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mycookie··on Cursors
Awesome, reminds me of Antichamber, especially the little hints given.
mycookie··on How Apple’s Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F
It's possible for it to download compressed data and 323 used uncompressed textures/meshes/sounds/etc.
mycookie··on iPad Mini 3
Keeping the A7 is disappointing; I'd expect at least the A8 offered in the iPhones. Looks like the iPad Mini is the new iPod Touch.
mycookie··on iPhone 6
Going with that logic, Moto G is all the phone one needs, at half the price of the Nexus 5.
mycookie··on Intel Broadwell Architecture Preview: A Glimpse into Core M
Also, just because the GPU can power 4K doesn't mean it will for a reasonably small amount of power, such that the MBA can continue to pull a 12-hour battery life.
mycookie··on Google I/O 2014
Reducing animation speed does not solve the problem. Too many animations can be distracting for me (kwin), increasing animation speed does not remove the distractions.
mycookie··on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
The header bars finally see more use in 3.12; for Firefox, I'd recommend something like HTile, which removes the header when it's maximized.
mycookie··on Canadian bill to crack down on illegal downloads has privacy experts worried
Difficult to find an ISP with a backbone that actually can follow through. I'd be interested to know if anyone in Canada has had an ISP successfully stand up to procecution.