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by shock 8y ago
I don't think this argument holds generally. For example people used to pay for GPS apps (iGO, TomTom, etc.) before Google Maps/other navi apps were available for "free" on smartphones. Google, in fact, might have destro
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by shock 8y ago
Does anyone know if font rendering on Linux respects the OS hinting settings? I've long wanted to create GUI apps in Java, but stayed away because the font rendering was what I consider ugly . EDIT: Why on earth would someone downvote
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by shock 8y ago
I've reported an Xorg crash almost a year ago. Nobody looked into it. This was on a work laptop and it rendered it unusable for work because X would crash several times a day. I managed to work around it by downgrading X, but I recentl
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by shock 8y ago
> If I open source it then anyone could just take it and rebrand it and pretend it's theirs. Not necessarily. Depends on what license you use for the code, but if it's not a copyleft license they can't even create a (legal
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by shock 8y ago
I coincidentally found out, when looking for a camera monitor, about a 10" 2K external screen⁰ that looks pretty sweet and is cheaper, but it lacks a bit of convenience in that it doesn't attach to the laptop and has an external p
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by shock 8y ago
> Interfaces within linux change regularly, but only drivers that are checked into the main tree are updated. This is why all of the Google's code sits in one big repo (reportedly). It allows them to refactor all dependent code at
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by shock 8y ago
> It's just a game of chance with their systems. You simply will never know what you did that triggered them but eventually, I think many prolific Amazon users get their accounts closed. For Amazon customers in the EU, GDPR is suppo
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by shock 8y ago
AppImage⁰ seems to be what you're looking for. XARs maybe, but I don't have experience with them to recommend them. ⓪ - https://appimage.org/
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by shock 8y ago
Hi Chip, thanks for releasing this as open source. From a quick look XARs seem pretty similar to AppImages in the sense they both use an executable preamble and a squashfs so I'm wondering which would be a better choice for me to distr
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by shock 8y ago
> Hire an x-CEO to come in as a “1 day a week CEO” to implement this system. She should be able to do so in 6-8 weeks. Have her then watch you run the system for 2 weeks to ensure that you are doing it correctly. I was under the im
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by shock 8y ago
I did look in about:performance, nothing obvious was there. I think it's rather because I have many tabs, not because of a specific tab.
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by shock 8y ago
Yes, I still have the profile. If you send me an email to the address in my profile, I'll send it to you.
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by shock 8y ago
I wouldn't call it a great release. For me Firefox is unresponsive sometimes for literally minutes. I click on another tab and it takes minutes to switch to it. I just had it happen before posting this comment. I also took a perf profi
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by shock 8y ago
How do you measure your urinary ketone levels? I'm interested in trying out a ketogenic diet.
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by shock 8y ago
Is it surprising people don't use a feature they don't know exists? This is a catch-22 problem. I would very much like to see a banner at the bottom of the new tab page introducing RSS and how it can be used, similarly to how Mozi
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by shock 8y ago
He reads people's blogs and he's interested to know when they post new stuff. The whole new FB account thing was his solution to the problem because those people also have FB accounts/pages and post there when they have a new
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by shock 8y ago
Because almost nobody non technical knows about it. Not even all developers know about it.
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by shock 8y ago
I probably would have agreed with you in the past, but not anymore. Here's why: I was having coffee with a friend today and he mentioned he was thinking about opening a facebook account – here's the kicker: the reason he wanted to
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by shock 8y ago
> Richard Stalman hates _anything_ that isn't GPL. If you don't know him personally and he hasn't told you this specifically , then stating your opinions as fact harms the larger conversation. Even if I don't agree w
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by shock 8y ago
It's funny that they have the technical knowledge to implement tracking (or outsource it to another company), but they don't have the technical knowledge to comply with GDPR (or outsource it to another company).
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by shock 8y ago
In what country?
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by shock 8y ago
I'm most excited about the added SourceLink support. This will allow us to see and navigate library sources right in the IDE and also allow us to step through library code when debugging.
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by shock 8y ago
I think 26% is the efficiency of the best solar cells that are mass produced right now.
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by shock 8y ago
Graphene should be a contender to Silicon. There's research going on in Graphene-based solar cells but they're still behind in efficiency.
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by shock 8y ago
44.6%. You can get a better overall idea at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency#/media/F...
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by shock 8y ago
To be clear, since I originally found the article confusing – the record would be for organic solar cell's efficiency at 14.2%; they still have a way's to go until they beat the record for a solar cell's efficiency which si
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by shock 8y ago
> No matter your background, you get into an organization with a label of your job title and you become only that job title. This, a thousand times over! Why is this happening?
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by shock 8y ago
This looks very interesting but I haven't found any mention of GSM connectivity. Is there any?
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'GrayKey' iPhone Unlocking Box Used by Law Enforcement(macrumors.com)
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by shock 9y ago
> I don't believe either "shadow" profiles are every associated with an account or personal details even when you make an account on the associated service. Based on what? Did you talk to someone in the know? Are you just

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