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by snaky 8y ago
Coupling it with the smart alarm, instead of defining wake time strict would be nice next step.
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by snaky 8y ago
The real genius of the plan is in its' second phase - dragonflies who will have nothing to eat will be hired by Google to fly around people with nano billboards.
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by snaky 8y ago
The really useful blanket would know exactly when you going to go to the bed every time (analyzing the data from your smartwatch and other gadgets) and prepare accordingly. That's what 'smart things' are about, but that req
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by snaky 8y ago
Nameless Chinese companies' software support is usually rather limited, to say the least. From the absence of firmware updates to the very basic set of the software features. When they will produce comparable software support for their
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by snaky 8y ago
Actually the support from community is often much better than from the vendor. Especially for the older hardware, which works perfectly fine, but just have no drivers for modern Windows. The main problem with hardware support in Linux is th
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by snaky 8y ago
Why should developers care if customers don't? Do we know about a one B2C company who lost the business due the security breaches in their products?
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by snaky 8y ago
Apple?
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by snaky 8y ago
'Maybe higher chances' is acute, while on Aliexpress (yes, Aliexpress) there are official brand stores with no co-mingling.
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by snaky 8y ago
OTOH OpenStreetMap is doing well, don't you think?
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by snaky 8y ago
To add to the list, PicoBit Scheme for microcontrollers, currently PIC18 and ARM, https://github.com/stamourv/picobit There was a port of one of PicoBit predecessors, Bit Scheme, to the XMOS architecture, with realtime
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by snaky 8y ago
> Don't ever underestimate brand inertia, especially in a "super-patriotic" country like China. OTOH Chinese consumers are recently obsessed with western products actually. Not with iPhones (you can buy Xiaomi smartphone,
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by snaky 8y ago
> to continue rising From the other thread, pretty usual recently > I considered working at Google last year after a recruiter reached out to me, but their decision to backtrack on their promise in China changed my mind Maybe it'
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by snaky 8y ago
Business don't decide that kind of things, consumers do. If there were clear intention from the majority of Western people to stop using every Google product the same second Google launch the censored search service in China, then Goog
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by snaky 8y ago
'Mobile first' is not equal to 'remove all the features and add white fields and huge padding everywhere'. E.g. WeChat is not only 'mobile first', but second, third and fourth, from the day one. And from the da
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by snaky 8y ago
For Android there is F-Droid. > Lightweight YouTube frontend that's supposed to be used without the proprietary YouTube-API or any of Google's (proprietary) play-services. https://f-droid.org/en/packages&#x
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by snaky 8y ago
'Our product line pricing is so simple you don't even need a FPGA to figure it out!'
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by snaky 8y ago
> Less critical bugs Because the things like that not even considered bugs, not to say critical? https://lwn.net/Articles/752063/
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by snaky 8y ago
Gentoo Linux is as close to BSD as possible, and have the -systemd USE flag.
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by snaky 8y ago
Then would be better to archive the videos too, because the next logical step for YouTube would be delete all the old low profile videos.
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by snaky 8y ago
> Since Google basically prints money, I don't think money could be the issue. Since Google is overflowing with engineers, I don't think throwing more engineers at the problem would help. That's why Google Reader is gone,
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by snaky 8y ago
> the simpler it becomes to develop the websites, mobile apps, and set-top box experiences That's most limiting factor for such an hobby weekend side project of one lonely developer which we all know YouTube is.
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by snaky 8y ago
Dedicated AWS instances for machine learning AI-assisted AWS cost optimizations would be the next bestselling AWS product.
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by snaky 8y ago
Why anybody would play YouTube videos in Safari on iOS? Don't tell me iOS don't open YouTube links in YouTube app automatically?
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by snaky 8y ago
They have dedicated YouTube mobile app to make it work really well on mobile, you know. With dedicated team of developers.
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by snaky 8y ago
Instead of making annotations useful on mobile UI.
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by snaky 8y ago
That's not exactly Google's problem. That's '80-20 economy' for you, AKA dictate of majority. If some feature is too hard for 80 per cent of users, tough luck for 20 per cent who used it. The typical Google is the d
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by snaky 8y ago
That's great, but that's not the point. The point is > And no human’s life is measurably better since Apple had the “courage” to remove the 3.5 mm jack. But a lot of our lives are just a little worse. The headphone jack don&#x2
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by snaky 8y ago
As far as I can tell, what they do with proxy is 'allow all, disallow telemetry' policy. That's not what seem to work reliably, because Microsoft is free to change everything at any second, and the 'telemetry' list
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by snaky 8y ago
If you have a boilerplate in your Forth, you are doing it wrong, it seems. > Forth is not the language. Forth the language captures nothing, it's a moving target. Chuck Moore constantly tweaks the language and largely dismisses the
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by snaky 8y ago
You could set up the proxy for (not Microsoft) web browser on your router and disallow all the traffic forwarding other than going via that proxy.

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