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by dafoex 6y ago
Isn't Google's name Google? I'm not a fan of huge corporate entities as much as the next guy, but none of them are nameless. Did you mean: Faceless?
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by dafoex 6y ago
Calling Google benevolent is laughable, but even if the aren't the most highly paid workers, these still pretty highly paid workers are stretching the original function of a union to my mind. Its almost like unions are highly political
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by dafoex 6y ago
Oh, feel free to run with any ideas of mine if they strike a chord. I'm not competent enough to tackle making a whole DE just to satisfy my curiosity at this moment.
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by dafoex 6y ago
I recall reading this and some related papers a while ago, and for the fun of it I tried my hand at mocking up a UI based on the ideas laid out. The basic premise was that the application menu was replaced with a "new document" m
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by dafoex 6y ago
I feel many touch interfaces are still fundamentally WIMP. You can only use one, maybe two apps at a time, but they are still windows - just tiled, not floating, and always accessed from a list, not a stack. Icons are obviously still a th
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by dafoex 6y ago
Sounds like the village that Microsoft Bob's house was in. I don't actually think the ideas of things like Bob were bad, though, I just think they were cumbersome. Using the post office example, a top down map would solve everyth
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by dafoex 6y ago
I'm boring because I just have a few simple IFTTT things on my phone that send notifications to remind me of things depending on some condition (e.g. weather or location). The problem is that they are super ignorable and I tend to for
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by dafoex 6y ago
It could just be fake busy. Timing is everything in comedy, so give a first time user a little suspense to think advanced computer magic is happening before the punchline arrives.
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by dafoex 6y ago
I love a light hearted thing every now and then, and this tickles me very much! Reminds me of a "user locator" website I once saw. It claimed to use advanced algorithms to locate the person using the website, so when you clicked
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by dafoex 6y ago
>The only thing we don't have is flying cars, which is really what I was hoping for. Aren't they called helicopters?
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by dafoex 6y ago
I'd rather a traditional dealership than having to log into my car. When I got my Skoda Citigo it was a pretty painless experience, aside from the fact that motorised wing mirrors weren't standard.
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by dafoex 6y ago
Found the person that thinks this is Reddit.
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by dafoex 6y ago
So no hope of Harvard notation from the Beeb, then?
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by dafoex 6y ago
I'd argue against referencing your constitution since its not my constitution, but to my knowledge Buzzfeed is a US corporation, so I guess it still applies.
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by dafoex 6y ago
Just skimming the article because I kinda want to just give my thoughts on the title, since I kinda think the news should source their research more and provide evidence for their claims. Obviously people make anonymous statements and I do
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by dafoex 6y ago
I used a customised MATE on a Raspberry Pi with touch screen. It wasn't an amazing experience, but the on-screen keyboard was reasonable. I don't know what OSK Gnome uses - it could just be a version of the same thing - but the
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by dafoex 6y ago
It was ages ago, but I did see that you could install just the ChromeOS shell as a session for other distros. If its still possible, it could be an option for people not wanting full fat Google OS
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by dafoex 6y ago
I don't know, given the Isle of Man is in the middle of it, maybe it should be The Manx Sea? If we don't want anyone to own it, maybe call it The Sea of Sodor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodor_(fictional_i
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by dafoex 6y ago
The MOD has been heavily involved in logistics from the start; they were the ones delivering the PPE to the NHS stockpiles (my understanding is that the biggest hospital in the region acts as storage and a distribution centre for the smalle
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by dafoex 6y ago
To me the Conservative party feels fairly centrist at the moment, or at least they certainly aren't as right-leaning as our Big Media seems to portray them. Just a personal thought.
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by dafoex 6y ago
Opinion, not necessarily fact, but my understanding of the "piss up in a brewery" outlook comes from Parliament, not the government. The structure of Parliament is that the opposition has to challenge everything the government in
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by dafoex 6y ago
Beta testing is done, apparently people have been throwing themselves at the human trials.
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by dafoex 6y ago
That's just a mod of the Google YouTube app, if memory serves. It probably still relies on normal Play Services, and is likely nonfree anyway.
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by dafoex 6y ago
In my experience, NewPipe Legacy is more stable than NewPipe. Its intended for Android versions <5 but it works fine on my Android 9 device.
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by dafoex 6y ago
In as few words: Yes
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by dafoex 6y ago
If I'm honest, I don't disagree with tall-screen over wide-screen. I actually prefer it for reading.
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by dafoex 6y ago
So, my argument against "side by side is easier" might seem niche, but here goes: I prefer tall-screen versus wide-screen for reading - and not just code but reading in general. The article actually hints that this is default for
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by dafoex 6y ago
Same goes for a G-Wiz, which is a quadracycle - the same category as an all terrain quad bike.
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by dafoex 6y ago
Even this exemplifies bad translations between two dialects of English. To me a van is a Ford Transit, but it sounds like to you a van is a Ford Galaxy (which I'd see as a "people carrier")
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by dafoex 6y ago
GDPR could be a concern if you are not able to opt out of automated processing. Deciding if you're a spambot or not is a huge decision for a robot to make. To be fair, any captcha would have this trouble, but an entirely invisible

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