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by brimble 5y ago
> Russia on Sunday warned that any country offering its airfields to Ukraine’s air force attacking Russian targets will be considered as having entered the conflict, state news agency TASS reported. From the article you linked. If that&#
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by brimble 5y ago
That's a good point. It doesn't feel good with the case on, and it makes me feel like I'm gonna drop the phone with the case off.
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by brimble 5y ago
IIRC my touchID phone was one of the early ones to have it (a 7+, maybe? I don't recall for sure). I've used I think three different Apple laptops with touchID, and they've all worked fine. It could be that early versions of
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by brimble 5y ago
I suspect it's got something to do with skin oils or natural variation in skin moisture. I know that big humidity swings were guaranteed to ruin it for me. Air gets dry in the winter, touch unlock drops to maybe 20% success rate at bes
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by brimble 5y ago
It's fine for me—though I probably fail the swipe-up gesture in one way or another 10% of the time, say by accidentally engaging the task switcher instead, or not quite getting close enough to the edge, which basically never happened w
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, to be clear, the fingerprint reader is what never worked well for me. 2-3x a year of re-training because it'd stop working at all if the air (and so, my skin) got too dry, or too wet. Pretty bad success rate even when it was &quo
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by brimble 5y ago
If so, IMO that's where things get really interesting. If these things can equip modern NATO weapons, and (here's a big if) if they've been retrofitted with good enough sensor & comm suites to use them, then this transf
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by brimble 5y ago
At the very least, NATO would declare anything in the air within a few hundred miles of a NATO border to be a valid target, since they'd then have to assume it's a threat of attack against a NATO state. Instant de-facto no-fly zon
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by brimble 5y ago
I think early reluctance had a lot to do with expecting anything advanced or large that was sent to be destroyed, or to be irrelevant by the time it could be brought into use (time to get it there, training time, then time to move it into a
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by brimble 5y ago
> 1. This is kind of funny when you think about it. I mean is Russia going to all of a sudden be very confused and think that the Americans gave Ukraine MIG-29s? No. Poland did. What's the point of the roundabout way of doing this?
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by brimble 5y ago
Maybe better if they don't, if they don't have the capacity to put them all to use immediately. A plane that isn't on the ground in a war zone... won't be destroyed on the ground.
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by brimble 5y ago
Has it slowed down? The change over the last 10 years, and over the 10 before that, was fast . Just watching mass media from the early parts of those two spans should make that clear.
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by brimble 5y ago
I was one of the people who could never get the damn thing to work right. And re-training it a few times a year just to get it back up to a ~50% success rate, because of humidity changes, was no fun. Eventually I just started using a code
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by brimble 5y ago
I agree with some of this, but will note that actually using a Magic Mouse 2 cured me of joking about the design (I was entirely on the "LOL how dumb" train before that). It wasn't an issue, in practice, and did keep me from
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by brimble 5y ago
The single home button was such a brilliant UX move. It's been weird to watch them ditch it. Such a genius little safety blanket for ordinary users. "WTF is going on?!" Press home—the only button visible on the face of the
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by brimble 5y ago
> Which market research document did you get this factoid from? Tip of the hat for a rare correct use of the word "factoid".
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by brimble 5y ago
> The reluctance of Poland to do this directly is completely understandable, as it borders both Belarus and Russia, the latter having stated that it would consider this an act of war (which cannot be ignored, even if Russia's offici
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by brimble 5y ago
I assume you cleaned the dust out? Otherwise I think your guess of a faulty sensor is most likely. [EDIT] Could be some thermal paste going bad, too, I guess.
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by brimble 5y ago
It looks like they made a taller computer then cut it off 2/3 of the way down. Something about the proportions read as simply wrong .
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by brimble 5y ago
I'm pretty sure the gamers who're always rocking high-end video cards are a small minority of PC gamers, anyway, even if we only count "serious" gamers (not just Candy Crush or whatever) to remove that potential objectio
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by brimble 5y ago
They have been off-and-on. They had a few notable price cuts back in the twenty-teens that made them damned competitive. At times they've been a rip-off but most of the "LOL look how expensive Apple is" stuff achieves such la
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by brimble 5y ago
Multilateral agreements as part of a peace settlement are their most likely way out of the economic pain they're in now—removal of sanctions and normalization of relations with the West part of the peace agreement. I agree that their l
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by brimble 5y ago
Treaties aren't set in stone, and novel ones can be invented. If I had to crystal-ball predict what a plausible Ukrainian victory looks like here—that is, the best likely outcome I think they might achieve on a relatively short timetab
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by brimble 5y ago
If Russia can get them to give up NATO and EU ambitions, and get them to start supplying water to Crimea, they can sit back and wait until they can claim Ukraine by other means (as they already tried once, and as Belarus has gone). Concedin
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by brimble 5y ago
> Recently, ActiviyStreams, ActivityPub, & other social web protocols have been doing ok. But we're still seeing only a very limited, unexpanding set of adopters. There hasn't been the kind of ultra-wide-scale adoption that
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by brimble 5y ago
I have some bad news about war, for you.
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by brimble 5y ago
> Reminder that the goal is hinderance of aggression by the Russian government, not punishment of the Russian people. Hindrance of aggression by the Russian government.... by wrecking their economy. Yes, the Russian people, being the eco
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by brimble 5y ago
Of course, Slack had a great client. It could have been a great client for an open protocol . Maybe an existing one. Maybe a new one that they could steer entirely. But that would fail to capture the user sufficiently. > The OSS communi
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by brimble 5y ago
> It's sad af it takes a massive name to drive big change, to get people hyped. It's not just that they aren't promoting open protocols—they're competing against them at a cost to the user of $0.00, which completely
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by brimble 5y ago
> The web, although newer, is just as dull these days. I think it's that we stopped building, promoting, and improving new public protocols. And by "we" I mean "tech giants". There should be an open, widely-used

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