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by dougmwne 4y ago
He is right on multiple levels. If your mom is suffering the buggy, slow, bad UX of an android phone, be a good child and buy her an iPhone. It’s objectively better unless you are harboring some irrational grudge. The walled garden is Apple
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I stayed in an unheated apartment this weekend in the mountains and it was truly cold. We ended up building a little tent over the bed with blankets. This make me realize that the curtained canopy bed may be making a comeback.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
This is a good idea. Also you can do things like use a radiative electric heat dish and point it at a high backed chair to create a little heat bubble in a room and not heat the whole room.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Unfortunately those free standing units create a pressure differential and you will see all your hot air pushed outside. The split units use a fluid line to the outside to exchange temperature, so you would need one of those.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
This is quite good advice. The trick that that the portable AC units most people have in EU require an open window for the vent tube and create a positive or negative pressure which can push all your savings right out the window. If you ha
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I have been seeing this meme about the kettle recently. I ran the numbers and you are talking a few cents per boil even at current energy prices. You’d have to be drinking truly epic amounts of tea to see it affect your electric bill.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Some people are absolutely going to die, but then we are talking very large numbers and most policy produces casualties of some sort. You are most likely talking older and poorer people. Some will maybe get sick due to insufficient money to
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by dougmwne 4y ago
It highly depends on the energy mix of your country, but some countries may actually be in for a difficult winter. You can store energy of course and even hoard it which increases the problem. Here in Poland first there were 2 week lines fo
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Looks like someone discovered one of those “demons” hiding inside the negative space of recent AI models. So it seems you are at minimum, figuratively correct. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32764447
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Looks like we discovered some kind of dark nexus in the collective subconscious. Img to text models could probably put words to this which would help us loop back and understand exactly what collective concept we were looking at. Somone her
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Tech specs are live, but even though there are a half dozen size measurements, not a codec in sight. I think that is intentional because they don’t support AptX, or LDAC which would be essential for using these with anything not Apple.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Often the traffic is routed through the US. Did you do a ping to see where your exit node was? Also, not like I couldn’t pay it, but $300 a month is pretty steep when my current in-country plan is $10 a month for 40 gigs of 5g and I know I
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I get what you mean, but I think the AirPods pretty well live up to the “it just works” magic of cords. The UI is deeply intuitive. We’re talking the easiest to use product of the most UX obsessed company on earth. I can understand being pu
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by dougmwne 4y ago
But it IS a big deal! There’s been a lot of research into emergency UX. Basically, it needs to be dead simple or people die. In an emergency, people are usually panicked, injured or in shock. The tool needs to do its thing simply and effort
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Not sure how much else they could do with it. You need to wave your phone around at the sky to send a few bytes of data. It must just be a really low capacity network.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
There are so many small carriers out there that resell data from partner networks. Often one of these MVNOs can be the best deal to pick up a few dozen gigs of local data that support hotspot. Many may not even have an app, stores or much c
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Roaming is fine for short trips, but you are typically pretty badly de-prioritized and your connection is usually routed through US servers giving you a bad ping. Eventually the carrier is going to boot you off if you stay too long. Grabbin
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yup, it means I will absolutely not buy this phone. eSIM support is getting better, but if you switch countries with any regularity, you absolutely need a physical SIM card. Currently running a dual eSIM and SIM on my iPhone.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Interested to know what bluetooth codecs these support. That's important for using them with non-apple devices. Frustrating that they don't list supported codecs in the tech specs.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Thanks, that's good to know. I was thinking more about how eSIM really limits you and adds carrier control. For example, my partner has a cell plan that allows you a big bucket of data, then lets you link multiple SIMs to that data. Th
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Blah. I travel internationally quite a bit and a physical SIM is a must-have. eSim carrier support is getting better, but it's by no means 100% globally yet. Currently running dual eSim and a SIM from different carriers. I crossed a bo
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by dougmwne 4y ago
They were trying to nudge you to rapidly scan over the whole room with quick eye movements, like one of those hidden item puzzles. If they explained what they wanted you to do in too much detail then you probably would have suspected the tr
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by dougmwne 4y ago
First time for me that swirly thing was distracting my attention and I was doing rapid saccades looking for weird hidden items (even though I knew that was probably part of the illusion, seemed best to play along). I didn’t notice a single
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by dougmwne 4y ago
This was all very new to me and quite awesome. Are there any good companies to invest in who are going to be riding the wave of this tech?
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I mean if you want a picture of Unreal Engine Medusa with dicks for hair instead of snakes and toes instead of thumbs, you are in luck. But no, really. Go join the Unstable Diffusion discord if you are brave enough for the body horror. This
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by dougmwne 4y ago
There’s nothing surprising about this since it seems common to want to be famous, rich and someone that lots of people pay attention to, especially in your teens and early 20’s. Previous versions of this dream include author, movie star, sp
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by dougmwne 4y ago
No, the Austrian government builds a large amount of housing, which increases the overall supply of housing. People living in social housing do get lower rent prices, but having a massive builder in the market that keeps pumping out new inv
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Oh yeah, there’s the problem right there. They stopped building houses in 2010!
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by dougmwne 4y ago
The answer to your question is sovereignty and it is quite settled by this point in global governance. Who has it and who they gave it up to. As a republic, the citizens of Portugal are sovereign and they have the right to decide who gets t
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Sorry it was not a trillion. It was first trained on 2 billion, then fine tuned on smaller sets of highly aesthetic images. https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/69ae4b35e0a...

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