AndrewThrowaway

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by AndrewThrowaway 4y ago
I can't remember the exact model of course but it must have been some 2000s SONY WEGA Trinitron. Quick search says it uses 0.3W in standby. 30k cycles / 365 days / ~4 cycles a day (morning news, evening) is ~ 20 years of clic
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by AndrewThrowaway 4y ago
I remember my father powering off TV. It was this old SONY TV with an actual power off switch at the front. The switch that does click/clack and breaks the power. Him saying that he will save some money. Let it be those 30GBP a year. I
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
I think there is an interesting aspect of this - how society treats death, what is philosophy of death in that society, etc. Colleague's grandpa passed away in Scandinavia. As it was summertime, all the extended family is on vacation,
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
One could argue that Musk's achievements are nagative net sum to human race. Better car? With all this money and influence personalities like that could shape for much better future - livable, walkable cities, public transport, social
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
What is funny about families is that a lot of them are dysfunctional. As one anecdote goes: Patient says that he recently made it up with his mother. Psychiatrist ask what happened. "She died" answers patient. And we all know a lo
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
> 7,000-plus workforce It is sometimes just too hard to wrap your head around this. How what is basically a website requires such a workforce? I get that it is much more than a website, there are various aspects of platform and etc. I un
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
Are we still trying not to offend Russians?
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
It is surprising for me how people can't imagine a scenario where: Some government agency (KGB, FBI, CSI, whatever) comes to VPN, secure mail, etc provider; Informs that some "enemy of the state" is using the service; Demands
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
Can easily imagine yearly subscription becoming $120 and monthly something like $29.
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
I guess it is kinda similar as: "After 150 years, we should finally redesign the transportation system". I mean the writing is on the wall - public transportation is the future. Electric, sustainable public transportation. “Withou
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
It looks like the will use all of "Alphabet" eventually.
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
> Among those prisoners, about fifteen men were in prison for every woman in prison. https://www.acrosswalls.org/sex-ratio-prisoners-across-world... One "occupation" where discrimination against men is shocking
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
I guess you need to plant X trees, wait Y years for them to accumulate Z carbon and then bury all the trees M meters underground to stay there forever.
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
Another mindblowing fact about USA - some tribal genital mutilation is a norm. You wouldn't believe this would be happening in a first world country at all and here you have it.
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
https://tech.moverio.epson.com/en/bt-30c/ If I look at Moverio's website, technical data I can instantly see a few differences from ENGO - Epson provides all kinds of data, I can see prisms in product photos.
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
It could also show age of patients. There is no doubt about vaccine efficacy. However it all depends. On your age, on your illnesses, on strains of virus. Who knows what you will get in 2 years. So people who say that "pfft it is only
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
That's the problem - "even if you get COVID". At the start of pandemic we could have hoped that it will pass in half a year, in a year or so. Now we know that it is probably here to stay. So eventually you will get COVID. Dep
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
No technical information whatsoever, testimonials written half a year ago ( https://us.engoeyewear.com/pages/testimonials ). However nobody reviewing them on Youtube? Can we just agree that it is a scam?
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
No technical information whatsoever plus passive aggressive modals for 10% off. It just doesn't smell good.
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
Google Glass required quite considerable optical system with prisms and etc: https://www.varifocals.net/google-glass/ Only image I can find on the website that seems to demonstrate anything is maybe this one https:&#x
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
https://us.engoeyewear.com/pages/how-it-works Would have thought that "how it works" would explain the optics part as obviously just having a screen 1cm from your eye would not work. However without this expl
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
I love these theories that seem to explain things and then fall short just like that. "So how does an airplane fly upside down?" An the theory goes out the window. Relevent XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1145/ "
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
Makes sense and then it kinda agrees with parent comment that "Microsoft developers simply didn't have performance in the vocabulary". Yes, there is no doubt that "there are always more things to do on a game project tha
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
Completely agree on rule of thumb and can't doubt they had their motives. It is no way that simple. Then again isn't it like 101 of game development? Imagine releasing a game that looks stunning, industry agrees that it pushes the
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
A bit out of topic but has anybody followed performance issues of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020? For more than half a year it was struggling with performance because it was CPU heavy, only loading one core and etc. Barely ran on my i5 650
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
It is all marketing. It was sold to people. Mainly as a symbol of a good life. Because it is hard to prove to others, and especially to yourself, that your life is quite good. You can buy expensive clothes (with huge logos that can be seen
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
Off should mean off. Sleeping means that it can be woken up, woken up means that it microphones can be turned on and etc.
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
"Draft Country Reports were created based on responses from each country representative. Each draft Country Reports followed the same template and contained sections relating to: the population and healthcare system; vision screening c
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
I get what you are saying. However I guess I was referring to all healthcare system in the US. I believe all over the Europe kid would be tested for free, every year, mandatorily. If eye correction is needed one would be supplied. So study
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by AndrewThrowaway 5y ago
Again and again US surprises us all as if it was a third world country. Study shouldn't be surprising at all - pupils who struggle to see, struggle to learn. Giving them eyeglasses helps a lot. I would imagine a study like this would b

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