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by curt15 10y ago
I wonder who doesn't regret cancelling the F-22. At least that airplane has the advantage of raw performance even if you take away its more high-tech features. An air force general once warned that "without the f-22 the f-35 will
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by curt15 10y ago
And we know that the hardware is more than capable enough since the XPS touchpads conform to Microsoft's "precision trackpad" spec.
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by curt15 10y ago
To make the UX even more annoying, chats are grouped under a special label that's invisible to the gmail app on Android.
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by curt15 10y ago
>Google hangouts (which I use for sms, among other things) has a very poor search feature. Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks that a search function seems absolutely basic for a messaging app.
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by curt15 10y ago
Facts are falsifiable claims (e.g. there was a mass shooting in Sweden last night), not opinions where there's no objective notion of correctness. One casualty of the current political environment is that people forget what they were t
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by curt15 10y ago
Pizzagate is a pretty classic example of "fake news". How is criticism of it in any way "propaganda"?
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by curt15 10y ago
One wonders where they stand now that they've reimplemented the Linux kernel APIs in Windows 10.
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by curt15 10y ago
>To reach beyond his own 78,900 followers, Sobieski adds a few more adornments, typing #MAGA to surface the tweet to the president’s supporters online and “.@realDonaldTrump” in hopes of getting the attention of Trump or those who track
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by curt15 10y ago
One would hope that Ubuntu eventually exercises some quality control over the snaps in their store. Otherwise what's the point of a centralized store? Currently uappexplorer shows a whole bunch of "hello world" apps.
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by curt15 10y ago
Start by requiring more transparency in advertising. Customers deserve to know exactly what they are buying.
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by curt15 10y ago
In particular, it would be interesting to see what is the adoption rate in China, whose govt makes no secret of inspecting everyone's internet traffic.
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by curt15 10y ago
I've always wondered why the Android version does not have swipe to go back.
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by curt15 10y ago
Flatpak supports per-user app installations. Snap currently does not.
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by curt15 10y ago
That's what impeachment is for. Pence, not Trump, is the GOP establishment's preferred president.
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by curt15 10y ago
They need to get out in front of Oracle, which is probably the Silcon Valley company least associated with the hippie liberal stereotype and thus most likely to get Trump's ear if they want to make life hard for their competitors.
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by curt15 10y ago
What happens if you mark the file read-only?
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by curt15 10y ago
>Modulo things like natural monopolies, unaccounted-for externalities, etc, isn't the opposite usually true? The purpose of "net neutrality" is precisely to combat the problem of natural monopolies in the ISP market and th
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by curt15 10y ago
"Because the UI is in the hands of the developer, they can ask for them individually "in context", or maybe all up front... and figure out how to handle the case where the user says "no>'. " But this system
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by curt15 10y ago
I'm glad that their shameless cheating at that debate with the help of Donna Brazile got exposed. But what are some other examples of "rigging the primary against Bernie"? While the DNC obviously didn't like him (in the
920.
by curt15 10y ago
Do we want him to brush off the next "Bin Laden determined to strike US" intelligence reports? Let's not forget that the Iraq WMD fiasco was due in large part to Bush being fixated on hitting Iraq even before 9/11 happen
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by curt15 10y ago
However I do notice that in Unity 8, windows stick perfectly to the cursor when they are being moved.
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by curt15 10y ago
The opposite of net neutrality is like being charged a toll based on the color of your car.
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by curt15 10y ago
With a Trump administration one just has to frame things in terms of national pride. Who wants to be left behind third-world countries in energy innovation?
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by curt15 10y ago
I would not recommend Motorola phones anymore simply because Lenovo has utterly trashed Moto's reputation that they acquired under google for timely OS updates. See for example http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/10&
925.
by curt15 10y ago
Macs are also notorious for running hot.
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by curt15 10y ago
>1. The reason people raise concerns about Google, and less so about iOS, is that Google and Apple are in different businesses. Google is in the business of profiting off your personal data and that of your family members. Apple is not,
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by curt15 10y ago
Don't you need a mac+xcode to do that though?
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by curt15 10y ago
For one thing, the APIs of those platforms are defined by specifications and failure of an implementation to adhere to the specified behavior is a bug.
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by curt15 10y ago
Something like the Windows API or OS X API would seem to provide a reasonable approximation of what functionality ought to belong in the runtime. These platforms have withstood the test of time and you don't hear about many problems re
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by curt15 10y ago
Flatpak puts most of the common dependencies into cross-distro "runtimes". The runtime maintainers would bear the responsibility for keeping the base system patched.

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