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Thinking back to high school and college, the biggest issue with I had math in both is how it's frequently taught in absence of practical examples. Speaking personally (though I believe there are many who feel similarly), there's
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Seems like the ideal is for group 2 to be producing the DE and working in concert with group 1 who's responsible for the distro. How exactly to arrive at this result is another question.
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Linux WebKit browsers are pretty snappy too. I think it just boils down to what each browser/engine team prioritizes.
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Horizontal tabs become a pain with more than a handful of tabs open, particularly on small screens. Vertical handles any number of tabs gracefully regardless of screen size.
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I believe it’s likely due to usability issues on increasingly common small laptop screens. On a 12/13” screen for example hierarchal sidebars become a truncated mess after only 1-2 levels of nesting unless the sidebar is expanded and e
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The unfortunate thing is that Firefox could be the perfect platform for browser UI experimentation if more care were put into making the project easier to fork and reasonable to keep up to date with mainline. A few months ago I played wit
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Most people would not have an easy time completely eliminating proprietary software from day to day usage. Reducing the amount of it is certainly possible (though may come with caveats WRT ease of use/UX; F-droid for example is not fun
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It’s worth keeping in mind that in the case of Apple platforms, a lot of this has roots in the revelation a decade and change ago that third party software on mobile platforms can and will exploit every affordance the operating system offer
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I had a 5900HS/3080Ti version of the G15, and probably the most underwhelming parts were the screen, which was on the dim side, its heat/noise output, and how you wouldn't get the full potential of the GPU unless you were run
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In some parts of the US, the outdoors can also be very hazardous. In the suburb I live in, on top of the usual risks that come with developed areas like traffic there's also large predators like coyotes, owls, and bobcats that are out
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I would imagine that the express purpose for this format would be exclusively ultra-long-term archival and that it would not see much if any day to day usage, similar to tape drives now (but on a much longer timeline). For this purpose spee
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It would make a lot of sense to develop some kind of digital storage medium that’s reasonably easy/cheap to read and write and is designed to endure centuries and hopefully millennia. Of course, this would need to come alongside a read
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The original Xbox would almost certainly have not succeeded had it not been for Halo, but aside from the RROD debacle (which I think cost Microsoft a lot of momentum that generation, particularly in its latter half after the PS3 had been ou
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To my knowledge, there's also very little that runs on Xbox that doesn't on Windows, and while earlier in its lifecycle it held an advantage in bang-for-buck, that's no longer nearly as true. At this point, for most people be
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Semi-related, for devs who want to add Automator actions to their apps for users to make context menu items with, a while back I wrote a blog post and created a template that works with modern Xcode, since Xcode can no longer create them ou
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by jwells89 2y ago
To me at least this feels like a fairly natural addition to HTML. You can already pull in external scripts, stylesheets, images, video, etc, so why not page partials too? A sibling comment mentions XSLT which is cool, but nobody knows about
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I wish it hadn’t been. It’s been considerably more slow and buggy ever since the merge. Pre-merge I loved using it, but post-merge I avoid it in favor of code, except for Mac projects which is where it’s least buggy.
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I may be misunderstanding, but don’t this involve an intermediary re-encoding when casting video from phone → dongle? If so that’s unavoidable quality loss which isn’t great and runs down phone battery unnecessarily. If it works for you tho
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To add to this, the first-gen Apple TV 4K I use, which was first released back in 2017, still runs the latest tvOS and works great. The A10X Fusion SoC in it is still a great deal more powerful than what's built into most streaming box
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I've read that Apple TV+'s higher than average bitrate can cause a lot of streaming boxes to struggle, not sure if that's what's happening here though. It's been solid for me, to the point that I subscribe to other
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While I don’t have hard evidence to support the idea, I believe this is highly variable between individuals. I’m not a heavy coffee drinker, but I do have a cup in the mornings some time between 6:30-8:00. This makes it easy to stop as need
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Additionally, can it match or best the MBA without a fan? What about when unplugged? The appeal of the M1 MBA even today isn't that it's fast, it's that it's fast enough while also delivering great battery life, not th
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It’s significant to my dev roots too. I had both the OS itself as well as several apps customized, with the most extensively modded being a totally rebranded Netscape Communicator with custom iconography. I also used it to mod games, doing
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For sure, by no means am I married to the method and am very flexible and open to trying various approaches. I do believe however that a little bit of structure can be helpful in the beginner to intermediate levels, where it's less lik
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Customer demand is just one piece of the puzzle, though. People might not be buying as many small cars as they used to, but automakers also would prefer to sell you something big and fancy enough that chunky margin/markup is easier to
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For this reason, I’ve seen it recommended in various language learning guides to use Anki in a manner that’s complementary to consumption of media in the target language. The general idea is to do Anki-only for the earliest bootstrapping st
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I doubt there’s too many people subclassing NSCell directly these days, but unless I’m missing something (entirely possible), it’s difficult to avoid subclassing NSButtonCell in a lot of cases where you want a stock yet lightly customized c
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The two are pretty close, but between the two TextMate feels more like a golden era OS X desktop app thanks to several small differences and tiny Mac-isms, and I'd like Sublime to have that feel too.
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Sublime's focused/minimalist UI is nice. VS Code sometimes feels like it tries to do too much. My ideal editor would probably be something like a variation on Sublime Text that's modeled more closely after TextMate while keep
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Upgrades definitely used to be felt more readily. Back through the late 90s and early 2000s, on my track of 200Mhz 603ev → 400Mhz G3 → 1Ghz G4 → 2Ghz G5 → 2.66Ghz i5 750, each was substantial, especially during the latter half.

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