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These toolbars were usually bundled with legit software (Heck, even Java installed Bing toolbar..) behind dark patterns where a computer beginner would, understandably, not realize they were also installing something else.

As long as the dialog for unlocking your phone would clearly state the risks and what it does, unlike those toolbars upon installation, I think it would totally be OK.

Imagine if you couldnt install Linux on any PC because Dell didnt give you the keys to prevent you from hurting yourself. Or Apple didnt allow sudo in macOS. Seems kinda absurd right? Yet this is the standard for phones.

Also Id like to point out that Android allows installation of external APKs (after activating) and it didnt lead to a super increase in malware, as user still prefer the Play Store, and APK are usually left for the more technically inclined user for niche purposes or often times Region lock circumventing.

IIRC you gotta hold the file over the program's taskbar icon for bit then it changes to that window as active and there you can drop. Try with e.g. Your browser on Google drive for uplaoding

try letting the file stay on the app icon for a few seconds, it should automatically switch to that window.

I use it a lot for file uploads in web browser.

A good (only?) workaround is using alt tab but if you have many open programs it can be quite annoying.

> * Support for Android apps built into the OS (using Intel Bridge technology whatever that is?).

Straight copy pasta from https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-...

> Intel Bridge Technology is a runtime post-compiler that enables applications to run natively on x86-based devices, including running those applications on Windows. Intel’s multi-architecture XPU strategy provides the right engines for the right workloads by integrating leading CPU cores, graphics technology, artificial intelligence accelerators, image processors and more, in a single, verified solution.

looks like a JIT recompiler to me

tip: IIRC you can set partitions to specific "folders" rather than drive letters by using Windows' Disk Management tool.

For those on Windows, I find Capture2Text[0] to be a pretty great FOSS Screen OCR application: you press Win Q and select an area like the snipping tool would, simple as that.

It also has some other snipping modes, supports more than english, and has the option to, after the OCR, immediately show a popup window where you can fix what the OCR inevitably failed to properly recognize.

I recommend use alongside a clipboard manager.

[0] http://capture2text.sourceforge.net

P.S. I recommend changing/disabling its Win E shortcut as that conflicts with Windows built-in shortcut for file explorer

Agreed. I even use it on my Android device with Termux sometimes.

Not sure if they stopped using the trick questions or not but they still have the program. You can Download it in your phone from Play Store, it's called Google Rewards.

> My pet theory about why the object.method(args) call syntax won is that it really is the most natural to read, as evidenced by the fact that most human languages follow subject-verb-object word order.

Most western languages maybe, but according to wikipedia[1] the most common is actually SOV rather than SVO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_order#Distribution_of_wor...

Correlation doesn't prove causation though.

From the article linked:

> Alternate explanations for the effects of T. gondii on humans cannot be ruled out. It is possible, eg, that individuals with certain personality characteristics behave in a manner that makes it more likely that they will become infected.

Not really.

""" Fix bug where sync could fail in Android 7 devices

Also, for a few users we rolled the following experimental changes:

  * X, Y and Z

"""

I think it's way more responsive, which is good.

Hoowever, the increased use of horizontal space makes it harder to read (imagine HN without the blank sides) and I believe the information density has been lost a notch way too much.

All in all I think I prefer the previous design because to me information readability comes first.

It actually becomes pretty decent if you zoom out to 80% in Firefox although the text becomes a tad too small. I believe making an extension to increase information density shouldn't be too hard.

Task Manager uses CTRL-SHIFT-ESC to open, not CTRL-ALT-ESC.

You can also reset it to defaults by pressing CTRL-ALT-SHIFT beforing clicking on its taskbar icon.

> As for "Netflix can grow by getting more users by offering attractive services and features", that's circular reasoning. They need growth to help pay for new attractive services and features.

Growing is exactly what investors money is for, besides their monthly revenue that allows them to grow a bit every period of time X.

> The problem is that their none of their existing user base signed a 30-year irrevocable contract to always pay $11.99 for the next 360 months. Consumers have free will and their preferences change which is why Blockbuster couldn't count on their old customers to keep walking into their stores to rent DVDs.

That's a problem for when netflix loses users at a rate that will damage profit rates unacceptably, not before.

