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> ... versus what the rest of the 350 million people voted for Are we talking about a different country than the USA? There's ~174 million potential voters in the US, 77 million vo…

I have a USB-C JBL speaker (Flip 5) which charges alright with a USB-C to USB-C cable (and USB-C charger), but only in one direction. So sometimes I have to plug it, realize nothin…

That might be Firefox's Facebook container's fault. I don't like this behavior either, you lose the tab history and the ability to recover it, unfortunately.

User names are useful in a team context: when you see who created a file or who is currently modifying the file with you. Also when receiving the email invite to a team / project. …

The publish-subscribe/observer/mediator pattern is perfectly fine for state management, and doesn't need a framework. At most, a small-ish library, but you can also re-implement it…

Doing a visual comparison (tab flipping between https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans and https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans?query=open+sans&... , aligning the …

A feedback cancelling solution would probably increase latency however, so it would kill the 'low latency' claim if it was on by default. Definitely something needed to be switched…

This one is about how they found out the link for the AstraZeneca vaccine: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/13/how-uk-docto...

On one of their picture, it shows 7 moons wide, which is probably a good approximation (6 lines of those 7 moon images does seem close to filling the area of the sensor in their pi…

I don't know if there exist any other commercial store for Quest/Go than the Oculus Store, but for experimentations/betas, SideQuest is an example of how to play things that don't …

I've never heard of a tsunami on that side of the Atlantic. At least none are listed there, regarding the french Atlantic coast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tsunamis_in_E…

But also Aol, Huffington Post, Engadget, Techcrunch... I'm hearing it's because their DNS is down, and I think all of Oath's online properties.

Moving furniture around because you don't have a 3m x 3m space free all the time is tiring and a major pain point for me (I own a vive, I don't re-setup everytime though I do chang…

FileReader is not related to an image tag loading its image, it's a javascript API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileReader So attacker would still need to have…

I use the happyears: http://www.happyears.co/ I recommend them, they're cheap, easy to clean and quite comfortable. Sound quality is always harder to tell (and subjective, it's har…

Do you know what's going to happen to the rest of World in Conflict's code ? Shelved forever on a couple hard drives, then forgotten and lost ? Or is there any hope of seeing more …

How is a markdown editor not a note taking app? Sometimes leaving search and sync to the system/other programs (grep, dropbox, syncthing) is a valid approach.

.. works just fine ... Not really. You can't yank the url (yy) in Firefox, and the search is borked sometimes when there is no match on the page. After spending a few months with v…

You can use Tab and Ctrl+Tab, but there has been a pull request adding Ctrl+n and Ctrl+p.

A recent iphone, the samsung s8 and the pixel phones can record at 240fps, which gives you much better precision if you have access to that kind of phone.

The Nim language [0] feels very inspired by Pascal while looking like Python. If you're interested in fast, compiled & typed languages, I suggest you also take a look at it. I pers…

Shameless plug: the current lack of a WebExtension for vertical tabs bothered me, so I wrote one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vertigo-tabs/

I've started making another one that try to respect the system's theme: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vertigo-tabs/