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daviddisco··on Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing
Your friend might also consider No Handed Typing i.e. speech based typing. The tools for this have really progressed in recent times. I have a friend who codes full time without using his hands. He uses https://talonvoice.com/ but I'm sure there are other tools as well.
daviddisco··on For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
I can't speak for Google but I think the theory they work under is that for some queries the ads are the best results. In other words, the user is more likely to find what they are looking for if those ads are there. There are many signals used for ranking results and the ad auction price is one signal.
daviddisco··on Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation
What is the value of sniffing the local ssids? As far as I know it is just to get a better and faster lock on location (sometimes GPS signals are weak) and therefore give better navigation. Does anyone know of some other purpose?
daviddisco··on Watch an earthquake roll across a continent
Does anyone know why there are so many sensors in Alaska? Looks like it has more than the rest of the country combined.
daviddisco··on An volcanic eruption in 1257 A.D. impacted our entire planet. But which volcano?
"The capital of the Lombok kingdom, a city called Pamatan, was wiped out, and remains undiscovered; if ever found it may be resemble Pompeii"
daviddisco··on Estonia's Management of Legacy IT Has Helped It Weather the Pandemic
"The Estonian government realized early on that world-class communications, along with universal access to the Internet, were key to quickly modernizing industry as well as government. "

"Estonia’s political leadership also understood that to do so successfully required the creation of the necessary legal infrastructure."

"IT solutions of material importance must never be older than 13-years-old."

daviddisco··on What people in 1899 thought would happen to travel technology
I was surprised to see such accurate depictions of airplanes. This was four years before the Wright brothers made their first flight.
daviddisco··on A Year Later–The Windows Phone 7 Numbers That Matter
The article said 12 apps per month not 12 apps total.