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   by thorum 7y ago

   Keep in mind that almost 20% of the Diamond Princess cruise ship's passengers and crew (700+ of 3711) were infected with the coronavirus. However its infection rate compares with the seasonal flu (which is a much less dangerous illness
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   by thorum 7y ago

   Myst’s style of gameplay (user jumps from environment to environment by clicking) seems like it would be a great fit for the current generation of virtual reality headsets.
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   by thorum 7y ago

   This is especially interesting since there have been reports that China was testing HIV treatments on patients with the coronavirus: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-abbvie-hiv/c...
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   by thorum 7y ago

   Have people found Dart to be a useful programming language for purposes other than Flutter? Does it provide a benefit over existing languages for other kinds of tasks? I like a lot of what Flutter offers for cross-platform development, but
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   by thorum 7y ago

   You could probably get this running in a browser via emulation with one of those JavaScript DOS clones. From there, you could wrap it in an Electron window and write some nodejs glue code to let it interface with hardware and the file syste
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   by thorum 7y ago

   > Added support for the Visual Viewport API for adjusting web content to avoid overlays, such as the onscreen keyboard. This is awesome for WYSIWYG editors, most of which have struggled to keep the formatting toolbar visible on mobile sc
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   by thorum 7y ago

   I'd like to see this kind of technology employed in VR headsets to allow for more natural interaction using my hands and fingers instead of controllers.
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   by thorum 7y ago

   I'm mainly surprised that we have reusable space planes at all. You'd think that would get more attention.
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   by thorum 7y ago

   There are also magnetic adapters you can get for USB-C.
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    by thorum 7y ago

    https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/computer-science.html
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    by thorum 8y ago

    The W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (the gold standard for web accessibility and the usual legal requirement) only requires that images of text have "text alternatives" - it doesn't require the alt attribute s
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    by thorum 8y ago

    Have we ruled out the possibility that a future civilization could slow or stop the expansion of the universe before all the stars disappear from view forever?
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    by thorum 9y ago

    Not the coworker, but I've been doing this for a couple years. If you're on iOS, the simplest option is Voice Dream Reader [1]. It can read .epub files directly, along with text files and webpages, and integrates with Dropbox, Poc
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    by thorum 9y ago

    I wrote my (small) AWS app so it can run both on AWS and my local machine. Then you can write tests against the higher-level logic like "save this file to S3" and run those tests locally as well. My main challenge with serverless
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    by thorum 12y ago

    Is this better than boiling water over a fire?
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    by thorum 13y ago

    Title aside, I found the article itself to be a very interesting and in-depth analysis, so I'm glad I clicked.
17. 437.▲
    by thorum 13y ago

    The dead comment below seems unusually relevant.
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    by thorum 13y ago

    Is it too hopeful to think this might be a trial run at automatically upgrading other parts of the Android framework? (I still dream of a world where, when a feature like multiple selection is added to ListView, it's immediately usable
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    by thorum 13y ago

    > Similarly, I never type "for (int i = 0; i < blah; i++)." I type "cmd-J, fori, return." Etc.... As someone who didn't realize this existed in Intellij, I think you may have just changed my life :)
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    by thorum 13y ago

    I think somewhere along the way my brain started processing %20 as a space, because I don't even notice anymore.
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    by thorum 13y ago

    It's possible to execute remote Javascript through CSS in Internet Explorer and possibly Firefox according to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/476276/using-javascript-i... You can also clickjack, i.e.
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    by thorum 13y ago

    I wonder if Firebug & other tools will eventually support debugging web workers, making this usefulness against cheating a temporary thing.
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    by thorum 13y ago

    That's the best part.
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    by thorum 13y ago

    Obligatory link to Tynan's excellent blog: http://tynan.com/?sort=rank
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    Cause of the dreaded INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE on Android(stackoverflow.com)

    1 points by thorum 13y ago|0 comments
26. 446.▲
    by thorum 13y ago

    Maybe I like shaking my penis. Maybe I'm marking my territory. Did you ever think of that?
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    by thorum 13y ago

    Probably a coincidence that the article was written today. Possibly not a coincidence that it was posted on HN today.
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    by thorum 13y ago

    I had the same thought, but I don't believe Pew run surveys at the request of PR companies.
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    by thorum 13y ago

    If this were any male CEO doing all these acquisitions, would the author of this article have written about him going on a "shopping spree"? I kind of doubt it. Edit: Criticism retracted - searching around in Google, it looks like
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    by thorum 13y ago

    I think all this really says is he's working with a European editor. Which you'd kind of expect since Snowden is an IT guy, not a writer.