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by Strom 8mo ago
For me, clicking that hides shorts for 30 days and then I need to click it again. So it's a monthly ritual.
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by Strom 9mo ago
> There are likely to be no devices running iOS 16 My iPhone X is stuck on iOS 16 with no way to upgrade. However, the phone is still working well. Despite being in daily use for 8 years it still has 81% battery capacity, has never been
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by Strom 10mo ago
It impacts the buyer experience. These two statements have a very different impact: 1. I love product X and I won't get paid if you buy it too. 2. I love product X and I will get paid if you buy it too. Money motivates people to claim
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by Strom 11mo ago
It's not about being anti-west, it's about the likelyhood of being invaded.
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by Strom 1y ago
Kids have their own debit cards with their own bank accounts. Others can transfer money to the kid's account.
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by Strom 1y ago
The other account may provide IMAP but it won't help you because GMail only supports POP (which is now going away). GMail does NOT support IMAP for 3rd party accounts. The GMail mobile app does support IMAP, but that is different from
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by Strom 1y ago
Asus doesn't even test basic features, nevermind the extra ones. I have the 2017 Zephyrus GX501, which came with a Nvidia GTX 1080 which introduced HDMI 2.0 support. The Asus Zephyrus marketing material is boasting about HDMI 2.0 capab
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by Strom 1y ago
30 fps was not the norm, at least not with competitive games. Like Counter-Strike in 2000 on a CRT. Yes 1024x768 was common, but at 100 fps. Alternatively you would go to 800x600 to reach 120 fps. It’s only when LCDs appeared that 60 Hz sta
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by Strom 1y ago
Doesn’t Manhattan have radio based ISPs like 5G providers? Perhaps not ideal but far from a single ISP provider.
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by Strom 1y ago
> unsolicited advice He was the CTO of Oculus. Surely it is appropriate for the CTO to give advice on any big technical decisions, if not outright have veto power.
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by Strom 1y ago
So they can sell you the next model which upgrades the RAM capacity.
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by Strom 1y ago
They didn't transition out of game development. Dota 2 was under heavy development all these years after it "came out". It was only when Deadlock started heavy development that Dota 2 was winding down.
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by Strom 1y ago
In addition to generation, there are also differences based on capacity. I know less about DDR5 specifics, but with DDR4 you had Micron having the best chips for 32GB dual-rank sticks, while Samsung had the best for smaller capacities.
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by Strom 1y ago
Britain, or at the very least England, is also well known for its extreme politeness culture. Also, it's not that the US has a culture of genuine politeness, just a facade of it. I have only spent about a year in the US, but to me the
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by Strom 1y ago
Better healthcare for fewer people. Might work well for space exploration.
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by Strom 1y ago
> that sophisticated scams require Yes, but most of these scam call centeres don't engage in sophisticated scams. They have pople fumbling through scripts. There's not much improvising. It's all about the quantity and fi
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by Strom 1y ago
> Non-Schengen EU Passports are basically the same thing It's not about passports, it's about border controls within the area. Before Schengen you would have to wait for hours and hours in a queue at the border. Now that border
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by Strom 1y ago
> Joining benefits the country's elites, rather than its general populace -- and it's these elites who decide whether to join. That's bullshit. The decision to join is made via referendum.
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by Strom 1y ago
Schengen is incredibly useful, especially if you have to transit through several countries. It's also true that the decrease in cash usage has reduced the benefit of the euro. However, the benefits of a single currency go beyond cash.
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by Strom 1y ago
The core difference is that when Twitch plays an ad, they'll never send you that part of the video. [1] So buffering doesn't help. If YouTube would do this, you could have a custom player that preloads enough of the video so that
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by Strom 1y ago
They do it when their real goal is to funnel you into a newsletter to later sell you stuff. The only purpose of the article is to show you that prompt.
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by Strom 1y ago
Probably because most interactions were on company time. Because of course if the relationships were outside of work, then changing jobs would have little effect.
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by Strom 2y ago
A transistor is just a way of connecting some wires, and that's exactly what it's good for. It's reducing a phenomenon into some core essence and pretending like there's not a bigger picture.
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by Strom 2y ago
The beta versions contain lots of bug fixes. Some of those bugs are bad enough to want the fix fast.
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by Strom 2y ago
The answer is probably profit margin. It's also not unusual at all for Nvidia to leave performance on the table in terms of production nodes. I mean just look at the RTX 3000 series which was made with Samsung 8LPH, categorized as a &q
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by Strom 2y ago
Such answers are weak when verified by customer support. An attcker can try saying oh I just entered a bunch of random letters, I didn’t think I’d need to remember it and an unsuspecting non—security-expert customer service rep confirms t
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by Strom 2y ago
> Were the people working on this game dogfooding it themselves? Well they certainly weren't dogfooding it after launch. The Concord credits list 1,972 professional roles [1] while a week after release the game had fewer than 150
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by Strom 2y ago
Sony also has other viable business and a lot of fans that will be more easily convinced to try the game. Concord isn't some random game, it's a massive bet by Sony, a giant in the gaming industry.
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by Strom 2y ago
> usually quite delayed. I used to be a regular reader of AnandTech since the early 2000s and the delays are what drove me off the site. Specifically when the Nvidia GTX 1080 launched on May 27, 2016. The AnandTech review came out 2 mo
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by Strom 2y ago
It's definitely a cat and mouse game and no single method, including statistical analysis, is a silver bullet. I'm definitely not advocating for doing less to counter cheaters. I'm just talking about how more could be done. A

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