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by wolpoli 1y ago
Articles in the 90s would suggest webmasters to use "click here" as link text to let users know that a hyperlink is clickable. The advice kind of make sense since hypertext was new back then and users need that little bit of help
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by wolpoli 1y ago
I had an Pixel 9 Pro with the ultrasonic sensor and I found that it wouldn't work at all with a tempered glass screen protector. The optical sensor they had for previous generation sort of works fine with a screen protector
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by wolpoli 1y ago
While it is true that hard drives have large amount of storage, it is unlikely that are any Mac with a 36TB hard drive attached that needs to overcome WiFi time limit.
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by wolpoli 1y ago
I think designers will end up needing to work with an existing LLM or even provide their own LLM to get developers to adopt a new language/library/feature. The market has been heading in that direction for a while now, with develo
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The true reason behind Aero Glass's removal from a Microsoft Engineer (2015)(old.reddit.com)
12 points by wolpoli 1y ago|0 comments
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by wolpoli 1y ago
I would prefer to be told that my battery is weak so I could make a decision on if I want to replace the battery, replace the phone, live with the phone shutting down randomly when battery is low, or continue with a slower phone. That&#x27
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by wolpoli 1y ago
It's good to know they have brought in new talents. Note that Mozilla Corporations, Mozilla Ventures, and Mozilla.ai mentioned in the articles are all subsidiaries of Mozilla Foundation. If there are issues with the subsidaries' l
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by wolpoli 1y ago
There is no way for anyone to get Mozilla to change because the current board picks new board members.
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by wolpoli 1y ago
According to the page, with M3 Expressive, Time to first fixation is .65s for 18-24 year old, 0.93s for 25-45 year old, and 0.81s 45+ year. It doesn't make intuitive sense that 45+ year old are now faster than their younger group.
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by wolpoli 1y ago
Sure, but parallel to the mobile device (featurephone) ecosystem, there was also the old smartphone ecosystem which grew out of the PDA market where you could install your own program without paying the middleman. I would argue that modern
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by wolpoli 1y ago
Microsoft word also auto inserts em-dashes through.
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The Homebrew Channel repository is archived (Apr 28, 2025)(github.com)
60 points by wolpoli 1y ago|30 comments
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by wolpoli 1y ago
I made an observation that, as a company grows, there are more opportunities for increasing revenue from the business side than from the technical side. Technical is important, but just saying that it is easier for the business side to toot
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by wolpoli 1y ago
The technical cofounder becomes less important as the company grows through.
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by wolpoli 1y ago
I remember Facebook group - somewhere in the early 2010s, the group feature disappeared. Years later, group appeared again and I had to re-apply to get back into the group. Perhaps group was killed to boost public sharing.
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Windows File Manager (WinFile) repository archived on March 1, 2025(github.com)
64 points by wolpoli 1y ago|45 comments
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by wolpoli 2y ago
Yes, it is really up to Adobe's marketing team to make sure that customers are not misunderstanding the plan. If the misunderstanding continues, then the government might end up stepping in.
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by wolpoli 2y ago
Those of us working in jobs use the same couple of functions in our office products. We don't really go and find features.
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by wolpoli 2y ago
In the 90s, Windows was simple enough that I was able to read tech articles and understand a lot of what is going on inside, up to the point of Windows 2000, and to a certain extend, Windows XP. That completely changed with Vista/7 wh
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EA Just Open Sourced Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals(gamingonlinux.com)
6 points by wolpoli 2y ago|1 comments
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by wolpoli 2y ago
I am slightly older and I don't really remember very much from around when I started work after graduating. It's kind of sad that works consume a lot of my time but I have no memory to show for it.
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by wolpoli 2y ago
Could you tell me what companies did the same thing in the mobile phone industry? Did those companies notify the user?
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by wolpoli 2y ago
I felt that Westwood's strategy games were built around their single-player campaign experience. As a result, their story, FMV, and gameplay were designed to support that focus. The simplity meant that players could get into the game e
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by wolpoli 2y ago
https://archive.vn/Eny8f
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by wolpoli 2y ago
Likely to make it simple for retailers to accept euro. Making it exactly two means the retailers would lose money on the exchange spread. Another example is with 1 hkd = 0.97 mop.
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by wolpoli 2y ago
Single HTML file conjures up memories of certain Windows software of the 90s where it's a single .exe, installer-free program. It could be copied onto a floppy and run on my school's computer. We are definitely coming at this from
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by wolpoli 2y ago
Imo it should be the school's responsibility to stick a notice on the classroom itself or at least send an email, rather than expect each and every student to check an app every day. I hadn't been a high school student in a while
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by wolpoli 2y ago
Anyone else noticed the extra green dot in the pink (fifth from the top) image?
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by wolpoli 2y ago
It's not exactly new social media product, but Facebook did add messaging to their then Facebook app, build up usage of messaging itself (network effect within the user's friend list), and then split it off into its own Messenger
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by wolpoli 2y ago
In official scrum, the development team could choose to accept substitution. It looks like the GP's case, they are obligated to accept substitution.

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