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by dublin 5y ago
Permanently disabling FaceID is a feature, not a bug. FaceID (and the inability to really turn it off) are the reason that I will leave Apple behind when I finally have to replace my current pre-FaceID iPhone.
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by dublin 5y ago
Have you ever wondered why there are so many aliens coming to Earth for our water? They did this on their planets, and lost all their hydrogen to space. Pretty soon we'll be looking down the barrels of their Illudium Q-36 Explosive S
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by dublin 5y ago
Modern Standby is an Intel thing, not a Microsoft thing. Intel has just pressured Microsoft and other OEMs into supporting it. IMO, it's a huge steaming pile-o-crap, and one of the biggest reasons I want my next PC to have a non-Inte
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by dublin 5y ago
FWIW, If you asked me to choose whether I'd get to keep the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine or Wikipedia, I'd choose the Archive in a heartbeat. (Not to mention the opportunities for serendipitous discovery are always amazi
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by dublin 5y ago
Does this mean we can finally go back to HTTP for connections that don't NEED to be secure without being attacked for it by security Nazis? Seriously, though, the far bigger problem is the need for better handling of certificates (ofte
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by dublin 5y ago
I have never seen an ad in Windows, period. (And for that matter, I've never changed any setting to achieve that. Perhaps this is because as a Surface user, I get Win10 Pro installed by default?) By the way, try using a pen or touch
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by dublin 5y ago
Gnome's UI really does suck. Windows File Explorer sucks, too, just not nearly as bad. (Though I'd put it FAR ahead of the Mac's counter-intuitive and ill-named Finder.) It's the 21st century - WHY, OH, WHY do we still
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by dublin 5y ago
I'd argue based on the comment, that @tsjq understands social justice quite well, including the unshakable truth that you cannot use institutionalized racism and bias as a remedy to racism and bias. Doing so not only perpetuates the ev
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by dublin 5y ago
Pros: The APIs, while often frustrating, are better and more complete than any of the other cloud providers. Super rich variety of services, which again, are more mature than competitors. In general, I'd say that AWS is ~18 months ah
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by dublin 5y ago
So much for assembly language being the most compact and efficient form of software... (Yes, of course I know it's assembly for a VM, but still, there's NO excuse for this kind of outrageous bloat!)
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by dublin 5y ago
Wow, that sounds like something right out of the Babylon Bee. I really don't envy the folks at the Bee - it's hard to make up satire that's weirder and more outrageous than the actual truth!
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by dublin 5y ago
Camel? Or Star Wars walker machine? Inquiring minds want to know... :-)
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by dublin 5y ago
Sounds like you want a modern equivalent of one of the old Auspex/NetApp servers that used distributed RAID HDDs for the the head of every file, backed by optical disk robots for the rest, so for large files, you get a nice cross of th
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by dublin 5y ago
The Treo 755 is the best phone I have ever used, hands-down. I actually have it on life support in the other room (even though its radios lost carrier support years ago - CDMA), simply because some of the apps are really useful and have no
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by dublin 5y ago
Never had a Blackberry (although their keyboard was clearly the best), but I desperately miss my old Treos (and to a lesser extent, the Qualcomm Palm phone that preceded them.) Other than the lack of a modern browser and physical thickness
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by dublin 5y ago
I long for the day when our current mobile OSes work half as well as Palm/Treo devices did in the 90s and early 2000s... Quite seriously, neither iOS nor Android are even remotely as good at easy, right now interaction and usefulness
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by dublin 5y ago
Most product designers and developers have NO idea how to handle this properly. I'd done a poor job of it until around 15 years ago, when I was spec'ing out the UI for utility-scale solar monitoring web app. It turns out that in
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by dublin 5y ago
Whatever happened to the idea that everyone should be free to speak whatever they want, no matter how wrong or ridiculous, and let the light of truth expose the charlatans? That's one of the reasons I find true free speech platforms li
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by dublin 5y ago
This is a really good question, especially since a substantial fraction of the cheap Chinese solar panels produced in the past decade are not even lasting long enough to fully pay for themselves. Lower-tier Chinese panels are now frequentl
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by dublin 5y ago
I don't believe much of anythign Apple tells me. The x86 is fine, but any reasons to prefer it to other architectures are disappearing fast. As someone who's suffered (literally suffered) due to Intel's abysmal and execrabl
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by dublin 5y ago
Making all drivers wear helmets, or all cars and trucks have giant nerf bumpers would save lives, too, but like masks, these are ridiculous given the extremely small (though very grave) risks involved. Both wearing a mask and vaccination a
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by dublin 5y ago
You mean to prevent "speaking moistly"?
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by dublin 5y ago
Or refuse, and enhance the herd immunity, which is the only thing that will ever really slow the virus in the first place. (Like the flu and colds, this virus will be with us forever and cannot be eradicated, because unlike smallpox and th
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by dublin 5y ago
I remember someone once describing Wired as a dumbed-down version of High Technology and Byte dressed up in Mondo 2000's clothes. That's pretty accurate. Sadly, Wired has somehow been the one that still exists...
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by dublin 5y ago
I ran software for Dell's portables during the height of PointCast craziness - they eventually banned it because aboutq 2/3 (IIRC) of the company's bandwidth for the Product Group offices was being consumed by PointCast news
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by dublin 5y ago
No, the manufacturers of all the current "vaccines" are clear that none of them prevents transmission of the disease, nor creates immunity - the only claim they make is that they should lessen the symptoms of an infection. Go re
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by dublin 5y ago
How has that worked out for Influenza? Wiped out yet? We've only been vaccinating for it for 75 YEARS! We're not likely to wipe out SARS-Co-V2 or similar viruses. Like the flu, "Covid" or some other mutation of the Wu
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by dublin 5y ago
The last couple of weeks of VAERS data confirms that while deaths from the "vaccine" are still rare, the "vaccines" are now killing twice as many people as the virus itself. Public Health Scotland last week admitted tha
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by dublin 5y ago
If I had any interest in any SARS-Co-V2 vaccine, it would be tone based on inactivated virus, but the risk of this virus just doesn't justify the risk of any vaccination in the first place, especially since I've had it....
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by dublin 5y ago
Well, that's going to make AMD reconsider the wisdom of spinning off its fab biz as GF, now isn't it?

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