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by setquk 8y ago
Yes this worries me. Especially with the market share. Surely a large web gatekeeper like Chrome would be in violation of anti trust regulation?
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by setquk 8y ago
STM32 unit cost is lower than most AVRs. And dev is just C as well. Also NXP do Cortex M0 parts for $0.45! AVRs are pretty hard to use when you hit one of the numerous hardware and peripheral walls. synchronous timers are killing me this we
693.
by setquk 8y ago
Why the hell would you use an AVR when there are better resourced and faster ARM cores for the same power drain.
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by setquk 8y ago
If innovation destroys privacy, innovators are a one trick pony.
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by setquk 8y ago
I’d actually enjoy slack if that existed :)
696.
by setquk 8y ago
Yep. I’ve decided to give it a try for a couple of weeks. I think I lasted a day on the last release before quitting. The new one also has reasonably sized UI elements ie smaller.
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by setquk 8y ago
Literally announced 4 days ago. https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/05/09/modern-webvie...
698.
by setquk 8y ago
They just did this. Latest release is actually usable as of the April 2018 windows 10 build (1803). Was quite surprised.
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by setquk 8y ago
As someone who switched away from RPN (well RPL) I disagree. I was an HP48/50 series fanboy since about 1995 and before that RPN on a HP41. I was the weird kid at school who didn’t have a normal calculator and the teachers couldn’t hel
700.
by setquk 8y ago
I remember this. My grandmother was caught up in it coming back from holiday. Back then there were no mobile phones and she couldn’t hear her land line phone so everyone was panicking and we had to go to her house to see if she was ok. She
701.
by setquk 8y ago
Thanks - will definitely take a look at that over the weekend. The lighter the better for me.
702.
by setquk 8y ago
Same. If they did a simple non tiling WM that had those little things in it and wasn't a piece of crap, I'd be there like a shot.
703.
by setquk 8y ago
Using xubuntu now. You're right. It does just stay out of the way, and that's what I want. The applications delivery the value on the desktop, not the desktop environment. The DE vendors (Gnome/Unity in particular) need to wo
704.
by setquk 8y ago
Yes. Firefox is basically adware now.
705.
by setquk 8y ago
Sounds like someone sold them a promise and no one wants to be accountable for it underperforming.
706.
by setquk 8y ago
Have a look at http://outline.com This has been wonderful for me. Removes crap, kills paywalls.
707.
by setquk 8y ago
Unfortunately it has got a little too popular in the last 5 years or so which has driven the prices up. The only things which are reasonably priced are broken AND require collection from somewhere obscure or buy it nows listed by idiots. I
708.
by setquk 8y ago
Likewise. My wife has commented that she knows I’m not looking at other women when my head turns when I’m driving :)
709.
by setquk 8y ago
It was a really nice Weller one that was temperature controlled so it was worth it at the time. The other option available was a new Antex one for more money which was rubbish. The Weller was still working fine when I sold it in 2001. I’ve
710.
by setquk 8y ago
In the UK I spent nearly nothing at all really. Most of it was scrounged, stolen out of skips and bins or bought for trivial prices at car boot or jumble sales. The latter you could pick up an old late 1960s amp for 5-10p (7-15 cents today)
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by setquk 8y ago
I love reading things like this. My bedroom started looking like that somewhat later in the mid 1980s, kicked off by the winning of some car speakers in a primary school raffle. This inevitably raised the question of what to plug them into.
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by setquk 8y ago
1. I had a flagship from Samsung. It’s google’s Estate that is buggy as hell. 2. I’m in the UK. Forget it. We have good laws. Law should be a last resort but would have to be first call to get anything useful out. 3. And the 9,000,000 other
713.
by setquk 8y ago
I was an an android user for many years but switched to an iPhone about 10 months ago. I have three complaints with android which will stop me going back again: 1. It demands my attention too much. Updates, problems, weirdness, random crash
714.
by setquk 9y ago
It's definitely a bold claim and one people don't want to discuss. Bar the points you mentioned, mainly that they seriously stunted the rise of the Internet and world wide web. When it did take off, due to market share and mindset
715.
by setquk 9y ago
I’d argue the business practices of Microsoft in the 1990s and 2000s have set the technology industry back at least a decade. The side effect of this is lives of toil instead of productivity. May have saved six million lives but cost a bill
716.
by setquk 9y ago
I'd argue that's less of an issue these days. Hopping between LTS releases seems to be the most productive and free from issue way of working, at least for me. The main thing is latest browser versions and they still ship with the
717.
by setquk 9y ago
It's not so much the underlying technology but what we have built upon it.
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by setquk 9y ago
I can’t help thinking we should have headed down this path a long time ago. It’s harder to go backwards.
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by setquk 9y ago
Have you read the Gnome usability testing documents? That's a collection of anecdotes and assumptions far larger than mine.
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by setquk 9y ago
I will have a look at this. Thank you for the suggestion. Last KDE I used was 1.1 a very long time ago :)

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