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by gilrain 9y ago
> Absolutely none of those sites or services has been worse off thanks to the higher character limit, nor has it hurt the microblogging feel in general. > So why are people so stressed out over Twitter having a higher amount now? The
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by gilrain 9y ago
Batteries do not degrade all at once right after a software update.
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by gilrain 9y ago
The web client which keeps in sync with the phone clients is so nice. I get home, put the phone in my pocket, and start the podcast I was listening to at exactly the same place it was when I got out of the car. And vice versa, of course. Fo
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by gilrain 9y ago
Maybe the negative votes are from the workers you would consider treating unfairly in that scenario. That is also reasonable.
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by gilrain 9y ago
Not that many people have done something that deserves being thrown in prison in the US, either. We're just far too happy to throw people in for things that don't deserve it, like non-violent drug offenses.
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by gilrain 9y ago
At least it's honest: "Here's my solution to passwords. Any expert will say not to use it, but I do anyway." Okay.
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by gilrain 9y ago
Nexus 6P was made by Huawei, which in my opinion accounts for its quality.
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by gilrain 9y ago
Congratulations!
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by gilrain 9y ago
Anecdote for anecdote: I've been enjoying OLED screens on my Android phones since the Galaxy Nexus (2011), and I've never had burn-in or any other display-specific issue.
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by gilrain 9y ago
It's amazing how many commenters seem to be embarrassing themselves by trying to be the first to wildly misunderstand the problems being discussed and reduce them to trite memes. You're not even disagreeing with the thrust of the
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by gilrain 9y ago
Some people value reduced impact on our ailing environment over immediate convenience.
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by gilrain 9y ago
Yes, once you convince everyone to drop the thing we have that works and implement the thing we don't have that doesn't work. In short: you complain as though it were an easy change to make.
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by gilrain 9y ago
It's received tens of millions of dollars of value in contributions, yes. Probably in large excess of that.
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by gilrain 9y ago
I've never set up a backup system that didn't have tape rotated into cold storage as its last step. As far as I know, nothing ever came along that offered the same value for longevity.
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One requires the push of a convenient button already within the workflow of the app; the other requires knowing how to force close an app, or at any rate losing your flow.
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by gilrain 9y ago
Not the ones that want devs' business, at least this dev. I need to stay ahead of the game.
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by gilrain 9y ago
Just as an aside, I used LastPass for a long time, and held on in discomfort for a while after their acquisition, but their inability to keep their Firefox plugin updated or even working finally convinced me to switch to 1Password. I couldn
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by gilrain 9y ago
I haven't had any issues using Firefox for Android... Firefox Focus is not a general purpose browser, so some issues are probably expected. Try Firefox for Android and install uBlock, or any of your other favorite desktop extensions!
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by gilrain 9y ago
As someone who has largely moved from Python to Node: it's not the concept of project-local packages that is the problem. It's virtualenv's awful implementation and UI.
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by gilrain 9y ago
I've dealt with Americans that would make your skin crawl, but, of course, most are decent, average people. It's the same anywhere. To think otherwise of Chinese people is to give in to our racist, tribal instincts. Resist!
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by gilrain 9y ago
Listen to those who have a clue. One can assume one doesn't have a clue about things one isn't a specialist in, so it isn't a big mystery. Unless one assumes one is smarter than everyone around them, even on topics they haven
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by gilrain 9y ago
The broad altruism in tech that has allowed this situation, and which still underfunds the projects' modest needs? Yes, astonishing generosity.
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by gilrain 9y ago
The risk of conventional war is insignificant compared to the very real risk of destroying our only habitat.
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by gilrain 10y ago
Why do you think these researchers were so incompetent that they didn't control for even blindingly-obvious factors like age? Are you familiar with their other work in the field, or something? "Correlation does not equal causation
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by gilrain 10y ago
Ah! Thanks.
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by gilrain 10y ago
A workable analogy only if farmers were actually clamoring to market their fields to locusts.
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by gilrain 10y ago
You would have thought the same about the SoC space, but they let it slip away. Intel does have the ability the squash competition, but it's not strategically perfect.
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by gilrain 10y ago
Congratulations on your upcoming lottery wins!
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by gilrain 10y ago
"There is Something Deeper to this phenomenon where our notoriously unreliable memories play a spookier, more immediate trick on us than usual. How do I know? Well, it happens to me sometimes, and _my_ memory is accurate and unclouded.
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by gilrain 10y ago
To be honest, the name is really embarrassing and immature. I've always felt weird when I used it, and I don't like mentioning it in conversation as a result. Krita has momentum and many other advantages, not least of which is an

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