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by FreakyT 6y ago
Public transport doesn't really exist in the US, outside of major cities. In non-urban areas, if there's a bus at all, it'll be like one token bus route that takes a roundabout path to nowhere in particular and comes once eve
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by FreakyT 6y ago
> Trump warned us back in January Ah yes, "warned", by assuring us that the virus was no worse than the common cold, and we were rapidly "turning a corner", and that it would just "go away on its own". >
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Glad to hear it! One key advantage of the Moderna one versus the similar Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is that it doesn't require deep freeze storage, only regular freezing temperatures. (-90º C for Pfizer/BioNTech vs -20º C for Mo
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Honestly, if COVID has taught us anything, it's that people are on average should be treated as children, because it's pretty clear they aren't capable of rational decision making.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Agreed! I really like how they’re not trying to act like their products are going to revolutionize computing and destroy Apple — they’re just “we made some cool devices for hobbyists that are totally open, have fun”
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Hard to say -- In Apple's case, there are so many potential users it's worth Google's money to get their search engine as the default. However, Mozilla doesn't have a massive userbase like that, which leads me to suspec
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Interesting thought -- but IIRC, before Chrome, Firefox was already facing an uphill battle, since most people just tended to use the browser bundled with their OS. I mostly remember only tech savvy people tending to download Firefox back i
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by FreakyT 6y ago
I'd still put Facebook as the #1 issue, since WhatsApp and Instagram clearly should exist separately. Google seems iffier, since Chrome at least would never be viable as a standalone product (as the fates of Mozilla and Opera have taug
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Reminds me of my pet peeve in Google Maps: it used to have local search history, but when they moved it to the cloud, they removed _all_ search history unless you opted into the Web History. You know, Google, there's a middle ground.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Good. While they're at it, can they please start taking down anti-vax content?
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by FreakyT 6y ago
I’ve run the 1.5B model on my CPU, and it works...just very very slowly.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Nonsense. We shouldn’t pretend the “herd immunity” people have any scientific backing, because by and large they don’t.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Has anyone tried using this with GPT-2? I’m curious if it would run locally at usable speeds.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
This is great! I've always wanted more hackable e-ink devices -- the Kindle is nice but it feels like there's so much unrealized potential of an e-ink screen.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
I suspect that, ironically enough, it will be Apple’s move to ARM that will cause an infection point for Windows on ARM adoption. I’m looking forward to it!
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by FreakyT 6y ago
IIRC this particular vaccine targets the "spike protein", which is shared between all known COVID mutations.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Yup, this was my main reason for choosing the Air over the Pro. The touch bar is so unfortunate -- Apple could probably do something interesting with it, but ultimately they've basically left it untouched since they released it. I su
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Exactly. They still need something to develop iOS and MacOS themselves on, so unless they want to move all their internal lower-level development over to Windows or Linux (which, IMO, doesn't seem like something Apple would do), they&#
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by FreakyT 6y ago
I agree that Gimp et al are terrible, but why not use Figma? It’s a great design tool, and thanks to it being browser-based you can use it on any platform, including Linux.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Completely agree -- this is even worse for mobile phones, where often it's impossible to even upgrade the OS past the one it shipped with. The second a company stops supporting a product, they should be legally required to fully unlock
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Google's continued meddling with adding useless content on the new tab page is what pushed me to Chromium Edge. (The weird little news snippets on the bottom with no way to disable them was the first of these poorly-conceived experimen
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by FreakyT 6y ago
At least for consumers, you can install Windows 10, never give it a license key, and it will run forever with almost no restrictions. (IIRC you're blocked from changing your wallpaper, there's an occasional nag prompt, but that&#x
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by FreakyT 6y ago
That actually seems like a really good idea — I’d love to see more housing in the “downtown core” areas of SF, which are like 95% office space.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Yeah, Dropbox has been on a steady downhill slope UX-wise. There is literally one reason to click the Dropbox icon, and that’s to pause/unpause syncing. Dropbox doesn’t need an elaborate UI, and I suspect the only reason it has one is
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by FreakyT 6y ago
While I see where you're going with that, in all fairness Apple has made an effort to shove Apple TV+ onto pretty much every streaming device, including non-Apple ones.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
I believe the Roku TVs can operate in a fully functional "dumb" mode if you don't connect them to Wifi. I'm guessing that applies to some other brands as well.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Exactly! If you have your own local songs, you can easily load playlists/albums/etc onto an Apple Watch just like you could with an iPod. I've found it's really useful for listening to music while focusing on a task.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Glad to see it! I'm hoping to see more ARM laptops on the Windows side as well. Can anyone comment on the advantages/disadvantages of Microsoft's approach to running x86 code on ARM versus Apple's? (As far as I understan
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Exactly this -- plenty of other countries have figured out how to build rail systems without massive cost overruns.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
> Autonomous cars solve that in the same way an personal automobile currently does, albeit removing the inconvenience of actually driving. The problem with autonomous cars as compared to rail is that autonomy doesn't solve the other

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