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by handrous 5y ago
Sure, but they don't do that with their phones, and like hell I'm carrying this thing around without a case (which is also why they don't bother to make their iPhones so they're easy to use caseless, or make them so the
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by handrous 5y ago
Well, I was 75% correct, anyway.
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by handrous 5y ago
Black Mirror frequently borrows from Apple's aesthetics and marketing style when presenting in-universe products and ads, so it's natural that an Apple keynote would remind one of Black Mirror.
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by handrous 5y ago
Their still having two connectors is even more annoying than I thought it would be. We have lots of iDevices from several generations and even brand new ones—but only some of them, though, significantly, all the iPhones—are still shippi
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by handrous 5y ago
Whoa, what's with the huge bezel? My only Mini is a 1st-gen, but that has a tiny bezel on either side, with somewhat larger ones top-and-bottom, and I really like the resulting overall size & proportions. Did the top and bottom bez
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by handrous 5y ago
iPads are good companions for making music, for making art, for non-casual content consumption like reading textbooks or reference manuals, drilling flash cards, watching lectures, et c. The mini's maybe not as good for the latter as a
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by handrous 5y ago
Worse, it's not just ancient Marthas. A high percentage of younger generations—including those who grew up with desktop computers, so you can't just say "oh it's the iPhone's fault"—use computers essentially by
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by handrous 5y ago
There's also the idea of the tutorial level masquerading as a regular level, so it doesn't feel like a tutorial. Earliest example I know of is Super Mario Brothers 1:1, but it may not be the first. It's distinct from simply r
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by handrous 5y ago
Valve (in particular) even pioneered UX in level design—if it doesn't improve gameplay, why let the player wander around trying to find the way they're supposed to go (a situation common even in relatively on-rails shooters of the
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by handrous 5y ago
Is there a name for this kind of book? I have one, titled "Mein Erstes Buch", that, in one small and slim volume, takes you from "Dick & Jane" and "See Spot Run" levels, to an ~3rd or 4th grade reading leve
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by handrous 5y ago
The medium is the message. The message of the Web isn't looking so great, all around, I'd say.
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by handrous 5y ago
Damn, you're me except I did finish high school. In hindsight I very much wish I'd gotten my GED at 15 or 16 and snagged an associate's degree by age 18. Turns out non-elite college gen-ed classes are easier and have way lo
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by handrous 5y ago
Adult work & social life has practically nothing in common with high school. Neither does college. The only times any of that looks even a little like high school is when something's gone very wrong. From about 6th or 7th grade thr
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by handrous 5y ago
I could beat CnC2 and RA2 clean, but with CnC1 I could only get past IIRC about the half-way point by abusing sandbags. It seemed completely hopeless, otherwise.
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by handrous 5y ago
OpenMW (for TESIII:Morrowind) is amazing . Strictly an improvement on the original. Far more stable—I finished the main campaign and several major side quest trees with a bunch of mods active and experienced zero crashes, which is unhear
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by handrous 5y ago
It's noted, for that case, as "expletive" because it's unnecessary. "Or we won't..." versus "or else we won't...". [EDIT] though you're correct that that usage is not uncommon, to be cl
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by handrous 5y ago
To be fair one doesn't invite further attacks from a virus, by ignoring somewhat-bad-but-not-that-bad ones. They're not directly comparable. It's a bit like comparing your adversary checking your king, with an earthquake up
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by handrous 5y ago
Pi2 has hardware h.264 decoding. I know about the h.265 thing because of my own effort at using one as a Kodi box, which hit a wall when several videos were unwatchable (turned out, because they were h.265). > but I don't really nee
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by handrous 5y ago
I just watched the associated video and had a "holy shit" moment at the mention of "else" as archaic English—I've been so immersed in programming for so long that I'd forgotten how uncommon and old-sounding els
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by handrous 5y ago
Dunno why, but a quick glance at that article made me go "oh, it's just wave interference" and all the "look at the weird geometric shape at the pole of this planet" things suddenly made perfect sense. ... I mean, t
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by handrous 5y ago
Maybe I missed it, but I don't think the article even provides figures for the percentage of time spent in a browser on mobile versus desktop. If it is indeed skewed toward non-browser activities on the phone, that's got to mostly
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by handrous 5y ago
Huh, I stand corrected. The 2 was so bad at it that I didn't figure the spec bump on 3 would be enough to manage more than maybe tolerable 720p.
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by handrous 5y ago
I don't think Pi3 had HEVC decoding, which makes it kinda suck vs. a Pi4, as a video-playing device. May as well use a 2, at that point. They'll both struggle with anything over SD-resolution in h.265.
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by handrous 5y ago
I've never liked Kodi's performance and stability, don't like the UI (skins don't help, it works the same regardless and most of the unofficial skins are half-broken anyway) and I hate how it's configured—those la
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by handrous 5y ago
> More choice is always a win for the customers. It's sometimes a win for customers. [EDIT] trivial and clear illustrative case that should be easy to apply to murkier situations: a regulation that bans known poisons in food reduc
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by handrous 5y ago
You mean we'll become taxi drivers, or we'll join them in unemployment due to self-driving cars? If the latter, that's great because it means I'm good for at least 20 more years of this career.
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by handrous 5y ago
Truly, distributing more-than-trivial scripts (if trivial, just duplicate effort and have multiple scripts) cross-platform— including Windows —and to machines you aren't remote-adminning to fit your exact specs is hell, especially if s
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by handrous 5y ago
Shutdowns only, with descriptions of them following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_Un... All US funding gaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal
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by handrous 5y ago
Webster's 1913: 2. Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice. 4. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening. &
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by handrous 5y ago
JavaScript's a massive security threat. It's really weird to me that people seem to just assume it's fine, and isn't the most dangerous damn thing in common use on computers. Every time someone (usually Google) pushes an

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