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by gernb 4y ago
What does it mean "WebKit peak 49% market share" in 2012. That doesn't pass the sniff test. AFAIK, Safari never had a big install based on Windows and MacOS+iOS certainly didn't account for 49% of web traffic in 2012
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by gernb 4y ago
That assessment doesn't fit the reputation of the software that runs in most government departments including public transportation departments
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by gernb 4y ago
how would it? example: in the video an actor is sitting in a chair, youre in a room with no chairs. What does it show? example: theyre in an open 20x20 foot room, no furniture, your in a 10x10 foot room on your bed. When they walk across th
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by gernb 4y ago
I saw a bunch of these types of things at a Japanese gadget show in 2018. One interesting idea that one had colored rings to wear. The colors made it easier to do finger motion tracking.
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by gernb 4y ago
In fall 1999 the wife of one of my co-workers call me and 4 other co-workers all dorks because we were using cell phones. Now I'm sure she's more addicted to her's than her husband.
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by gernb 4y ago
I'm somewhat skeptical though I'm sure I'll be proven wrong. In my mind, AR glasses will make the world as shitty as most clickbait webpages. Ads EEEEEEVVVVEEERRRYYYWWWWHHHEEERRRREEE. Notifications all the time. Virtual billb
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by gernb 4y ago
You have to start somewhere. https://techcentral.co.za/the-cellphones-of-the-1980s/191544...
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by gernb 4y ago
and yet people ride bikes, mountain climb, ski, surf, all things that requires equipment and setup time.
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by gernb 4y ago
> The children's market is not what VR developers are going for. I think VR developers would be happy to have children's market as big as Nintendo's
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by gernb 4y ago
Be careful where you go, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and not some subtle representation of a penis. One of my friends insists that "The Lion King" is a metaphor that white people should rule over non-white people. He points
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by gernb 4y ago
> Remember that movies are HIGHLY produced works, each item in a scene, the color and angle of the lighting, the angle and perspective of the camera, the editing (types of cuts, speed of cuts), any sound you hear, etc, those were ALL spe
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by gernb 4y ago
I know it's a tradeoff but I think I fall on the side of I wish the language I was writing in required `this` or `self` for members/properties. C++ foo = bar \* 2; Are foo and bar local variables or members of some instan
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by gernb 4y ago
They want lock-in. If you write something in Swift and it's not easily portable to other platforms then you might decide porting is not worth the effort.
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by gernb 4y ago
There are often other reasons. For example, in Korea console gaming isn't or wasn't a thing. It's PC gaming. Why? Because to Koreans in the 80s and 90s, playing something made by Japanese, their former occupiers, was unaccept
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by gernb 4y ago
Is Japan's software industry killed? If you're asking why they don't have a Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Facebook, could it just be because they speak a language that's only useful in Japan and not anywhere else in the e
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by gernb 4y ago
Dating sites would disagree. The majority of profiles claim they love the job and are looking for someone that loves their job. Of course maybe they're on the dating site because they love their job :P
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by gernb 4y ago
Poverty also causes millions of deaths a year.
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by gernb 4y ago
That just reminds me of a conversation last night. A friend's parents live in South East Asia and have a live in helper (common). He was describing the helper's bedroom as small and I was like "you just described a common apa
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by gernb 4y ago
For me (late 50s), I find that I don't feel productive as I use to be and can think of several reasons * the project I'm on is not "mine". I joined a sub team of ~30 programmers who've been working on a 5 year proje
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by gernb 4y ago
Everyone always thinks the current bandwidth is enough.... it never is. I have no idea what the future hold but a typical VR movie is ~20gig I'm not saying VR is going to take off but maybe streamed AR virtual presence might and it wil
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by gernb 4y ago
that is not remotely my experience. old monitors are low-res and the text is blurry compared to my current Windows PC and Macs
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by gernb 4y ago
IIRC some people believe the universe at the smallest level just follows steps and these steps are basic and Turing complete.
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by gernb 4y ago
never felt in a position to repay while they were alive.
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by gernb 4y ago
they are no longer alive.
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by gernb 4y ago
yes you can. Because it will likely be decades before the environment kills people but you can save a life today. Oh, don't drive that ambulance to go pick someone up and rescue them, it pollutes! Where as other solutions may exist for
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by gernb 4y ago
very cool! here's several games in 280 characters or less https://www.dwitter.net/h/game
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by gernb 4y ago
I feel like the phrase "you only regret what you didn't do" is survivorship bias. I'm pretty confident the majority of the people that die in these situations were not happy to die.
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by gernb 4y ago
Lots of sites do this. Lately for me there's https://www.typescriptlang.org/play I'm mixed on it. It means it's mostly useless for having your own list of creations because you have to manually store the URLs
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by gernb 4y ago
It's very generous of you. I'd like to point out my experience of taking the loan and never repaying it. I felt guilty for decades and more distant from the loaner. They never brought it up but my guilty mind did. So I'm not
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by gernb 4y ago
The EFF tool is provably false. For one, it doesn't get enough traffic so it's not representative in any way shape or form of a website that would use fingerprinting. But it also doesn't pass the sniff test. It tells me I&#x2

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