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gulperxcxon Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera

You're getting Android 12 release date confused with 11. 11 was released in Sept 2020, your point still stands however.

I'm curious what was the approach to get enough users to actually use this, also noticed there's dark mode, but I don't see a setting for it. Guessing it's for registered users?

tangent: Why are there still a lot of sites not doing dark mode first. Discord did a great job of this.

gulperxcxon Is this the end of social networking?

https://archive.ph/bA9rS

gulperxcxon AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

but how would this affect day to day life, though? Not how long you think it will.

gulperxcxon Reading habits that changed my life

nice.

gulperxcxon Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file

Are there any screenshots of what this looks like when in use?

gulperxcxon Why Google+ Failed

I forgot about that, Chrome has that too. That should work.

gulperxcxon Why Google+ Failed

I don't think there's any way around that pop up on a mobile browser.

gulperxcxon REST and GraphQL framework to build API-driven projects

and also the Laravel framework

gulperxcxon WebGL Fluid Simulation

https://pastebin.com/LDMjLWgn

I suspect the nouveau video driver is the culprit.

I'm currently using Ubuntu 18.04

gulperxcxon WebGL Fluid Simulation

The effects are very slow on chrome v74, but super smooth in FF v66. I suppose that's Electrolysis[1] in action.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Overview

gulperxcxon Killed by Google

I've never used it myself but from the looks of the UI, it seems to be heavily influenced by gmail in design.

here's the google reader blog for historical reference: http://googlereader.blogspot.com

gulperxcxon Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?

Truer words have never been spoken.

gulperxcxon Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?

Eddie Woo is awesome

gulperxcxon Java is still available at zero-cost

Lol, this cracked me up

gulperxcxon We Don’t Run Cron Jobs (2016)

Bingo! Those work great paired with a AWS Lambda function

gulperxcxon PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding

lol, I think you got em!

gulperxcxon Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Xbox Empire and Went Too Far

anyone mind giving a tl;dr version of this article? I find the text really strenuous to look at.

gulperxcxon YouTube rolls out new tools to help you stop watching

So does this method strip out ads?

gulperxcxon Google I/O'18: Keynote Livestream [video]

What brand of tin foil do you use to make your hats?

>My smartphone is now a black box in control of my life.

Only if you let it control your life.

gulperxcxon What Managers Need to Know About Slack, Yammer, and Chatter

Sounds like you're describing a mailing-list

gulperxcxon PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development

Sounds like you're getting ideas.

gulperxcxon Who Killed the Junior Developer?

I can completely relate to this.

gulperxcxon Who Killed the Junior Developer?

I think he meant "conversations" as in someone walking up and interrupting you to have a conversation

gulperxcxon Ask HN: Has working remotely harmed your career growth?

What happened to your remote company?

gulperxcxon Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin

What's the benefit of this over doing a direct exchange. ie. Local currency <--> foreign currency?

gulperxcxon Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

That is a pretty cool use case

gulperxcxon Git git git git git

>I quite often type git then go away and come back, then type a full git status after it.

Does anyone else actually do this besides OP. I've never heard of this problem until now.

gulperxcxon Exceptionally Preserved Ancient Ships Discovered in the Black Sea

The ads where you have to scroll to make them go away are the worst

gulperxcxon The Crystal Language

From a quick peek at it, it seems better than Ruby. Maybe the AWS CodeDeploy Agent and Gitlab packages can be rewritten in it, which are both coded in Ruby and slow