falcrist

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by falcrist 5y ago
> your old android phone working well is the exception [citation needed] This isn't supported at all by the article you linked. It's your own hypothesis, and I simply can't find any basis for it. The peer reviewed article
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by falcrist 5y ago
Even my coworker had been using an S6 until a couple months ago when he jumped to a pixel. I've known multiple people who were using S5s until at least last year. So my personal experience makes me doubt that my phones are some kind of
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by falcrist 5y ago
Are you sure its really the exception? I had an S6 that still functions really well with minimal battery degredation. I used it really heavily until I upgraded to an S9+, which is still going strong with pretty heavy use. I've used app
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by falcrist 5y ago
Yea, Minecraft is a huge sandbox with lots of features. Players often come back to it over and over again years later.
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by falcrist 5y ago
As recently as a decade ago, Linux was borderline unusable for a home computer. Lots of driver problems. Lack of software. In contrast to Apple's OSs (and increasingly Windows) which assumes you don't know what you're doing,
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by falcrist 5y ago
Red Hat seems at a glance to be more focused on making a good workstation for professional use. Ubuntu seems to be more for beginners on their home computer. Admittedly, I haven't spent much time with Red Hat (stuck in windows most of
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by falcrist 5y ago
It's worth noting that the people in that movie were WAY more loud and emotional than the real NASA engineers and operators. You can see how NASA people react to tough situations by watching the videos of mission control during the Cha
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by falcrist 6y ago
As someone who creates production code in assembly, C, C#, and Java (among others), but who doesn't have that much experience with C++: C++ certainly seems like a fragmented language from the outside. Lots of features added over the ye
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by falcrist 6y ago
Getting into programming is easy. It only requires some baseline level of interest. There's no formal certification. You don't need specialized tools. With a laptop and an internet connection, you can be up and running making toy
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by falcrist 6y ago
On one hand as Ansel Adams said "You don't take a photograph, you make it.", and that still holds true today. You're influencing the picture when you choose your camera, your lens, your sensitivity (ISO), your color mode
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by falcrist 6y ago
Whatever you do on the internet, you're always at the mercy of private companies. You're always subject to your hosting company or domain registrar or ISP or whatever. On some level, private companies have to allow everyone neutra
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by falcrist 6y ago
The more time I spend on Hacker News, the more it just seems like Reddit to me. All the worst impulses are still here. The dog-piling, the comments that were made without opening the article, the low-effort jokes. At least there's no p
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by falcrist 6y ago
"Up" is away from the center of the gravity well. Since gravity wells are generally spherical in practice, up is always going to point radially outward, so there's no distinction to make.
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by falcrist 6y ago
> The average person simply isn't qualified to read scientific literature and draw their own conclusions. Reading the scientific literature is still "trusting the science". Are we replicating experiments to see for ourselv
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by falcrist 6y ago
"Flattening the curve" definitely worked, and you can see that in the data. However, what you're not accounting for is what happened AFTER the lockdowns were effective. Experts worked on detailed plans for staged re-opening a
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by falcrist 6y ago
It's almost like you're backing up a bit and taking a different route forward to see if it gets you around a roadblock.
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by falcrist 6y ago
I don't think it's right that a few unelected old men have the right to tell me what I can and cannot say on the internet. I want to live in a democracy, not a corporate oligarchy. When a platform is as ubiquitous as Facebook (for
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by falcrist 6y ago
What if we simply said that what tech companies are doing may be the right thing in this case, but it really shouldn't be up to them to decide. IMO these actions are coming too late, which shows that Google, Apple, Amazon, etc aren&#x2
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by falcrist 6y ago
Insofar as freedom of speech is "a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction", it cannot BE limitless. Just li
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by falcrist 6y ago
Adjusting it in either direction seems detrimental.
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by falcrist 6y ago
Forgive me if this is a stupid question or a bad place to ask, but I still occasionally go back and play some of the old classic flash games from the internet days of yore. Pandemic, Nekogames Parameters, Alien Hominid, etc... Will there st
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by falcrist 6y ago
In my experience, recommendations are still good. You just can't rely on them anymore because if you keep following them, you tend to go to whatever is popular rather than going deeper down the rabbit hole like you used to. You have to
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by falcrist 6y ago
I've said it many times now: people should be avoiding "the algorithm" as much as they can on streaming and social media sites. On Facebook "avoiding the algorithm" entails creating a friends list of all your friend
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by falcrist 6y ago
You HAVE to make those determinations on a case-by-case basis. Like all freedoms, the freedom of speech is slippery, difficult to define, and has fuzzy boundaries. It can never be absolute, because that would immediately raise contradiction
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by falcrist 6y ago
People constantly conflate "freedom of speech" with the protection granted by the first amendment. That's right up to and including Randal Munroe, who said "The right to free speech means the government can't arrest
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by falcrist 6y ago
Freedom of speech in the broadest sense (as in "the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction.") isn't binary, and cannot be absolute.
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by falcrist 6y ago
Well there are a couple responses to that. First of all, just because computers stopped advancing doesn't mean all computers will be the same. You'll still be able to use big, powerful machines as workstations where you write and
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by falcrist 6y ago
As someone who spends most of my time at work writing firmware for embedded systems, I learned VERY quickly never to use floating point numbers when I could use fixed point numbers. Better to use an integer number of thousandths of a thing
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by falcrist 6y ago
What's with the oceans of empty space between everything? Who likes this? Please put more than one thing on the screen at a time, especially when those things are links that lead to the actual content. Also, when I click through to one
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by falcrist 6y ago
> Cancer patients don't want chemo, but it's better than dying, some might say. What good is chemo if your patients refuse it? > Reddit: Limit subreddits to 500 participants at most. Eliminate the number next to upvotes. Thi

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