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811.
by causi 4y ago
I'm curious if there was a similar rebellion among traditional-medium artists when digital art started becoming widespread a couple decades ago. Was there similar hand-wringing over how being able to use layers was cheating, how a smoo
812.
by causi 4y ago
Do you mean walled garden or is wallet-garden a play on words having to do with financial schemes and open source?
813.
by causi 4y ago
If you told your phone "hey google, take me to cabin trail" and ended up at a hiking trail, would you suspect it was the wrong place?
814.
by causi 4y ago
Add sponsor-skipping into that. Give me a transcript, let me select a series of words, then audio containing that series of words gets skipped on all remaining episodes.
815.
by causi 4y ago
Hmm, this seems less fun than Crazy Taxi. A huge part of Crazy Taxi was trying to keep track of the upcoming terrain and gauge how it's going to affect the momentum and trajectory of your car. With a flying taxi there is no terrain, no
816.
by causi 4y ago
It does not. However, a phone can be located using almost any computerized device, from another phone, a computer, or a smart speaker. Heck, you can even walk around yelling "hey google/siri, find my phone!" and the phone its
817.
by causi 4y ago
They had an eight year head start on building bluetooth trackers over Apple.
818.
by causi 4y ago
How is this related to people "acting like pansies" to avoid catching covid?
819.
by causi 4y ago
Speaking as someone who owns several Tiles, I don't understand Tile. Airtags are an order of magnitude more useful and only slightly more expensive. The manufacturing cost for a Tile can't be more than a couple of bucks. Not only
820.
by causi 4y ago
Self-organizing behavior is a wildly underestimated and underappreciated force in the world. It's behind almost everything people regard as some sort of conspiracy.
821.
by causi 4y ago
what is largely a cold for 99% of the population Firstly, as of January, 11% of people infected with covid still have symptoms. I'm one of them. Personally I wish I'd been more paranoid, maybe I'd still be able to drink a
822.
by causi 4y ago
but autism is not in any way objectively suboptimal in itself For this to be true, autists would have to communicate and/or work with other autists as competently as neurotypicals mesh with each other. Strictly speaking, we should be
823.
by causi 4y ago
High-res OLED displays can do a pretty darn good imitation of a CRT if the software is tuned for it.
824.
by causi 4y ago
Yet there's still no way on Firefox Mobile to change the UserAgent.
825.
by causi 4y ago
Regarding small research balloons: that has never been the case. Why not? If I throw a "research baseball" through someone's window I'm still liable for replacing the window. Pick up your shit.
826.
by causi 4y ago
The launch teams seldom recover their balloons. reported its last position on Feb. 10 at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska Oh neat, I always wanted to be a litterbug and a floating aviation hazard at the same time. If you launch s
827.
by causi 4y ago
Yeah I don't understand the "legitimate" use case. I would imagine people who actually shell out the money get their car onto the interstate then strap a weight to the steering wheel until their exit comes up. Having to watch
828.
by causi 4y ago
When someone can drive from Palm Springs to SF Does that mean "stay in the correct lane on the interstate and take the proper exits without hitting anything" or does that mean "begin inside your garage and end inside anothe
829.
by causi 4y ago
I'm astonished consumers are still paying fifteen thousand dollars to be guinea pigs for this bullshit. No car that currently has tires on the road is going to let you fall asleep in your driveway and wake up at work.
830.
by causi 4y ago
Don't forget having to have a fucking Google+ account. I'm proudly one of the few who spent half a decade being unable to comment or send direct messages because I refused to assent to the Google+ account creation pop-up.
831.
by causi 4y ago
I am. It's one of the reasons I only run a rooted android device. Most people aren't so lucky.
832.
by causi 4y ago
Think about how many millions of years were spent evolving the human brain, human instincts, and human child to adult development process to maximize the survival of children and hence our species. Now think about how psychotic it is, in li
833.
by causi 4y ago
Itunes backups don't get everything. No media files originating from the itunes store are backed up. Some apps are not backed up. Anything that's backed up to iCloud is not backed up with itunes. You essentially have to pick one:
834.
by causi 4y ago
Munroe addressed this complaint and his point was: if the collision is bad enough that it damages that cast, it would total a non-cast car as well. I don't see how that's possible. Grain structure and alignment make forged parts
835.
by causi 4y ago
Complaining about bad formatting choices and other problems not related to the content is technically against the HN guidelines, which is why you're probably going to get downvoted a lot. I wish it weren't, though. If I ever write
836.
by causi 4y ago
What bothers me is that it feels like an offense against the entire notion of what a computer is. Yep. One of the most glaring examples of this is the complete extinction of portable backups. Back when I was carrying around a PDA I could
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by causi 4y ago
Is that significant, though? These nations aren't trying to keep things secret. They just have to keep them out of the day to day thoughts of 95% of their population. Even trivial measures like a DNS-redirect will be effective in that
838.
by causi 4y ago
Ron has such a weird mix of being the only guy willing to state the obvious and being completely unhinged. Like he's willing to state that curved screens and camera notches and no headphone jack are stupid, but he also consistently say
839.
by causi 4y ago
Everything. Dual-channel RAM has essentially double the memory bandwidth of single-channel.
840.
by causi 4y ago
Anti-Google is what gets the pageviews. Ars has been sliding toward clickbait for a long time now.

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