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The keyboard (and ports) will probably hold up a lot longer than the compute power of the Pi 4, so being able to swap out the internals without throwing away the perfectly good cha…

What university in the Bay Area costs only twice as much as SFU/UBC?

If you are not against the oppressor, if you are okay with allowing oppression to continue happening for any reason, you are on the side of the oppressor. You cannot be an ally fro…

The easiest distinction between activism and bigotry is to tolerate everything except intolerance itself. Activists mostly fight for more rights/freedom, and bigots mostly look to …

This looks super cool, I'm very interested in trying it. It looks like the link to the Firefox extension is broken though, is there a workaround to install the extension?

Which is not a good thing IMO. The Xbox One controller has been much more comfortable for longer sessions for me.

Doesn't seem reasonable to compare how you feel about open sourcing personal projects to open source software that a company builds and relies on for revenue. Open source is amazin…

Well it's been 3 years, so however Defold has been progressing is probably your answer.

I'd think that the NetEase investment gave them the confidence boost they needed to try out on their own and self-publish in most of the world. As with every non-Chinese game compa…

League of Legends has been around since 2009, versus Candy Crush Saga in 2012.

By longevity I mean a hosted service with the intention of being around for a really long time. Of course plain text (and therefore Markdown) are the pinnacle but I'm very interest…

This is great, I'm very tempted! When I was looking at note apps (and as I continue to re-evaluate my decision), the big win that keeps me on Standard Notes is the longevity and en…

He talks more about WSL near the end: > The Bash on Windows environment is now so performant and well supported that you won’t even know the difference if you move from a MacBook, …

IIRC the robotaxi service will only be offered in Arizona for the time being, which is basically the easiest place to perform at level 4. This might be a good start, but don't be f…

I'm curious how you got Filebeat to push to Kafka. Did you write a custom modification to Filebeat/libbeat?

Seems like there could be an interesting synergy here with the Pomodoro technique (though the 15/5 cycle would need to be modified since the studies appear to use 10 minute breaks)…

That arrangement is heavily critiqued, particularly that Bombardier is still controlled by private shareholders (and is receiving significant public funding). It's pretty clear tha…

Don't confuse static/dynamic typing and weak/strong typing. A language can be both dynamically and strongly typed (Python, for example). The thing you like about a "strongly typed …

Gabe Newell said it years ago. Piracy is almost always a service problem, not a pricing problem.

There was a post on /r/Android about it [1], but it seems like you can toggle this off by disabling device analytics in the settings. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments…

Any plans for the ability to add custom sources? I'm assuming that's not a trivial thing to add, but definitely something I'd be interested in.

It seamlessly handles a changing network connection. When there's no internet connection, you still get to use the local database, and when there is a connection it'll sync everyth…

This is in addition to standard property taxes.

When you plug the phone in, a notification appears in the notification shade allowing you to choose how you want the power to flow. You should be able to choose to charge the phone…

The design fail is not taking the obvious and consistent (albeit spaced out) need to charge the mouse into account. It's not like some people don't have to charge this mouse; every…