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by causi 2y ago
It's just format-shifting content. Rather than reading an article, someone might prefer to have the content casually chit-chatted at them. Nothing wrong with that, and a handy function if you're into that sort of thing. I can see
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by causi 2y ago
A quick search says average cars consume ~25% more gas with AC, making it somewhat high. Tons of websites say this but in my own testing during my commute the difference is almost unnoticeable, let alone a full 25%.
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by causi 2y ago
Getting protectors that come with an alignment frame and running a hot shower to pull dust from the air was life-changing for me.
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by causi 2y ago
It's very easy to just apply a glass screen protector which has a fresh new oleophobic coating on it.
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by causi 2y ago
You didn't just get a storage card? Between an SD card and a CF microdrive I kept a ton of media on my pocket PC. Most of the ones that came out in 2003 and onwards had bluetooth and wifi built in.
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by causi 2y ago
WM5 was a pile of garbage compared to WM 2003. "Let's sacrifice a massive chunk of the screen for two useless yet omnipresent shortcut buttons."
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by causi 2y ago
The mid to late xscale era got very weird. Between the 90s and early 2000s handheld processors were growing in leaps and bounds. At the height in 2004 devices like the Dell x50v were shipping with 624mhz xscale chips with a dedicated GPU wi
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by causi 2y ago
This concept has suddenly become interesting again now that I have a bunch of OLED devices.
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by causi 2y ago
In 1974 we were less used to the paradigm of giant companies receiving twice their proposed budget and accomplishing nothing with it.
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by causi 2y ago
Anybody remember what the estimated resolution was on those undoctored satellite images Trump leaked a few years ago?
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by causi 2y ago
That's been Google phones even since the Nexus days. They review super well then three months after release there's some crazy-ass hardware problem no phone has ever experienced before. Screen discoloration, glass backs cracking w
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by causi 2y ago
More likely by less than seven percent difference. Hardly enough to account for this.
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by causi 2y ago
I'm going to hell, because my first thought was "LEGO airliners".
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by causi 2y ago
I don't know why but tech industry folks tend to be very resistant to the stupendous complexity of biological systems. The way biology builds functionality into structure can result in incredible space efficiency. Like neurons, for exa
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by causi 2y ago
If our civilization survives, we will, one day, through one manner or another, banish death. If that day comes, when it comes, I hope Jake's name is remembered for the monument to all who we lost, all of us who've had to grow and
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by causi 2y ago
Man it would be so cool to get AI-assisted photogrammetry. Imagine that instead of taking a hundred photos or a slow scan and having to labor over a point cloud, you could just take like three pictures and then go down a checklist. "Is
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by causi 2y ago
Multi-family units and rezoning single family plots is great. Trying to get poor people to live in the back yard like a family pet is a humiliating proposition.
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by causi 2y ago
Yes, and that's quite a surprising result, but even if it'd had the opposite results, it wouldn't indicate that UBI is a good idea.
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by causi 2y ago
I don't understand why all of the basic income studies I've seen seek to indicate whether or not giving someone free money improves their quality of life. That it does should be blindingly obvious, but that is not the question whi
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by causi 2y ago
Like a lot. Didn't YC even fund that startup that wanted to turn middle class suburban homeowners into slumlords by building rental poverty shacks in their back yards?
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by causi 2y ago
The modules on display don't seem to be a strong showing. A wallet case? Kickstand? Lanyard? These are things you can add to any phone with a $10 Amazon purchase. Compare this to the LG G5, which had a module that added a camera grip w
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by causi 2y ago
Is a photographer a lesser artist than a painter?
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by causi 2y ago
AI is destroying capitalistic artistry. The concept of people who do nothing but art is itself a product of capitalism. Before capitalism, we all worked, and we all sang, and we all drew pictures, and we all told stories. It is only capital
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by causi 2y ago
I believe the default touch zones on new ereaders are in fact still shaped like interlocking L's, with the right side and most of the bottom counting as Next and the left side and most of the top counting as Previous.
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by causi 2y ago
I don't see why you think physical buttons would lose orientation. My kindle had forward and back buttons on both sides that worked fine in either orientation, and on devices that only have one button per side the one on the bottom is
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by causi 2y ago
It's very easy to replace the battery with a new one. The whole back cover pops off.
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by causi 2y ago
If you haven't had a kindle with buttons you have no basis of comparison. They're lovely.
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by causi 2y ago
Quite a few contributing factors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiny1GrfhYM
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by causi 2y ago
Yes, if I gifted someone a gun and they used it to murder someone I would be angry and feel guilty.
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by causi 2y ago
Money is a proxy for life and time. If my money is used to hurt someone, that means the product of my time and my effort was used to hurt someone. That makes me angry.

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