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They are hacks that paper over the lack of good package management. Plus they are too much extra work, and OS-specific. No build system integrates with them as far as I know. I thi…

Which is why I use Lyx - best of both worlds. You get to use latex equations, the final document is pretty, and the document is readable while editing (i.e. not filled with command…

I have a feeling that nobody would really bother with WebP for its compression, but does JPG/PNG have: * Lossy compression with alpha channels. * Efficient lossless compression of …

Nice to see someone is attempting this. Physical keyboard and resistive touchscreen seem like pretty odd decisions though. I guess this is going to be as enthusiast-only as the pre…

This is pretty shocking. Shame it is technical enough that it will probably not become mainstream news.

Not in this case - packets can be dropped by the route and the game player doesn't care as long as his connection is good enough to play. When it gets really bad the player will li…

That's actually pretty significant. I doubt anyone would want to drive more than 400 miles in a day. You can almost get between any two points in England with that range.

I agree. I mean, I can see it being useful for things that you "know" how to do but just forgot the syntax... But the chances that a random javascript snippet on SO are right seems…

That title makes no sense at all. Perhaps they meant "5 all-time worst domain expirations"?

Agreed, especially a third party provide of javascript ! It would be absolutely trivial for them to inject highly invasive tracking code into your site, or worse. I'm not saying th…

Yeah writing java for Android is a pretty awful experience. But it's not going away soon - this Go release will only have access to the things you can already do in C++ on Android.…

Probably - BLE is usually very easy to reverse engineer.

How do you run power into the door?

Yeah pretty sure that's because of other more obvious factors: * Greater anonymity in cities * Higher population density * Juxtaposition of poverty and wealth

Part of the reason people are annoyed it that this wasn't a complicated "crypto is hard" bug ! It was a stupid, "really? again?" type bug that is typical of low-level badly written…