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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
At this point I'm sort of wondering what the point of the move to streaming even was. These streaming companies came in and decimated the "traditional" TV industry, but they're almost all losing money, and all definitely
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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
If I could harness the power of AI to outsource my tasks, reading bedtime stories to my kids would be the last thing on that list. That's cherished time. Those are lifelong memories. Those are the moments we are supposed to be striving
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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
Bad financials? Maybe they should stop making multi-billion dollar acquisitions, then.
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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
AppleTV cant act as a media server. But as a client it's fantastic . An AppleTV with an app like Infuse will flawlessly play back 4K HDR or Dolby Vision videos client side (no transcoding) as well as 7.1 lossless TrueHD audio. Unfortu
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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
I mean, it's not like the FDA are the ones who control legislation around what kind of support new parents can get. Take it up with the people to vote, repeatedly, to strike down paid parental leave, medical care, and other support sys
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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
Marlon Brando touched on this attitude when he asked if he’s the greatest actor of all time. https://youtu.be/fgvMPUcw_2Q
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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
"Sink It for Reddit"
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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
There's a free safari extension for iOS that blocks the "use our app" popup on reddit mobile site. It's sad that such a thing even needs to exist.
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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
I’d like to continue using the site, but third party apps are the only way to do so in a bearable way. The mobile site and official app have terrible UX and bugs that make the whole experience rather infuriating.
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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
I honestly thought my monitor or GPU was having issues with weird colour banding around YouTube videos. Turns out it was an intentional choice they made to do that. I don’t know why it’s on by default.
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by hapticmonkey 4y ago
Apple HomeKit’s secure video is end to end encrypted and very easy to set up. You need compatible devices though.
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by hapticmonkey 4y ago
Shoot in RAW mode. Either with the various third party camera apps, or Apple’s built in “Pro RAW” mode in the iOS camera app.
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by hapticmonkey 4y ago
Experiment results that disagree with theory is EXCITING. I hope this contributes to progress and I'm giddy just imagining the model of the universe we have 50 or 100 or 500 years from now.
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by hapticmonkey 4y ago
Does the army and law enforcement not use energy? Do banks not have server farms?
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by hapticmonkey 4y ago
They're not shutting down competitors, they're just requiring they ask for permission for tracking IDs. If people are opting out of that tracking, then maybe those businesses were built on customer ignorance to begin with.
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by hapticmonkey 4y ago
Taking Bitcoin as an example...it's an open and free alternative to those private systems. Sure it has limitations, but the base network layer is there and functioning (with 100% uptime) for anyone to use without needing to ask for per
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by hapticmonkey 4y ago
If you’re both using Apple devices it works like this: Guest: “What’s your wifi network?” Me: “It’s XXXX” Guest: selects network Me: Prompt on my device “Would you like to share your wifi password with Guest” . Selects Yes Guest: “oh wo
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by hapticmonkey 4y ago
You need more than just access to electricity to mine. You need the hardware, somewhere to run and maintain it, as well as the whole supply chain leading back to chip fabrication. These are all limited. You'd need a multi hundred-billi
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by hapticmonkey 4y ago
> ”there is no underlying assets to act as an anchor of safety.” As opposed to the Euro. Right?
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by hapticmonkey 5y ago
I have friends who were impressed to see their house has gone up in value by 20-30% or more since they purchased it. But selling is pointless, since they would have to buy another overpriced house to move into. It doesn't really seem l
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by hapticmonkey 5y ago
That's like saying The Apollo moon missions were meaningless because they failed to set up commercial hub on the moon.
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by hapticmonkey 5y ago
One comment a friend said that always stuck with me was "I have never regretted any time I spent with my children". Compare that to work. I'm sure we all have regrets with work. Late nights or weekend working on something tha
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by hapticmonkey 5y ago
The key difference is this infrastructure is 100% trustless. Bitcoin transactions are backed by proof-of-work, and Lightning transactions are backed by HTLC (hashed timelock contracts) which are in turn backed by the proof-of-work. Think of
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by hapticmonkey 5y ago
Bitcoin in the Lightning Network are backed by the bitcoin blockchain. Bitcoin get committed to the Lightning Network (using an on-chain transaction) and can then move between users of the network. There is no central database of all Lighti
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by hapticmonkey 6y ago
The community would fork the blockchain at some agree-upon moment, add a new encryption scheme, and carry on. There would probably be some competing chains as different communities tried to be "the one". Things might settle down a
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by hapticmonkey 6y ago
Apple's health data is all stored offline, unless you have iCloud enabled for health data, in which case it's end-to-end encrypted and only used so devices can sync. You can choose to share certain data for their research programs
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by hapticmonkey 6y ago
You can still download the Flash Player app from Adobe's web site and it loads .swf files just fine.
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by hapticmonkey 6y ago
I use RAW for iPhone pictures because I find Apple's noise reduction too aggressive. For printed photos, the difference is quite noticeable. Of course, using an iPhone camera for photography is always going to have limits. But I find t
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by hapticmonkey 6y ago
The investment strategy for Bitcoin has always seemed pretty simple to me: It could be worthless one day, but there's also a chance it could be worth 10x or 100x or 1000x as much. That asymmetry means investing even just a small amount
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by hapticmonkey 6y ago
Any change to bitcoin's supply algorithm requires a hard fork of the blockchain. People have done it before but those forks are considered worthless by the community. You're right that it is a community belief. If enough people we

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