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by binkHN 4y ago
This API exists in Android.
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> you HAVE to give contact access... Some apps require this, but the Android API allows apps to access very specific Contact information without having full access to all Contact data.
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> You can barely navigate the web now with a new low end computer... You can barely navigate the web now with almost any computer. I have a high-end laptop and opening a few tabs from various sites on the Internet will cause the CPU usag
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by binkHN 4y ago
I think I just answered my own question via https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/ . It appears some kind of “3D display” is being used.
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This reminds me of Cisco's Telepresence. Anyone know how this is different?
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> ...Pixel 3. ... The camera opens when I click the camera button. I still have a Pixel 5 and one of my favorite features is double pressing the power button to activate the camera. It works so well that my camera is ready to go before I
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> I love Linux systems. My daily driver ... runs Ubuntu... But despite the fact that it's 2022, I still have to spend at least a few hours every month fixing things. Perhaps in some crazy way, because this has his own set of pros an
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> The funny thing about this comment is that SQLite is as close to the gold standard of software quality that we have in the open source world. SQLite is the only program that I've ever used that reliably gets better with every rele
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> ...would anyone with more knowledge compare the two (Javalin and KTor)? I'd love to hear more on this as well. While I've done some minor stuff with Ktor, because JetBrains, I too would love some insight related to these as w
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I have to agree with this. Many Win32 things are disappearing, Azure is running on Linux and Microsoft is porting their major Win32 cash cow services to run on Linux as well.
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> With all this ... PWA focused development a cannot shake a feeling that we add an extra layer of a "runtime" on top of an operating system... Is this not ChromeOS? A little OS, a lot of browser and little else?
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by binkHN 4y ago
Yes, fast Wi-Fi is a challenge with the BSDs. That said, the venerable OpenBSD supports 11ac for some chipsets.
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This is not an area I work with much. That said, I feel this area is still in its infancy and I’ve only played around with the very simple Ktor. But from a language aspect alone, I’m just so much more productive when cranking out code in K
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> The nice thing is that the JVM is a big tent. If you aren't a fan of Java, Kotlin or Scala might suit your taste. This is his conclusion, and I, well, agree. While I was well versed in Java, once I started playing around with Kotl
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by binkHN 4y ago
I concur! I have a few ChromeOS devices at home and, more often than not, it's a simple pleasure. And now with ChromeOS Flex, even more hardware can become more pleasurable. Yes, I know there are some downsides with Flex, but, in this
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by binkHN 4y ago
There is some effort here—see chrome://flags#adaptive-charging at https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/chromeos-105-release-a... .
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I concur. While I know all the world is Linux, I run OpenBSD on many of my hobby systems. I love OpenBSD’s simplicity, but, IMHO, it’s missing too many things to be a good laptop OS. With ChromeOS I get the support a laptop environment r
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by binkHN 4y ago
Wow—I didn’t know this stuff was being done. While this has been shouted from rooftops for a while now, BANKS and related are still using SMS to verify things—this is yet another shout as to why SMS should not be used for 2FA.
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by binkHN 4y ago
> Every other distribution is years behind Google in terms of tooling. Can you expand on this? Perhaps a URL with more detail?
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by binkHN 4y ago
This is great news! Chromebooks don’t have to be low spec machines! I recent bought a machine off of the list at https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11513094?hl=e... just so that I could have a decent
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by binkHN 4y ago
I use this. It works, but it's dated and doesn't work consistently enough that it should be relied upon in any capacity.
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by binkHN 4y ago
I pay for YouTube Premium, and happily so. There’s A LOT of great content there—probably even better content than Netflix. And you want to know what else? While it’s just okay, it includes ad-free music from YouTube Music. So, win, win?
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Explore the Solar System in 3D – Google Arts and Culture(artsandculture.google.com)
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I have a similar story. I had an itch about improving my communications and scratched it. My biggest issue was the App Store itself and I documented my start at https://medium.com/@mtc.dev/my-first-android-app-story-3
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I used this to solve some complicated calendar scheduling routines for an app I wrote in Kotlin. Originally, I used some brute force/search methods to handle this, but the approach outlined here provided far better results, and it too
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I concur with this. I really thought Android's Instant apps would be a major boon because of this. If you're not aware, Instant apps are Android apps that download, and temporarily install, the most commonly used app components fi
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by binkHN 4y ago
I couldn't agree more. It just creates an unlimited amount of confusion. Here's a write-up about a Google engineer that bounced his head across numerous related issues as I couldn't readily find much of his content today: ht
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It's not just you. I know a physically fit personal trainer that has had long COVID for over 8 months now.
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You aren't wrong. This is part of the reason I tend to buy ThinkPads; a large portion of the OpenBSD developers use ThinkPads and dogfood OpenBSD on them!
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I haven't used much of FreeBSD in quite a while and have largely settled for the simplicity that is OpenBSD, even with all its varied drawbacks. However, I was surprised with some other things you mentioned as I thought FreeBSD would d

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