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by dafoex 6y ago
Perhaps you're right, but when your £500 phone with brand new USB-C port doesn't support the so-called "killer app" you bought it for, its a bit of a pain. Luckily mine was refurbished and a few versions behind the curr
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by dafoex 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. Will that HDMI dongle work with your device? Is it a Power Delivery port or just half an amp? Who the heck knows when the manufacturer themselves give conflicting information!
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by dafoex 6y ago
Multiple print screens, too. I suspect they're just labels and the keys do something different
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by dafoex 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the trademark holder that gets to decide if their trademark is being violated, not the border force?
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by dafoex 6y ago
I find camera bumps annoying on principal. Those extra two millimetres could have been used to fit a bigger battery, but no, it has to be as thin as possible. Then again, Apple phones tend to be really heavy, so maybe its for the best? Bu
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by dafoex 6y ago
I dunno, other than the bottom tabs I actually like the old UI
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by dafoex 6y ago
Given the "nice try module" is 3D printed, I'm sure someone could just order a job lot from JLC PCB or PCB Way and make them at home to sell.
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by dafoex 6y ago
Speak for yourself. The pro mouse and mighty mouse fit my (possibly oddly shaped) hands perfectly, and I don't need to curl my little finger under the body of the mouse to grip it, unlike most allegedly ergonomic mice I've used.
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by dafoex 6y ago
What the actual eff? A rogue employee at a "licenced" repair shop could also do this! This has got to be against even the most Neanderthal of advertising standards!
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by dafoex 6y ago
You wouldn't have to deal with a "police tax" if you didn't do things that made you get stopped. Admittedly that's easier said than done in america where the police are told how to use a gun and let lose on the pub
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by dafoex 6y ago
There's literally a monopoly "go" tile on it. Contrast this with the UK where the coppers like to get "go to jail" t shirts.
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by dafoex 6y ago
Its a pretty broad claim because a lot of countries have a different idea to america on what modern policing means.
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by dafoex 6y ago
Ideally the secrets would be encrypted to prevent outside snooping (and my authenticator app does this at my end) but it would seem that at some point the secret does need to be in plain text at some point.
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by dafoex 6y ago
I recall back in the XPI extension days it was possible to host your extension on your own website and have Firefox offer to automagically install it as if it were from the normal add-on site. I believe Chrome also did this for a short whi
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by dafoex 6y ago
If you're pointing out the slippery slope logical fallacy, allow me to say "argumentum ad populum" in rebuttal. Just because many or a majority of people have taken one opinion doesn't make it true or good, and just bec
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by dafoex 6y ago
This would potentially destroy any hands free benefit a virtual assistant would have, back in the day of the secretary (the roll these talking Pringles tubes are trying to emulate) the bossman CEO or whatever would press a button on the off
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by dafoex 6y ago
Furthermore, "user" doesn't imply addiction. I hung a picture the other day, I used a screwdriver to do it. I'm not addicted to screwdrivers or hanging pictures, I'm just a user of a tool.
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by dafoex 6y ago
Sorry if I'm not demonstrating adequate sympathy, but all I can thing of from reading this headline is "oh dear, a person with a genetic adaptation that prevents some wavelengths of light from penetrating to deeper layers of the s
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by dafoex 6y ago
My comment about Zork comes from Don Gentner and Jakob Nielson's "The Anti-Mac Interface", which mentioned a simple search bar that could take more-or-less natural language instructions such as "make a new document calle
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by dafoex 6y ago
Now, my sample size is small, but I've noticed that people react to voice interfaces with what I can only think to call "dumb foreigner syndrome" where they actively slow down and simplify their speech as if they were talking
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by dafoex 6y ago
Would it not be more useful to size a pizza in terms of diameter, not number of slices or how many people its supposed to feed? As you point out, a 6cm diameter pizza can be sliced into 16 pieces, but also some people just naturally eat mo
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by dafoex 6y ago
What would the ethics be of using children in Turing tests? If you asked a human child to answer Turing test questions, would the judges think of them as a computer?
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by dafoex 6y ago
I can live without creepy instant messengers, but its shocking just how much everything else relies on one, central system. And furthermore, why is it always cloudflair?
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by dafoex 6y ago
Been using it for a while now and there's no need to log in with your account - in fact, you can't! You have to import subscriptions over, and easy to follow instructions to do this are provided. The only thing you can't to
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by dafoex 6y ago
At the risk of making a flippant comment, they /are/ called Bruce.
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by dafoex 6y ago
£2.46, even. If only the bus driver would fat finger the ticket machine, maybe 2p coins would have a use.
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by dafoex 6y ago
I know this is about the US penny, but from a UK perspective I think it'd be much more useful to kill the two pence piece. Those coins are massive and, in my experience, never used except to put in those charity buckets. One pennies,
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by dafoex 6y ago
Maybe scrapers should respect robots.txt and go away if there's a `scraperbot` entry, the same way Google goes away if you put `googlebot` in there.
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by dafoex 6y ago
It is, but what I'm suggesting is that a scraper identifies itself as such in the user agent and complies with the robots exclusion standard. Google's crawlers recognise that `googlebot` - among other strings - refers to them, an
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by dafoex 6y ago
I agree to a point, but I think its more a lack of training than a purely age thing. Yes, "grandpa judge" might not be able to learn new things now, but they could have put effort into learning things then. Even if hardly anyone

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