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Re:The Framework Laptop on Friday February 26, 2021 @04:13AM (#26272823)
Doing output is trivial compared to properly handling any type of free-form user input.
Re:React Native for Windows and Mac on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:00AM (#23164947)
You build the app with the dev dependencies, so you need to trust them as well.
And nobody wants to take responsibility and maintain it either, not even now.
Re:The Science Behind Making Your Child Smarter on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @06:21AM (#18761661)
Wisdom and intellect should not be confused either
Re:The Japanese traffic light blues: Stop on red, go on what? on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @02:47AM (#18173806)
Excactly.

Close to where I live there are a couple of funny examples:

In one place the lights are red by default for everyone. Cars are detected from 100m or so away, so they barely need to slow down. Pedestrians need to press a button and usually wait for a while.

At another crossing the lights are green by default for the bigger road. A sideroad has car-detection that is ofter rather quick. Pedestrians and cyclists need to press a button and usually wait for a long time.

Just because you don't sit in a car it's ok to wait that much longer.

Re:The Japanese traffic light blues: Stop on red, go on what? on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @01:51AM (#18173617)
That's just fair - pedestrians aren't detected either
The post mentions cloud security.

We were actually discussing this one day at the office - have there been any serious security breaches at Google? Are they really just that good?

This seems to be better than the current Macbook Pros on almost every level - specs, ports, weight. Only the screen is worse.

Too bad nVidia graphics aren't supported on macOS - otherwise would have been the Macbook of many dreams.

E: looks like I had missed the latest Macbook update; the specs are not that different.

Re:Product Updates Based on Your Feedback on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:34AM (#18073273)
Almost everything runs just fine in Firefox.

Google software seems to be chrome-optimized, but it's usually only slightly slower on Firefox - it still works.

The most unexpected part was seeing "Gentoo Hardened" as a part of state-level official documentation.
Re:EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @10:58AM (#17707202)
The manufacturing process pretty much always involves humans.
Even with the bad parts the Macbook pro is still the most capable all-rounder available - it's durable, the build quality is excellent, the hardware is (apart from memory) as good as you can get in any portable laptop...

It's really sad that Lenovo for some reason refuses to make laptops that actually match the macbooks; they are either huge or lack a proper GPU. And others just aren't of comparable build quality in the first place.

Re:From OS X to Ubuntu on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @03:06AM (#13363446)
The Arch linux wiki is one of the best maintained and up-to-date on hardware issues. It helps that Arch itself tries to ship only vanilla software: as few modifications as possible to the kernel, too, unlike the bigger distros.

Excellent source of information.

Re:The first web site on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @02:53AM (#13363394)
Sadly many of the links are broken.

If I was part of a university IT team and our site was linked to from the first webpage ever, I would at least make sure there was a redirect to a working page.

Re:Bringing Wide Color to Instagram on Monday January 09, 2017 @04:24PM (#13359937)
In wrong color though.
Re:Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:22AM (#13335261)
This is a sad problem that has come with developers using Javascript for everything. Development might be faster, but the end product is simply slow even on high-end machines.

Same thing happens with Visual Studio Code, Brackets and Atom when compared to Sublime Text, for instance.

Re:Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated on Thursday January 05, 2017 @01:45AM (#13325255)
This is one of the biggest problems with Windows, Visual Studio, Office and other larger (enormous) software Microsoft makes: an insane amount of features but documentation is nonexistent or hard to find.

The software itself is quite powerful and feature-rich, but finding the right tools from the menus, hidden hotkeys etc is difficult or impossible.

Re:Chrome browser for businesses on Thursday December 29, 2016 @05:25AM (#13276613)
On the other hand, the network tab in the dev tools actually knows how to parse incoming JSON, unlike Chrome which only renders a string.