ChrisRR

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by ChrisRR 3y ago
I almost don't want to know why they chose that name. There's certain corners of the internet that I won't risk going near.
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by ChrisRR 3y ago
I don't know how you see the prospect of saving $27 million dollars and say that cost isn't a factor.
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by ChrisRR 3y ago
> Family bonds are stronger than anything else Citation needed. I think that's a very blanket statement
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by ChrisRR 3y ago
Apple have always got to do some weird Apple thing. Even when the task is simple, all of the technology required to achieve their task exists and is standardised, they still find something to shoehorn in Why can't you just be normal, A
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by ChrisRR 3y ago
From your comments it seem you're in Germany where the legal drinking age is 16, so it's not surprising
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by ChrisRR 3y ago
I wish people would put at least some blurb in the title if they're just going to post random links. Sure it's interesting, but it's not tied to any recent news, and so I have to click every link just to find out if it's
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
Are you sure about that? Many computers used ±12V in the 80s/90s when LDOs weren't common at all
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
Then he's not the channel for you. There's plenty of fun science/engineering channels, and there's plenty of dry channels. Just take your pick what you like
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
You don't tend to see them unless you're looking for them, they live in the crevices in your bed and mattress
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
> I still haven't come across the placebo buttons though so I'm willing to doubt their existence. How do you know you haven't?
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
This always fascinates me too. America has been repeatedly shown to be systematically spying on their citizens via the NSA, make no apologies for it and continue to do so. But then any mention of the UK and americans are like "how do
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
Assumptions like this is how errors are made. Don't make assumptions, codify it.
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
> you can see the patient. Often not true. In any sort of imaging it can be ambiguous what way the patient is facing
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
I'm a C programmer by day and I disagree with them, C is only simple if you're trying to do simple tasks with it. The very common thing I want to use in C is some sort of variable size string object. But no, I have to dynamically
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
Wow, you must be young. This is how the internet used to be, and people liked it.
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
Aka the reason I stopped using facebook. I don't want you select who you think are my best friends, I don't want you to randomly sprinkle in group posts, I don't want to be reminded of random events from years in the past, I
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
Blind praise towards Apple is a very common example
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
How is it determined what posts reach the first page? I visit hacker news so that I can avoid current affairs news, but all too often non "hacker" stories appear on the feed and it feels like they shouldn't have made it out o
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
Especially a company that is known for advertising so heavily to try and get people to replace their highly complex piece of electronics every year with an extremely similar piece of electronics
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
I don't doubt that there are plenty of examples of people being hit by scooters, and there's definitely even more examples of people being hit by cars. But I mean whenever people are giving their anecdotal evidence as to why they
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
I hear so often from people who were "nearly" mown down, but barely ever from someone who was actually mown down
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
The footnote is irrelevant, the guidance says you shouldn't, but the law says you legally can. The latter is enforceable, the former is just a recommendation
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
Can you tell us? From my googling it just says B was the second version
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
The title?
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
I would hardly use the US as the shining example of a fair democracy
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
Damn a 14ft display? Are you displaying roadside ads?
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
But isn't E-ink. I don't think people were just looking for any display when they're discussing e-ink
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
Not "because", "likely". Don't make assumptions
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
No chance that is happening. The average Apple user doesn't read HN, they're just your average joe who plugs their apple phone into their apple charger with their apple headphones and scrolls through tiktok Us nerds can scream an
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by ChrisRR 4y ago
This is their MFI crap all over again. It made developing compatible bluetooth devices an arse if working at the bluetooth stack level

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