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by wffurr 3y ago
“Sucks” I mean if you want tear free rendering there’s not a lot of choices other than compositing.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Thanks for mentioning the revenue model. I missed it in the announcement. Saw on the site they were VC backed and spent a while wondering “what’s the play”. Since this can run entirely locally, this might be the first “reimagine the termi
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by wffurr 3y ago
That’s an interesting take when the stated purpose of that proposal is “to enable developers to run programs written in TypeScript, Flow, and other static typing supersets of JavaScript without any need for transpilation”. That seems like a
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by wffurr 3y ago
Anodized aluminum doesn’t work on induction. Steel or iron.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Intel has gone with ångstroms.
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by wffurr 3y ago
It’s just another kind of fiberglass, just with wood fibers instead of glass or carbon fiber.
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by wffurr 3y ago
The product pics include one with a lot of ink names showing examples: https://static2.jetpens.com/images/a/000/073/73994.jpg?ba=mi...
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by wffurr 3y ago
Beeper Mini talks directly to Apple servers from your device. Beeper the company also has Beeper (Cloud) which bridges a whole lot of chat apps via Matrix to their other client app, including iMessage via a Mac relay.
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by wffurr 3y ago
No one is stopping you and everyone you know from switching to Signal. You can even use Beeper (Cloud) as a client if you don’t mind using a relay. They also had plans to extend Beeper Mini to support Signal and other e2e encrypted chat ap
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by wffurr 3y ago
Anywhere there's an untapped energy gradient, we will be there, consuming it.
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by wffurr 3y ago
>> Yes, Snoo (and our brand colors and typography) is getting a makeover to help better reflect how our growing user base uses Reddit. These changes will help redditors worldwide continue engaging in conversations with each other. And
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by wffurr 3y ago
Why can’t Google sell hardware in more than a handful of countries? Samsung and Apple reach almost 200.
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by wffurr 3y ago
This isn't on Medium; it's on Substack. There's a "please sign up" nag dialog with a "Continue Reading" link. There's no wall.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Thanks - I got that mixed up.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Just downvote and/or flag and move on. Posting in the thread (like this, which I almost never do) doesn’t help.
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by wffurr 3y ago
None of the common numeric systems in use on computers are commutative. IEEE-754 floating point is not. Integer types have over- and under-flow.
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by wffurr 3y ago
I have seen plenty of examples of urban planners talking about The Future of Transport as if self driving cars will take over any day now. Meanwhile the actual future of transport, absent public investment in transit systems, is electric mi
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by wffurr 3y ago
China has built out both while the US has let both crumble. The Netherlands also has both amazing public transit and amazing highways. The US would rather argue over slashing the already meager social safety net and buy some more fighter je
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by wffurr 3y ago
Yes way way down in the (admittedly entertaining and well-written) post. I thought the comment was a useful summary.
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by wffurr 3y ago
They also set up fuel depots for gas trucks. Doesn’t seem that different.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Serious Eats has become by go-to. They make it real easy to go straight to the recipe. There’s also a well written article about the actual recipe development process with insights into why the recipe is the way it is. I also enjoy Ken
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Radical Energy Abundance(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
1 points by wffurr 3y ago|1 comments
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by wffurr 3y ago
I have a couple of Samsungs and a Pixelbook. You can BYOD with Chromebooks, too, so you can pick smaller, lighter ones or ones with bigger screens than the standard offerings if you’re willing to pay for it.
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by wffurr 3y ago
I used a Windows laptop for some time. It made browser testing in IE significantly simpler and otherwise worked fine for running Chrome + remote access to workstation. It was also the only model offered with a garaged stylus, which I used
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by wffurr 3y ago
Yes; that’s what’s used on the VMs, workstations, and Linux laptops.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Just because it’s a Google product? They use it internally.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Is there any existing sort implementation that does this? The closest I can think of is stable sorts which aren’t quite what you described.
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by wffurr 3y ago
What I really want is to be able to replace my battery when it's worn after after years of usage by undoing some screws and fiddling with a gasket. Trying to melt a ton of glue and pull out a glued-in battery without starting a fire i
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by wffurr 3y ago
Aftermarket prices for Android devices are lower than iOS across the board. They depreciate faster.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Yeah this is a big problem for me right now trying to pick fonts and characters for CJK. I have a bunch of bugs to fix that will require sending the locale down to the text itemization code.

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