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by derefr 2y ago
You might be right, but I'm not sure the timeline lines up. The Magic Trackpad didn't exist when the Magic Mouse 1 (the one with AA batteries) was designed. So they definitely cared about the design of the Magic Mouse at that ti
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by derefr 2y ago
Sure, the tests I get. It was the briefings that seem weird to not cluster. In the case of a pregnancy, I'm assuming these "briefings" are things like trying to teach the new parent things they'll need to know when the
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by derefr 2y ago
"Critical security updates" for iOS come ~weekly.
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by derefr 2y ago
I accept the answering-questions part — but it might be just barely possible today to build an "automatic stethoscope" machine, that sits there continuously listening to your heart and lungs, feeding the audio through an ML mode
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by derefr 2y ago
Were you in your suite in the late morning? Hotels usually assume that that's the time tourists are most likely to be out about town, so they try to cram every type of cleaning and maintenance into that period. Hotels also schedule the
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by derefr 2y ago
Surely there's yet another kind of machine they could hook up, that could silently monitor you for blood loss / internal bleeding? Especially if they know where to expect that potential bleeding to appear? (The probe for that one
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by derefr 2y ago
> First priority, make sure you don't die. Sleep and recovery are down the list a bit. But lack of sleep can impair immunity and disturb blood pressure and heart rhythm. Keeping someone with major trauma under stress (like being con
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by derefr 2y ago
> then distrurbed for tests and briefings every 90 minutes for 3 days How odd. Why do hospitals not cluster these interactions together — the "while I've got you here..." experience?
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by derefr 2y ago
Not never; phones also reboot when there are critical OS updates to apply — and that happens as long as the phone is both charging and locked at any time during a vendor-defined daily maintenance window (usually something like 2AM-4AM in th
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by derefr 2y ago
> Why should Apple care if I want to leave the device plugged in all the time? How does this choice remotely affect them? Because the wireless-ness of the mouse (while also being a macOS-compatible multi-touch surface) was the selling po
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by derefr 2y ago
If you want to always drive a car with the parking brake on you can — it's your car — but if a driving instructor sees you doing it, they'll give you a demerit. Because you're massively hobbling the car vs. its design space
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by derefr 2y ago
So your solution to solving one tiny flaw with the GP's otherwise-working setup is to... throw away their monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and spend lots of money (many times more money than an RPi-with-a-hat costs) to replace them? All b
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by derefr 2y ago
Having a cloud account is entirely disconnected from the activation state of Windows, and always will be. The activation state of Windows is a property of a Windows installation, because Windows installations — all the ones Microsoft care
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by derefr 2y ago
> That is a great write up. But I think this proves even more my point that people do anything to make an excuse for cheating :) You would have an argument (not a good argument) if I ever actually took advantage of the education discou
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by derefr 2y ago
And if you try to avoid the ad-hoc-ness by formalizing each useful weird behavior as its own documented type with its own documented semantics for application, then you've just reinvented monads. (Which is not to say you shouldn&#x27
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by derefr 2y ago
What's the equivalent of "locking the screen" for cleaning an Apple TV's paired remote?
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by derefr 2y ago
The GP's same argument also applies to the Magic Mouse, as it happens: > It's a way of signaling how the product should be used. In the Magic Mouse's case, it came out just on the cusp of wireless mice becoming "a thi
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by derefr 2y ago
I think you might be suffering from a categorical blindness to a certain type of thing humans do. Let's say I own a private beach. I want to allow my beach to be enjoyed freely and responsibly by a reasonable number of people, whether
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by derefr 2y ago
It's not cheating if they intend for you to do it (but just can't explicitly say it's allowed because then everyone would do it and that would collapse their self-assortative price-discrimination strategy.) > If you ca
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by derefr 2y ago
Pretty sure people already are abusing it. I think this is a lot like the situation with oldschool Photoshop: for a long time, people pirated Photoshop, and Adobe really didn't care — didn't bother to do anything to make piracy
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by derefr 2y ago
The wood bison's range included tundra! I.e. they were hardier than the steppe- endemic megafauna that were killed off by the retreat and vanishing of the steppe, being able to survive (though probably not thrive) on the sort of scrub
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by derefr 2y ago
Okay? I wasn’t trying to make any claim in contravention of what you just said. My points were these: 1. the steppe mammoth specifically (i.e. the one everyone means when they reference humans hunting mammoths to extinction) existed as it
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by derefr 2y ago
The "mammoth steppe" — the biome that supported mammoths — was a place that was cold (due to a glacial maximum) but bright (due to not being very polar.) Which made for endless fields of nutrient-dense grasses to graze on. Which m
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by derefr 2y ago
What name would you prefer for the category that includes Myanmar, Turkmenistan, and Eritrea?
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by derefr 2y ago
I can see why they do it, though. There are a bunch of foundational Google infra technologies that are great for building an IaaS on top of, but which can't themselves be offered as IaaS services for whatever reason. Let's use Goo
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by derefr 2y ago
chroot is great for all sorts of things, but they're not security-related. A lot of tools expect to do things to "your system" at absolute paths — chroot lets those tools operate against an explicitly wired-up semi-virtualize
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by derefr 2y ago
The wrapped monospace text in HN's comment textarea, on a narrow mobile display, tends to look imposingly long. If each sentence renders as four "lines" long in the textarea, then some people get the feeling that they should
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by derefr 2y ago
I haven't seen this approach in action personally, but I assume you'd set it up similarly to how Homebrew builds + pins bottles for formulae: - PR creation (or any update to the PR branch by a human) would trigger a CI workflow to
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by derefr 2y ago
> Technically, so did the SNES with the NES, it was just never really exposed. I've always wondered how true this is — I feel like if it was literally true, we'd see a lot of NES ROMhacks that involve editing the ROM's l
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by derefr 2y ago
I'm surprised there isn't a 3DS mod to bodge in a fancy modern panel with enough DPI to hit the lowest common multiple of those screens' resolutions, such that it can pull off a full-coverage integer-scaled mode for both DS a

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