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by bscphil 3y ago
This is not just the backlight setting: below a certain level the feature will darken the level of the pixels so that white (255, 255, 255) is reduced to something darker. On an OLED screen, of course, this just has the effect of allowing l
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by bscphil 3y ago
LineageOS lets you activate it on a schedule, e.g. 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. I think maybe stock Android does too? This is one of the many areas that Samsung phones suck. For many versions, and for older phones that are mostly stuck on those versio
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by bscphil 3y ago
Solar time is vastly less useful than just getting rid of time zones altogether in favor of Universal Time. If you're going to consider drastic measures, might as well just do that. Trying to plan a meeting? "Is 12:30 okay?"
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by bscphil 3y ago
> People in Maine or Boston will have a different view from people in most of upper peninsula Michigan. After we get rid of the time change, states where standard time makes more sense could just change their time zone to the more approp
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by bscphil 3y ago
> I had perfect dental health all my life and needed multiple fillings after 18 months of soda. Not an expert, but I'm not sure if that makes sense? As I understand it, soda causes dental problems because bacteria in your mouth eat
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by bscphil 3y ago
> On the buses, I met some chatty and friendly fellow travelers, and yes, I also encountered a few pretty messed-up riders, chatting gibberish and lost in their own distant worlds. I rode immaculately clean trains and buses and a few tha
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by bscphil 3y ago
That's the population, not the number of radio operators. The number of call signs given for the USA is 1635406, or about 2.2 per (currently) licensed operator.
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by bscphil 3y ago
As does Arch Linux: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/au... Distributions and open source maintainers looking out for their users, once again.
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by bscphil 3y ago
> If you're in the bracket of "100 mbps down is fine for me" then you most likely do not care about the upload speed at all. Personally I'd trade my current speeds (800 / 20) for 100 / 100 in a heartbeat. Th
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by bscphil 3y ago
Currently, at least in my area, after you've purchased a plan (potentially with a term agreement), you can log onto the Xfinity website and see what your expected upload speed is. Mine says 800 / 20, although I think it's p
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by bscphil 3y ago
Yes, there's actually a significant ongoing scandal over this because they're only rolling it out (in most cases) to people renting their expensive hardware, even if the modem you bought already has the necessary DOCSIS 3.1 suppor
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by bscphil 3y ago
In my case Comcast is 800/20 or 1000/35, but they refuse to even advertise the upload rate so you don't know when you're signing up. There's a somewhat outdated, very hard to find page that lists these [1] but many
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by bscphil 3y ago
Sure, but that's when they get told "you need to replace the logic board, that'll be $500 since it's out of warranty". That's not a theoretical problem either, people were literally told to do this back when th
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by bscphil 3y ago
It's 100 Mbps down / 20 Mbps up as the proposal, and 1000 Mbps / 500 Mbps as an eventual goal. I imagine the 20 Mbps upload target is useless for most of us, even those on asymmetric cable, but there's a good chance that
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by bscphil 3y ago
Right, this is what I meant by the EFI brick in my comment. And in my comment "I can't say I've heard of that happening", I meant bricking a device on a system update. That's the specific thing which seems to happen
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by bscphil 3y ago
By the standard of "do you ever need to consult forum posts to solve a problem", sure, Linux is worse than macOS. By the standard of "do you ever need to consult forum posts to fix hardware that has apparently been bricked by
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by bscphil 3y ago
If I understand correctly, ProMotion is the feature that allows dynamically changing the refresh rate without screen blanking. So the reason refresh rate matters in early bootup is that if ProMotion is not enabled, you get brief screen bl
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by bscphil 3y ago
Upgrades bricking hardware seems to be a common failure mode for macOS. For example Big Sur bricked a bunch of 2013 and 2014 MBPs: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/macos-big-sur-update-br... I was affecte
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by bscphil 3y ago
> Sure you can get 30% lower bitrate, but only at degraded quality levels or higher decode complexity. Thank you for pointing this out. This thread is a mess of claims at the moment because this simple fact is under-recognized. There are
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by bscphil 3y ago
> h265 (HEVC) was all but DoA until years after it's introduction Apple finally decided to embrace it No? You're talking in terms of PC / phone hardware support only. HEVC was first released June 7, 2013. The UHD Blu-ray s
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by bscphil 3y ago
How many hours of battery life do you typically get when running Linux on the M1?
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The point of starting with physical intuition isn't to give students a crutch to rely on, it's to give them a sense of how to develop mathematical concepts themselves. They need to understand why we introduce the language of vecto
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It also goes on to say > Besides being a first course in linear algebra it is also supposed to be a first course introducing a student to rigorous proof, formal definitions---in short, to the style of modern theoretical (abstract) mathem
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by bscphil 3y ago
Yeah, a good example is on the second page of the first chapter: > Remark. It is easy to prove that zero vector 0 is unique, and that given v ∈ V its additive inverse −v is also unique. The is the first time the word "unique" i
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by bscphil 3y ago
The name "anti-ChatGPT" is rather weird, no? The project is a use of ChatGPT to block content that is not necessarily AI related or AI generated, and that the developer claims (probably sarcastically) not to like. > With Anti
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by bscphil 3y ago
> The NASA evidence base and publications note that astronauts have had more than 30 instances of kidney stones within two years of space travel. What does this mean? Surely the average astronaut doesn't pass 30 kidney stones ever
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by bscphil 3y ago
That's an obvious false dichotomy. If everyone who wanted had the choice between renting and owning, and the average landlord made a decent living off of providing maintenance and "deed-holding" services, you might have a poi
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by bscphil 3y ago
> It's wonderful that they may have helped you at one point. That's not what they said, you're misreading. > Can we please see some formal, peer-reviewed evidence to suggest that someone willing to commit murder is goin
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by bscphil 3y ago
It's almost certainly the result of banning password sharing. +9M subscribers in Q3, versus less than 3M added in Q3 last year.
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Right. The closest analogy I can think of is answers on Stack Overflow. Usually those answers apply to the latest version of whatever software they're about, but this means many of them will eventually be out of date. You can find plen

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