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They mean "Sum total" -> "Summary"

As in, that's a more accurate descriptor(?)


I can't find any reference for them supporting it on mobile, and it doesn't work in either on my phone (Android 7.0, for what it's worth). In fact, in Chrome it even fails to display the "not supported" message.

Besides that, I would rather complain that Apple is using an obscure format than complain that Mozilla and Google don't support an obscure format.

EDIT: sorry, it seems mobile Chrome is supposed to work, but it just... doesn't. Still don't see any reference for firefox, though.


With Retina screens, you need _absolutely enormous_ fonts, which is trivial for a vector font, but doesn't really seem to be done with bitmap fonts.

(IMO, you're right about antialiasing, though)


I feel like this is the way to go -- It's too much cognitive overhead, IMO, to get used to multiple (very different) keyboard layouts. The Atreus is a nice solution to that, since it's even pocketable. I also disagree with thumb clusters, but that's another story.

(BTW, the article did mention and link the Atreus, so you probably don't need to dance around it like that)


Sorry, but I can't find what you're referencing with the "as mentioned above" on math; could you clarify?

My biggest problem with the math library was, IIRC, everything only takes float64s, which makes dealing with any of the other number types more difficult than it should be (I shouldn't need to cast an int to a float and back in order to get the max of two numbers).


Kinda offtopic, but this is a bit misleading. The T4x0s series, for instance, makes it very difficult to access anything -- and the T series is known as one of the good ones!

Also, Thinkpads all have a BIOS whitelist that prevents you from actually using the hardware you just easily installed.


Wow, wouldn't have guessed. Haven't played with a T4x0s. I have a T4x0p (T440p) and it's extremely easy to access everything. But I just looked at some Youtube videos and the 's' is indeed a world of difference from the 'p'.


Jeez, these guys are still around? I ordered an original Pandora somewhere around... October 2008? They never shipped it. $300, plus an additional $100 later at some point, and I never got anything. Kinda kills any interest in further developments.

People are used to this kind of thing by now, but this was pre-Kickstarter... And a lot worse considering other people in the same batch as me did get what they paid for.


Not sure what happened at the beginning but the past years the shipping and support has been great. I can see this would kill your interest; don't think EvilDragon does that to anyone though.


If I get what you mean, yeah, it was through Craig. EvD said he was going to help the leftovers, but all he said he could offer me was an RMA'd unit, IIRC (or pay an additional $300 to get an upgraded one).


Yes, I heard about Craig. That was before I knew of the OpenPandora though: I would've put money down as well if I heard of it before.


If I develop something and get it standardized, it's no longer my technology?


I definitely see your point about most guides detailing how to make your init (I don't understand why so many people just tell you to disable tabs, as though it's understood that everyone prefers spaces), but there are certain things that everyone will want. For instance, when given the choice between an older bytecode file and a newer source file, Emacs loads the older one by default. That sort of thing doesn't really seem like the sort of thing you want people to have to experience for themselves.

(The setting in question I am referring to is load-prefer-newer)


That depends upon such a package already being available -- it doesn't appear that Yi has any.


Yeah, Yi uses Xmonad style configuration. That is, it re-compiles itself when you modify the configuration file.

This approach means that Yi has to depend on the entire Haskell toolchain :(


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