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sammoth··on iPhone update leaves users furious due to battery drain issue
I've had this problem with a 5 for years now, as has a friend. Especially in the cold, the phone will shut off very quickly. I thought it was just due to the inevitable wearing out of the battery.
sammoth··on How can I protect myself from government snoopers?
What is a good country to host an end-point in within a reasonable distance of the UK?
sammoth··on Backblaze hard drive reliability stats for Q3 2016
That's B2 not the standard backup service
sammoth··on Fix Windows 10 Privacy
Have you tried disabling any compositor?
sammoth··on Mozilla stops distribution of WOT addon
Do you really think being logged out of every website every time you start your browser would be an acceptable default?
sammoth··on A Taste of Haskell
What are you implying? What should they have used?
sammoth··on Twitter is now worth less than its Chinese clone
Baidu...?
sammoth··on The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus Review: Iterating on a Flagship
I do that all the time
sammoth··on Lesser known Git commands
Then just create the branch where you are, and afterwards go back and reset the original branch
sammoth··on Airbnb's impact on cities
No it's not that hotel prices are artificially high, they are priced in a completely separate market to residential properties. If there is no regulation on Airbnb rentals, tourists are now competing more in the residential market. This can obviously have an effect on cities.
sammoth··on Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S
In what way?
sammoth··on Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S
Huh? I just compared the two on Windows and Chrome wastes ~3 pixels more for the chrome at the top than Firefox does. Not only this, Firefox is customisable using style sheets! You can just reduce the unused padding yourself using for example, Stylish
sammoth··on This should never happen
What part of the algorithm would cause the number to change significantly every time you run the query?
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