Jemm

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by Jemm 7y ago
I find that tire noise is enough to alert me even at very low speeds. Modern tires are stupid loud.
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by Jemm 7y ago
I hate this marketing style. For $35 you get 1GB of ram, not up to 4. Apple has been doing this nonsense as well.
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by Jemm 7y ago
This is the kind of thing that makes me think i’d Like to work at Backblaze even though I am not looking for a job.
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by Jemm 7y ago
We are desperately screwing up this planet, but, man, that is not science. That is a bunch of pretty pics from an expedition. The ice breaks up every year. They're observing weather, not climate. All the superlatives come from anecdota
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by Jemm 7y ago
Multitasking on the iPad is a bit of a lie. Apple is so eager to kill background apps for the sake of thinner lighter devices. As an example, try downloading a large file in a browser. You will quickly find that the download will stop if
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by Jemm 7y ago
"if you haven’t been programming for a while, you can’t program anymore." I do not agree with this at all. For a person who has a proper understanding of how a computers works from the basics, getting up to speed on any language a
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by Jemm 7y ago
Having tried several video game streaming services over the years, I am not optimistic that streaming games will work for fast action games like shooters. The lag between a controller move and screen response is just not adequate, even when
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by Jemm 7y ago
This is going to be an interesting legal case when a vehicle using Openpilot is involved in an accident.
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by Jemm 7y ago
After Googles ‘oops’s, MS gives an oops back.
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by Jemm 7y ago
io9 is so covered in ads it looks like Internet Explorer from 2000 with lots and lots of viruses/toolbars.
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by Jemm 7y ago
Ear pain during plane landings has to to with an increase in air pressure in the cabin causing a disequilibrium.
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by Jemm 7y ago
Raise their tax rate and keep raising it.
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by Jemm 7y ago
Ineffective for transportation, but highly effective for creating FUD.
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by Jemm 7y ago
The quest to cut costs is worse than seats, it extends to safety and pilot training as seen by the Ethiopian airlines co-pilot who had less than 100 flight hours before being put into a 737.
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by Jemm 7y ago
Numerous studies show that humans have the propensity to view other humans as non humans and that this propensity happens with as little stimuli as seeing someone riding a bicycle. You can imagine how people who do not conform to gender no
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by Jemm 7y ago
One could argue that the world has already legalized gangs and called them corporations. The result is that those corporations have tremendous lobbying and political power.
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by Jemm 7y ago
Sounds interesting but I just do not want to support a company with Brendan Eich at its head.
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by Jemm 8y ago
Congratulations and thanks to the GStreamer team.
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by Jemm 8y ago
I have raised the issue of trackers in analytics SDKs on developer forums and the result has invariably been negative towards me. When speaking to friends and coworkers about these issues, the result is mostly people calling me paranoid. De
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by Jemm 8y ago
You can now buy a private island in the Bahamas for about the same price as a 2 bedroom condo in the Toronto core and housing prices here just keep going up.
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by Jemm 8y ago
Many sites break at moderate zoom levels.
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by Jemm 8y ago
$200 US for what is effectively last years fad is insanity.
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by Jemm 8y ago
I would love to see a version for amateur radio that uses amateur bands with more power. It would of course need to be un-encrypted but that is fine with me.
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by Jemm 8y ago
Sex ed is not the best example as it is a political hot potato in many places where the right want to limit sex ed and the left want to expand it.
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by Jemm 8y ago
For what are people going to use the Jetson Nano.
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by Jemm 8y ago
I was on board with the article until they mentioned checking for ear wax to see if a child is listening, and telling stories of special child eating monsters. In a society that relies on the group for survival, one can imagine that a child
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by Jemm 8y ago
Avoiding light grey text on a pale yellow background (like Hacker News) is a good start to saving your eyes.
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by Jemm 8y ago
There are a surprising number of apps that use Firebase which is a Google product. Very few of those apps disclose Firbase in their ad listings. firebase.google.com
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by Jemm 8y ago
I wish DuckDuckGo had the minus operator to exclude keywords from the results. Otherwise it is my daily driver.
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by Jemm 8y ago
Let’s not link to a site that has video that auto plays and cannot be stopped. Or at least put a warning in the title.

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