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by cannam 8y ago
I think Apple's touchpads are horrible. They're too grippy and too big. (I have nothing constructive to add here, I just wanted there to be some opposition to the idea that Apple have the perfect touchpad)
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by cannam 8y ago
I recently sold an XPS 13, an i7 9543 model from 2015, which was the first laptop in a long time that I regretted buying. I got it as a Windows machine and never ran anything else on it. Technically it was broadly fine. The specs were OK, i
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by cannam 8y ago
Yes, I agree - I think their approach is perfectly practical. A four-year-old laptop (2014) doesn't feel wildly different from a current one. An eight-year-old laptop (2010) is a somewhat different proposition: you're 64-bit if yo
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by cannam 8y ago
Using the :exec REPL command. Idris> putStrLn "Hello, world!" io_bind (prim_write "Hello, world!\n") (\__bindx => io_pure ()) : IO () Idris> :exec putStrLn "Hello, world!" Hello, wo
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by cannam 8y ago
Thank you! This is a really nice comment that gives plenty to think about. It's delightful that, two days later, you actually have expanded in compelling detail on what initially looked to be something of a throwaway remark. I think th
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by cannam 8y ago
Yes. Indeed there appear to be Airbnb-management companies that help you to ignore it, by inventing fake "host" personas to list your property under and changing it to a different host every now and again. Airbnb themselves don&#x
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by cannam 8y ago
Very effectively. The English versions are celebrated almost as much for the translations by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge as for everything else. Puns are translated quite freely; in many places they make up new ones. See e.g. https:&#x
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by cannam 8y ago
Can you expand on that?
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by cannam 8y ago
I recall "minimalism" in documentation being a theme during the 1990s, which I believe was influential in the design of documentation for Windows 95. I'd be interested in hearing more if anyone here knows about this. The orig
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by cannam 8y ago
Trouble is, a PIN code is useful as a very casual line of defence (threat model: your brother picking up the device and messing with your stuff). It's terrible that the obvious means to avoid that threat is also something that could lo
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by cannam 8y ago
Oh, this is a painful topic. A couple of years ago my son forgot the (3-digit!) PIN for his iPod touch. He tried various possibilities, with the device responding with increasingly long lockouts between attempts, until it locked him out per
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Rubber Band Library v1.8.2(thebreakfastpost.com)
2 points by cannam 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Repoint: a simple manager for third-party source code dependencies(thebreakfastpost.com)
1 points by cannam 8y ago|0 comments
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by cannam 8y ago
> The logic-variant of Null usage for "unknown" "missing" "invalid" values is unavoidable in programming. This is why that null concept shows up repeatedly in different forms such as NaN in floating point, N
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by cannam 8y ago
http://jay.law.ou.edu/faculty/Jmaute/Lawyering_21st_Century/...
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What does a convolutional neural net actually do when you run it?(thebreakfastpost.com)
26 points by cannam 9y ago|0 comments
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by cannam 9y ago
The N8 wasn't their last hurrah with Symbian, far from it. There was a massive difference in usability between that and the later Symbian Belle releases, and they were on a pretty rapid upward trajectory. Those last versions never reac
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by cannam 9y ago
I like your explanation about services. One thing - > I was a little shocked that they didn't release a Qt compatibility layer for Windows Phone Windows Phone 7, which was current at the time of the switch, was managed-code only (i.
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by cannam 9y ago
When they announced the move to Windows Phone, I thought it seemed like a good idea. Meego clearly wasn't ready, Symbian was an antique, and Windows Phone was promising in so many ways -- even now I believe we will never see another sm
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by cannam 9y ago
I like Swype, and continued using it on Android in preference to other swipey keyboards. But the glory of it initially was that it made it possible to go fast on much smaller screens. I first used it very happily on a Nokia 700 (Symbian Bel
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by cannam 9y ago
The UK did try this once. In the winters of 1968-69 and 1969-70, the clocks were kept on summer time. It wasn't all that popular, apparently because it meant spending such a long time in the dark on winter mornings, especially in the n
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by cannam 9y ago
For my part, the most obvious irritation is that some tools assume your terminal has a black background. I run them with the default configuration and end up with the most critical bits of info in yellow-on-white text. Maddening. (I do know
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by cannam 9y ago
The situation with older buildings in central Berlin is quite interesting though, because so many quite grand buildings on the eastern side went untouched for 50 years after the war. Then in the late 90s large areas of east-central Berlin w
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by cannam 9y ago
In 1968 the Sunday Times ran a competition to translate a poem by Baudelaire ("Je suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux") into English. The poet Nicholas Moore read about the competition and, apparently angered by the fruitles
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by cannam 9y ago
I had a very strange experience like that recently when listening to Radio 3, the BBC's mostly-classical channel. They had an opera programme with guest presenters from the Met Opera in New York. The usual BBC presenters of course have
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by cannam 9y ago
Sounds like "The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial" https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-l... No, I don't know how I came to be replying about Ribbonfarm a day late
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by cannam 9y ago
That is true. And I can see the argument that the population density doesn't really make up for the awkwardness of the territory, especially in older streets with peculiar exchange configurations.
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by cannam 9y ago
"Zone 1" is not the same thing as the City -- it has a population probably close to half a million people.
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by cannam 9y ago
I'm also in London on the edge of Zone 1, so far unable to get FTTC, living in a building not served by Hyperoptic, on a street not served by Virgin Media, in a flat with a poor mobile signal. This sort of conversation can get a bit de
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by cannam 9y ago
We have a similar one (a 28" widescreen Trinitron from 2002) and you're quite right: while the TV is still fine, the excessively stylish remote died a decade ago. Happily we bought a Sony video recorder at the same time, and its m

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