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by dave2000 10y ago
As someone who until recently knew next to nothing about networking, it's been a real eye opener reading up on it and discovering how shitty everything is. WPA supplicant because people didn't think to make it secure in the first
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by dave2000 10y ago
Same answer as for India and all the other cheaper locations; it's easy to get simple development done thanks to all the (chiefly American!) tools for drag and drop development, testing etc available nowadays, but having a team of peop
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by dave2000 10y ago
If I knew how to vote you up I would.
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by dave2000 10y ago
You believe theft is new? Check out Oliver Twist sometime!
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by dave2000 10y ago
They said: "the r deletes everything within a given directory" which is what it does. Non technical readers aren't going to understand "recursively remove directories".
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by dave2000 10y ago
Well, yeah, stuff like the Sony Z3 phone is mostly screen. Not an E reader but it's still a good example of a device where you make the most of the physical size.
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by dave2000 10y ago
If they were really smart they'd have knocked up some AI to keep Reader going. Google Reader: Never forgive, never forget.
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by dave2000 11y ago
You can tap a word without difficulty to turn the page; you're just holding your finger on the screen for too long.
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by dave2000 11y ago
I rest my thumb on the edge of the bezel and just roll it fractionally to the left so that it touches the extremely sensitive touch screen when I want to turn the page. Think of it as exercise; over my lifetime I expect to burn several calo
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by dave2000 11y ago
Well, it certainly doesn't explain how some devices have far smaller bezels.
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by dave2000 11y ago
You know what they say: analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog; nobody cares, and the frog dies.
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by dave2000 11y ago
I imagine the average game - in assembly language - has several conditional jumps.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Also, if it could be really cheap; say £7 or so. And rather than charging it you'd just get another copy of it once you'd read one. And when you were finished you could lend or give it to someone else. You could get second hand on
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by dave2000 11y ago
That doesn't explain why the screen is 6 inches. The bezel on kindles (Paperwhites and below) are quite large and you could imagine a same sized device having a larger screen quite easily.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Awkward? You can press or swipe. Does it make a difference if you're touching the bezel instead of the screen?
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by dave2000 11y ago
> If you're trying to keep under a baggage weight limit, > saving 225g can make a big difference I can't imagine the difference in weight will affect anyone. It'll be hand luggage or literally in your pocket. I'v
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by dave2000 11y ago
> I don't really understand the culture of all the > customisation/plugins/etc. around text editors 1) small, basic install of (neo)vim for most users 2) totally separate extensions for those who need them without maki
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by dave2000 11y ago
Installing neovim is easy, so just install it there too. Not using a superior product because you might have to install it is an odd decision. Besides, I understand many distros are prepared to include neovim.
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by dave2000 11y ago
There's just no content in that article at all.
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by dave2000 11y ago
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which st
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by dave2000 11y ago
Because if it wasn't written in C (or an even lower level language) cars wouldn't be fast enough and you might as well walk everywhere.
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by dave2000 11y ago
You're right - I had to dig around to find it (on the Android app). It's nowhere near as clear as it is in Facebook Messenger. (And of course there's no `read to here`).
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by dave2000 11y ago
Sure, but I'd like a filesystem/os where that's not possible; where I have the control to prevent such an activity. I have music, videos, and photos which should hardly every change. So it would be good to be able to make t
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by dave2000 11y ago
I'd like a warning. Or software to track the number of changes to a file in a given period. My mp3 and jpegs will rarely change so they could be locked in some way. There are a number of approaches which could be taken. The file system
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by dave2000 11y ago
Or versioning. File's been corrupted? Cool, just use an earlier version.
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by dave2000 11y ago
A lot of (free | non-free) software is complete trash. The advantage of free software is that it never dies; someone can always, if they want/need, pick it up and use/extend it. You don't have to hope a company does go bust,
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by dave2000 11y ago
> There are a multitude options for chat that provide a better experience "Better", huh? One of those opinion words. They like it, you don't. Some people like IRC. It's a funny old world. "keeping in contact
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by dave2000 11y ago
I use it to keep in touch with friends around the world, for free. I don't spend more than a few minutes on it a week. I do use the messenger app as the main way i keep in touch with people around the world though. I guess that makes m
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by dave2000 11y ago
Hard to tell; Slack doesn't let you know who's online, what they've read etc.
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by dave2000 11y ago
That statement would have been more useful if it had been followed by something which at least attempted to justify it.

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