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by eco 9y ago
For audiobooks I tend to start the book off at 1x for the first few hours because it's hard to follow while they are establishing characters and environment when you speed it up. Once I have a feel for those I gradually speed up to 1.4
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by eco 9y ago
One odd thing I found while listening to conversational comedy podcasts at 1.5x was that I found them to be funnier. I believe it's because if the pause before someone says something very clever is short it makes it even more impressiv
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by eco 9y ago
Go to Settings and change "Show scale on map" to Always.
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by eco 9y ago
Yeah, it's been there for about two years.
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by eco 9y ago
Yeah, it was the grasshopper experiment that did it. The video was unlisted and only shared with his Patreon subscribers but definitely not something he should have done if he wanted to stay on YouTube's good side (something he realize
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by eco 9y ago
Just an aside but you actually want to do the counterintuitive thing and speed up on washboardy roads (provided it is safe to do so). Higher speed means your vehicle won't have time to be pulled down into dips letting you ride smoothly
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by eco 9y ago
I imagine they'll just have to do what humans do. Follow existing tire tracks if available. If not, just intuit where the road using your best judgement. It's not terribly unlike driving on dirt roads (though harder, surely) whic
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by eco 9y ago
The first two DARPA Grand Challenges took place on dirt roads. Well maintained dirt roads but dirt roads nonetheless.
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by eco 9y ago
The reason that the standard stayed unchanged for so long after 2003 is that the committee had a misunderstanding about some ISO rule and thought they couldn't release new versions for some period of time. I can't remember the det
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by eco 9y ago
Effective Modern C++ is a great book but it is in no way an intro to anything. It keeps with tradition of exposing the warts in C++ that you should know about but the issues covered in the newest one are very complex compared to the previou
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by eco 9y ago
Boost, loki, and I'm sure others have a "flat" map which is just an array backed ordered map. Slower insertions than the red-black map but because of the cache locality it's much faster overall.
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by eco 9y ago
It seems to vary a lot by product. I had awful billing support on GCP (quite some time ago now so it might be better now like the Googler who replied to me last time I talked about it on HN said it would). Project Fi support has been fantas
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by eco 9y ago
It may be more expensive but hand-crafted, artisanal system administration is well worth it. The difference between it and cheap, factory produced system administration is night and day. Also, it's Local and Made In The USA so you are
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by eco 9y ago
> How do you come to that first conclusion? I don't really trust any of the marketing (including videos) or friendly articles about how far along companies are. The best way to judge I've seen is by the mandatory reports compan
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by eco 9y ago
Yeah, the 6P has a famously bad battery lifecycle. Many people's moderately aged phones just start shutting off even though it reports 30%+ battery remaining. Google has been pretty good about replacing them if you bought directly from
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by eco 9y ago
Google had face unlock back in 2011 when the Galaxy Nexus came out but I'm not going to pretend it was anything like this. It worked alright but had plenty of warnings saying it wasn't perfect and that someone that looked like you
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by eco 9y ago
Is there anywhere that allows autonomous cars to be tested on real roads without a fallback human driver?
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by eco 9y ago
My understanding was that unless you were rooted Twilight doesn't actually filter out blue light. Instead it does a red overlay. That makes the screen brighter which lets you turn down the overall brightness resulting in less blue ligh
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by eco 9y ago
It says right in the article that there is a new low latency audio API.
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by eco 9y ago
It seems very odd that this comes out and seemingly replaces Tango. Google spent a lot of time going over new stuff with Tango in the latest Google I/O keynote and Google Lens, which was featured quite a bit, seems like it relies on Ta
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by eco 9y ago
By someone who misspells the core technology, no less.
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by eco 9y ago
If people want to talk about it, let them talk about it. If you don't want to read them talking about it, don't read them talking about it. It's weird hearing anyone claim we need less discussion and communication about anyth
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by eco 9y ago
> Media outlets like TechCrunch, Gizmodo and Motherboard jumped on board to declare the memo an “Anti-Diversity Manifesto.” It appears that the ideological echo chamber extends beyond Google’s campus. As I look up and see this article fl
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by eco 9y ago
Huawei was expected to have some (the first edition watches were well loved but growing old). Then the Huawei Watch 2 ended up being a thick sportwatch with LTE. The Huawei Watch 2 Classic, which looks marginally less sporty, is inexplicabl
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by eco 9y ago
I hope this motivates Android Wear manufacturers to make a decent watch. Right now they are all pretty mediocre. You either get a fat sport watch with LTE or a less fat watch with very few compelling features. I just want NFC (for Android P
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by eco 9y ago
2016 blocks from what I understand. That's 14 days at 10 minute blocktimes.
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by eco 9y ago
I would guess it's more real estate. Between South Draper and Lehi there is tons of room for new construction (especially now that the prison is moving). There has been a huge amount of office construction there over the last ten years
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by eco 9y ago
And here I was defending Microsoft in the other thread... This is much worse (for all the reasons people have already listed) than deprecating and eventually removing it which is what the original article implied was happening.
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by eco 9y ago
Many reptiles are indeterminate growers (meaning they'll keep growing as long as long as they are alive) so of course the largest ones live the longest. Birds and mammals, however, pretty much all have determinate growth as far as I kn
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by eco 9y ago
I'm amazed just how few people in the comments here actually read past the clickbait headline. Paint is deprecated. It isn't being removed for the time being. Beyond adding a ribbon menu and some brushes Paint hasn't received

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