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>In this manner, she traveled around Mexico for a month, and she never had a dangerous ride. >the consequences for her would probably have been much worse These are the two linked …

And yet, according to some sources, as of May had the most players they've had since launch. [0] Whatever beef you might have Niantic or the players of Pokemon Go, the numbers sugg…

When tobacco advertising was banned from TV, literally all tobacco companies profited. It was a classic example of game theory - If one of them advertised, they all needed to adver…

The followup on the page: https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/02/Ribbon-2 (TL;DR: Yes, using one of this set of frameworks)

Reportedly does. >If media codecs are supported by your Chromecast device, VLC only acts as a streaming server (which is battery consuming). If not, VLC will transcode and stream m…

Thank heavens we never invented copy and paste, would certainly make this more of an issue.

Perhaps 'The Design of Everyday Things' by Donald Norman?

Bit of a shame, I understand the reasoning, but I also understand how poor the existing YouTube app is to this day. I'd be happy with ads, I'd be happy with not being able to downl…

Anyone interested in this might find some enlightenment in Glenn Fiddler's whitepaper. [1] It talks about the issues with TCP-based connections, WebSockets, QUIC, WebRTC and provid…

>Netflix is counting on Orange Is The New Black to help it add 3.2 million subscribers from April through June. Netflix certainly think that's the case.

What happens if you use a USB-C->USB-C cable to connect your Nexus and Pixel? Does one charge the other? Does nothing happen? What about charging a Bluetooth keyboard that's USB-C?…

I've found this so often, I have a dual Xeon and 16GB of RAM and a calculator of all things taking more than a second is unacceptable. I got a popup inside the calculator asking fo…

Usually it's just a factor of the thin-ness of a laptop. Ethernet is not a small port and laptops that aren't heavy duty ultrabooks are regularly thinner than one, even at their th…

Not parent, but I've had well over two thousand tabs in Firefox + Tree Style Tabs before. They're usually accumulated over a number of sessions. If you don't open a tab, the page i…

Or the Netflix app on their smart TV, things like that will only get more common.

And I can't seem to edit my post, but your comment about it be a Cygwin replacement is spot on. It's definitely replaced the need for it almost entirely.

You can run things like VcXsrv or Xming, then you can pretty much run anything through them, including window managers. When WSL went mainline I had all sorts of fun playing with i…

Ideal might've been to put a URL to image dumps on the NFC, spend a few seconds downloading, store them somewhere then run them in the emulator.

First time I've heard of this and it sounds lovely for the price. Have you heard of anyone trying to install RemixOS on the Android side? (if you got the dualboot version)

Typically the user should be primed, given reason for what the notifications will entail, how frequent they might be and so on. It makes users much more receptive to them if you te…

The PS4-Pong example in the README has a YouTube video[1] so it's physically possible to run something with the HTML5 canvas renderer, but there doesn't seem to be much in the way …