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by iggldiggl 8y ago
The major problem isn't that you now have to ask the user for access for a specific folder, but that you're also stuck with the Storage Access Framework's APIs afterwards, which are somewhat less than satisfactory to use (see
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by iggldiggl 8y ago
Of course the original app must also permit the receiving app permanent access to that file in the first place, plus the receiving app can only ask the OS for permanent access to a relatively limited number of files. And for files that migh
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by iggldiggl 8y ago
> and it receives access to something very much like a file, but the app isn't even permitted to know whether that's a file on the local device or an on-demand download/upload by another app ... and which is also completel
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by iggldiggl 8y ago
Yes, my interpretation is that that apps that simply used to use the READ/WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (runtime) permissions (which, if granted, implicitly give access to the whole storage, albeit possibly with some write access restrictions
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by iggldiggl 8y ago
`hg record` has been supplanted by `hg commit -i` (for `--interactive`), which has an improved UI that is certainly more flexible than the old `hg record`.
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by iggldiggl 8y ago
In relation to that, some time ago I also stumbled across this photographic documentary of the whole US/Canada border: http://www.clui.org/section/united-divide-a-linear-portrait-...
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by iggldiggl 8y ago
> The minimum headway between trains is dominated by switch fouling: how long it will take a train to pass over the switch, and then for the switch to switch to a different track, before the signal can go green again. The absolute minimu
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by iggldiggl 8y ago
> The London underground generally runs at about 24 TPH at rush hour on a single line (in each direction) Not quite. All of the resignalled lines manage more than that. The Central line reaches something between 27 and 30 tph, the Jubile
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by iggldiggl 8y ago
There is an option to run (file) Explorer windows in a separate process from the Explorer instance that's powering the shell, although even after all these years it's not on by default.
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by iggldiggl 8y ago
See also http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/index.html . While you're browsing around there, you might also want to pick up a copy of "Ignition!", which I personally liked even better than the Gerg
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by iggldiggl 8y ago
Conversely, UK railway signals are always yellow and never amber.
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by iggldiggl 8y ago
> They do it on mobile only as well, videos do play in the background when I use the desktop site. Or if you use a browser that supports add-ons and install something like https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon&#x2
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by iggldiggl 9y ago
> Firefox for Android really is not doing well and Focus seems to be doing a lot better From what public data can be pierced together, Firefox for Android still has more active daily users than Focus's lifetime install count on the
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by iggldiggl 9y ago
Recent developments have been rather less than encouraging. First of all, gradually the whole of the original/long-term developers for the front-end either got moved to other projects (the iOS browser, other experimental mobile project