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by alexland 6y ago
The keyboard (and ports) will probably hold up a lot longer than the compute power of the Pi 4, so being able to swap out the internals without throwing away the perfectly good chassis would be a nice win for e-waste.
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by alexland 6y ago
What university in the Bay Area costs only twice as much as SFU/UBC?
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by alexland 6y ago
The easiest distinction between activism and bigotry is to tolerate everything except intolerance itself. Activists mostly fight for more rights/freedom, and bigots mostly look to prevent that. It's not a perfect boundary, but I&#
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by alexland 6y ago
This looks super cool, I'm very interested in trying it. It looks like the link to the Firefox extension is broken though, is there a workaround to install the extension?
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by alexland 7y ago
Which is not a good thing IMO. The Xbox One controller has been much more comfortable for longer sessions for me.
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by alexland 7y ago
Doesn't seem reasonable to compare how you feel about open sourcing personal projects to open source software that a company builds and relies on for revenue. Open source is amazing because it allows all of us to share knowledge and bu
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by alexland 8y ago
Well it's been 3 years, so however Defold has been progressing is probably your answer.
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by alexland 8y ago
I'd think that the NetEase investment gave them the confidence boost they needed to try out on their own and self-publish in most of the world. As with every non-Chinese game company the question is how they can get a piece of the Chin
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by alexland 8y ago
League of Legends has been around since 2009, versus Candy Crush Saga in 2012.
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by alexland 8y ago
By longevity I mean a hosted service with the intention of being around for a really long time. Of course plain text (and therefore Markdown) are the pinnacle but I'm very interested in supporting a service that aims to live for a hund
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by alexland 8y ago
This is great, I'm very tempted! When I was looking at note apps (and as I continue to re-evaluate my decision), the big win that keeps me on Standard Notes is the longevity and encryption, but the editor interface isn't anything
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by alexland 8y ago
He talks more about WSL near the end: > The Bash on Windows environment is now so performant and well supported that you won’t even know the difference if you move from a MacBook, and Microsoft continues to improve it at an impressive cl
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by alexland 8y ago
IIRC the robotaxi service will only be offered in Arizona for the time being, which is basically the easiest place to perform at level 4. This might be a good start, but don't be fooled into thinking the improvements required to bring
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by alexland 8y ago
I'm curious how you got Filebeat to push to Kafka. Did you write a custom modification to Filebeat/libbeat?
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by alexland 9y ago
Seems like there could be an interesting synergy here with the Pomodoro technique (though the 15/5 cycle would need to be modified since the studies appear to use 10 minute breaks).
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by alexland 9y ago
That arrangement is heavily critiqued, particularly that Bombardier is still controlled by private shareholders (and is receiving significant public funding). It's pretty clear that airplanes are expensive to build, and every large pla
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by alexland 9y ago
Don't confuse static/dynamic typing and weak/strong typing. A language can be both dynamically and strongly typed (Python, for example). The thing you like about a "strongly typed language" is the static typing, mea
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by alexland 9y ago
Gabe Newell said it years ago. Piracy is almost always a service problem, not a pricing problem.
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by alexland 9y ago
There was a post on /r/Android about it [1], but it seems like you can toggle this off by disabling device analytics in the settings. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/75ev0z/oxygen
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by alexland 9y ago
Any plans for the ability to add custom sources? I'm assuming that's not a trivial thing to add, but definitely something I'd be interested in.
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by alexland 10y ago
It seamlessly handles a changing network connection. When there's no internet connection, you still get to use the local database, and when there is a connection it'll sync everything with the server.
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by alexland 10y ago
This is in addition to standard property taxes.
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by alexland 10y ago
When you plug the phone in, a notification appears in the notification shade allowing you to choose how you want the power to flow. You should be able to choose to charge the phone, rather than use the phone as a charger. I know this option
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by alexland 10y ago
The design fail is not taking the obvious and consistent (albeit spaced out) need to charge the mouse into account. It's not like some people don't have to charge this mouse; everyone will charge the mouse at some point, and they
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by alexland 10y ago
It's funny you say that because as a Canadian Netflix user, almost every single person I know prefers the American Netflix catalog. Star Wars TFA is pretty much a one-off, we rarely get new blockbuster movies added to the Canadian cata
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by alexland 10y ago
The reason Dash Charging is fast is because it moves some of the charging hardware into the brick itself, meaning the phone doesn't get as hot when charging, allowing it to charge faster. One of the main reasons charging speed is limit
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by alexland 10y ago
That's a very interesting thought. I've also noticed that in Metro Vancouver the majority of pubs are on busy streets or in dense city areas, rather than neighborhoods. Unfortunately, the people I know (mostly 20-somethings) tend
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by alexland 10y ago
Most of these sound like reasons not to use Facebook in general. While the seen indicator is a legitimate annoyance, it's been commonplace for some years now. I don't know of a modern chat app that doesn't have it. As for the
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SAP Cloud for Analytics(sapcloudanalytics.com)
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by alexland 11y ago
It's a temporary problem though. Speed limits are set to try and keep people safe, by enforcing a maximum speed. Once computers drive the cars, the speed limit can be cranked up because reaction time goes up drastically and distracted

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