bluescrn

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by bluescrn 6mo ago
The only difference with X is that you know exactly who is manipulating the algorithm (and deciding what's acceptable and what's ban-worthy). And he makes his personal views extremely clear. With every other platform, it's hi
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by bluescrn 6mo ago
A really complicated way to scratch your shiny expensive Apple device
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
Yeah, you can't blame the monitor setup for distractions. Up to a point, more screen real-estate is a universally good thing. Although beyond, say, two 24-27" screens or one great big one, you get into rapidly diminishing returns.
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
> But for military use - think logistics. Rapid delivery of equipment to unusual places. Surely it's too fragile/explodey for military use - the whole thing's a very volatile fuel tank - could it survive being shot at, eve
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
Far too dangerous and noisy for that to ever happen, surely. And too fragile/explodey for niche military uses (long range troop drops?)
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
The coming nuclear winter will solve climate change.
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
An already-ageing population living even longer while nobody wants kids anymore?
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
For most projects using GPIO, a <$10 ESP32 board or Arduino clone will suffice
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
> With large apartment buildings you can incentivize (or even mandate) that whoever manages it supports installing shared chargers And then the the management company that controls the shared chargers can charge rates that are even high
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
There's different levels of 'wealthy'. £200/month over 10 years is still £24,000 You can buy an old-but-roadworthy Ford Focus for a tenth of that. And a whole lot of people rely on used cars in the sub-£10k range. If you
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
There's more to the UK than just London, despite what politicians think.
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
The used car market should solve that eventually - so long as battery longevity is there. A reasonably maintained ICE car can last 20+ years of low mileage use. We need battery packs that last that long, or that are modular and replaceable
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
EVs are great if you're wealthy and have the prerequisite 'EV-compatible home' (with garage/driveway for charging) But a lot of UK housing relies on on-street parking, and there's flats with car parks where charging
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
> The issue is that “woman’s sports” is itself intentionally discriminatory. Just about anything competitive is discriminatory. People are disadvantaged by genetics, disability/health issues, age, wealth inequality, and more. But as
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
Sport does that already. The Olympics is the very top skill tier. So you're just suggesting making everything mixed-sex, and having very few women at the Olympics?
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
There is no standard 'trans athlete'. Every case is different. Transition is a process. Potentially a long one without a clear point of completion. Which makes things more complicated.
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
Only done very small 2-layer boards for hobby projects, but it's crazy that you can get custom PCBs made and shipped from China for <£10 It seemed like it might be coming to an end when PCBWay suddenly had no reasonable payment opti
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
Small ~$1000 drones have been proven to be very effective weapons in Ukraine though.
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
Better than those who just want to burn the system down with no real plan for what comes next, and unable to comprehend the inevitable bloodshed of the 'glorious revolution' that they crave.
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
Tablets can do very little that you can't do on a phone. Phones got larger and more capable, tablets now seem somewhat redundant. But a laptop with a keyboard and 'real OS' can still do many things that aren't practical
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
The general downward trend is across the whole of tech, if not the whole of society, rather than just Microsoft products though.
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
> Windows 8 was better than 10. No, Win8 was all about the Metro/RT nonsense, the attempt to convert Windows into a touch-centric locked-down App Store platform. While a fair bit of that lived on in 10, it was far less obnoxious. Al
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
Windows has historically oscillated between pretty awful and pretty decent. XP was good, Vista was bad, Win7 was good, Win8 was a disaster, Win10 was decent again. Now we're in a low part of the cycle with Win11. Maybe there's ano
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
The Macbook Neo seems likely to be a a huge seller. It's got the price of entry down to where it's now the obvious recommendation for less-technical friends/family wanting an affordable-but-nice laptop for light home/off
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
It's absolutely the worst place to be in any sort of crisis though, whether it's war, pandemic, rioting, natural disaster. So many people, potentially desparate people, concentrated in one place, utterly dependent on supplies bein
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
May not be a problem if the trend continues that wealthy/high-consumption cultures choose to stop reproducing?
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
People can do very scary things with a knife, a car, or petrol+matches. We don't try to regulate those things out of existence like we do with new technology (drones and now 3D printers) Kind of ridiculous that a country with more guns
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
The wobble would only 'scan' a limited field of view, so only if the sun was in that view
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
To me it feels that the age verfication (adult de-anonymisation) push, at least in Europe, is coming more from the increasingly-authoritarian left as a reaction to the rise of the online right and Musk's Twitter. (Maybe some unspoken e
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
WFH was great to begin with, but as somebody living alone, the isolation starts to have an effect after a while when you're 'working alone' too And for many people WFH has other problems - if you're a dual-WFH couple in

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