canucker2016

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by canucker2016 4d ago
At 5:58 of the Gamers Nexus (GN) video about LG TV's spying, GN make a statement: Now, our lawyers have made the totally unrelated point uh that we cannot legally agree to contracts such as terms of service or conditions while incr
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by canucker2016 6d ago
That wasn't the starting point for the webview app DX. Companies (or their consulting agencies) had tons of webdevs - working on their company public and internal websites, but not many native smartphone devs. Those were the days when
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by canucker2016 6d ago
The blog post doesn't mention the personnel-related challenges with having two native platform teams working on the app. The post DOES give more information as to why they looked at switching from React Native to native Platform APIs.
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by canucker2016 6d ago
Marques Brownlee's take on the iPhone Duo, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od6M0AXpcxQ&t=531s But! just in my... scattered couple hours of using the iPhone Duo today, the iPhone... has a bunch... of...thes
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by canucker2016 6d ago
from the TCEC Season 29 Premier Division tournament, Stockfish was first, Reckless v0.9.0 was second, LCZero 0.33 was third, PlentyChess (won tiebreaker) tied with Torch for fourth. see https://tcec-chess.com/#div=p&game
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by canucker2016 6d ago
Back in the day, Windows OS kernel programming avoided use of floating point numbers - certainly transcendental functions would've been frowned upon - when CPUs didn't include an FPU. I don't know if they've relaxed this
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by canucker2016 7d ago
The two batteries inside the Duo will allow longer usage. from the Duo page: - Up to 31 hours video playback when using the inner display - Up to 44 hours video playback when using the outer display
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Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy(arstechnica.com)
2 points by canucker2016 8d ago|0 comments
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by canucker2016 18d ago
Google also bought the HTC hardware folks for the Pixel phones - see https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-20-google-buys-htc-pixel-te... Nexus 4-6 were manufactured by LG IIRC.
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by canucker2016 19d ago
I believe this is the video - around 50:00 into the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Rig6v-xYU&t=3000s
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He Vanished During the 1912 Olympic Marathon–Then Finished It 54 Years Later(runnersworld.com)
1 points by canucker2016 20d ago|0 comments
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by canucker2016 20d ago
Is Boeing terminally ill? </rhetorical> Jake Seliger, HNer, jseliger - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jseliger , who died a couple of years ago, had exhausted the current standards of treatment for head-neck
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by canucker2016 21d ago
Here's a lwn.net link to Ian Lance Taylor's blog posts about his gold linker (his blog doesn't seem to have any table of contents or group the linker-related blog posts in one area/tag). see https://lwn.net&#x
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by canucker2016 21d ago
There's also Randy Pausch, who had pancreatic cancer, and The Last Lecture. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch#Cancer_and_death CMU posted an HD version of his Last Lecture - https://www.you
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by canucker2016 21d ago
Matt Bencke's pancreatic cancer story has stuck with me. First sign in May, followed by several doctor visits which treat the symptoms. In late July, he heads to the ER. Multiple tests later, he and his wife get the diagnosis. He dies
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Google MADE A MISTAKE – Pixel 11 Pro Fold durability test [video](youtube.com)
1 points by canucker2016 26d ago|1 comments
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Trump may be mystery patient in case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug(arstechnica.com)
11 points by canucker2016 3mo ago|13 comments
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by canucker2016 3mo ago
I think PCDOS/MSDOS copied CP/M's use of CRLF for line separator. Some believe Gary Kildall picked CRLF for CP/M since he used DEC TOPS-10 to develop CP/M. see https://www.quora.com/Why-did-CP-M-stic
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by canucker2016 3mo ago
HN just had a post about the craigslist founder donating over half billion dollars to charity. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588216
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by canucker2016 3mo ago
The spec, i assume you mean iCalendar, came later.
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by canucker2016 3mo ago
It seems to be called the Rule of 3. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing) Like Caesar's supposed "Veni Vidi Vici" saying, people seem to prefer and remember items when grouped in thr
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by canucker2016 3mo ago
The article mentions that new Outlook uses a Webview2 control as the UI. You can call it JS/Webview. Similar to Electron, but using an MS Edge browser window control as the webview control instead of Google Chrome. It's lighter we
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by canucker2016 3mo ago
Schedule+ had the concept of exceptions to a recurring appointment (RA) - meetings that didn't follow the recurring pattern (e.g. every week on thursday at 4pm). This was exposed through the UI by letting the user adjust the date &
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by canucker2016 3mo ago
Since Classic Outlook was developed in the glory days of OLE2.0, it's got OLE Automation baked in. VB and JScript code can access emails and appointments and perform relevant operations on those objects.
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by canucker2016 3mo ago
For early history about Active Directory, you can't get much better than straight from the horse's mouth ( manager of the Exchange / Active Directory group ). see https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com&#x2
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by canucker2016 3mo ago
Microsoft Schedule+ was Microsoft's workgroup calendaring app before the Office division merged email and calendar into one app. Outlook was late so Schedule+ was included in Office 95 for the Win95 release and so Schedule+ got a wider
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by canucker2016 3mo ago
FTA: The CBC, which began televising NHL games in 1952, had operated under that agreement since Rogers Sportsnet acquired the league’s Canadian rights in 2013 for $5.2 billion.
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CBC will no longer air NHL games in 'end of an era' as broadcast deal expires(cbc.ca)
12 points by canucker2016 3mo ago|2 comments
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by canucker2016 3mo ago
In the USA, women initiate divorce proceedings ~70% of the time. see https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220511-why-women-file...
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The Slate Truck's price may have leaked, starts at $24,950(arstechnica.com)
4 points by canucker2016 3mo ago|2 comments

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