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by ncann 4y ago
> It screams of being the pet project of some very high level engineers. This seems true of so many Google projects lately, big promises that don't deliver and get shelved in a few years.
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by ncann 4y ago
> I don't think it is possible for an individual to track a high ranking former official like that without being noticed so personally In this case Shinzo Abe was doing some campaigning for his party, so obviously his destination mu
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by ncann 4y ago
You should subscribe to Matt Levine's newsletter if you enjoy his writing. It's fantastic, plus it's free and you don't have to visit Bloomberg's site.
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by ncann 4y ago
From what I've heard, some Bell lines are really just Rogers lines with a Bell label on top
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by ncann 4y ago
I was so confused when I couldn't access HN - I thought to myself maybe HN was hosted on Rogers network or something.
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by ncann 4y ago
It's akin to a life sentence on the trolley. What's to love about that?
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by ncann 4y ago
dang, this is a really bad title change. The original title was clear and to the point, the new one is vague and omits the most important fact of the whole thing. At least something like "Lack of add-on support in new Firefox (2021)&qu
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by ncann 4y ago
There is nothing unreasonable here, it's perfectly understandable. Stock market crashed, which means the proposed buying price for Twitter is now too high, PLUS Tesla stock is less valuable which means he has to use a lot more to get f
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by ncann 4y ago
Glad to see they're changing for the better. CNN's reputation has gone down a lot in the last decade or so. Reminds me of Obama's joke: "Even reporters have left me. Savannah Guthrie, she has left the White House press c
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by ncann 4y ago
This is only limited to the top 50 contributors? Also would be nice if the lines are sorted by last commit date, so that we can see a cascade graph of people joining/leaving the project as time goes by.
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by ncann 4y ago
A very nice feature that is only available in FF and not Chrome is the ability to display subtitles/closed captions in Picture-in-picture (PIP) mode. It's a game changer for me, who uses PIP heavily on my ultrawide monitor to watc
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by ncann 4y ago
On Windows, there was an infamous Qt bug that also caused regular ping spike, so check it out if you have the issue and you also happen to be using a Qt program: https://bugreports.qt.io/plugins/servlet/mobile#issu
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by ncann 4y ago
I used to have constant ping spike at regular interval and had to do that bat script thing, which fixed it but it was really annoying. Eventually I figured out it was because of a Qt bug in the Qt lib that an application running in the back
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by ncann 4y ago
I mean yes, the joy is still there when trying new things for the first time, I would be lying if I said otherwise. But it's just not the same. You know that feeling of total absorption/encompassment when you played your favorite
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by ncann 4y ago
Yeah, it's a sad fact that I've realized myself as well. No matter how good a game is, I'll never be able to experience again that magical feeling when I played Pokemon for the first time on the GB.
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by ncann 4y ago
The article said basically the same thing, his "history" is just constructed through mathematical analysis and completely detached from the real world.
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by ncann 4y ago
Same here in Canada. There may be some reduction in rate here and there, but the overall trend is always up.
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by ncann 4y ago
In this case the correlation is stronger than normal though. From Matt Levine's newsletter yesterday: > The shareholders > Twitter’s biggest shareholders, according to Bloomberg’s holders page, are the Vanguard Group, Elon Musk,
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by ncann 4y ago
That's the part that stood out to me, doesn't seem plausible that a random account on substack knows so much about behind the scene stuffs. Even things like the 400m number (or any number in there actually), where did those number
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by ncann 4y ago
TIL one of the two pilots in this incident is named Nguyen Van Bay, yet is not the same Nguyen Van Bay who is a famous jet fighter ace for the Vietnam People's Air Force.
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by ncann 4y ago
I remember the announcement to remove MagiskHide, not sure what people are using these days. Still, even back then with MagiskHide it was a constant arms race between Magisk and SafetyNet and I got tired of constantly having to update.
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by ncann 4y ago
Nice, is there a table that lists everything at once? I want to see at a glance what the overall support is.
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by ncann 4y ago
In this particular case yes, but we're not always that lucky, and I'm not surprised if they will completely remove the API in the near future.
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by ncann 4y ago
The problem with custom ROMs and root is SafetyNet. Chances are bank apps (or anything that uses SafetyNet e.g. Pokemon GO) won't work.
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by ncann 4y ago
Under the guise of privacy, Android has been increasingly more and more user hostile with every new version. They removed access to external storage, only to relent to the backlash and have it back later under a special permission because,
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by ncann 4y ago
They have been hostile to old reddit for a long time - many new features don't work with it like polls, free awards, inline pics, avatar, and so on. But I bet they won't outright kill it, since the portion of users who use old red
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by ncann 4y ago
Do you use RES? I don't think there is a limit with RES.
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by ncann 4y ago
I'm not sure when it started, probably around Trump's time but the Sinophobia on reddit is becoming unbearable. Any random "China bad" thread is upvoted to the sky even with sketchy or non-existent sources, and anyone ex
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by ncann 4y ago
r/watchpeopledie, despite the horrible name it is a very "educational" sub that helped me become painfully aware of my mortality and in many cases helped me become much more aware of my surroundings when I cross the streets,
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by ncann 5y ago
Core values is just a vague concept. A lot of things considered backwards or even downright evil today used to be core values not too long and vice versa, e.g. racial segregation, LGBT, women's right, etc.

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