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by eric_h 9y ago
>> The analog headphone jack still does as good a job of connecting headphones, speakers and such in a practical sense as it always did. >Many people -- I'm not claiming it's the majority -- disagree. Many people find hea
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by eric_h 9y ago
> I have a samsung, and I generally think that the smart tv aspect sucks It certainly does, and the remote is awful. I'm very happy that there's a setting to completely turn that feature off (which I did in a fit of rage when t
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by eric_h 9y ago
Yes, well said. Honestly it's kind of like reading "The Diamond Age" immediately after reading "Snow Crash" and expecting them to be similar since they're set in the same universe.
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by eric_h 9y ago
We need a staging/QA Earth so we can run these kinds of experiments.
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by eric_h 9y ago
Fair enough, but I lump the first two together in my head simply because they occurred in the same time frame, at least compared to the third act
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by eric_h 9y ago
And mentioned in every review I read.
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by eric_h 9y ago
The first act is about how the present day human race survives the moon being destroyed. The second takes place 5000 years in the future and is essentially about the return to earth. I don’t share GP’s opinion, I quite enjoyed both acts. I
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by eric_h 9y ago
Slightly offtopic but that website jumped to 4.5GB of RAM by the time i was on the third paragraph (Safari on macOS). Perfectly legible (and memory friendly) in lynx, though!
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by eric_h 9y ago
Full service gas stations have a long history of "old fashioned" card skimming - at least from my experience in New Jersey. My mother uses a separate credit card explicitly for gas stations because her credit card has been skimmed
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by eric_h 9y ago
I'm not sure if the weather in California really provides enough sunlight for sufficient testing...
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by eric_h 9y ago
But it won't work if your eyes are closed, or not looking at the screen. All it takes is 5 fails, and then your face is no longer an authentication token.
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by eric_h 9y ago
Indeed - but it's a much more difficult problem than it seems at first glance (unless you're okay with an always on, always streaming to the cloud microphone).
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by eric_h 9y ago
> There's a certain trend, on Twitter especially, of people racing to prove they're either more woke or smarter than the teams of people behind things that are yet to even be released. This has been a trend of a vocal minority
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by eric_h 9y ago
No cat, no bags of ice, no limes, no beer and no deli sandwiches - calling this vending machine "Bodega" when it doesn't have the staples of a bodega is offensive to my new york sensibilities.
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by eric_h 9y ago
It's really tough to beat the brain's mental timing once you've got a good feel for exactly when you should engage the accelerator once you've released the clutch. I've only driven a car with a DSG like that once, a
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by eric_h 9y ago
I'm 5' 4". I've generally found that in a professional setting, my height is not generally an issue. However, if, at a bar, my height is considerably (>= 6-8") below the median of the people i'm hanging out
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by eric_h 9y ago
> this Mercedes feels like the accelerator is hooked up to the engine through the postal service I feel a similar difference between an automatic and a manual transmission car.
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by eric_h 9y ago
Haha, I did not, though that is a fairly common refrain. As a New Yorker, I do not believe it’s the best city in the world, but I think it’s the best in the States.
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by eric_h 9y ago
The times is a New York publication and most New Yorkers believe NYC is the best city by far on the east coast. That bias will surely be reflected in their articles. I don’t think it’s quite as simple as cheap houses. [edit: I see now TFA s
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by eric_h 9y ago
Yes - bring back the wolves!
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by eric_h 9y ago
When you compile for the simulator, the binary output is x64.
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by eric_h 9y ago
AFAIK, there is no hardware acceleration whatsoever for graphics in the simulator, it's all software rendered.
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by eric_h 9y ago
Where I work, we'll ask each other to be our "talking duck". Usually just talking through the problem, with no response from the person playing the "duck", is enough to figure out what's wrong.
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by eric_h 9y ago
> I'd definitely give a dirty look to anyone who laughed at it. Perhaps that would be appropriate before said person had taken a digital communications class and aced a test on it. After that, however, I think a wry chuckle is v
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by eric_h 9y ago
Given the current value of bitcoin, I think we'd need to put a satoshi in the jar (I'm personally not swimming in bitcoin)
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by eric_h 9y ago
The number of people that do is quite small as a percentage of users who do it, but quite significant as a percentage of revenue for the company selling those packages. Free-to-play is just like the alcohol and gambling industries, a large
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by eric_h 9y ago
Contrary to popular belief, gambling is not illegal under US law. In fact, certain types of gambling (horse racing) are explicitly protected by federal law, and generally gambling laws are up to the states (online gambling of all kinds is
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by eric_h 9y ago
I'm not certain on their reasoning for banning payments related to guns, but for porn and gambling they have a very good business case for denying it. Both of those verticals have astronomically higher chargeback rates compared to othe
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by eric_h 9y ago
Nightmares can be fascinating
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by eric_h 9y ago
> then what happens is that education funds get reduced and used for something else because there are these "lottery funds" coming in That's pretty much what happens, any time you inject funds from a new source into a thin

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