Silica6149

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by Silica6149 4y ago
I think it's like Google vs Alphabet. Alphabet is the parent company like Meta. As for why their domain is facebook for their news site, not sure why. It would make for sense for it to be under meta instead.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
I think they mean that lower base GHz is better because the laptop drains less battery when idle or doing low effort tasks.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Is VPN usage not common in HK as it in in China?
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by Silica6149 4y ago
One thing apple does very well is marketing. Just ask an average person what company they think does phones/laptops the best and they would say apple. Most people don't care about the specifications tech details but just the ease
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Battery life vs display resolution is always a balancing act. Even macbooks don't have 4k displays for this reason. Makes me wonder why manufacturers opt to make so many 4k laptops compared to 2k ones.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Compared to laptops running windows, I feel a little better with macbooks in regards to telemetry and data collection. Apple primarily makes money off of physical hardware sales and software subscriptions, they're not in the business o
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Macbook displays, although glossy, are generally better compared to other glossy displays with respect to reflections. Do you use your macbook in a particularly bright room/outside?
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by Silica6149 4y ago
The second m.2 ssd slot can be configured to be empty so I figure that at least that slot is non-soldered to allow for users to put in their own ssd.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
It's probably the fact that most people haven't experienced it. Regular consumers think macbooks have magically "better" displays than most windows laptops but can't name the exact reason. But just getting a high DP
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by Silica6149 4y ago
I think most consumers haven't experienced/don't care about high DPI. Programmers on the other hand look at text all day so it's understandable we prefer crisp text.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
In addition, this has an ethernet port. Many companies these days remove the ethernet port to make their laptops thinner so at least this one is doing something with the extra thickness.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
That's one benefit of homework, but the thing is I've never been really taught skills for problem solving or how to study. For example, most students just reread in order to study for exams but that's been found to be the lea
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by Silica6149 4y ago
For doing well on exams but not the homework? If so that's very lenient of them, but understandable. I prefer professors just make homework extra credit and make exams a large part of the grade.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
If anything, the only thing homework achieves is to make children used to being forced to do something for the sake of doing it. People learn what they want to learn, children that aren't interested in the material can finish homework
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Were they mostly new graduates, or did they have some years of experience already?
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Academic writing can be so confusing sometimes. It feels like the authors are writing to sound knowledgeable instead of trying to convey ideas clearly to the reader.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Reading blogs online, sometimes I don't know if it's the writer's superfluous style that makes it hard for me to understand, or if it was just written with AI.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Did you sense that it was a lack of experience or was it nerves?
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Exactly, from an employer's point of view, they want someone that can work well with others and not be the "lone genius" stereotype. Most companies don't need people to innovate, they just need people that can maintain a
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Iron nanoparticles controlled by a magnetic field it seems like. The thing I'm curious about though is, how do they remove all the iron particles afterward? Would I just get a month's dose of iron each time this thing brushes my t
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Good idea, it's just I never thought twice about the cleanliness of a toothbrush. I guess it's been ingrained in me to think it's normal to run a toothbrush under water to "clean" it.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
This sponge you put in your mouth made me think for the first time about how much bacteria is potentially on a normal toothbrush. I'm betting this product is even less hygienic since it's a sponge instead of only bristles.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
That's a good point, shouldn't the FBI's apps be open source?
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Did not know that! How easily can irises be identified in person, though? Has a handheld scanner been developed yet? Fingerprints can also be left on objects, which can be helpful for tracking someone.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Why does the FBI have to develop an app, though? Shouldn't they focus on what they're good at and able to do, like investigating crimes?
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by Silica6149 4y ago
I think a lot of people are put off by the fact that the FBI took the time to make this instead of doing more important duties. The app seems to have good intentions, but its execution needs work, so there's not much benefit.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
If it was a ad, was a company involved? Sending biometrics to any company should always make someone think twice.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Yup. It's just that they went out of their way to answer it... Almost like they're worried people won't download the app if they didn't say it upfront.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
Interesting... the FBI could ask or already have a backdoor provided by Apple.
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by Silica6149 4y ago
"An important note: The FBI is not collecting or storing any photos or information that you enter in the app." Thanks for answering the question we all had, FBI.

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