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by wolrah 9y ago
> it’s a bit surprising Apple doesn’t have a workaround that makes this not crop up. If the problem is in fact lazy device manufacturers botching the identification data then I'm not sure how a third party could effectively work aro
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by wolrah 9y ago
It's not supposed to replace GIFs for the things they're actually good at, like your examples. It's supposed to replace the abuse of GIFs for things they're not good at, like long, high frame rate, and/or high colo
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by wolrah 9y ago
> What is more wacky is why gifs returned to fashion at all. They were dead for nearly a decade after people stopped doing their own web sites, and used gifs for things like animated "under construction" signs. Same reason that
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by wolrah 9y ago
> Linux has ZFS. Kind of. You have the choice of the FUSE version that's legally free and clear but has obvious FUSE related performance limitations, or the kernel version which has great performance but is questionable at best from
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by wolrah 9y ago
Apps purchased from the official Google Play store can only officially be installed through having the phone itself connect to the internet. You can buy the app from the web site and tell it to queue an installation to a device, but offici
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by wolrah 9y ago
> universally-supported I thought we're talking about Flash here? You know, the thing that only works on a subset of browsers on the three major desktop OSes and has absolutely zero modern mobile support. Almost everything that has
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by wolrah 9y ago
Lots of people do it, usually after someone posts a Snopes article proving that the thing the complainer posted is BS.
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by wolrah 9y ago
When I last got a new cell number I got one ending in "5555" Annoyingly I use Google Voice so something like 6 people actually know my awesome number.
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by wolrah 10y ago
> No mobile phone I've seen supports ipv6. T-Mobile LTE has been exclusively IPv6 on most phones for some time now. I'm pretty sure other mobile providers have done the same or are in the process of doing so. All my Android de
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by wolrah 10y ago
The same principle technically applies, but when the SoC developers, kernel developers, and OS developers are all in the same company they don't really have the same problem. With Android you have the Linux kernel team providing the ma
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by wolrah 10y ago
> Any reason why you wouldn't just put 3 GPUs in a regular chassis and be done for a quarter of the price? Not a *coiner but I can guessL With most motherboards even 3 GPUs will require you to have the cards right up next to each ot
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by wolrah 10y ago
The Athlon 64 was released in September 2003, the Prescott Pentium 4 in February 2004, and the iMac G5 in August 2004. Desktop CPUs have been basically guaranteed to be 64 bit since 2005. The Pentium 3 derived Pentium M and Core Solo/D
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by wolrah 10y ago
e-ink displays look to your eyes basically like paper. I absolutely love my Kindle for reading books. For papers though, not so much. The screen is too small for a layout format like PDF to work. The document has to be able to reflow for
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by wolrah 10y ago
I'm curious how you believe the GPL has overstepped regarding patents in the context of a copyleft license. GPLv2 says very little directly about patents, only touching on the topic by saying that they're not an excuse for not com
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by wolrah 10y ago
> The $99 ComputeSticks are just powerful enough to play standard def video from someone like NetFlix or Amazon. Higher bit rate streaming video is too much, and the'll stutter. But they have higher spec ComputeSticks I've not
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by wolrah 10y ago
Reminder of the thing it's being compared to: > The containers feature is enabled in Firefox Nightly 50 by default with the about:config pref `privacy.userContext.enabled` set to true. Grandma and Joe SixPack aren't running Fir
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by wolrah 10y ago
As has to be said every time one of these stories comes around, this is not representative of normal e-cig use. This person had what's called a mechanical e-cig, or "mech mod". They use no electronics, just a big switch or r
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by wolrah 10y ago
Take a look at the game sections from the recent Kaby Lake reviews. Here's Anandtech's for example: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10968/the-intel-core-i7-7700k-... Most of them look pretty much like tha
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by wolrah 10y ago
> My single regret about doing programming for a living is that I rarely have anything physical to show for my work at the end of the day. This is the most challenging thing about most IT jobs. I was working "maintenance" (rea
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by wolrah 10y ago
Depends. Almost every vehicle, motorized or not, that I've ever driven can lock up the tires. For a vehicle used for commuting or other non-performance applications that's basically all that matters. If you can outbrake your tir
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by wolrah 10y ago
I feel sorry for the person, but if the photos are truly important and irreplaceable they should have been following the 3-2-1 rule. At least three copies, in at least two physical locations, at least one of which is offline. If you are sto
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by wolrah 10y ago
I've seen SQL Express used basically like SQLite a number of times, where it's only being accessed by a local installation of something. Also if you're installing it manually (and thus having to configure it manually) the odd
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by wolrah 10y ago
> Then we would have come full circle. A markup language that has been at least inspired if not derived from decade old usenet/mail conventions would be back where it started from. Is this a bad thing? > Are you sure? The advanta
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by wolrah 10y ago
I agree with those positions, but what about the middle ground? Browsers for example, taking machine-to-machine data which sometimes is human generated. I'm a fan of the strict solution as far as that goes, but there's a reason X
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by wolrah 10y ago
> but aren't stars varying extremely in size? Woosh. A star is a fusion reactor using only gravity for containment.
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by wolrah 10y ago
> fusion is fundamentally a very simple process. For anyone reading who don't get just how simple it is, there are literally hundreds and possibly thousands of people who have built their own DIY fusion reactors at home. Many high
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by wolrah 10y ago
Think about it like a supercharger on a car. They consume power to do their job, but they gain you more than they consume so the net result is more power delivered to the crankshaft. A Top Fuel dragster's supercharger takes around 600
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by wolrah 10y ago
No I'm not, I'm suggesting it be used to identify the user, then they can enter their password the same as always.
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by wolrah 10y ago
Implement it like the Xbox Kinect auto-signin where you still have a username but the camera lets the device figure it out on its own. That way people can still manually enter their username in the event of any disfiguring injury or techni
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by wolrah 10y ago
Biometrics are in a really weird place as far as security goes. For the average person who's more concerned about opportunistic theft of a device than a targeted attack I'd argue that biometrics are more secure because you can&#x2

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