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pls2halp··on Min – A smarter web browser
And you wouldn’t expect atom to use more memory than sublime, either.
pls2halp··on Min – A smarter web browser
A. FUCKING. ELECTRON. BROWSER. ಠ_ಠ

Just so I don’t get this comment killed, here’s some text calmly explaining that electron is based off blink, and implementing a browser in it is like using a text editor’s scripting feature to reimplement the cursor.

pls2halp··on 'Our minds can be hijacked': tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
But you can also argue that that polarisation is just a step away from homogeneity.
pls2halp··on 'Our minds can be hijacked': tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
There’s a very solid argument for TV as stunting people’s development.

There’s lack of reading, albeit not necessarily due to television (https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/the-dec...)

There’s a direct link between television and obesity (http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/75/5/807)

And more general health dangers (http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/prolonged-tel...)

Etcetera

pls2halp··on The Autocrat's Language
But I could replace your “pizzagate, Benghazi, emails” with “pissgate, Russia, tax returns”. This is a non partisan issue.
pls2halp··on Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced
I know that the headphones which came in the box work through the lightning port on my iPad. I think firmware support was added to all devices in iOS 10, maybe check if she's updated.
pls2halp··on Google CEO Appeases Publishers with Subscriptions
That terrible. We really need access to things like this too with the News Corp/Murdoch stranglehold on he media(seriously, almost every paper looks something like this come election: http://www.jonstribling.com/wp-content/uploads/20140131-2042...)
pls2halp··on Did Russia fake black activism on Facebook to sow division in the US?
I'm fairly certain the facebook presence of the same account is parody, so presumably this one is too.
pls2halp··on Apple and Consumer Choice
I think it’s just the regular iPad and two or three different Pros. I know the Mini and Air are depreciated.
pls2halp··on Never Completed Game
Oy vey, they got us.
pls2halp··on Never Completed Game
The last few were pretty easy. We were on beat for the cyphers used, and the last one just happened to be picked up by a music nerd.
pls2halp··on Never Completed Game
4chan has the current high score(spoiler warning http://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/9202862)
pls2halp··on Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player
That’s what The Daily Stormer was. Stormfront is still up.
pls2halp··on Giving you more characters
Depending on the translation(i.e. trespass is too long), the Lord's Prayer either fits or is a few characters too long.
pls2halp··on Grandmaster Garry Kasparov on Artificial Intelligence
He also did a talk at this year’s DEFCON(presumably there’re all for the same book):https://youtu.be/fp7Pq7_tHsY
pls2halp··on When I asked Tinder for my data, it sent me 800 pages of my deepest secrets
> Immigrants have lower IQs or more criminality.

Assuming a reasonable portion of these are refugees(or from third world countries), wouldn’t that be a fair link to make? Malnutrition has a clearly established link to lower IQs, hence migrants having a lowe IQ(iirc, Nordic countries have the Flynn effect strongest, so this link might hold true even for immigrants from developed nations).

pls2halp··on Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight
The thing is. Both the Suface Pro and Pixel(shining examples of companies not quite being Apple) have sold at exactly the same price as their Apple counterparts for the past few years.
pls2halp··on Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight
Literally that. I think the policy is that users should set up a seperate admin account.
pls2halp··on Guitar browser game with a real guitar
The list of APIs which Webkit doesn't support(at least in the preview version) is surprisingly small[1]

Chrome is a lot closer to IE in that it incorrectly implements standards to encourage developers and users to priorities it's platform(like a certain company[2])

[1] https://webkit.org/status/#?status=under%20consideration,in%...

[2] https://brattahlid.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/is-docx-really-a...

pls2halp··on Bitcoin Paper Wallets (2015)
All this discussion of furiously encrypting bitcoin reminds me of another xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/916/
pls2halp··on AR.js: Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web
Thanks. I wasn't sure if it was a different build.
pls2halp··on Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Aren't Fully Disabled When Off in iOS 11 Control Center
As it is, the icons grey out when you “disable” them from control centre, and have a line through them when actually off(which is how they looked before).
pls2halp··on AR.js: Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web
I’m getting the same error, and I’m on the iOS 11 GM(not the public release yet).
pls2halp··on Alan Kay is still waiting for his dream to come true
I'm interested to see if you've seen the concepts of atemporality[1] and network culture[2] floating around. Basically, the core thesis associated with these is that we have adopted the internet as our primary mode of processing information, and have as such lost the sense of a cohesive narrative that is inherent in reading a book/essay, or listening to a whole talk, in the process.

You become fully immersed in Plato's worldview when reading The Republic, but if you were see someone explaining the allegory of the cave in the absence of a wider context you will only take the elements which fit your worldview and not his wider conception of knowledge.

I think this ties into what happened to the concept of a centralised computer network, working for the good of humanity, turning into todays fractured silos, working to mine individuals for profit.

[1]http://index.varnelis.net/network_culture/1_time_history_und... [2]http://index.varnelis.net/network_culture

pls2halp··on Lenovo Accidentally Leaks an Image of Its ‘Retro Thinkpad’
I’m pretty sure I saw a Windows 10 start menu, so yes.
pls2halp··on iPhone X
This time they’ve got an infrared sensore, as well as two cameras with different focal lengths, so they should be fine.
pls2halp··on Text-only CNN
I'm going to point out that The Guardian hasn't put up a paywall, but remains a 'real newspaper'.

There's also going directly to the AP(https://apnews.com/) for straight news articles, sans editorial, if that what you want.

pls2halp··on Text-only CNN
There's also Ublock Origin(general ad block, with highly granular options), and Privacy Badger.
pls2halp··on How a bullet turns into a beep (2007)
I'm confused. The article seems to suggest that it's unintended behaviour, but it's not being reported as a bug, instead it seems to be a curiosity. Is this how Microsoft tends to handle these things?
pls2halp··on Some publishers are fighting AMP with “View Full Experience” link
The reason that works is because !g defaults to encrypted.google.com, which doesn’t support AMP yet. I think you can set that as your homepage to make AMP-free search more accessible. As it is, Safari doesn’t seem to support custom search engines.
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