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by afandian 4y ago
They broke that feature. They’ve been quite responsive to my Zendesk ticket, and claim to be working on it. But I don’t know if they fixed it yet. For a number of versions at least it was impossible to use USB upload. Also, it was always ad
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by afandian 4y ago
I’m a customer. The hardware (reMarkable 1 refurb) is nice. I bought it a while back before they made this change to the website. But advertising the price without the pen is so dishonest. It’s not nickel and dime, it’s deceptive marketing.
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by afandian 4y ago
What PoignardAzur said. The machinery to instrument and calculate probabilities on branches. Maintaining state enough that speculatively executed branches can be rolled back. That sounds non-trivial and I imagine it would take a lot of real
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by afandian 4y ago
Just implicature. I assume that there was a net benefit to adding all of these features.
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by afandian 4y ago
The crazy thing to me is that the overhead of all this bookkeeping and extra hardware complexity adds up to less than the performance improvement.
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by afandian 4y ago
Yes, I think it's the same thing. It happens several times in a conversation. What intrigued me was how the translation intensifies the gratitude when read in the British context. Same way that when an American acknowledges my thanks w
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by afandian 4y ago
I have a Japanese friend, and we have relatively philosophical conversations, talking about ideas. Often when I make a point he acknowledges it with "thank you" which always intrigued me. I always wondered whether this was a liter
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by afandian 4y ago
It's been a decade since I did any app development on MacOS. But I do recall having to create a separate dialog box XIB resource for each language, with different sized buttons.
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by afandian 4y ago
To distract us.
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by afandian 4y ago
Some of them are too big to fit on my very normal screen (Macbook Pro) vertically. They could be 1/4 the size and still be legible.
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by afandian 4y ago
In a few cases in Oxford, UK they close half the street to cars twice a day and only allow bikes and pedestrians through. It’s great.
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by afandian 4y ago
They do try. But it’s impossible to communicate and understand completely. It can only be experienced! Same goes for the upsides.
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by afandian 4y ago
I used to live in a canal boat, 3mm steel roof. The sound of rain on that, so long as you had a fire going, was very cozy and enjoyable. But I think on a psychological level a large part of the comfort is the relief of being sheltered.
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by afandian 4y ago
These 3M 1100 earplus are magic. (You can get them at Screwfix in the UK.) https://www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/p/d/b00017649/ I always keep a few spare packets in my bag. On a few occasions (usually confe
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by afandian 4y ago
I found some screenshots of said ads. I was annoyed enough to screenshot these but not click: https://imgur.com/a/K9xkXKY
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by afandian 4y ago
Google shows me ads that tell me to put coke in my fuel tank and forks in mains electricity sockets. Who knows why, I never click. And the reporting functionality is deliberately obstructive (if you can make Street View you can let me flag
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by afandian 4y ago
It never occurred to me before, but the Roman Catholic Church, with confession[0], is surely the largest historical "surveillance capitalism" out there. I wonder if Facebook has hockey-sticked them yet. [0] https://en.w
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by afandian 4y ago
I only asked in the first place because so many people say that it’s good for Linux. It seems like that’s predicated on a Google account.
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by afandian 4y ago
Could you share a sample of the output? The last dot matrix I saw was from the 1980s.
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by afandian 4y ago
Like iPhone "doesn't", i.e. you can use the main features but can't install apps. or completely doesn't?
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by afandian 4y ago
How well does it work if you don't have a Google account?
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by afandian 4y ago
Context?
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by afandian 4y ago
If business continuity demands hardware support, how does it account for BYOD?
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by afandian 4y ago
The latter part is the bit I can’t understand. If their risk calculus allows be my BYOD why can’t they supply a custom machine that would fall in the same envelope?
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by afandian 4y ago
> The user gets to use hardware they're familiar with, and which matches their ergonomic desires Why can’t the employer buy the employee their preferred equipment? Would cut out a lot of hassle.
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by afandian 4y ago
Not sure if it applies, but when the UK left the EU, our access to EU domains was, predictably, cut off. Apart from the politics of it, it was jarring because domain names can be so pivotal to so many aspects of business and life. https:&#
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by afandian 4y ago
I think it was unspoken in the GP's comment that you would have to acquire an exponential number of fridges too. Maybe this is the solution to the empty office space problem?
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by afandian 4y ago
Apple too. I have a USB mouse and it's virtually impossible to put my Macbook Pro to sleep. I've resorted to unplugging its power supply (when the lid's closed it won't wake up if it's not plugged in). But you would
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by afandian 4y ago
There’s a message saying “incompatible device”. I’m using an iPhone.

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