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by alpaca128 8mo ago
> Reachability enables you to reach top left corner I thought it goes without saying that poorly made accessibility features don't mean the device is very usable. The existence of that feature by itself is already evidence against t
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
That's true, some foldables like that exist. The problem for me is that I don't want to pay for the folding part, not interested in that.
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
I have large hands but the 13 Mini is roughly the maximum I can use one-handed without doing the weird finger balancing act to shift the phone around. I get why most people like large phones - media consumption - but not everyone is into th
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
Huh, I think I figured it out. It now works again after removing the extension "Return YouTube Dislikes" which I had just kept around because why not. Turns out if both this and uBlock are active, YouTube will refuse to work. But
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
I also use Firefox with uBlock Origin. It worked flawlessly until some time this January. It happened with the switch to a new version of the video player which changed the design and behaviour. I'd be curious if you're still on t
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
So I take it you consider them not doing great at "releasing the Epstein files", or did you just not vote for that?
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
So type errors are not hallucinations in your book, but "a reference to something which doesn't exist at all" is? In the context of AI most people I know tend to mean wrong output, not just hallucinations in the literal sense
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
> Gen AI reached 39% adoption in two years (internet took 5, PCs took 12) You're comparing a service that mostly costs a free account registration and is harder to avoid than to use, with devices that cost thousands of dollars in th
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
LLMs are trained on currently existing code.
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
Ad blockers don't work anymore, at least not with the version YT serves me. If it thinks that I have an ad blocker active (false positives happen too), it will only show a black rectangle and not even load the comments.
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
"users seem to choose velocity over quality pretty consistently" When do they have a real choice, without vendor lock-in or other pressure? Windows 11 is 4 years old but until a few months ago barely managed to overtake Windows 10
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
Asking an AI to name itself is already strange to me. It makes me think the user treats the AI as something that deserves enough rights or respect that assigning it a name might feel wrong, or at least that the AI has sufficient intelligenc
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
> Does your consciousness circuit get triggered? In the short term, but over time the patterns get more obvious and the illusion breaks down. Generative AI is incredible at first impressions.
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
Just days ago I had a similar experience with GNU gperf. No, it has nothing to do with the profiler on Linux and perf doesn't stand for performance. It's for generating perfect hashmaps.
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
To be fair the original EMACS did not have Lisp scripting, neither do implementations like MicroEmacs. Are those not Emacs-like?
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
> Every video that has sponsors has a disclaimer on it No. That's what should be the case, but there are entire channels which don't do that or only half-ass it, and I've seen reviewers who just quickly say "thanks to
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by alpaca128 8mo ago
>> And all existing videos with sponsorship need yo be removed? > Yes, or re-uploaded without the sponsor segment I hope not. For one that would hit retroactively, but also it would cause a huge loss of valuable content from platfo
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by alpaca128 9mo ago
I just copy-paste the firefox profile folder. No need to reconfigure anything and the session is also preserved.
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by alpaca128 1y ago
> The exec also said "less than one percent of one percent" of players are filing customer service tickets about performance issues Okay, and how many refunded the game on Steam?
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by alpaca128 1y ago
Zenfone 10 also isn't available anymore and its software support will end long before the iPhone's, if it hasn't already.
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by alpaca128 1y ago
What needs to be better about screens outdoor? iPhones have had nicely readable screens in bright sunlight for a long time now, including compatibility with sunglasses. Though it would be nice to see this in all other phones too. Other than
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by alpaca128 1y ago
I don't have the impression people care about the weight of phones. Premium phones have metal and glass cases, and in the non-premium market the thing that matters is price. What matters to me is how comfortable it is to hold and use w
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by alpaca128 1y ago
I heard it as "in theory, theory and practice are the same"
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by alpaca128 1y ago
> For usability alone those small sizes don't make much sense They do. Having every key reachable without hand movement is quite comfortable. Switching to and using arrow keys is as fast as typing a capital letter with shift. But it
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by alpaca128 1y ago
The part about hand movement confuses me. On qwerty you can reach all letters without moving the hands. On both qwerty and dvorak you still need to move or stretch the hands to reach backspace, arrow keys, escape etc. So how does dvorak red
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by alpaca128 1y ago
I actually make fewer errors and in some cases reach higher speeds when typing a lot of special symbols as everything is reachable without moving my hands and I arranged all special symbols in a way that makes sense to me. Muscle memory wor
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by alpaca128 1y ago
That key makes up about 15% in English text, and it could be covered by 10% of fingers but instead it's 20%. Meanwhile every use of shift, return, backspace, ctrl etc is done with the weakest fingers and often include some hand stretch
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by alpaca128 1y ago
The real problem with current keyboards is the physical arrangement of the keys. Staggered rows instead of columns make them less ergonomic, the oversized spacebar wastes much of the most valuable space on the keyboard. The thumb as one o
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by alpaca128 1y ago
The original point in this thread was that the lab isn't necessary for LTT to produce their content as they successfully appeal to a large audience either way. Which is obviously true, given the lab did not exist for most of the channe
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by alpaca128 1y ago
That's true and I agree this is valuable for the audience, but still it is not necessary. Most successful tech reviewers put out good content without these resources.

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