Miraste

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by Miraste 7y ago
Android has system-wide animation speed settings intended for development testing. I set them all to double speed, so now my phone has nice animations and a decent response time. Results may vary with slower phones.
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by Miraste 7y ago
Theoretically yes, but the hardware cost of encoding their microscopic, in streaming terms, number of videos would have to be absurd to even come close to the savings they get from lowering their bandwidth by 20%.
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by Miraste 7y ago
This is fascinating, I'd never heard of tin whiskers before today. From a short look at the literature, nickel-palladium-gold alloys seem to be an alternative lead-free finish that doesn't suffer from whiskers. Have you worked wit
814.
by Miraste 7y ago
I didn't fully appreciate RJ45's failings as a connector until I had to put terminate some cables myself recently. I have a new respect for network techs, because wiring those things is a massive pain.
815.
by Miraste 7y ago
Isn't it possible that consumers don't like needing separate proprietary chargers for iPhones, but it's a small enough part of the overall iOS experience it doesn't noticeably harm sales? After all, phone ecosystems are
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by Miraste 7y ago
Quite a collection! Did you get them from a corporate selloff or something? You might already know this, but Lenovo had the rights to use the IBM logo on their ThinkPads for several years after the purchase, so there are a few models that h
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by Miraste 7y ago
Your thinkpad probably isn't even an IBM product. Lenovo bought them in 2005 and they've done a much better job than IBM would have--IBM sold the division in the first place because they had no vision for it at all. They've b
818.
by Miraste 7y ago
I don't think Jugaad is a significant factor in that disparity. China has a similiar, and arguably much worse, widespread philosophy called Cha bu duo (close enough)[1], and it doesn't seem to slow them down much. [1] https:&#x2F
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by Miraste 7y ago
That article is pretty unfair. The Wikimedia Foundation has started a lot of other projects since 2005, several of which are very useful and contribute to their general mission to bring knowledge to everyone. Wikibooks, Wikidata, and Wiktio
820.
by Miraste 7y ago
I have a Linux laptop and an eGPU. I dual boot Windows when I need to use it. I didn't even try to get it to work on Linux because that's a good way to lose a week and gain nothing. Switching between dedicated GPUs and integrated
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by Miraste 7y ago
Microsoft already announced a Surface Android phone: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/microsofts-first-and... It's supposed to come out later this year. There's definitely a differentiator, a
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by Miraste 7y ago
Tests like DiSC and Meyers-Briggs are hard to disprove because they make contradictory, non-falsifiable claims. This is part of what makes them appealing: there's something identifiable for everyone in most of the profiles, and stuff
823.
by Miraste 7y ago
Hash functions are repeatable. MBTI types are not--people often receive different results when retaking the test, even in short time periods. It categories are not based on research about significant aspects of personality, and often go aga
824.
by Miraste 7y ago
That's still roughly tied for lowest ever.
825.
by Miraste 7y ago
There's nowhere in the continental US you can drive for days and not get a cell signal.
826.
by Miraste 7y ago
It's usually not reasonable at all, as whoever does the arbitration depends on the large company behind the contract for continued income, and is therefore strongly incentivized to rule in their favor.
827.
by Miraste 7y ago
You're right, and it's not just youtube comments. There was a large study at Cornell last year; it generalizes to society at large, and has detrimental effects for women [1]. [1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas
828.
by Miraste 7y ago
As in it's shrunken? Why is that? As far as I know the US and European markets have never been bigger than right now.
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by Miraste 7y ago
I think he's referring to the horrifically unmaintained and archaic state of the world's older subways, like NYC and the London Underground. Besides the expense, NYC is absurdly behind on modern train timing systems, which causes
830.
by Miraste 7y ago
Eh, Echo's IK works great 98% of the time. The other 2% it's anywhere from slightly off to completely unaligned and pointing nonsense directions. I don't think there's a way to do better than this with current sensors. V
831.
by Miraste 7y ago
There are still places to look for quality reviews, at least for anything that has a hobby behind it. TVs and 3D printers are actually great examples. TVs have rtings.com, possibly the best review site I've ever seen. It's entirel
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by Miraste 7y ago
> in terms of quality of evidence, there is sadly a relatively strong pseudoscientific strain of thought that denies any astronomy done from space. If we stop taking high-quality photos from the surface of the Earth using relatively mund
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by Miraste 7y ago
You won't be able to see these once they are at operational orbit unless you use a telescope. And, as the article says, future launches will be nonreflective.
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by Miraste 7y ago
I don't know, using a VR headset for the first time is the most magical tech experience I've ever had and that was barely three years ago. Modern VR came about because all the disparate pieces of tech involved slowly improved over
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by Miraste 7y ago
Isn't the angle of the point whatever the cutter wants it to be? What am I missing here?
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by Miraste 7y ago
A more concrete reason it's not true in this case: diamonds as engagement gifts from men to women are a recent cultural phenomenon. For most of human history this was not the case, and there were/are large cultures where the tradi
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by Miraste 7y ago
> It does affect them, but if the sun disappeared there would still be lunar tides C'mon mate, it wasn't even two sentences. Cool about the Metonic cycle, though.
838.
by Miraste 7y ago
Tides don't rely on the sun's gravity. It does affect them, but if the sun disappeared there would still be lunar tides, which are the majority of tidal activity. Well, I suppose the subsequent frozen oceans would be detrimental.
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by Miraste 7y ago
Not all renewable energy is from the sun. Tidal and geothermal power are both fusion independent.
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by Miraste 7y ago
Red light cameras don't increase safety [1]. They may shift some of the injuries from pedestrians to drivers, but overall there's no benefit. [1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3078079

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