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by II2II 3y ago
That said, AR goes back decades with the early implementations being as primitive (if not more primative) relative to the HoloLens as the HoloLens is to the Vision Pro. While every new step may see the technology become more desirable and i
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by II2II 3y ago
> On one side, we are born, maybe reproduce, then we die. Fundamentally the same. Yet birth can involve medical procedures to protect the life of both child and mother. When and how often we choose to have children is different. We don&#
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by II2II 3y ago
If that order of magnitude more pixels doesn't enable people to do more, make the old and impractical the new and practical, or even leave people with the desire to upgrade, I would argue that order of magnitude more pixels could be in
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by II2II 3y ago
It was more than the rate of progress, though the rate of progress certainly helped. For a lot of people the computers of the 70's, 80's, and 90's captured their imagination because of how it could change the world. The same
905.
by II2II 3y ago
It may come down to cost, but other physical properties enter the picture. For example: thermal expansion is an issue for overhead power lines, along with how ductile it is. In other cases it is more important to reduce resistance, not so m
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by II2II 3y ago
For the five year old: is that not the point? Adults can, and do, things that are against their long term interests. Yet they have to go to adults to intercede, both because they have little autonomy and because they need someone to assess
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by II2II 3y ago
In other words: you can't make luck, but you need to lay the foundations for it.
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by II2II 3y ago
I'm not surprised that such a degree is available and needed, but having it pop up in a list of programs of a random university is curious. Surely the need for such a degree is limited and those who would seek it out would be keen on o
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by II2II 3y ago
They don't have to win in absolute terms. They only have to prevent people from adopting alternative players en masse.
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by II2II 3y ago
Point 3 is why I don't use vertical tabs on Firefox. While I don't think that vertical tabs is a necessary feature, facilitating modifications to the UI via addons would be a huge win for anyone who wants to implement such feature
911.
by II2II 3y ago
How do we know it is GIGO? Plenty of people like to test edge cases. It is quite possible that someone fed the AI ingredients known to produce chlorine gas to see what would result. That is not to say that the company's excuse is valid
912.
by II2II 3y ago
Excellent work. I have run across so many resources where it is clear that they author was both a learner and had little interest in going back to improve their work for clarity and accuracy. Your work is clearly several leaps beyond that.
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by II2II 3y ago
I don't think anyone will burn you at the stake! Real hardware is great for diehard enthusiasts, for those wanting to use old peripherals, and for people wanting to play with electronics. Emulation is great for nearly everyone else.
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by II2II 3y ago
Heard of them, and you're right about subscriptions to a degree and you're right about corporate ownership to a degree. I say to a degree vecause there are some distinct differences. At least in my neck of the woods, major newspap
915.
by II2II 3y ago
We have very little idea of how the conversations played out. Did the guy say that initially, or did he say that after being pressed after saying that they could not contact the other airport directly? The former suggests someone who does n
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by II2II 3y ago
It goes a bit deeper than that. Older people had to actively seek out news. They didn't have to option to go to a service operated by an global corporation that pushed the headlines to them. (Or, as I used to put it to my generation ba
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by II2II 3y ago
In most cases, the employees don't have a choice. They are told to do things in a certain way. If they try do do things any other way, they run into a brick wall. Just consider the whole bit about calling the other airport. When they f
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by II2II 3y ago
If you like working with old machines, you quickly learn to appreciate the availability of FTP servers. Encrypted connections are quite CPU intensive, particularly when negotiating the connection.
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by II2II 3y ago
Having grown up on the eastern face of the Rockies, where temperatures could go from -15 C (a bit colder than normal) to 15 C (well above normal) in a matter of hours, I would also like some context. Perhaps the best approach would involve
920.
by II2II 3y ago
> One point I don't hear being talked about too much is how hopeful and stupid we were in the late nineties and early two thousands. We were supposed to have 10GHz processors by 2005, or I mean mass market for consumers by the end o
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by II2II 3y ago
If I recall correctly, the original Macintosh would go as far as telling the software which regions of a window had to be redrawn at any given time so the idea itself wasn't exactly new. The thing is that these optimizations required t
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by II2II 3y ago
History is based upon written records, which is in contrast to archaeology which considers physical evidence. Another way to think of it is that archaeology can tell us what happened, why history helps us to understand why it happened (with
923.
by II2II 3y ago
Having dealt with this in the past: they just drop updates. That includes dropping support for the browser.
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by II2II 3y ago
In the days of standalone applications, this was quite common. Upgrade the OS, and the software would still run. Upgrade the computer, and the software may still run. (Progress was so rapid back then that 10 years of progress in hardware wo
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by II2II 3y ago
They wouldn't be very useful in education unless you could populate them with difficult to obtain chips. It is essentially the schematic in PCB form. Depending upon what they included in the silkscreen, it would be even less than a sch
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by II2II 3y ago
There's a few places where these comparisons break down. First, there is a difference between being away from home and being away from home while being on site 24/7. I'm pretty sure the business traveler and the majority of f
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by II2II 3y ago
The numbers in the article don't work out. First of all, they were claiming that farm workers used to earn up to $1,400/week and now they are earning up to $1,000/week. They were also claiming that they could work up to 70 ho
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by II2II 3y ago
I don't know about that. If you adjusted the "settings" of CRTs, some of the effects in Cool Retro Term would be achievable. For those unfamiliar with CRTs, you could adjust the value of some components. These adjustments cou
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by II2II 3y ago
I used to call the Macintosh the user friendly computer that will kill you with a smile since the early models (the 128k, the 512k, and the Plus) had exposed power supplies once the case is open. Staying clear of the CRT is usually not an i
930.
by II2II 3y ago
Even if you ask once and ask nicely, the question is bound to come up often enough to rate as annoying. Explaining makes matters worse, from the perspective of using another person's time and opening up the communication to misinterpre

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