idlewan

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by idlewan 1y ago
> ... versus what the rest of the 350 million people voted for Are we talking about a different country than the USA? There's ~174 million potential voters in the US, 77 million voted republican vs 75 million voted democrat at the l
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by idlewan 1y ago
I have a USB-C JBL speaker (Flip 5) which charges alright with a USB-C to USB-C cable (and USB-C charger), but only in one direction. So sometimes I have to plug it, realize nothing is happening, unplug, flip the cable and plug it again for
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We turned Duo's butt into a viral Super Bowl commercial(blog.duolingo.com)
2 points by idlewan 3y ago|0 comments
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by idlewan 3y ago
That might be Firefox's Facebook container's fault. I don't like this behavior either, you lose the tab history and the ability to recover it, unfortunately.
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by idlewan 3y ago
User names are useful in a team context: when you see who created a file or who is currently modifying the file with you. Also when receiving the email invite to a team / project. Otherwise, you'd have to display the full email, w
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by idlewan 4y ago
The publish-subscribe/observer/mediator pattern is perfectly fine for state management, and doesn't need a framework. At most, a small-ish library, but you can also re-implement it yourself quite easily. Reading your comment,
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by idlewan 4y ago
Doing a visual comparison (tab flipping between https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans and https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans?query=open+sans&... , aligning the sampl
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by idlewan 5y ago
A feedback cancelling solution would probably increase latency however, so it would kill the 'low latency' claim if it was on by default. Definitely something needed to be switched on for problematic setups though, since the disad
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by idlewan 5y ago
This one is about how they found out the link for the AstraZeneca vaccine: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/13/how-uk-docto...
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by idlewan 6y ago
On one of their picture, it shows 7 moons wide, which is probably a good approximation (6 lines of those 7 moon images does seem close to filling the area of the sensor in their pictured representation, if you then shift some moons when the
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by idlewan 6y ago
I don't know if there exist any other commercial store for Quest/Go than the Oculus Store, but for experimentations/betas, SideQuest is an example of how to play things that don't come from the store ( https://
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by idlewan 6y ago
I've never heard of a tsunami on that side of the Atlantic. At least none are listed there, regarding the french Atlantic coast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tsunamis_in_Europe Does it matter if the one f
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by idlewan 7y ago
But also Aol, Huffington Post, Engadget, Techcrunch... I'm hearing it's because their DNS is down, and I think all of Oath's online properties.
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by idlewan 8y ago
Moving furniture around because you don't have a 3m x 3m space free all the time is tiring and a major pain point for me (I own a vive, I don't re-setup everytime though I do change the boundaries & optimal furniture placement
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by idlewan 8y ago
FileReader is not related to an image tag loading its image, it's a javascript API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileReader So attacker would still need to have some javascript l
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by idlewan 8y ago
I use the happyears: http://www.happyears.co/ I recommend them, they're cheap, easy to clean and quite comfortable. Sound quality is always harder to tell (and subjective, it's hard to own hardware to measure it),
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by idlewan 9y ago
Do you know what's going to happen to the rest of World in Conflict's code ? Shelved forever on a couple hard drives, then forgotten and lost ? Or is there any hope of seeing more of it ? I've got great memories of playing mu
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by idlewan 9y ago
How is a markdown editor not a note taking app? Sometimes leaving search and sync to the system/other programs (grep, dropbox, syncthing) is a valid approach.
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by idlewan 9y ago
.. works just fine ... Not really. You can't yank the url (yy) in Firefox, and the search is borked sometimes when there is no match on the page. After spending a few months with vimium, I found vim-vixen, which doesn't h
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by idlewan 9y ago
You can use Tab and Ctrl+Tab, but there has been a pull request adding Ctrl+n and Ctrl+p.
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by idlewan 9y ago
A recent iphone, the samsung s8 and the pixel phones can record at 240fps, which gives you much better precision if you have access to that kind of phone.
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by idlewan 9y ago
The Nim language [0] feels very inspired by Pascal while looking like Python. If you're interested in fast, compiled & typed languages, I suggest you also take a look at it. I personally love its readability. [0]: https:/&#x2
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by idlewan 9y ago
Shameless plug: the current lack of a WebExtension for vertical tabs bothered me, so I wrote one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vertigo-tabs/
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by idlewan 9y ago
I've started making another one that try to respect the system's theme: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vertigo-tabs/
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by idlewan 9y ago
That's not a huge engineering challenge. Every single linux distro has been doing it since forever.
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by idlewan 9y ago
React popularity seems to me the result of wrongly-headed thinking: that because facebook is popular, any technology behind it must be good, and because react is popular (allegedly), react must be good. I've always been very sceptical
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Microcontroller Pricing – It’s a Scam(sureshjoshi.com)
3 points by idlewan 9y ago|0 comments
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VR’s killer app has arrived, and it’s Google Earth(arstechnica.co.uk)
2 points by idlewan 10y ago|0 comments
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The Web is not Fashionable(ada.is)
2 points by idlewan 10y ago|0 comments
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Gnome and Rust(siliconislandblog.wordpress.com)
13 points by idlewan 10y ago|0 comments

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