ElCheapo

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by ElCheapo 4y ago
>You just need a remote with QWERTY and trackpad Sure, if you change your requirements and sidestep mine then everything becomes easy. Now try doing the same with an actual TV remote, which my question actually asked about.
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
It was amazing at doing.... what? You've just listed a bunch of hardware functionalities without actually saying what you managed to use it for.
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
I think you're being extremely vague about the things you are using your GDP for. Nothing you've written strikes me as something that couldn't be achieved with a proper I/O module attached to a smartphone.
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
Yes, and people brought their Machintoshes 512k to work with a bag. I sincerely don't understand how your PC-on-a-stick experience has any relation to what I was talking about. You have to connect it to a screen and bring your own peri
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
Your set up works because you tailored both the hardware and the software to make up for the shortcomings of the devices. Normally a TV remote doesn't have a full fledged keyboard attached to it, so many applications become borderline
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
Can we stop with this absolute fantasy about PCs that "fit in your pocket"? The medium is the message, the form is the functionality. Smartphones have been "pocketable PCs" for more than a decade already, but are dum
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
If you know a way to order yourself into anesthesia I think some kind of million dollar prize is waiting for you
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
It's so crazy to think that we as humans can look at our lungs and clearly see what's wrong with them and what it would take to solve the problem but we can't simply order our immune cells to deal with the matter consciously
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
Do you think homomorphic encryption will be the next hot thing in security-related sectors of tech?
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
I don't know, somehow even though I cannot resist using my smartphone in the boredom of my house once I go outside I completely drop the need to look at it. I might wait on a bus bench for half an hour and only occasionally take it out
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
ADA has existed for a loooong time
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
Linus hates Perl? Heck, so my secret project of slowly replacing every Perl script in the kernel with C might even get approved...
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
It costs $100 to publish apps on the App Store every single year. Plus Apple puts caveats and conditions that must be dealt with by people in the organization on company time. Publishing your program on the App Store makes it convenient for
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
I mean, if the DRM wasn't a blob it would be open source. Andnif it were open source it wouldn't be DRM...
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
I don't see how bringing up a right wing conspiracy meme adds anything to what your parent said. Your biometrics should be processed and gathered by the most secure parts of the device, which means going through more hoops to get a rep
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
Google as a whole (especially in America) has a slew of services entirely comparable to WeChat. The problem is not many people use them. They have phone and internet plans, they have mobile and desktop OSs, they have self-driving taxis, the
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
WeChat is controlled by the government. They don't need an open ecosystem: if the government mandates an app then everyone will use that app. It's completely unnecessary to implement some kind of public facing API to offer the fun
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
Here's what's actually needed for an event to not suck: - Plenty of free water - Plenty of food, preferably free - Plenty of seating space - Plenty of bathrooms - Clear indications as to where all of those things are placed I&#x27
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
Now go and see how many APIs Google Chrome has
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
I don't understand what the purpose of your comment is in relation to my post.
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
Conscious multitasking is incredibly inefficient, but hardware accelerated (unconscious) multitasking works pretty well
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
So freedom of expression only applies to arbitrary "protected classes"? How about suing people who post illegal stuff and leaving the matter to the courts? Having to pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines will deter
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
The christian bakery owner is free to decide who they want to make cakes for and who they don't want to make cakes for. If they're fine with being known for knowingly hosting the scum of the earth (homosexuals), more power to them
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
To me the matter is very simple: If you are a hosting service and one of your clients publishes illegal content (perjury, child pornography, etc.) then either of two things happen: 1) If your client gets sued or investigaded for said conten
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
Alternative title: "How the Netherlands facilitates free speech on the internet, and how that's a bad thing!"
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
From my experience google will show that banner for a couple of times if you log in from an unusual device and only after that will require you the complete login with the 2FA
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
Google periodically puts that banner at full display when you log in. Even if you miss it one or two times it will come again. If you are so incompetent as to ignore a clear security warning that many times then you are responsible for your
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
What attitude? Asking your clients to be truthful in exchange for a mutually trustful relationship?
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
Yes, and people still fall through literal cracks and die every day. You can't force people to be truthful online, just like you can't fill up every crack on the Earth with cement. If I ask you to confirm you haven't changed
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by ElCheapo 4y ago
>"I would have, had I only known!" log into Google giant banner appears "Hey, is this still your phone number? If it's not you better change it otherwise we can't recover the account!" click 'no' c

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