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by petecox 7y ago
Article from last November with a map of the affected area (in Spanish). The areas in yellow were already covered by vehicle restrictions. https://elpais.com/ccaa/2018/11/26/madrid/1543235492_515611.
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by petecox 7y ago
The iPhone popularised capacitive touch. His comments on styluses should be seen in light of the technology of the time (Newton/Maemo/Palm OS/WinCE etc) whose input was stabbing at a resistive screen. (That's not to repu
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by petecox 7y ago
> android developers could just submit their app in both places Except for US entities barred by the same government decree. Users of many popular online services from ride sharing to social media would be forced to use the mobile web in
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by petecox 7y ago
So a Huawei phone will be stuck on Android Pie, since any upgrade to the forthcoming Q release requires re-certification?
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by petecox 7y ago
lemon, lime and bitters is a staple here for the 'designated driver' that doesn't drink Coke. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon,_lime_and_bitters
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by petecox 7y ago
> AFAIK, "lox" came to English through Yiddish In Australia I have never heard the term - we goyim would just refer to a smoked-salmon bagel.
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by petecox 7y ago
Dart did transpile to JS, so a WebAssembly backend for a 'web native' Flutter experience on Chrome OS is imaginable. But their app delivery platform is the Google Play infrastructure, which packages Android apps.
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by petecox 7y ago
The 11" is being superceded by a touchscreen tablet, with an optional keyboard. (No "pro" bump though - the same original Allwinner internals)
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by petecox 7y ago
Office already runs on Chromebooks via Google Play within the Android container [0]. Is it then worth MS' time and energy to port the browser interface as a Chrome OS 'native' app? [0] https://support.office.com&#x
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by petecox 7y ago
The user manual says 'geeks': https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Introd...
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by petecox 8y ago
Porting VS Code to Chrome OS, without need for an electron-based GTK app inside a 'Linux container'? https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1031
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by petecox 8y ago
Turning that notion on its head, Pinephone could be one to watch. They more or less intend to supply the hardware only. This avoids the pretence of vendor updates entirely, by both the company (Pine64) and the ARM licensee (Allwinner). The
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by petecox 8y ago
Hopefully Paraguay will follow. When I visited Argentina, I decided the red tape of neighbouring countries visiting Iguazu Falls wasn't worth the 13 hour bus ride.
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by petecox 8y ago
Despite launching with Nougat, Pixel 1 devices were the testbed for Project Treble. https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/18/current-google-pixe...
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by petecox 8y ago
Are there security benefits of "fake local memory"? I imagine a sandboxing arrangement where a rogue WebGL app can't hack your entire OS. Several applications (a) opencl servers - just fill an extra slot (b) eGPU over thunder
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by petecox 8y ago
Testing? e.g. your main machine is Ubuntu|macos and you just want to fire up Windows 10 Edge. That said, it seems unpowered for general usage. Perhaps MS might look at officially supporting sub-$US100 SBCs such as ROCKPro64.
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by petecox 8y ago
Check your local pawnshop. I bought a C2 Duo laptop in 2015 for $AU50 with a 3 month warranty and did the Windows 7 -> 10 upgrade. Earmuffs if you can't stand the fan noise. :)
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by petecox 8y ago
That would be an argument for Microsoft switching to Chromium, albeit 'Edgium' might not entail the bleeding edge 6 week Chrome release cycle.
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Last-ditch heritage bid launched to keep Apple out of Federation Square(theage.com.au)
1 points by petecox 8y ago|1 comments
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Alan Turing named most ‘iconic’ figure of the 20th century in public vote(eveningexpress.co.uk)
2 points by petecox 8y ago|0 comments
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by petecox 8y ago
See also: NestedVM which compiles MIPS assembly to Java bytecode. http://nestedvm.ibex.org/
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by petecox 8y ago
For those unfamiliar with tones, Xidnaf's animated "Is English a Tonal Language?" may be of interest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5RWzBRg6rU
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by petecox 8y ago
I recently read the short story Omnilingual by H Beam Piper (1957). A planet becomes extinct due to climate change and a team of archaelogists are sent to study its civilisation.
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by petecox 8y ago
see also yesterday's article on Raspberry Pi, where it is mentioned that ThreadX runs on the Broadcom GPU. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19061656
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by petecox 8y ago
The clue is in the name - Rome is a homophone of roam. "Project Rome allows developers to write apps that can run on multiple devices and travel with the user as they switch between devices." [0] So it's allowing a programmer
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by petecox 8y ago
My Nexus 4's fragile cover (glass back and bits of plastic on the side) doesn't seem to have been designed for repeated wear-and-tear battery replacements. A 10 minute procedure does a little more damage each time. So yes, the pro
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by petecox 8y ago
Apache will only protect the particular implementation, viz. LLVM. It does open the door for gcc to inadvertently develop similar functionality and get sued. Not that there's, afaik, a cleanroom implementation of Swift.
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by petecox 8y ago
DLNA handled media streaming. Nevertheless, you'd have to ask Google why they effectively killed Miracast - it was supported in Android 4.2 and 5, then mysteriously removed in Android 6. My old phone supported screen mirroring to my TV
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by petecox 8y ago
For slower moving marsupials such as koalas, yes. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36891868
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by petecox 8y ago
synergy - Android's bootloader (fastboot mode, etc) uses LK, of which Zircon is a fork.

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