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by feikname 5y ago
> Dangerous tools often have safety guards built-in to the design A phone is not, usually, a dangerous tool. Unless you can make it explode :) > For most people, iOS limiting the damage when they get compromised is a huge plus. Then
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by feikname 5y ago
These toolbars were usually bundled with legit software (Heck, even Java installed Bing toolbar..) behind dark patterns where a computer beginner would, understandably, not realize they were also installing something else. As long as the di
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by feikname 5y ago
IIRC you gotta hold the file over the program's taskbar icon for bit then it changes to that window as active and there you can drop. Try with e.g. Your browser on Google drive for uplaoding
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by feikname 5y ago
try letting the file stay on the app icon for a few seconds, it should automatically switch to that window.
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by feikname 5y ago
I use it a lot for file uploads in web browser. A good (only?) workaround is using alt tab but if you have many open programs it can be quite annoying.
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Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop(winaero.com)
91 points by feikname 5y ago|184 comments
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by feikname 5y ago
> * Support for Android apps built into the OS (using Intel Bridge technology whatever that is?). Straight copy pasta from https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-... &gt
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by feikname 5y ago
tip: IIRC you can set partitions to specific "folders" rather than drive letters by using Windows' Disk Management tool.
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by feikname 5y ago
For those on Windows, I find Capture2Text[0] to be a pretty great FOSS Screen OCR application: you press Win Q and select an area like the snipping tool would, simple as that. It also has some other snipping modes, supports more than englis
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by feikname 6y ago
Agreed. I even use it on my Android device with Termux sometimes.
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by feikname 6y ago
Not sure if they stopped using the trick questions or not but they still have the program. You can Download it in your phone from Play Store, it's called Google Rewards.
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by feikname 6y ago
> My pet theory about why the object.method(args) call syntax won is that it really is the most natural to read, as evidenced by the fact that most human languages follow subject-verb-object word order. Most western languages maybe, but
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by feikname 6y ago
Correlation doesn't prove causation though. From the article linked: > Alternate explanations for the effects of T. gondii on humans cannot be ruled out. It is possible, eg, that individuals with certain personality characteristics
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by feikname 6y ago
Not really. """ Fix bug where sync could fail in Android 7 devices Also, for a few users we rolled the following experimental changes: * X, Y and Z """
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by feikname 6y ago
I think it's way more responsive, which is good. Hoowever, the increased use of horizontal space makes it harder to read (imagine HN without the blank sides) and I believe the information density has been lost a notch way too much. A
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by feikname 6y ago
Task Manager uses CTRL-SHIFT-ESC to open, not CTRL-ALT-ESC. You can also reset it to defaults by pressing CTRL-ALT-SHIFT beforing clicking on its taskbar icon.
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by feikname 6y ago
> As for "Netflix can grow by getting more users by offering attractive services and features", that's circular reasoning. They need growth to help pay for new attractive services and features. Growing is exactly what inv
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by feikname 7y ago
I believe it's not the phone that flags it as an emergency call, but the transmission tower, which has a "hardcoded" list of the emergency numbers.
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by feikname 7y ago
"Planned for details of the technology will be announced at the "42nd Japan Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society[5]" to be held in Fukuoka on December 3 to 8 days."[0][1] [0] https://pc.watch.impres
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by feikname 7y ago
> Every single software engineer fell in love with coding because she made a small, useful program early on and was hooked. Totally off-topic to this article: I've seen more and more the use of she as a demonsrative pronoum rath
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by feikname 7y ago
It seems to be 10k chars. Otherwise, it displays a "message too long" error.
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by feikname 7y ago
I'm a non-paying user and for the few times I actually contacted GitHub they were always very helpful and fixed the bugs in less than 72 hours.
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by feikname 7y ago
I use the moto G line myself and the only thing I am dissatisfied about is Motorola's constant refusal to make use of it's 64bit hardware, forcing the OS to run in 32-bit mode. Some games (Pokemon Masters for example) are simply u
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by feikname 7y ago
> Just because they are both packets over the network, they are different use cases and present a feature which can be charged for. Charging people for different use case while the product is literally the same is one the most anti consu
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by feikname 7y ago
ReCAPTCHA doesn't prevent the kind of spam that makes internet services completely unusable (i.e. DDoS botnets), it prevents form submition spam.
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by feikname 7y ago
You do realize it's not just about the trees, right? You exterminate an uncountable amount of species of fauna and flora too alongside the way, including ones that could very well have been used for medicinal research.
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by feikname 7y ago
It does have indexing, which I frequently use. If your pdf book does not have it, there's some readers who can add it. e.g. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/creating-pdf-indexes.h...
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by feikname 8y ago
Interesting concept, but it sounds slightly female to me. I wonder what difference is there between male and female voices besides pitch (excluding cultural differences in way of speaking)? If some are exclusively binary, using or not using
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by feikname 8y ago
JVM tuning (especially the GC and memory allocation scaling) can be a huge PITA.
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by feikname 8y ago
> I thought you can’t use “app” in an app name? WhatsApp seems like a fairly strong counter-argument

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