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How can someone seriously propose I put a copyrighted symbol in my text to let them know it's sarcastic? [rhetorical question device] I'll bet the world will be a better place if t…

The point was that being displayed on my screen doesn't mean I read it. For instance, I have a problem where sometimes I'll log in to my phone and an app will be active. I don't wa…

The notification and icon badges help hide when you're sleeping, but they advertise when you're interacting with someone. You're "unseen" for twenty hours. The guy you're cheating …

I'm not by any means a Snapchat power user. But I really like the way my phone tells me where my normal photos are taken — it makes it very easy to find the photos. Also, any chat …

If this is true it isn't apparent to me. You're stating it as if it's received wisdom. Could you clarify?

(4) is an interesting question. Unfortunately it's much harder to understand than it is to ask. For instance, to people really understand, rather than just providing a thin illusio…

Optical illusions (there's also physical ones) are often demonstrations that the problems aren't solved in humans either; they're just "things that work sort of, some of the time, …

An emergent property is precisely one that obtains unexpectedly from simple components. For instance, it is supposed by some that the universe truly consists of nothing more than e…

I hate both. If "ask" is on, it's constantly harassing me. If "ask" is off, I have to search hard to find the setting that lets me connect to a wifi network in a tool that also let…

Yes. Apple used to be about empowering people. That's what ease of use was about. You can keep doing the same thing and you get the same result, but when you're ready you can final…

Hi Lathiat. Why do you need to disconnect from the current network? I can think of many alternatively implementations which would meet most requirements that have been proposed, li…

That isn't fair. My microwave "doesn't work" until I press some buttons. I leave my bluetooth, wifi and data on most days because I have bluetooth headphones and I want people to b…

That's a really silly reply. There's nothing in the UI that tells me turning Wifi off in the control centre has a different meaning today than it had last week. It's not at all cle…

Honestly I don't think it's effectively identical for the vast majority of users. Every single time I've wanted to turn off Wifi and Bluetooth, it's because I know I'm going to str…

How do I know when I can use it? and if my phone doesn't have 3D Touch, how can I access the same features? (I don't know if my phone has 3D Touch, but I guess it doesn't because I…

A hidden feature isn't communicated. I don't know why features are going to do something weird if I short click vs long click. There's simply no communication. Maybe some shadow (3…

That's not fair. If Trump didn't win a democratic election, then neither did Obama, Bush, Clinton or Washington. He apparently won according to the rules that are established. The …

Well someone changed their vote based on news, right? From a source they trusted. But it wasn't fake news, it was real. Fake news is what they used to read back before they were en…

That's nonsense. If you have a dispute between you and a company, everyone will expect you to talk to the company first. If it turns out that your dispute relates to breach of the …

That's hardly true. People criticise soft drinks all the time. In any case, the difference between a cake with arsenic and a cake without arsenic is going to be significantly less …

Those comments are all irrelevant to the OP's point. Debian software is "old" by intention; it is part of the spec that it shouldn't be a moving target. As for Debian making some p…

When I was in school back in the 1990s, that was certainly the approach taken for the Vietnamese edition of the school newsletter.

some languages even sort aa ah az ba bh bz ca cz ch treating "ch" as a single letter that comes between c and d. or ab ah az b c .... z aa treating aa the same as a separate letter…

«Hi. How do I open a quote?» «Oh, you just use the « character.» Parse error. Unexpected EOF.

It's done a bit differently, but there's an app on phones "The English Dialects app" you can install that will give you some specific features and how they distribute in Britain an…