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pix64··on C++ Pattern Matching Proposal [pdf]
The majority of those are garbage collected and the one's which aren't are obscure.
pix64··on Elon Musk wins 'pedo guy' defamation case
There is a difference between insulting somebody and claiming someone is a pedophile
pix64··on Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
This might be a third party shell extension crashing. You can try disabling unneeded extensions and seeing if that helps.

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

pix64··on Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
Control Panel has been around for 24+ years and on top of that some (older) driver packages and apps install third party control panel applets as well. It's going to be a long rough road deprecating Control Panel and replacing it with Settings.
pix64··on An Antique Toaster That's Better Than Today’s [video]
He has a second video showing how to adjust the toaster. There is a screw at the bottom under the crumb tray which adjusts the tension.
pix64··on Statement Regarding FedEx’s Relationship with Amazon
If you're ordering with Amazon, the phone app will notify you when your packages are delivered. You could probably create an app that pings the tracking information every so often for other sellers.
pix64··on Thunderbird in 2019
Email clients need an html engine, so all that added baggage kinda comes with the territory.
pix64··on Bluetooth
As someone who in charge of testing BT enabled audio devices, reliability is terrible.
pix64··on Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet
I managed to open and repair my phone with a $15 heat gun from Lowe's, an exacto knife and a sheet of plastic cut out of an egg carton. It's definitely doable.
pix64··on World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years
I was under the impression movies were distributed on encrypted physical media which the key was made available on the release date. Maybe things have changed.
pix64··on MacOS Mojave removes subpixel anti-aliasing, making non-retina displays blurry
ClearType definitely existed for XP
pix64··on American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount recommended for adults
Soda was available on a vending machine in middle School and high school. I think they've been removed.

Pizza has a normal lunch. But chocolate bars, no.

pix64··on Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (2013)
So why not fix it?
pix64··on Why Snapchat Spectacles failed
Never even heard of this
pix64··on Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum
I was pretty pissed it automatically uploaded the image. "Save" refers to saving to your local machine. "Upload" means uploading to a remote server. Fix the damn button.
pix64··on How you can contribute to Firefox 57 success
Mozilla can contribute to Firefox 57's success by finishing all the missing WebExtensions APIs. So many extensions are going to be impossible to recreate.
pix64··on 64-bit Firefox is the new default on 64-bit Windows
Visual Studio, Dropbox, OneDrive, Steam
pix64··on Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the iPhone
What else is Apple going to use Bing?
pix64··on A Bay Area developer wants to build 4,400 homes where they may be sorely needed
> May not be a popular opinion but I'd have to say that I value the idea of having space between me and my neighbors

They aren't building new houses between old houses...

pix64··on Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML
The DRM plugin is for decryption only and runs in a sandbox (in Firefox anyways). Flash has a much larger attack surface. Performance of flash is usually much poorer when compared to the browser's video player.
pix64··on Why People from Manchester Are Mancunians, Not Manchesterians
Yank isn't related to the name of the US.
pix64··on Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot
A roomba simply cannot get in tight corners, behind tv stands, etc where dust and dirt collect.
pix64··on Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot
Farming is already ridiculously automated. Seems like a battle long lost.
pix64··on New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs
"All Stars"
pix64··on Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path
There is a webextension version of ublock origin. I'm not entirely sure ff 54 supports all the needed APIs.

uBlock0.webext.xpi @ https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.12.4

Edit: I've disabled the addon signing requirement and all seems to be working. Hopefully it gets on the AMO soon.

pix64··on Inkscape Moves to GitLab
This hasn't been updated in 2 years.
pix64··on McDonald’s Universal Icons for 109 Countries [pdf]
Learning a few words even if you can't speak them is pretty damn simple.
pix64··on McDonald’s Universal Icons for 109 Countries [pdf]
Literally "Egg White"
pix64··on The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014)
Depends entirely on the immigrants themselves. Cost of living is ridiculously high in "desirable" coastal cities. Most immigrants can't afford that.
pix64··on ₹Query (jQuery for India)
This appears impossible. Identifiers can only start with Unicode letters, $, _, or Unicode escape sequences of the 3 previous listed items.

The way this library works is by taking the code as a string, replacing every instance of "₹('...')" with window['₹'](...) and evaluating the string.

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