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Re:Vijayanagara – The Last Emperors of South India [audio] on Sunday February 20, 2022 @02:15AM (#30403880)
Epic History TV.

Napoleonic Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91OmO2YMiDM

Well, personally I use Firefox. Although I do have a suspition that Google has found some way of keeping Firefox experience on mobile inferior in some way. Just speculating.
Would Google also be able to negatively influence such an app if the app was a PWA? Publishing PWA on Play Store might still lead to the same outcome, but what if it is just an independent PWA and is "installed" through the phone's browser? Of course you would loose some discoverability though, but are there other disadvantages? (provided the app is even feasible as a PWA)
Re:U.S. Fed accepts $756B in daily reverse repo operation on Thursday June 17, 2021 @02:46PM (#27543032)
the banks have too much cash and not enough collateral (typically bonds). The FED lends them the bonds for one day (reverse repo) so that their books look ok at the end of the day.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @10:26AM (#27354990)
There is also browser.compactmode.show set to true that will allow compact density. Unfortunately that won't reduce the padding around bookmark entries. For that can go to https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @09:42AM (#27354321)
Setting browser.compactmode.show to true in about:config allows for setting density to compact again. But unfortunately the padding around bookmark entries remains huge.
Re:Is that ship still stuck? on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:47PM (#26586599)
Apparently, the ship drew a giant penis before getting stuck: https://nypost.com/2021/03/24/cargo-ship-drew-penis-before-g...
Wild speculation: this draft proposal would favor smaller chip makers that have been acquired by China. https://www.datenna.com/china-eu-fdi-radar/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtd7UzLJHrU Comparison with the 40k display here. Apple doesn't come very close. Sure it's much cheaper. But then why compare.
I switched to watching youtube through firefox+adblock on android a while ago.
Re:SpaceX Software Team AMA on Sunday June 07, 2020 @06:39AM (#23446331)
Do you think SpaceX customers look at tweets and the current outrage of the month when they are looking for a rocket to launch their satelites with?
i guess there's always someone on the other side of the globe. So a reasonable time for where the majority of your audience is is the best. Unless you wanna go all out and make it timezones dependent.
When sleep is a good way to boost the defences against infections [0], motivating people to stay up until midnight might not be the best idea. Perhaps change the update time to an earlier hour.

[0] https://youtu.be/wlbM6VVkVZM

Re:Cheap zinc/manganese battery being developed commercially on Friday November 08, 2019 @10:36AM (#21483121)
Zinc is very important in the diet and its deficiency is very common. Our food is already becoming scarce in zinc, potentially needing supplements from mined minerals. But these are not projected to last very long either [1]. This doesn't make me very excited for using it for batteries at all.

[1] https://www.iatp.org/documents/scarcity-of-micronutrients-in...

Re:Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (1999) on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:38PM (#21365065)
Many times if GIF is converted to video it will ruin the pixel art, or in some cases even produce bigger file [1]. I get the efficiency argument for conversion to video, but in some cases it is a no-go. There should always be an option to not convert to video.

[1] https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/6403

Re:Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (1999) on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:31PM (#21365016)
with GIF i can easily right click it and do a similar image search. Does something like this exist for video?
I am missing the point why this bookmarklet is needed. You right click the preview image that google gives and either 'Open Image in new tab' or 'Copy image address', or even 'Save Image'. Actually Googles change makes it easier to handle images, since you get directly the original in the preview view, instead of some cached version... what am I missing?
Re:Design of a low-level C++ template SIMD library [pdf] on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @02:56AM (#16050548)
also worth mentioning here is Vc - portable, zero-overhead C++ types for explicitly data-parallel programming https://github.com/VcDevel/Vc/ (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p021...).
Can bitcoin be "damaged" by quantum computers?

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