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I've tried a few and this is my favorite habit tracker app on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uha... Ad-free and FOSS: https://github.com/iSoron/u…

As they say in poker, "Play the person, not the cards. But also sometimes play the cards."

A disagreement between two individuals should be initially communicated between those two and ideally resolved privately. Hopefully both sides have enough empathy to understand the…

What happens when two countries' laws conflict with one another?

I don't care that the p90 UI latency performance is better, the p99 performance on Android devices is terrible (UI stuttering). I use a Pixel 3 and iPhone 8 on a daily basis.

You're confusing CPU and memory pressure, and attributing blame to the wrong component. Android's lack of smoothness is due to thread contention, whereas the iOS kernel uses a dedi…

Cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...

An out of contract iPhone 5 (16GB) costs the same price: http://store.apple.com/us/buy/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone...

That's more accurately described as memoization, as caching is a broader term. Also, you might want to look into Sieve of Eratosthenes, as you only have to test up to sqrt(n) for p…

I'm sorry you've had poor experience with Linux, I've had plenty of them myself. I'm tired of dealing with ACPI / driver issues as well. That's why now I just buy ThinkPad and Inte…

Just to add another data point, Arch Linux on X220: 1. 4-6 hrs with 6 cell battery. 2. Yes, Intel everything (HD4000, wireless, etc). 3. Yes, 1 resume crash total this year. 4. Yes…

This illustrates another pain point for Apple: the inability to change default applications. Say Google releases a maps app for iPhone. Every time you get an address in a text, ema…

Probably because there's no easily accessible data store like IMDB for famous mathematicians or computer scientists.

I do it for photos and video (~60GB worth on microSD card). Obviously barrkel does it. Just because you don't use a niche feature doesn't mean others don't. There's a saying in pho…

There are extensions to get rid of the redirect: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dohbiijnjeiejifbgf...

htop (and by extension top) is for CPU / memory / load information only. Normally to get network and disk stats I have to run a combination of dstat, iotop. A simple screenshot com…

Agreed. I've submitted lots of pull requests and taken over a small, popular project but none of it shows up.

Except there are plenty of other Android devices with those features (except tablet battery part).

I still care about Flash on mobile. Why? A lot of Asian sites (Chinese & Japanese) still use Flash for video and nav menus. I have a rooted phone, so I'll probably find some way to…

To relate this to tech, there was an earlier study done that showed progress bars that updated in smaller increments (~1% steps) felt faster to end users than larger increments (20…

How so? I'm running Xmonad with GNOME 3.4 right now.

Two factor is magnitudes better than password only, but it's not foolproof. Security is only as strong as the weakest link. CloudFlare was hacked recently because the attacker was …

I can't find the links at the moment, but some HFT guys have responded to relevant Slashdot articles over the years. From what I remember from those accounts, traders often like to…

The Zune was too little, too late. 54 days later, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone. At the time Apple was selling a 5th generation iPod or an iPod mini, and the iPod nano was less t…

It's fun to bash on the most recent security naiveté, but can someone explain why GNU Mailman still emails users' passwords after subscribing? Mailman warns users that passwords wi…