FractalParadigm

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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I had the same experience with Google Daydream (RIP). It's a really neat immersive experience to try out a couple times, but I could never seriously watch anything in there because it was just plain unpleasant. I like the VHS compariso
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
Where do you live? Here in Canada I've had native IPv6 through Rogers for the better part of 10 years and have never had problems in any way. In fact I have IPv4 straight up disabled on a few devices because v6 has been marginally fa
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I always thought this was weird, considering you can run Android Auto and get 99% of the experience without ever owning a car.
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
Sounds like the easiest solution to that is to do-away with non-native plants (i.e. Kentucky bluegrass, which could be considered an invasive species in North America) and do something more along the lines of what the OP did in this Reddit
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
Isn't that a large part of the open-source nature? Audit the code or hardware designs yourself, determine their trustworthiness from that. It's much harder to trust something when you can't examine the inner workings of it.
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
That's actually a really interesting question, because if I'm not mistaken, a lot of in-store security cameras will use IR for night vision. Assuming they use the same cameras for both facial-recognition and security, it would be
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
> Screens that don't accept finger input feel broken to anyone under 20. These same people have clearly never tried using a laptop long-term with just the touchscreen. It's painful, not just in the figurative sense that deskt
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I've got a Rogers 50GB 'Unlimited' plan, with the phone financing I'm paying just north of $175/mo - when you approx the 'max-speed limit' they send you a text offering 3GB for $10, or 10GB for $30, just r
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
In theory, absolutely you're right, it's much easier, and much more user friendly. Even if you have to type your command(s) in by hand, with tab-complete available in virtually every modern shell, it's quicker and more direct
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
> The motorist told CHP that they used the antenna to get Wi-Fi service for a business they operate out of the car. I'm very intrigued at what kind of business a person could be running out of their car that requires a cable broadba
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
Most, if not all restaurants I've been to around my area, were already either using or switched to using laminated sheets, sometimes bound in a plastic or leather cover. Plastic-enclosed paper is trivial to sanitize and lasts a VERY lo
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I just want to throw my 2¢ out there, as a mid-20's who went to a high-rural-population high school, there's an entire new generation of farmers who have a) accepted that Deere's need constant/regular service calls, and
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
Years ago I found a great Chrome/FF extension called "Bing2Google" where any search from the start menu that gets sent to either browser is automatically re-directed to Google instead. I was more furious when they changed tha
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I think it was a bit of that, mixed with the iPhone launch and subsequent release of the App Store and third-party apps. Limiting app development and distribution exclusively to Macs through Xcode probably forced a lot of people into using
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I think that's ultimately where it backfired. Back when it was introduced it made sense, a way to keep American media and culture from completely drowning out our own. But now that most stations are required to have 40% of their conten
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
Hell even here in Canada we have the Interac system, which from what little I know of the US banking system, is consistently 10+ years ahead of the game. I've had "Chip & PIN" on my cards since at least 2008, and distinct
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I came to this realization in university - I love software, I love writing programs and solving problems, but I really don't love office work or the idea of sitting at a desk all day. I dropped out of a software engineering program to
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
It's actually a bit of both - You can browse pretty well all the same content on the Microsoft Store, however there is an Xbox app for Windows that operates similarly to the store, and only offers games (as well as access to GamePass
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
WOW! I had absolutely no idea about these, my DI.FM credentials (Google sign-in) worked flawlessly and registers my premium subscription. > I rarely visit their website as they allow you to save your favourite stations as a play list for
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I will also vouch for and throw my 2¢ in for DI.fm. I've been subscribed since 2014 and while I have my qualms (namely a few stations that haven't seen a playlist change since I signed up, or their somewhat recent attempt to switc
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by FractalParadigm 6y ago
> * Steam has already shown how to "best" piracy to the extent that a business can. It's not via copyright laws. Everyone thought rampant piracy would mean Steam won't work in Russia. That aged well. What's ironi
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by FractalParadigm 6y ago
To an extent, they already are. Most new class 8 trucks in North America are so connected to the rest of the fleet it's scary. A lot of trucks can be re-programmed by the company while it's out on the road. Sending the status of t
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by FractalParadigm 6y ago
Theoretically, if Starlink satellites had cameras of that sort of caliber on-board, pointed down with wide enough lenses, they could capture the entire planet continuously and feed that data back down at close to real-time.
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by FractalParadigm 6y ago
Funny enough, when the news of this limit was first announced, I gave it a month at most until this was bypassed[0] (similarly to how NVENC is limited to three (previously two) hardware encodes, but a driver patch removes that limit). Here
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by FractalParadigm 6y ago
>Wait, why does the goggles look like VR goggles, but the drone only has 1 camera? Funny, I was thinking the same when I watched the video. The optimist in me hopes there's a pair of lower-res stereo cameras located somewhere near t
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by FractalParadigm 6y ago
My thoughts exactly. I get it's 'harder' for the typical user since the easy programs (Limewire, Frostwire, et. al) all took nose-dives, and maybe my penchance for quality makes me biased, but I don't understand going th
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by FractalParadigm 6y ago
There is this example [0]. Maybe not their whole life savings, but still a sizeable chunk. I'm sure there are a LOT of other people in similar scenarios now, who may not have fared much better. [0]: https://www.reddit.com&
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by FractalParadigm 6y ago
I used to work at a company that primarily hauled for an automaker, as one of these "sequence" drivers myself. It can be as little as 15 minutes late and you're causing down time, and without a really good reason, the fines
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by FractalParadigm 6y ago
All kinds of reasons - my biggest one being why MagSafe was invented in the first place; I know my power cord is run across the living room due to a lack of power outlets in my 70-year-old apartment, and gets tripped over regularly. Not to
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by FractalParadigm 6y ago
That's kind of the point - hold the 'foreign aid' funds from the nation, until said nation does something to combat the fraud. You can't actively police your laws inside a foreign nation, but with some level of control

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