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by exodust 4y ago
Don't forget to check power usage after a few minutes. My old Panasonic TV from 2007 would switch to a pre-standby state initially, then to a "deep standby" after about 60 seconds when the power usage dropped below 1 watt. Re
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Yes "ninja" is still used. I'm cringing at this jobs website in my country that lists 47 "ninja" jobs including "Mortgage Broker Ninja" and "Customer service Ninja" among others... https:/&
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by exodust 4y ago
Yeh sorry, I forgot USA doesn't have hate-speech laws. I'm in Australia where hate-speech is technically illegal. To be hate speech, it needs to be a clear attack on someone using derogatory terms that target things like gender o
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by exodust 4y ago
No. Hate-speech is illegal, not a "viewpoint we don't agree with". Your restaurant analogy falls short too. Dress-code is the equivalent of "civility" in discussion, and is a neutral bar that is set. It doesn't
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> What does "viewpoint" mean? A trending example might be the viewpoint that British colonisation was an act of "settlement" vs "invasion". On one hand it can be argued that life improved for indigenous popu
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You're making a huge assumption and generalization that "developers do it, then complain about it". What evidence do you have for this? Sounds to me like you're making things up, then broadly accusing people of those thi
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> Remember HN’s reaction Who is HN? Is you HN? Did you add your thoughts about Avast and the acquisition of the browser extension? If you found a common opinion on that topic, perhaps it's because data harvesting and selling user da
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> had to Or didn't have to, instead improving what they already have. I wonder if their aim is to own the designer's pipeline, from raw concepts to sharing finished work, nudging price hikes over time? All within Adobe walls a
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> "But even desktop ARM Macs are seeing the same benefits from being able to ditch backwards compatibility." Because who doesn't want better battery life for their desktop machine? Or quieter fans or more memory. Desktops
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Nicely shot videos. I have these birds in my area every day. Might need to dust off the 3d printer and make some puzzles. But it's challenging to keep cockies from destroying plants in the garden. I need a solution to that problem firs
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by exodust 4y ago
Off track now, 32/64 bit is drifting too far from a banking app that works fine on iOS 15 but not iOS 16. Looks like they fixed the app anyway, as the message on the link has changed and is advising people to update app. I use a deskto
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by exodust 4y ago
A smartphone that fails to run a banking app that worked literally "yesterday" is not the same as 32bit deaktop apps no longer working on 64bit systems. Either way, I expect my PC to be capable of running old software including 32
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by exodust 4y ago
Backwards comparability doesn't prevent forward movement. Moving forward is an overused tagline from every meeting ever anyway. If we move along a path does the path behind us crumble into the abyss? I see this as Apple breaking the ap
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by exodust 4y ago
Okay so how would they describe someone's height? For example, telling a story about their daughter who has grown quickly and is now "almost [n units] tall"? Are you saying they would use centimeters and expect their listener
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> subjective "Corny dialog" is rarely a subjective observation. It's either corny or it isn't. The rare exception might be when the dialog is deliberately corny for stylistic reasons or some kind of self-referencing
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> "Watch trailers" Trailers are not suitable replacements for reviews. They are edited and packaged to deliver hyped expectation via self-congratulatory endorsement. Reviews are better than trailers. You could stick to reviews
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> more natural for people to grasp You added sarcasm flag but sometimes it is more natural. I grew up with metric but can visualize "about an inch" better than "about 2.5cm". It's common for "metric people&q
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by exodust 4y ago
The N9 was a regrettable purchase for me. I even feel that Nokia owes me, all these years later! Paid a lot for the 64 gig N9. Soon after Nokia abandoned the OS, and I felt ripped off. I remember the flash refused to stay off. I would disab
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by exodust 4y ago
> "why are there banner ads in the Start menu?" Right so a location problem. Solved by placing this content in a more appropriate place, behind a button "offers and recommendations" or similar. Turns out users don&#x2
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by exodust 4y ago
In the episode mentioned in article (Series 3, Ep 21), Raj gets the girl in the end. Leonard and Howard miss out. Raj embraces the role-playing sex game with scientist woman. The scene fades out implying they have a night of sex and wine. W
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by exodust 4y ago
So instead of holding up "scientific research" banners as the reason for whaling, they can now hold up the color wheel when confronted at sea.
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by exodust 4y ago
Probably just me, but the "members" and "powers" arrays in the example should be in the same box as their siblings. When presented in another box joined with arrow, to me it seems to introduce hierarchy that isn't t
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by exodust 4y ago
If only he'd ridden at maximum effort like usual, he would have avoided the bird incident. Honestly the bird shitting in his mouth steals the show. What an unfortunate and disgusting thing to happen! Even though his point about enjoyin
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by exodust 4y ago
Talking about "what is art" gets foggy quickly! One more post from me. The original point about isolation is simple. It can be good for the creative process. That's not a controversial idea. Writers often get away, painters
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Google stood by their decision even when the police cleared the man. Wow, that's hostile. Google's motto: Guilty until never. The software Dad probably should have known better than to assign Google the task of handling that type
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by exodust 4y ago
I think the idea is that Artists should ideally pursue art, not the approval of others. If the intention is to please others, the art is at risk of being made in a top-down manner. The extreme extension of this being a public survey, the re
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> they tend to be careful to not offend each other Do they? People are consciously holding back internal floodgates of offensive ideas that would otherwise flood their peers? I don't think artists and genuinely creative people are d
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by exodust 4y ago
How is latency avoided? I've not paid attention to streaming games or looked how it works. If your mouse input needs to go via the internet to control the 3d character on screen, how is there not a noticeable lag compared to a local re
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> They are mapping visual data about gas density Is X-ray data visual data? I suppose it is... but my understanding of this is the data comes from ripples in the gas. So it's not that removed from sound waves? I mean, sound needs
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Not a new idea, but they've stepped up the language and announced new signals to encourage sites to stop trying to game the search engine with useless content. SEO consultants might need to start hiring good writers instead of bean-cou

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