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The keyboard (and ports) will probably hold up a lot longer than the compute power of the Pi 4, so being able to swap out the internals without throwing away the perfectly good chassis would be a nice win for e-waste.

What university in the Bay Area costs only twice as much as SFU/UBC?

The easiest distinction between activism and bigotry is to tolerate everything except intolerance itself. Activists mostly fight for more rights/freedom, and bigots mostly look to prevent that. It's not a perfect boundary, but I've found it works well for the significant majority of cases.

This looks super cool, I'm very interested in trying it. It looks like the link to the Firefox extension is broken though, is there a workaround to install the extension?

Which is not a good thing IMO. The Xbox One controller has been much more comfortable for longer sessions for me.

Doesn't seem reasonable to compare how you feel about open sourcing personal projects to open source software that a company builds and relies on for revenue. Open source is amazing because it allows all of us to share knowledge and build things better than any of us could build individually, and I LOVE that. When a goliath like AWS comes along as abuses OSS to make money off of someone else's work without contributing back (either with money or code) they're not operating in the spirit of open source and they're potentially making it more difficult to successfully run that company (which IS contributing software to our community). That's not cool.

Well it's been 3 years, so however Defold has been progressing is probably your answer.

I'd think that the NetEase investment gave them the confidence boost they needed to try out on their own and self-publish in most of the world. As with every non-Chinese game company the question is how they can get a piece of the Chinese market, and now Bungie has their answer.

League of Legends has been around since 2009, versus Candy Crush Saga in 2012.

By longevity I mean a hosted service with the intention of being around for a really long time. Of course plain text (and therefore Markdown) are the pinnacle but I'm very interested in supporting a service that aims to live for a hundred years, thus Standard Notes.

I commented mainly because Notable as a front-end for Standard Notes seems like the perfect solution for me but I understand that this is already your perfect solution. I might have to try the integration myself. Thanks again for your awesome work!

This is great, I'm very tempted! When I was looking at note apps (and as I continue to re-evaluate my decision), the big win that keeps me on Standard Notes is the longevity and encryption, but the editor interface isn't anything special and sometimes I really miss OneNote/Evernote. Have you heard of Standard Notes, and would you ever consider making Notable support being a client for Standard Notes[1]?

[1] https://docs.standardnotes.org/standard-file/client-developm...

He talks more about WSL near the end:

The Bash on Windows environment is now so performant and well supported that you won’t even know the difference if you move from a MacBook, and Microsoft continues to improve it at an impressive clip.

Unless you’re using Xcode, your workflow will almost certainly move from macOS to Windows as a non-event: it’s that good now, and I spend most of my time living in the Bash environment without any problems — even with complicated situations like Symlinks inside Bash now actually working fully.

IIRC the robotaxi service will only be offered in Arizona for the time being, which is basically the easiest place to perform at level 4. This might be a good start, but don't be fooled into thinking the improvements required to bring level 4 into markets with reasonable amounts of rain and snow are linear; if the rest of the self driving car industry is any indication, we're nearing a plateau.

I'm curious how you got Filebeat to push to Kafka. Did you write a custom modification to Filebeat/libbeat?

Seems like there could be an interesting synergy here with the Pomodoro technique (though the 15/5 cycle would need to be modified since the studies appear to use 10 minute breaks).

That arrangement is heavily critiqued, particularly that Bombardier is still controlled by private shareholders (and is receiving significant public funding).

It's pretty clear that airplanes are expensive to build, and every large plane manufacturer has government subsidies, but Boeing is being particularly anti-competitive in this instance and is getting away with it.

Don't confuse static/dynamic typing and weak/strong typing. A language can be both dynamically and strongly typed (Python, for example). The thing you like about a "strongly typed language" is the static typing, meaning a variable's type can't change once it's been created.

Gabe Newell said it years ago. Piracy is almost always a service problem, not a pricing problem.

There was a post on /r/Android about it [1], but it seems like you can toggle this off by disabling device analytics in the settings.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/75ev0z/oxygenos_is...

Any plans for the ability to add custom sources? I'm assuming that's not a trivial thing to add, but definitely something I'd be interested in.

It seamlessly handles a changing network connection. When there's no internet connection, you still get to use the local database, and when there is a connection it'll sync everything with the server.

This is in addition to standard property taxes.

When you plug the phone in, a notification appears in the notification shade allowing you to choose how you want the power to flow. You should be able to choose to charge the phone, rather than use the phone as a charger. I know this option appears when using a Type C to Type C cable, but there's a chance it won't work with a Type C to Type A cable.

The design fail is not taking the obvious and consistent (albeit spaced out) need to charge the mouse into account. It's not like some people don't have to charge this mouse; everyone will charge the mouse at some point, and they will do so consistently over the years.

With this design, I get a first class experience using it when the batteries aren't empty, but I literally cannot use the mouse when I need to charge it. The idea that a mouse should sacrifice such a basic functionality requirement just for the sake of a slightly better design is hilariously backward.

It's funny you say that because as a Canadian Netflix user, almost every single person I know prefers the American Netflix catalog. Star Wars TFA is pretty much a one-off, we rarely get new blockbuster movies added to the Canadian catalog this soon after release.

The reason Dash Charging is fast is because it moves some of the charging hardware into the brick itself, meaning the phone doesn't get as hot when charging, allowing it to charge faster. One of the main reasons charging speed is limited is because the phone gets too hot, so moving heat to the brick means the charging speed can be faster without having to throttle to keep temperatures low.

You might call the branding unnecessary confusion, but in my experience it's been a differentiating feature, one that less tech savvy people I know mention when talking about reasons to switch to a OnePlus 3. And it's not a marketing gimmick either; I've seen it work in real life, and it's speed is kind of incredible.

That's a very interesting thought. I've also noticed that in Metro Vancouver the majority of pubs are on busy streets or in dense city areas, rather than neighborhoods. Unfortunately, the people I know (mostly 20-somethings) tend to gravitate towards the city core for social outings, and so I end up very rarely trying the few neighborly pubs in the suburbs.

Most of these sound like reasons not to use Facebook in general.

While the seen indicator is a legitimate annoyance, it's been commonplace for some years now. I don't know of a modern chat app that doesn't have it.

As for the rest of your points, Facebook's money comes from ads. These concerns are not limited to chat, but using Facebook in general. As you browse the web, Facebook is tracking you and using the data to deliver more relevant ads. As you comment and make posts, Facebook uses the data to deliver more relevant ads.

Every part of the service is designed to help them do this, saying that these are reasons to "not use Messenger" is missing the point. The point of using Messenger is that you're not tied to any other portion of Facebook. You just get to message friends, plain and simple. The benefit is you're not being enticed into scrolling your news feed, spammed with notifications about upcoming events etc.

Plus, there are rumours they're going to bring e2e encryption in a la Whatsapp, which would pretty much squash points 2 and 3.

It's a temporary problem though. Speed limits are set to try and keep people safe, by enforcing a maximum speed. Once computers drive the cars, the speed limit can be cranked up because reaction time goes up drastically and distracted drivers are nonexistent. I expect to see lots of changes in driving laws once automation takes over for exactly this reason.

And twice the battery life (more if you run the 360 in Ambient Mode, which the Pebble does inherently) and half the thickness!