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by bscphil 4y ago
Aha, you got me. I really should have specified that Nexus 5X was also too big. Moreover, the specification that actually matters for one-handed phone users is the distance between the bottom corner of the phone (where it's held in t
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by bscphil 4y ago
That's entirely possible, but this whole thread is based on exactly the same perception! The claim, possibly false, is that a sizable portion of HN users want small phones. That could be just visibility bias as well! My comment is
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by bscphil 4y ago
I'm not sure why you're asking me, but the OP's site says that 5% of iPhone orders (10 million phones a year) are the mini. That's quite a large market in absolute terms.
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by bscphil 4y ago
> Also a phone that doesn't mind being dropped in water, so no headphone jack please. People have somehow managed to forget this, but phones have been waterproof since ... basically forever without forgoing a headphone jack. I could
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by bscphil 4y ago
That's fair. On the other hand, if there's a single issue with modern phones that gets HN users raging more than their size, it's the lack of a headphone jack. I don't think I've seen a single issue that's been
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by bscphil 4y ago
Thank you for working on this! I want to be honest, though, and say I think you're missing what the majority of users on this forum want in a small phone. > Sub 6" display, matching size and design of iPhone 13 Mini No, bad.
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by bscphil 4y ago
> people who need phones will still buy something even if reluctantly I'll be blunt: no I won't. I reluctantly bought the phone I still use (a moto X4) back in 2019, at which point it was already getting old. It was one of the
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by bscphil 4y ago
> But I have to pay the doctor the expenses, if there is some work involved In the United States this would somehow be an excuse to charge you $300 for it. Some people might be lucky enough to have their insurance "cover" it, w
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by bscphil 4y ago
This thread is a good example of a law of internet communication: when different people are responding consecutively to a single person in a thread, each person will subtly change the subject and misunderstand the foregoing argument, so the
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by bscphil 4y ago
> So, yeah having a relationship with a lawyer in the same way you have a favorite dentist is worth it. > costs me 375 usd an hour > budget a small percentage of your income on this every year What you are saying is that for those
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by bscphil 4y ago
> the anti-Gillette marketing zeitgeist Which is why it might as well be the pro-Gillette marketing zeitgeist. Too easy to turn away from something under the assumption you'll just get sucked into it and waste a lot of money. Anothe
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by bscphil 4y ago
"Obviously" goes way too far here, even if you are including greenhouse gasses in the tally, which aren't pollution by traditional standards. My apartment's electricity and the public transportation I use to get around a
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by bscphil 4y ago
Yes! (And it seems like many others agree with me.) To be clear, I do recognize that the Google one is "stylized" in a way that is not going to appeal to everyone. However, I claim that there is something objectively (or almost ob
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by bscphil 4y ago
Just for clarification: the variation selector for selecting text presentation only applies to emoji that have a text presentation, which is a subset of all emoji: https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoj
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by bscphil 4y ago
If this is actually true rather than just speculation, I would be interested in reading about the specifics.
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by bscphil 4y ago
Interestingly, there is no actual "tofu" emoji, despite a huge variety of other foods having emoji representation. It was evidently proposed at one point, but rejected for some reason: https://unicode.org/emoji&#x2
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by bscphil 4y ago
> "realistic" I guess you mean skeuomorphic, with heightened 3D presence caused by heavy use of light and shadow - roughly, the sort of effect you would get from a static rendering of a cheap 3D model in a Unity mobile game. I
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by bscphil 4y ago
> it's just one of those things that people might just need to deal with when they're part of a shared space much like sitting next to someone with bad body oder, someone chewing loudly, or someone laughing out loud when they&#
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by bscphil 4y ago
> Yeah, and it's easier for me to deal with that as a result: I can pay extra and get a first class ticket to get (depending on the plane) either some more space or A LOT more space to myself. I see people bring crying babies into f
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by bscphil 4y ago
That's fair, although part of the reason I call Mastodon the "cool" alternative is because of its federation. AFAIK the right wing forks don't generally have that.
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by bscphil 5y ago
Yep, worth noting that there are a number of actual games that use MonoGame / FNA, including low-latency platformers like Celeste. I've actually found games written in these engines to be among the best performing games all around
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by bscphil 5y ago
> I have no interest in using Linux as desktop It sounds like you're not the target audience then?
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by bscphil 5y ago
> That's why people on the far right keep starting lame Twitter alternatives. You don't see people on the far left doing that. They don't need to because they have cool Twitter alternatives. Like Mastodon.
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by bscphil 5y ago
> At least when it's packaged by the distribution someone has reviewed the changes and can flag up and disable any nonsense that mozilla is adding. Unfortunately, Mozilla has enough power that AFAIK they've pretty much run roug
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by bscphil 5y ago
Would it be accurate to summarize this way? TLS + ECH encrypts all message content, including the client hello with the hostname, but it does not encrypt a specific message (an IP address + service identifier combination) that uniquely sp
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by bscphil 5y ago
It's extremely irritating that every single thread related to food is swarmed by people spouting anecdotes as if they were absolute truth, and worse, acting as if those personal stories were adequate responses to general claims like &g
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by bscphil 5y ago
You can't just claim that switching from corn and soy to a wide range of other vegetables would make things worse with no argument. If nothing else this goes against basic common sense because (1) we eat more than two vegetables, and (
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Monocropping is far worse for the environment The "monocrops" in the United States are largely corn and soy, which are used as food additives, instead of being eaten as food, and as food for (you-guessed-it) animals we use as
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by bscphil 5y ago
Exactly right, great example. And furthermore: >>> foo: int = 'hello' >>> type(foo) <class 'str'> Python's type annotations are annotations . Types are being enforced at r
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by bscphil 5y ago
Just for clarification, I believe you mean that it's not something supported out of the box, in the form of a signed kernel / bootloader. It is something Arch Linux users could choose to set up themselves; there's a whole wik

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