zazaraka

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by zazaraka 7y ago
How many Chrome users use it because they care about supporting Google
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by zazaraka 7y ago
I want to use Firefox on my phone, but it's UI is just so confusing - specifically the tab switching flow. When you try to switch tabs, the whole screen is replaced, the typically white background is replaced with a dark background, an
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by zazaraka 7y ago
Microsoft has a zillion native SDK developers. Recently they replaced their native Visual Studio installer with an Electron based one. That should tell you something.
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by zazaraka 7y ago
I've been programming for close to 30 years, starting on a Z80 BASIC with 48 KB of RAM (I'm from a poor country, this is what we had in 1990). I'm using a lot of Electron apps today. Including VS Code. Because it's so mu
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by zazaraka 7y ago
> Not sure how this correlates to a "lack of vision from DSLR companies" Where there is a will, there is a way. Just turn the camera into an android phone. https://www.thephoblographer.com/2019/03/1
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by zazaraka 7y ago
By catering to influencers in SOME models, they would be in a much better financial shape to continue R&D for the pros.
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by zazaraka 7y ago
> for an almost non-existent user base > the kind of person who spends >$1000 on a bulky and complex camera I'm talking about opening up a new market - instagrammers, who already spend money on ring lights, tripods for the
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by zazaraka 7y ago
The lack of vision at DSLR companies is mind boggling. Why can't I do light editing and post to Instagram directly from the camera? Why can't download the photos directly to a phone? Why can't I charge from a micro-USB/U
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by zazaraka 7y ago
Whats wrong with a pseudo-random number generator? You start the universe with 1 million random bits and then just iterate your function on them. How would we detect repetition at the 2^1 mil level? Maybe the universe would repeat itself af
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by zazaraka 7y ago
So true. Just like high definition video or images. This bill should also ban: large hero images, serving more than 500 KB of JavaScript, making more than 50 HTTP calls when loading a page, causing the fans to spin up when loading the page,
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by zazaraka 7y ago
Another interesting take in NY Times: > Yet where progressives argue for openness and inclusion as a cudgel against President Trump, they abandon it on Nob Hill and in Beverly Hills. This explains the opposition to SB 50, which aimed to
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by zazaraka 7y ago
The fact that inside the USA, northern states have on average a higher IQ than southern ones, is that a racist fact too related to European heritage? > A paper recently published in the journal Psychological Reports concludes that of th
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by zazaraka 7y ago
Those MENSA members were truly fashion trend setters, as expected. The rest of world only now realizes how cool white socks with birkenstocks really are: https://hypebae.com/2018/11/how-to-wear-birkenstock-sandals-
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by zazaraka 7y ago
Exactly. For example recently Taleb made a lot of fun of these linear fits, which are pretty ridiculous even for a non-statistician like me: https://twitter.com/aedmans/status/1147494932183179264
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by zazaraka 7y ago
I can't recommend any, but that it's why I mentioned doing a bunch of them and not just one.
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by zazaraka 7y ago
Both Singapore and Hong Kong are basically cities. That's like talking about the IQ of London/New York. They also have extensive air-conditioning.
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by zazaraka 7y ago
You can find free online tests. They should take at least 30 min. Do 3-4 different ones to confirm you get about the same score (less than 5 points difference). If you live in a big city, you can probably find a place to do it for less than
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by zazaraka 7y ago
There does seem to be a mild correlation with outside temperature. Could some places just be "too hot to think"?
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by zazaraka 7y ago
While the project sounds interesting, there are no screenshots at all, either as a gallery or topically when describing various functionality.