> E.g.: https://www.google.com/search?q=netflix+lost+subscribers

They lost market share because Disney+ has exclusive content Netflix doesn't and some users preferred to only maintain one service, there's nothing Netflix can do about it besides trying to make their product _more_ attractive, not less.

You could argue that maybe they could regain market share by making the product cheaper, but I doubt they will ever achieve a cheaper enough price where people would be willing to pay for both Netflix and Disney+/Other streaming website with more attractive content for them or switch back to netflix because it's become trash without an interesting catalogue and full of ads for being so cheap.

I believe it's not the phone that flags it as an emergency call, but the transmission tower, which has a "hardcoded" list of the emergency numbers.

"Planned for details of the technology will be announced at the "42nd Japan Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society[5]" to be held in Fukuoka on December 3 to 8 days."[0][1]

[0] https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1220546.html

The overview can be read in the following links: (all in japanese):

Toshiba announcement[1], National Cancer Center Japan[2][3], Nedo[4]

[1] https://www.toshiba.co.jp/rdc/detail/1911_06.htm

[2] https://www.ncc.go.jp/jp/information/pr_release/2014/0613/in...

[3] https://www.ncc.go.jp/jp/information/pr_release/2014/0613/pr...

[4] https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_100275.html

[5] https://www2.aeplan.co.jp/mbsj2019/

Also, here's the information regarding the project's funding and about the objective: https://research-er.jp/projects/view/920250 and https://www.nedo.go.jp/activities/ZZJP_100082.html

> Every single software engineer fell in love with coding because she made a small, useful program early on and was hooked.

Totally off-topic to this article: I've seen more and more the use of she as a demonsrative pronoum rather than a personal one (e.g. moon as her) and as actually a gender-neutral personal pronoum for people and animals, specially for generalized cases.

Is this "valid" formal english or is it a trend?

Also, if anyone knows the name of using "her" like this please tell me, I'd like to know more about this.

It seems to be 10k chars.

Otherwise, it displays a "message too long" error.

I'm a non-paying user and for the few times I actually contacted GitHub they were always very helpful and fixed the bugs in less than 72 hours.

I use the moto G line myself and the only thing I am dissatisfied about is Motorola's constant refusal to make use of it's 64bit hardware, forcing the OS to run in 32-bit mode.

Some games (Pokemon Masters for example) are simply unavailable because of this, and Google has already deprecated 32bit native code.

> Just because they are both packets over the network, they are different use cases and present a feature which can be charged for.

Charging people for different use case while the product is literally the same is one the most anti consumer things I can think about it, no idea why you think it's okay.

Imagine a eletricity bill that had different prices if your vacumm cleaner was being used on the living room rather than say, a bedroom, I see it as simply absurd.

ReCAPTCHA doesn't prevent the kind of spam that makes internet services completely unusable (i.e. DDoS botnets), it prevents form submition spam.

You do realize it's not just about the trees, right? You exterminate an uncountable amount of species of fauna and flora too alongside the way, including ones that could very well have been used for medicinal research.

It does have indexing, which I frequently use.

If your pdf book does not have it, there's some readers who can add it. e.g. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/creating-pdf-indexes.h...

Interesting concept, but it sounds slightly female to me.

I wonder what difference is there between male and female voices besides pitch (excluding cultural differences in way of speaking)? If some are exclusively binary, using or not using it will obligatorily lead to one or the other, and if so, a totally "gender" neutral voice becomes impossible.

(I used gender enclosed in quotes because I'm only talking about the general biological differences between male and female voices, not elements such as way of speaking, choice of words, etc)

Maybe one approach could be mix aspects from both male and female voice.

JVM tuning (especially the GC and memory allocation scaling) can be a huge PITA.

> I thought you can’t use “app” in an app name?

WhatsApp seems like a fairly strong counter-argument

> There will always be people eager to point out the race of people who do wrong, when those people are Jewish.

What was pointed here was an country government's agency, not ethnicity. I see nothing wrong in including that information and in, in fact, in favor of it.

This way, it's possible to have a grasp of what govts. are doing what, even though not much.

Latest breakage I noticed is spacebar not pausing YouTube videos on Firefox but works fine on Chrome.