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19,532karma·5,232submissions·July 30, 2008
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"Behind The Overlay" :) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind-the-ov... …
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The Mac is great and all, but I've used a 1984 Mac and I don't think I want to adhere to a guideline centered around running a single fullscreen application at a time.
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You can do that endlessly. The reaction to Stadia could well have been “how could this be any good? OnLive already tried that and failed...”.
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I think the compartmentalized nature of Apple corporate culture probably influences that. You can’t be upset about a project you don’t know exists.
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The 1% are above any state. They will align with any state that gives them favorable tax loopholes. If America clamps down they will just leave. Look at Eduardo Saverin for example.
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> They also lied and said you had a message when you really didn’t. Just to force the messenger download. I bet the line of reasoning is that the message notification is for the upsell telling you …
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There's nothing special in this photo of San Francisco, but "Webcams on Wayback" is very interesting to me, and I found the URL for this one while exploring. There are a few even earl…
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There are other reasons we haven't seen SED/FED hit the market than just the patents. Contrast 2010: https://www.auo.com/en-global/New_Archive/detail/news_IR_2…
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Mods: The article title styles it as "Line", but LINE style it as "LINE", so I went with that instead :)
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The first butterfly keyboard design had problems with dust intruding and breaking the delicate switches. The second butterfly keyboard design was claimed "fixed" by adding the dust-proofing …
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You could use a kqueue timer to run your script once per second: https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/kqueue_tutorial/#index4h2 …
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> but there is no Facebook search Ouch, don't let Facebook hear you say that :p They tried so hard to get Search to stick, to the point of trying to juice the numbers by forcing you to go to a…
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I don't want my data in the hands of any cloud service. I'm sure theirs works well between all their products for you and many others, but it's just not for me. :)
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How else am I going to get my photos off my iPhone without uploading them to Apple's cloud service? Even their KB tells you to connect it via USB: https://support.apple.com/en-us&…
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How can we say "the industry has moved on" when the second piece of media on the linked announcement page has someone doing music production with a visible USB-C -> USB-A dongle connectin…
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This page doesn't contain any body text unless I run their Javascript. Is that supposed to be faster?
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No, if you try to refuse you get another misdemeanor charge while they wait for a judge to sign the form compelling you to give a sample
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I'm a big fan of replacing old laptop HDDs with an mSATA SSD in a 2.5" 44-pin IDE adapter. The JM20330-based ones have had the best compatibility for me. Just be sure to disable any auto-def…
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Please don’t politicize HN like this :(
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You will most likely find everything you’re looking for on the Xbins FTP! You just need to join the IRC, !list, and the bot will privmsg you with access information: https://xbins.org/…
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Already (kinda?) happened. A few years ago FB and Apple and Google and all the other major platform companies “nerfed” the gun emoji by reworking its appearance from a drawing of a realistic gun into …
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They are! The same tech powered Active Desktop and the "smart" Explorer sidebars in Windows XP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application …
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Windows codename Neptune: https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Microsoft_Neptune It’s interesting to see twenty year old experiments with flat UI designs considering how dominant th…
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