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by gblargg 1y ago
Google isn't obligated to pay the bandwidth costs just so the population can have ad-free access, no.
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by gblargg 1y ago
I would happily pay a few dollars a month to use YouTube ad-free, and with a bandwidth limit. I don't need to watch everything in 1080p and higher. For podcasts 144p is fine. Let me pay for the bandwidth I use.
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by gblargg 1y ago
On my outdated Firefox (with uBlock Origin of course), I've found that opening videos in a new tab (middle click) eliminates ads, while left-clicking reliably shows an ad. I've gotten the fake buffering recently no matter how I op
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by gblargg 1y ago
I've had a few Moto phones and have also been pleased with the fairly stock OS and durability.
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by gblargg 1y ago
I'm still using a V20 as my main phone. The recent app icons at the extra top section of the screen really make juggling active apps fast. I don't think any phone has had this feature since.
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by gblargg 1y ago
> The closest to right-wing politics that I witnessed at LessOnline was a session, with Kelsey Piper and current and former congressional staffers, about the prospects for moderate Democrats to articulate a moderate, pro-abundance agenda
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by gblargg 1y ago
I used a 240 Hz PWM-dimmed monitor for a couple of years and I adjusted, but when I switched to a flicker-free one, it was very noticeable and bothersome to use the old one. Even though it's not perceptible when looking at a fixed poin
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by gblargg 1y ago
Even incandescent running on AC has flicker. It's funny when that's used as the gold standard. LED running on DC has less flicker than normal incandescent.
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by gblargg 1y ago
You also can't verify that the contents are genuinely random and not some re-creatable sequence by compromised generation hardware.
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by gblargg 1y ago
In this model we take all paths, therefore in sum we experience every possible result. Each one necessarily experiences each particular result.
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by gblargg 1y ago
I did this once on an Acer monitor. I was modifying it to strobe the LED backlight to give blur-free video like a CRT. I had found that the DDC bus exposed other registers to control the backlight, etc. and had an external circuit connected
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by gblargg 1y ago
I once did a chargeback of almost $5k to PayPal when someone scammed me (and PayPal sided with scammer). I still have my account, though I don't use it for anything I'd actually need protection on now. On the other hand I did get
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by gblargg 1y ago
> tediously accurate Could the planets and moons ever all be aligned like this when viewed from an infinite distance?
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by gblargg 1y ago
Does it at least tell you how close you were for each one? (feedback so you can improve)
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by gblargg 1y ago
Top-down (goals) vs. bottom-up (constraints)?
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by gblargg 1y ago
And even ignoring memory requirements, an uncompressed bitmap mask would have taken a lot of time to process (especially considering when combining regions where one was not a multiple of 8 pixels shifted with respect to the other. With jus
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by gblargg 1y ago
The key seems to have been recognizing the utility of the region concept and making it fundamental to the QuickDraw API (and the clever representation that made finding the main rectangular portions easy). This insulated QuickDraw from the
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by gblargg 1y ago
Note that it's LED, with each segment driven continuously with a variable voltage for brightness control. Even most LED drivers are multiplexed, with each segment flashing for a short time then going dark. This uses a separate dedicate
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by gblargg 1y ago
It's part of the know your customer (KYC) push, which is likely for this cross-device graph side benefit in many cases.
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by gblargg 1y ago
I think you need to invent it first, so you have no pre-existing ideas. Then you get the "doing it my way" out of your system and come to understand the challenges. Then when you see how it's done, you can see the wisdom of e
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by gblargg 1y ago
I considered it when watching his podcast today. Low change, but if he was it would be for a noble cause. Maybe he's been recruited to work for a secret organization taking over the world and has to fake his death to quietly exit publi
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by gblargg 1y ago
Couldn't this be lessened by intentionally introducing false information, e.g. specifying that 10% of the time the response will be randomized?
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by gblargg 1y ago
They put way too much fluoride in water for it to be homeopathy. For one, you can actually detect the levels, whereas homeopathy literally has no molecules of the active substance (the water "remembers" being near it).
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by gblargg 1y ago
Do you feel the same way about European countries who don't add fluoride to water? Do you think we should consume shampoo and soap because it's beneficial when used topically?
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by gblargg 1y ago
Good point about risk versus pool size. An airline can "self"-insure if it's a common error, since there's no uncertainty as to whether it will happen in any given month. Insurance can't magically make it cost them
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by gblargg 1y ago
Yeah, it seems silly to let riders try to design a route that best fits the needs of other people going to different places. Riders don't know how to design good routes. But it seems great to ask riders what places they go regularly an
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by gblargg 1y ago
Who these days would trust crypto keys on their machine, given the many hardware wallets available?
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by gblargg 1y ago
Seems ultimately the applicant and company weren't going to be a good fit. An interview is a process where both parties evaluate each other. This applicant set the bar too low for this company and wasted time when the signals were ther
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by gblargg 1y ago
> A software tool should exist to repair QR codes. Seems that the solution is to add more redundancy (and stop covering the center pixels with an icon). The codes are designed to be self-correcting if the damage is slight enough or more
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by gblargg 1y ago
Note that these are at very different levels of detail. Lague's is at the digital logic level, while Brandon's is some level around atoms/electrons.

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