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421.
by java-man 3y ago
Which did "pass" the test?
422.
by java-man 3y ago
Name the offenders please. I am sure it might be easy to see visually - a lack of substantial capacitor on the board would indicate a high likelihood of data loss.
423.
by java-man 3y ago
Yeah, decouple Signal user identity from the phone number.
424.
by java-man 3y ago
I stand corrected! I was wrong. Goes in effect this year [0]. [0] https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/tax/library/corporate-boo...
425.
by java-man 3y ago
This will never happen here in the US - a much smaller amount will get spent on lobbying with a dazzling effect.
426.
by java-man 3y ago
The whole idea of the Option key fails discoverability principle.
427.
by java-man 3y ago
But put the dedicated item in the menu? No way!
428.
by java-man 3y ago
A CYA way of saying the test failed.
429.
by java-man 3y ago
They never stop trying, don't they?
430.
by java-man 3y ago
Always been a problem to differentiate one gray from all other gray colors...
431.
by java-man 3y ago
Red turning signals on many cars here in the U.S. don't make much sense either. Turn signals that animate in the wrong direction? Halves of the U.K. flags pointing to wrong side used as turn signals on Minis? This is just another exa
432.
by java-man 3y ago
No CVE score? Looks pretty serious to me.
433.
by java-man 3y ago
Right. My goal is to find a good solution. One possible solution is a dual, or split caret, with direction indicators [0]. So at least when the insertion position depends on the type of character being typed, one can see where it may go.
434.
by java-man 3y ago
If you have to fight it, does it still work perfectly? But seriously, thank you. The question is - how do you think it should work in the presence of mixed text? Should there be dual carets to indicate where RTL/LTR symbol will get i
435.
by java-man 3y ago
Similar cry for help from 2013: [0] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/36774/designing-bidi-...
436.
by java-man 3y ago
Thank you for your response! It looks like you are mostly dealing with the browser, right? Things might have changed since you wrote it in 2017: I see Chrome on macOS do the "right thing" when typing Arabic, the punctuation gets
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Ask HN: Bidirectional Text Navigation
8 points by java-man 3y ago|7 comments
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by java-man 3y ago
I think it was: JDK 21 reached General Availability on 19 September 2023 [0]. Production-ready binaries under the GPL are available from Oracle [1]; binaries from other vendors will follow shortly. [0] https://openjdk.or
439.
by java-man 3y ago
JEP 444: Virtual Threads is a game changer, I think.
440.
by java-man 3y ago
Every worker saying "Friday is off".
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by java-man 3y ago
Zero information on how keys are stored/created/maintained. Without this information - supported by independent source code audit, open sourcing of the client code, and reproducible builds - all the claims are meaningless, in my h
442.
by java-man 3y ago
Riiiigh. Lay off 700 who are building electric car at Ford and blame the competition. [0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/business/ford-f150-lightning-...
443.
by java-man 3y ago
Meaning: please keep doing it, the fine does not even qualify to be a slap on the wrist.
444.
by java-man 3y ago
Same was said for camera lenses [0]. I suspect mainly due to lack of liquidity. [0] https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/lens-or-camera.htm
445.
by java-man 3y ago
A slap on the wrist.
446.
by java-man 3y ago
Eleven! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8
447.
by java-man 3y ago
Thank you. While it's good for marketing (come use our cloud!), this makes no sense frome the user perspective - what if one wants to ue someone else's voice?
448.
by java-man 3y ago
The article does not explain how sharing the voice between devices work, whether it uses iCloud or could the voice be exported directly?
449.
by java-man 3y ago
Virtual threads are going to make a lot of code much simpler.
450.
by java-man 3y ago
Not always - many paintings were probably made with fingers using a very advanced technique (shading), see for example, the bear [0]. [0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fate-of-the-cave-bear...

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