hooby

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by hooby 3y ago
This rather awkwardly reminds me of an April's fools joke, I did/tried to pull years ago... (^_^')
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by hooby 3y ago
And the cut off molded ones still end up in a landfill. And that's my point - in my granddads time, all devices came with plugs that could be repaired and re-used (and my granddad never threw them away) - and today, all devices come wi
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by hooby 3y ago
Not the sockets - I'm talking of the plugs that you put into the sockets. I haven't seen a plug with screws in ages. They all are a single molded piece now, aren't they? See: https://www.kulthifi.de/WebRoot&#x
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by hooby 3y ago
My grand parents live in an old farm-house, 100 years old or more. When that house was built - there was no electricity. That had been added later - and you could still see where channels had been hewn into the wall to put in cables and lat
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by hooby 3y ago
It would seem quite predictable that AI is going to follow the same trend as all disruptive technologies: * First hundreds of companies rush into the new space * Then market leaders do emerge * Then the market consolidates And in the end, o
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by hooby 3y ago
I don't know about cup holders - but it's been definitely shown, that replacing actual physical knobs and buttons with a touch-screen does hurt safety. The thing with media controls is, that you can use those only when it's s
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by hooby 3y ago
Might be a tangent - but is more discoverability actually desirable in this case? Could it possibly preserve that "old web" style of interaction, if it becomes a global phenomenon that everyone uses? Or does this only work as long
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by hooby 3y ago
But then you need empty space around the motor, so that it can rotate there. That somehow seems a weird choice for a device that's all about improving space efficiency.
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by hooby 3y ago
Well, if the motor is unsprung mass, you no longer need this contraption at all, and you can just directly connect the motor to the wheel... So, that's probably not it.
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by hooby 3y ago
The thing I see not mentioned in the article/video, is how the wheels can tilt/turn/angle - without needing a CV joint again. The designs seems to cover all the motion of the wheel in the suspension - but I don't see how
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by hooby 3y ago
I wonder if it's a function of company size. This sort of thing seems to happen in all large companies - and to be very hard to avoid, if you do grow to that level.
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by hooby 3y ago
Louis Rossmann needs to read this!
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by hooby 3y ago
The TL;DR: Analysis showed that most frame time was lost due to lack of LOD levels and culling - causing the engine to render insanely high amounts of polygons that weren't even visible on screen. In conclusion it seems that using the
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by hooby 3y ago
"Low-level" is not a perfectly well-defined technical term, and does mean (slightly) different things to different people. I feel that the article does explain well enough, how the author defines "low-level" for the sake
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by hooby 3y ago
Worse than the long duration of copyright is that (in this case, and not just this case) it does absolutely nothing for the actual creators of the IP, but only serves to enable all those huge companies that have zero history with the IP (an
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by hooby 3y ago
I think it's great to see increased support for open source engines. Those engines might not be at the same technical level as Unity (yet), which shouldn't be a surprise given the way lower budget and man-power behind them. But th
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by hooby 3y ago
There are, but by my personal experience those other ways might stop working every other Windows update and need tweaking/changing.
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by hooby 3y ago
Reading stuff like that, just makes me love package managers even more :)
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by hooby 3y ago
I had to do a little bit of Prolog back in University, decades ago, and it broke my head. I managed to actually solve all the programming tasks we were given (and as I was the only one to do so among my peers, many copied my solutions) - bu
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by hooby 3y ago
Enforcement of the right to privacy works (more or less) for offline privacy invasions. I believe the problem might rather be, that there's a lack of clearness and awareness when it comes to how privacy does apply to online matters. Ev
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by hooby 3y ago
Why not call it "The right to privacy"? Come to think of, we should even add that to the declaration of human rights! Wait a minute...
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by hooby 3y ago
Google is definitely no stranger to shutting down and killing unprofitable products - often pretty early even. They have a long history of doing just that. And being a publicly traded company - they would have to shut down Chrome as well, i
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by hooby 3y ago
Not the best example though, as Windows these days is pushing Edge as anti-competitively as ever. Windows now comes with three built in browsers: IE, Edge(Blink), Edge(Webkit) - none of which can be uninstalled. Every other update users wil
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by hooby 3y ago
I honestly don't see how "who benefited more" matters to the question of whether it's bottom-line worthwhile for Google to give Chrome away for free.
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by hooby 3y ago
So, here's the question: When a large, publicly traded ad-company (that relies on collecting data and tracking users for most of it's income), creates a product that costs them quite a lot of money to make, and then gives that pro
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by hooby 3y ago
I'm wondering about the "now". Didn't the very initial release of Chrome, many years ago, already create a unique, identifiable ID per user, and open a connection to phone home to Google servers (using that unique ID) on
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by hooby 3y ago
So... does anyone have any good guesses what actually caused them to do this? I mean, obviously they want to push Edge - but for some reason their hands were forced within the EEA. I'd be interested to know that reason :)
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by hooby 3y ago
> It's a convention (and a useful one) that the HTML served for a web server's error pages will include the HTTP status code in the text (and often the <title> as well). But it's only a convention and it can be viola
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by hooby 3y ago
> I'm a little confused what Russia has to gain from this. People use VPNs to get western news and information through other channels than state-controlled Russian media. If Russia can block these other channels, then their own prop
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by hooby 3y ago
Something is going very wrong here. Information on the internet should be in whatever format best suits the topic. The format that best serves the users looking for that information. And search engines should learn to interpret that informa

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