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by bsimpson 4mo ago
I was wondering if this would be a worthwhile upgrade to my Legion Go Z1 Extreme. Sounds like it's in the same vicinity for graphics power. Not worth $1k for a tiny bit more RAM. I do wonder if this will give me any useful presets, in
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
> or they might be legally obligated to post a job publicly, even if they’ve already identified the person they want to hire Famous/obvious bug in the H1B process, but not sure how this legislation would address it. If they're
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
There was an Amazon UXR study that floated around ~8 years ago that said the only things people care about from a voice assistant are music, weather, and alarms. PMs keep trying to make them "smarter," and it just makes the core u
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
My parents bought an Amazon TV at Costco that is surprisingly responsive for being a smart TV.
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
> Roku's decision to get involved in streaming content at all As I recall, it was originally a Netflix product that was spun out due to its potential to cause a conflict of interest in their main business. They didn't want dev
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
Is the flavor of Markdown (e.g. CommonMark) specified? Didn't see anything about it by perusing the first few pages, but that feels important for a spec.
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
My primary phone number has been a Google Voice account since 2010. It's unclear to me how I'd be impacted by these new rules, but I don't believe there's any requirement to provide PII to get a VOIP number.
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Spy law (FISA) on track to lapse after Congress rejects extension(politico.com)
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
Are they actually made in the UK? I'd presume they're shipped from China like most tech goods.
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
There's a whole big conversation to have about the bureaucratic state. One of the things that appeals to voters is the argument that too many decisions are made by unaccountable bureaucrats. Trump has been as effective at fixing this
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
Here's the link to submit a comment to the FCC: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express Ran a quick search and found a whole bunch of news articles, but nobody includes info that makes it easy to route your
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
I was a teenager when 9/11 happened. Until that point, I thought wars were a stupid thing that humanity realized were stupid and stopped doing.
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
If the referendum passes and the population crosses the threshold, Switzerland may need to remove itself from e.g. the Schengen area. All the remediations mentioned in the referendum are about suspending immigration.
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
In NY + SF, it's used for anything you might want to attend that would be organized by an individual - parties, meetups, food crawls, classes, concerts, local events, etc.
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
Partiful feels like it has replaced Facebook Events, Meetup, and the other formerly-popular hubs for in-person event planning.
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
He's right - that phrase evokes what he means better than many alternatives. But this feels like an article where you get all the useful info in the title. The rest is just a rant about the modern internet being bad for your brain.
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
I feel like I heard this same rumor a decade+ ago. Not a rumor when announced on a public market, but it's not the first time they've been perceived as a precarious has-been.
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
Glad to see movement here! It's been so long since I've heard about Debug that I was afraid it was cancelled.
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by bsimpson 4mo ago
I remember when they first pivoted from multiperson multitouch tables to tablets. It sounded like a really cool device - even got me to walk into a Microsoft store. Then I realized that it used the same shitty Windows with the same shitty
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Is soon now?
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
The performance envelope was already uninspiring. They said it does better than some big percentage of the people on Steam, but it's not an obvious upgrade over my 2023 Legion Go handheld in anything but a bit more RAM (and it's o
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
It also used to be run as an independent company with access to MS's resources. Now it's a unit in their AI hype machine.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Probably because one of the main explorations of the articles is quantifying "young people."
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Isn't FRP more like RxJS/CycleJS? If you ask the people who work on any of those frameworks I mentioned, they'll tell you they're taking the React style and applying it to their platforms.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Flutter, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose: a whole lot of other platforms have been implementing React as their UI framework
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
The Supreme Court has recently had an appetite to overturn precedent deemed to be rooted in faulty case law/reasoning (controversially, Roe v Wade). It would be nice to see that energy pointed at blatantly unconstitutional notions like
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
It says they're supposed to put it in airplane mode before searching. Of course, there's nothing preventing a Snowden-style klep the cookies and let a three letter agency reuse them later.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
[citation needed]
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
The internet is largely predicated on American law, because so much of it has been invented by Americans. The EFF, Creative Commons, FSF - they're all based in America. The licenses they write are based on American legal concepts. It&#
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Asylum is an international concept negotiated by treaty. You apply when you arrive - that's true everywhere.

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