cpu

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1. 1.▲
   by cpu 4y ago

   Perhaps it was simply an available letter, as saghm said, but I've always imagined that at least part of the origin story is that it's a mnemonic for "in v ert" or "negati v e".
2. 2.▲
   by cpu 5y ago

   On an earlier page[1] the author mentions that they at one point "designed a more complex backplate which included […] a built in micro SD card reader, that you could read directly by plugging in a micro USB cable", among other th
3. 3.▲
   by cpu 8y ago

   Google already did that part.
4. 4.▲
   by cpu 8y ago

   Sometimes you get lucky and the tooltip works on Android (tap and hold), but in my experience not terribly many apps support this.
5. 5.▲
   by cpu 10y ago

   Excellent!
6. 6.▲
   by cpu 10y ago

   Am I the only one who saw the arrow and understood it without reading some shitty website first? Do explain, though. It's a topic I rarely hear discussed.
7. 7.▲
   by cpu 10y ago

   so what.
8. 8.▲
   by cpu 10y ago

   Right on the money. curses needs to die and we need to make better use of our resources. It's eye-opening to explore these projects that "never caught on" even though they had great ideas that we still don't see today. (
9. 9.▲
   by cpu 10y ago

   > I don't think allowing websites to use specific font names in CSS was ever a good idea. I'm with you there. I can't help feeling babied when I visit most websites these days, for more reasons than simply the commonplac