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I don't know, it's a form of extrapolation IMO. The 1984 of our time. That was also not realistic back in the day but reality overtook it. However it feels like the time of social …

One thing that not many people know: you don't need to have a Google account to use GCM/FCM even with official Gapps. You can simply not sign in to Google play and push will still …

I don't want to be protected from myself. As the admin I should have full access to the stuff I buy. Disabling it is ok but the problem with that is that you lose all security. The…

Huh, I don't have Pull to Refresh under Settings > Customise > Gestures. I wish I did. I only have "Scroll to hide toolbar" and "Swipe toolbar sideways to switch tabs" This is in F…

I'm from the Netherlands but I don't like IRMA. I respect what they're trying to do but they're lowering the barrier. Right now most platforms don't do ID validation because users …

elting it down doesn't make it less radioactive. It's still a significant health hazard to work with, making new construction with the remolded materials prohibitively expensive.

> Fukushima by the way, despite repeatedly ignoring warnings of the risks of not being prepared for realistic tsunamis and earthquakes it might experience, survived relatively well…

Yeah the book "The Circle" (now of course a major motion picture :) really captured that culture well, I thought. A lot of these companies are really like that.

Death tolls aren't the only impact of a nuclear disaster. Denial of land use for tens to hundreds of years, cleanup costs, mutations, denial of water supplies if it reaches ground …

> The numbers are in and they're excellent. Those numbers could have changed a lot this year if Russian shelling at Zaporizhzhia had worked out a bit differently. And this was a mi…

Wow that's pretty bad yeah. Routing cables differently and some pull release adhesive tabs would have made this easily doable and hardly cost any extra.

That was an amazing machine for its time. I remember it well. In those days a laptop was a luxury, I was a computer science student and only 1 of the fellow students I knew had a l…

Does the 1150 take into account all the oceans full of NaCl? It sounds a little low.

Maybe you mean the club mate drink popular in the hacker community? (Incidentally it displaced jolt cola in that role)

But you are running WebKit in all four on iOS :) Because right now Apple doesn't allow other engines. So whatever it is that consumes batter, it's not blink or gecko.

The rewrite was pretty bad yes but it's good again now. I never use chrome anymore on my Android devices. Only things that still bother me on FF is not having access to all extensi…

You can actually make adult only rooms in Horizons now. I don't think full nudity is allowed yet but they do seem to grasp that human interaction isn't all glossy and family friend…

But with a big privacy risk if anyone ever gets their hands on the root CA (which I hope is generated fresh in every install). Also, Android blocks user-installed CAs by default no…

Not really as far as I understand? It's a deterrent?

Oh yes this is the incident I was referring to, actually. I thought it was the same. Somehow I remembered the troop buildup of Able Archer confirmed the invasion fear for the Sovie…

> O'Shaughnessy advocated before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services for a layered space capability with lethal follow-on that incorporates machine learning and ar…

The strange thing with Sony is that they don't even seem to try in the mobile market. For years they're putting out phones that are overpriced, have very poor software support dura…

Hmm yes but I don't believe people willingly pick nicotine to deal with that. Most of us just grab an espresso. It's the people that were already smoking that go for the nicotine. …

I agree with your points except for this: a Cray-1 is much less powerful than my desktop yes. But that doesn't mean we take advantage of that power. Most of it is wasted drawing tr…

No not really. When everyone does it, untargered ads will be the norm and will just be more valuable. Just like they were before adtech happened. Also, 50% less doesn't have to mea…