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by fwipsy 4y ago
Doesn't ostracism work through shame?
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by fwipsy 4y ago
How close are you sitting to your laptop? I usually use 15.6" 1080p from about 60cm away and can't tell a difference from a higher resolution. If you search "retina distance calculator" then they say there's no bene
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by fwipsy 4y ago
Unihertz has some other phones in different sizes, like the ruggedized Atom L/XL with a 4" screen.
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by fwipsy 5y ago
Airplanes are safe in part because we've already made all the mistakes and learned from them. How many (deadly, expensive) mistakes would it take to get lighter-than-air craft to the same point?
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by fwipsy 5y ago
Looking at the marketing materials, it seems like it's just poorly explained, not a scam attempt. It's actually two batteries. The first is LFP which has poor energy density but wears slowly and so is used for daily trips, providi
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by fwipsy 5y ago
These laptops can actually be upgraded with newer GPUs as well. They use a modular graphics card standard called MXM 3.0B, although not all GPUs are compatible. Seems like the 980m and 970m are popular choices: https://www.userbe
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by fwipsy 5y ago
Well, maybe, but I think the parent comment had implicitly meant "should... [if you want to avoid cognitive impairment" rather than making any moral judgement on those who don't.
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by fwipsy 5y ago
Usually, the Pixel Xa is a newer, more budget-oriented version of the Pixel X. "5G" variants of phones seem to be totally different phones, not just a radio upgrade.
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by fwipsy 5y ago
Why can't hackers just brute-force word combinations? If there are 170k English words, and 95 possible password characters, then it seems to me that 170,000^3 ~= 95^8 so a 3-word English phrase would only be about as safe as an 8-chara
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by fwipsy 5y ago
Linguistic analysis performed on the Voynich Manuscript seems to be consistent with it having some meaning. See e.g. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
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by fwipsy 5y ago
The Pico-8 full environment (e.g. command line) is not open source, but the developer also released a standalone emulator which is free and open source, called Tac08: https://github.com/0xcafed00d/tac08
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by fwipsy 5y ago
There was a leaked ISO a week or two ago.
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by fwipsy 5y ago
You mean, a shadow cast by a building onto a cloud? That seems like the most plausible explanation, but if that's the case, why isn't it a constant feature, why is it only appearing now? Also, it looks more sharply defined than I
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by fwipsy 5y ago
I sleep in a tent in the backyard all summer. The cooler temperatures mean I can use heavy blankets, which I find comforting, and the light makes it easy to get up early in the mornings. It's just a Walmart-style tent with a twin mattr
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by fwipsy 6y ago
I think he mentions trying 5ghz somewhere in the thread, but his house's internal construction interferes with the signal. It is a little odd how long it takes for someone to suggest that, though.
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by fwipsy 6y ago
Maybe not so far-fetched. CA charges an ewaste recycling fee already when you purchase certain items.
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by fwipsy 6y ago
It sounds like your frustration is with people who should be doing more work than they are. I'm not sure that OP is looking for a job where they can wriggle out of responsibilities. It may be they are just looking for a job where the r
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by fwipsy 6y ago
Maybe there are just too many games around to compare, and so no consensus forms about which the best ones are?
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by fwipsy 6y ago
I think Caltech's solution may depend on only accepting a small subset of the population. If that's the case, it's obviously not practical for most universities.
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by fwipsy 6y ago
The most interesting part of the article, to me, is the estimate that 2/3 of college students cheat. I think it's surprisingly plausible. Personally, in one algorithms class I took, I was tasked with peer-grading ten other student
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by fwipsy 6y ago
Professors do create their own problems, and students upload them to Chegg where they are quickly solved. I don't get the solution you're proposing.
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by fwipsy 6y ago
That place was awesome and I got some good stuff there, but I always wondered how they made rent for a huge place like that. My hypothesis was that they actually got paid by companies to haul away stuff for recycling, but then instead of re
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by fwipsy 6y ago
Lawngarage?
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by fwipsy 6y ago
It's a really fun game. I was a little frustrated by some words which didn't seem to be recognized - I think 'rome' and 'zen' were two, whereas much more obscure words were accepted.
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by fwipsy 6y ago
Ah, nostalgia. I bought a 2006-ish Mac Mini recently just so I could go back and play Ambrosia stuff. Managed to get Sketchfighter and Diemos Rising working, but not Gooball unfortunately - this was since the registration server went down,
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by fwipsy 6y ago
I find that I can fit basically as much text as I want on a 1080p laptop display without losing legibility. It's all about using the right font, e.g. https://proggyfonts.net/ . Obviously pixellated fonts don't look
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by fwipsy 6y ago
I find that their reviews are amazing but their "top 10" lists are lacking. Their search: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Search.8222.0.html is marginally better, but in general, they're for researching specifi
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by fwipsy 6y ago
Disappointed that he didn't mention pixel-perfect programming fonts (e.g. proggy) which offer high-density text on low-resolution monitors while not looking nearly as bad as his Consolas example. These fonts make a huge difference imo.
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by fwipsy 7y ago
Food production is already an essential business. Tyson's plant got shut down because they weren't adequately protecting their workers (see https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/us/tyson-waterloo-iowa-
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by fwipsy 7y ago
So far, I've heard that UCSD, UCSC, UC Davis, and Stanford have taken similar precautions to Berkeley.

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