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by drclau 4y ago
My opinion is that the 2nd book is the best of the trilogy, followed closely by the 3rd. The 1st, I could have done without, except that there's some information that will help make sense of things in the 2nd. Maybe a good summary can
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by drclau 4y ago
I read the trilogy, which is actually named “Remembrance of Earth’s Past”, with “The Three-Body Problem” being the first, and IMO the weakest of the books. <Spoilers follow> Great read, but I can’t see how anyone would be optimistic a
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by drclau 4y ago
Watch notifications are a positive for me, _after_ I disabled all but the apps I care about (plus, in messaging apps I muted all but the persons I need to communicate with in real time). Every time I get a notification and the Watch is not
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by drclau 4y ago
Have you considered that you may have been drugged?
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by drclau 4y ago
I am at the 5th and 4th replacements (left and right, or might be the reverse). I do hope these issues were fixed in 2nd gen. At one time, I have found a YouTube video describing how to fix the noise cancelling issue by literally sucking on
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AirPods Pro Service Program for Sound Issues(support.apple.com)
97 points by drclau 4y ago|116 comments
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by drclau 4y ago
I just hope they fixed the crackling/static noise issue, as well as the ANC issues (usually they come together). I am literally at the 5th replacement right now. AirPods Pro Service Program for Sound Issues https://support.a
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by drclau 4y ago
If they are more likely to succeed again, it’s because they either already have money or have easy access to capital. It’s somewhat common knowledge that investors will invest in the same people again, sometimes even after failures.
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by drclau 4y ago
Regarding a), I seem to remember that Yahoo Messenger had animated stickers _with audio_. I recall they had a pack with Madonna's (the artist) voice/songs. I just don't recall when exactly that was, but I think it was ~2005.
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by drclau 4y ago
I want to clarify, I was not saying the finger pushing on the screen can damage the display, but rather that doing so increases the risk of dropping an already thin and slippery device.
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by drclau 4y ago
I initially liked it, but gradually grew to dislike it. Having to press hard on the screen of a hand-held device that would be quite expensive to repair if dropped is just not a good idea. I ended up reducing the force setting to the minimu
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Use Custom Email Domain with iCloud Mail(support.apple.com)
11 points by drclau 4y ago|0 comments
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by drclau 4y ago
Can you elaborate why you found those interesting?
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by drclau 4y ago
I’m curious if Twitter will kick Elon Musk off the network.
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Discovery reveals large, year-round ozone hole over tropics(phys.org)
6 points by drclau 4y ago|1 comments
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by drclau 4y ago
You can write and publish your own plugins for JetBrains IDEs. https://plugins.jetbrains.com/
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by drclau 4y ago
Scam is a bit strong. But I can see leadership wanting everyone back to office for whatever reasons, and out of fear of people leaving if they are forced to return to office, they came up with this 4 day work week thing to make it attractiv
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by drclau 4y ago
There are already many good advices in this thread, so instead of writing another one, I’ll suggest a podcast that has plenty of useful information related to your situation: Huberman Lab [0]. Skim through the episodes’ titles and descripti
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by drclau 4y ago
I did have to use Paypal recently to pay for HBO Max, because they would not accept debit cards for whatever reason, and I lost my patience with their support. You are right, the Paypal app is really bad. You should give Wise and/or Re
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by drclau 4y ago
I don't know anyone using Paypal for this scenario. However, people do use Wise and Revolut.
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Vulnerabilities in Curl 7.82.0(curl.se)
2 points by drclau 4y ago|0 comments
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JetBrains Mono: A Typeface for Developers(jetbrains.com)
2 points by drclau 4y ago|0 comments
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by drclau 4y ago
There’s no way that natural selection selected for this, simply because, well, after you die you won’t have offspring to inherit it. It is just a side effect of some other mechanism that likely has a use during our lifetime.
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by drclau 5y ago
No, I literally meant the physical distance between me and a nuke.
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by drclau 5y ago
To the best of my knowledge, this is the closest I’ve ever been to nuclear bombs. I live in Romania.
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Two B-52s circling over Romania(twitter.com)
20 points by drclau 5y ago|14 comments
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by drclau 5y ago
Because greed.
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by drclau 5y ago
Influenza is not a coronavirus. There is no cross-immunity. My guess is that the reason why we've seen a drop in cases of Flu during the Covid pandemic is strictly related to lockdowns and Flu being less infectious than Covid. In other
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by drclau 5y ago
You can try Sailfish OS [0], from Jolla. It can be installed on selected devices. [0]: https://sailfishos.org
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by drclau 5y ago
So M2s+ are expected to have empathy for M1s, but M1s are not expected to have empathy for engineers. And, M2s+ having been M1s prior to being promoted, have to develop empathy when becoming M2s+. Have I described correctly the situation? L

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