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by pinum 8y ago
A sharper picture a) helps immerse me in the movie/game, by strengthening the illusion of a "window into another world" and b) is simply prettier. Most people do like eye candy.
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by pinum 8y ago
Creators are strongly disincentivised from doing that since deleting the old version would throw away their views etc for that video. It would also delete comments, and while this is often no great loss, I do run across useful or interestin
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by pinum 8y ago
Not everyone treats "open source" as a political term. The OSI doesn't have any special right to define it. Many just use it as a catchier alternative to "source available".
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by pinum 8y ago
datapoint++: UK, BT, cannot access
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by pinum 8y ago
This would be interesting as a one-off experiment, but in general I don't even want to know what's going to happen next never mind help decide it.
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by pinum 9y ago
According to the filename, those are iPads, which implies they could have been displaying anything (not just GPS).
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by pinum 9y ago
>It is hoped the patch will be able to treat both forms of the disease.
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by pinum 9y ago
Not to be overly negative, but if you're going to the trouble of pointing a custom domain to this service, couldn't you just write a quick PHP script that mail()s out when it's accessed? As far as I can see, the only advantag
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by pinum 9y ago
This implies that you should probably invalidate all URLs created before you applied that mitigation, right? Or do you have some way (logs?) of knowing which ones were compromised?
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by pinum 9y ago
I'm not necessarily arguing for this, but one viewpoint might be: A vehicle that can autodrive the freeway (i.e. most of the way), and reverts to manual control for the shorter sections before and after the freeway, would have a signif
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by pinum 9y ago
If it can take you 90-95% of the way, and seamlessly pass over control for the non-beaconed start and end stretches, that's still a serious convenience boost over a train/tram.
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by pinum 9y ago
Captive portals have always been a hack. I'm sure there'd be some interim solution, even if it's just hardcoded captive.apple.com as an exception.
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by pinum 9y ago
I can foresee absolutely no potential problems with this plan...
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by pinum 9y ago
How so? Are you saying the presence of the gifs actually makes it harder to read the text for you?
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by pinum 9y ago
Try again with your adblocker off. Then consider whether you would advise your <insert non-techsavvy relative here> to attempt the same.
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by pinum 9y ago
Have you tested it? It might already since it apparently has an S3 compatible interface.
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by pinum 9y ago
To be fair- if you turn off standard features, you can't complain when you get a sub-optimal experience.
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by pinum 9y ago
iOS shows it inline. Android can do too; it usually starts a download instead but IMO that's the browser's fault (should default to embedded).
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by pinum 9y ago
I think you should forget the whole "terminal based" thing. TUI text editors don't make much sense anymore. Native GUIs are much less clunky and much more discoverable.
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by pinum 9y ago
My P2 does that, and I find it works well. It's implemented slightly differently- there's no swiping. Touch button (without actually pressing it down)=back Long touch button (still without pressing it)=recent apps Physical press o
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by pinum 9y ago
It looks like there's a $43 option without updates.
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by pinum 9y ago
I might be confused. I thought Slack was a text chat client with extra features. Why does it need a browser engine for layout, instead of using the system's native layout tools like native software has always done?
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by pinum 9y ago
This terminology has been used for a long time in computing. It's immediately recognised by everyone and in no way endorses human slavery. I'm getting quite fed up of the OTT political correctness movement in tech. Out of interest
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by pinum 9y ago
Couldn't this be avoided by refusing to run onclick/similar events for target=_href links?
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by pinum 9y ago
It's better than on Windows but it still happens to me, especially with update alerts.
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by pinum 9y ago
eGates at UK airports do programmatically allow entry based solely on a facial recognition match between the person standing at the gate and the file on their passport's chip. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
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by pinum 9y ago
That's not quite right re. UK applications. Countersignatures are mainly intended to confirm a person's name/identity. They certify the photo too, but an adult who hasn't had a passport before needs to attend an intervie
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by pinum 9y ago
>having the passport office make the photograph That sounds just fine to me. It's currently a stressful process of trying to follow all the composition requirements and hoping they don't reject it. Might as well have them do it
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by pinum 9y ago
I'm surprised passport offices don't care more about photo quality. I submitted a reasonably clear photo with good contrast correct colour balance, and the image on my UK passport (both printed and on the chip) is blurry, washed o
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by pinum 9y ago
It's better to think of iThings as semi-flexible embedded devices instead of general purpose computers.

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