro has USB-C is there any reason Apple couldn't implement some type of fast-charging technology like you find in smartphones? The OnePlus 3/3T in particular are amazingly fast. [1][2] Since getting my Pixel X
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> GitHub Plus [1][2] does that and more. Features 1. Displays repo size. 2. Displays each file size in every active branch (not applicable for folder / symlink). 3. Show download link for each individual file (not applicable
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A few photos... https://officesnapshots.com/2012/03/05/the-valve-offices/
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If you believe the rumours [1], the Kaby Lake MacBook Pros are more than 5 months away from being released. Apple will no doubt wait until September/October 2017 to release the updated models considering how well the current versions a
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> having no ZRAM Windows 10 has had memory compression [1] for quite a while now. On the PC I am on at the moment with 100+ Chrome tabs open, I have 1.3GB compressed out of a total of 16GB. [1] http://www.thewindowsclub.com&#x
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> it reminded me of something I heard about car platforms, years ago. Back in 2002, GM introduced a pair of cars in the European market both based on the same platform: the Vauxhall Vectra and the Saab 9-3. Your comment actually reminded
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mp3tag [1] works perfectly in Wine [2], does everything Tag&Rename does and is free. It also has a less cluttered interface in my opinion. :) [1] http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html [2] https://appdb.wine
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> Are there any good alternatives? You might want try the RWG Mobile app [1][2]. Although I have only used it within the UK, they appear to give you a real number rather than VOIP number. I'm not sure if this applies to the US or Ca
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> it seems to be per window not tab Chromium-based Ghost Browser [1] can do it per tab or tab group. It would be nice if Google implemented the same feature into Chrome since multiple profiles can be a hassle. [1] https://ghos
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> there are no ad-blockers for Chrome on Android I use AdGuard [1] (which is a system-wide ad-blocker for Android that doesn't require root privileges) along with Brave [2] set as a custom tab provider in Chromer [3] to get rid of p
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> Traffic lights will send out the same messages they send to humans by red/green lights to the cars using radio. Most of the traffic lights in Las Vegas already support vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, although you ne
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> it would be interesting to see how it will perform The performance looks surprisingly good... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_GlGglbu1U
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> Rather than convert weird old formats In theory it would also enable browsers to support 'wierd' new formats like BPG [1], FLIF [2] and Lepton [3] which are never going to get widespread support or any support at all. [1] ht
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> I hear good things and it's passed review at a few companies who know their stuff Tavis Ormandy found some really bad vulnerabilities in Dashlane (and 1Password). [1] [2] [3] [4] [1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p&#x2
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A colour emoji font is available for Linux [1][2] so it doesn't really make any sense to disable the feature on macOS. [1] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/enable-color-emoji-linux-... [2] https:/&#x2
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> The problem here is Chrome. Chrome 55 (due to be released on 6th December) is meant to use upto 50% less RAM [1]. [1] https://chromeunboxed.com/chrome-update-significantly-reduce...
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For me it was 212.5GB over the past 4 days according to Process Monitor. https://vgy.me/TbvxHh.png
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Here's a less ugly PowerShell version of your script that doesn't have any external dependencies and compares the version of the currently installed driver with the latest (non-beta) driver on NVIDIA's website. $URI = &#x
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> They need to say what's in it. Microsoft have... https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/con... https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/charlesa_us/2016/0
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Perhaps the reason Apple didn't include an HDMI port is because Skylake CPUs only support [1] HDMI 1.4 which means you can't output anything at 4K @ 60 Hz. They could have used an LS-Pcon to convert DP 1.2 into HDMI 2.0, but that&
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> Why isn't someone grabbing the chance to take a linux distro and polish it to get that audience? Isn't that what the elementaryOS [1] [2] developers are trying to do? [1] https://elementary.io/ [2] https:&#x
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> All the major 2FA attacks I have read about involved social engineering of the phone provider's customer service to number port. SS7 attacks don't. [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016
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> They claim the best phone camera yet it doesn't have OIS The video stabilization looked really good in the demo at the Google event [1] despite using the smartphone's gyroscope [2] to do what the camera would do if it had OIS
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Also, US buyers get a free Daydream VR headset (worth £69) if they pre-order, whereas UK buyers don't. Very annoying especially since a 128GB Pixel XL costs £819!
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> To crack a password with 70 bit entropy on a MacBook Pro Early 2013 it will take ~6 million years to complete all combinations on Normal complexity. On Intermediate complexity it will take ~24 million years and on Advanced complexity i
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If smartphone manufacturer replace the 3.5mm jack with a USB-C port to save space, doesn't adding a second USB-C port (which will remained unused most of the time) defeat the point and also increase their costs?
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> createinstallmedia method is reported to be working. Why wouldn't it work? createinstallmedia has been bundled with every single installer since Mavericks.
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> I don't think Adobe and Microsoft, the two biggest third party Mac developers, care what Apple imposes on the Mac App Store. Microsoft must care somewhat because they have spent a lot of time fully sandboxing Office 2016. Since On
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Would lossless and/or lossy compression algorithms perform better if each element of an audio track was compressed and stored separately (similar to the MP4-based STEM audio format [1], but without any limitations on the maximum number
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Pinterest acquired Instapaper. http://blog.instapaper.com/post/149374303661

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