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marcusjt
6y ago
This is from September 9th
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“All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder — and ultimately impossible — to solve with ever more people.” "I support Population Matters because I think if we keep on growing, we’re not only goin
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marcusjt
6y ago
It's highly fault intolerant on everything staying the way it is, which means if in the future the internet is temporarily/permanently down for weeks/months for huge swathes of people (e.g. EMP / nuclear war), or the RDR
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marcusjt
6y ago
Plus the EU, surely?
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marcusjt
6y ago
How interesting, my experience is completely different - I'm a UX Designer working in a squad and I/we find JIRA super easy to use, allows you to customise ticket types pretty much to our heart's content (including removing s
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marcusjt
6y ago
I always preferred Geiss, but either way, I wish such visualisation capabilities were built in to Spotify... Or is there a suitable in_xxx plugin for Winamp that will let me use its visualisations with Spotify?
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marcusjt
6y ago
As far as my brief research shows, Harry Beck came up with his original tube map design in 1931 (which is actually quite different to what we know it as today btw), while the first printed circuit board was invented in 1936 by Paul Eisler.
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marcusjt
6y ago
Strange, works fine for me, you can pick as many calendars as you want in Assistant Settings > Services > Calendar
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marcusjt
6y ago
They can't be, deciding which messaging app to use to contact a given person and have a reasonable expectation of getting a reply reasonably quickly, is very much an unsolved problem that everyone suffers from, whether techie or not. A
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marcusjt
6y ago
I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned that Meet is rolling out a pretty impressive AI-powered nose reduction feature to solve the background noise problem - see https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/9/21285011
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marcusjt
6y ago
Surely >95% of screens out there right now are running at 60Hz, so 240Hz "pen drawing" is pretty niche and not a priority?
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marcusjt
6y ago
No JS is needed to prefetch resources that might be needed by the user in the future (e.g. the next navigation) because prefetch it's an HTML5 standard so let the browser handle it, see https://www.keycdn.com/blog/
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6y ago
There's enough accessibility guidance and testing tools in the world, especially now that Deque have added premium features to AXE. The problem is product teams/squads not actually using the guidance and tools available to create
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6y ago
"or we see a puppy and have an urge to squeeze it" - stroke or cuddle perhaps, but SQUEEZE?!
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6y ago
This handy Chrome extension makes Meet work via a push-to-talk using the spacebar, with many config options https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-push-t... But why doesn't Meet have these feat
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6y ago
In principle there's no reason why you couldn't cater to each user group quite differently and make one experience morph into another as users gain confidence and/or show interest in more advanced features, but in reality the
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6y ago
And the latest revelation is that there is at least one non-scientist in SAGE, the government spin doctor, in fact https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/26/attendees-of-s...
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marcusjt
7y ago
Google Meet lets you do that too, in fact I was doing it earlier today, but until now I hadn't thought that was in any way remarkable... is it really?
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marcusjt
7y ago
YES! This annoys me so much whenever I see it
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marcusjt
7y ago
I'm surprised this isn't more web focused, i.e. a NodeJS library which encodes an image as a BASE64 data URL which any browser can render immediately while the real image lazy loads
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7y ago
I used to have an S2, S3, S4 and S6 before my S9 and (as far as I can recall) it's always been possible to turn Bluetooth on while in airplane mode. UPDATE: confirmed by later comments in https://androidforums.com/threa
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7y ago
Presumably you were downvoted because your question suggests that you haven't actually read the article, which does mention how it compares to other powered suction (i.e. "vacuum pump") devices.
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7y ago
I'm a dark room lit only by other people's monitors, with each potentially having different scenes onscreen from moment to moment and thus ambient light varying all the time, that's a difficult/impossible thing to calibr
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7y ago
It's already the case that the a user engagement heuristic (along with other criteria) must be met before the prompt appears, but the engagement heuristics vary between browsers, see https://developers.google.com/web&#x
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Assuming you're talking about web push notifications in general and Chrome for Android it's super easy and exactly the same as Chrome for Windows & OSX: - When on the site in question just tap the padlock/favicon in the U
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Smooth scrolling is a CSS3 feature implemented by (many but not all) modern browsers so you'll be seeing it around a lot - see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scroll-beha... + http
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marcusjt
7y ago
Surely the logical successor to 802.11af is 802.11wtaf?
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marcusjt
7y ago
The year is completely ambiguous, could easily be changed from 20 to 2019, 2018, 20anything! ️
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Here's a video of it in action, for those unfamiliar, the poster had also included a link to its location at Pouet https://youtu.be/_zSjpIyMt0k
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I get "The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed." - likely you've not made the content "public"
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