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by avian 13y ago
This is not as strange as it might look at the first glance. A lot of ordinary characters can be represented as two (or more) Unicode code points - for instance an unaccented Latin letter and a combining accent. Flags emoji seem more like a
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by avian 13y ago
> 4. Provide a 'compose secure email' option There should be only one "compose" button. If you have exchanged public keys with the recipient, all content sent to her address should be transparently encrypted, period.
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by avian 13y ago
This article mentions that a secondary objective for the launch is to recover the first stage by landing in the Pacific. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/006/130928preview/
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by avian 13y ago
The effect discussed here averages itself out over the course of one year. Leap years and leap seconds are required due to other effects that don't (leap years because of the non-integer ratio between year length and day length and lea
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by avian 13y ago
Incidentally, I'm a desktop Linux user for more than 10 years. I don't mind having to do annoying things once or twice to set things up. I do mind having to do them each and every time I pick up the computer, especially when I hav
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by avian 13y ago
It really depends what you want to do. If you just run a chroot inside the stock ChromeOS then what you say is true. But if you're dual-booting to another Linux distribution or just replace ChromeOS altogether (that's another issu
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by avian 13y ago
All of these "install ... on Chromebook" articles fail to mention that on recent Chromebooks without a physical developer mode switch (Samsung's ARM-based one, Pixel) you have to press a specific hidden keyboard combination a
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by avian 13y ago
I'm curious as to what was the motivation behind this project at Google. It seems to me that the only benefit of writing something like this in pure C would be performance gains over existing parsers, but it specifically says in the RE
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by avian 13y ago
Does anyone have a link to any article about their previous white space radio effort? I'm interested in learning more about their failure in that field and what were the hurdles he is referring to. I can't seem to find them on the YC summer
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by avian 15y ago
I'm not familiar with the chemistry she is using, but since the surface area of her electrodes is very small I think it is more likely that this works as a rechargeable battery (an electrochemical cell) than a capacitor (storing energy in a