isametry

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by isametry 4y ago
What you just said has to be one of the biggest generalizations for religion that I have ever read.
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by isametry 4y ago
I hate to remind you this, but Windows 8 was 10 years ago. At that time, the iPad was only taking baby steps as the blown-up iPod Touch it was. Its selling feature was reading New York Times. In contrast, OS X was at beloved 10.8 Mountain L
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by isametry 4y ago
> They also put the same content in different categories with sometimes different thumbnails. And I thought I was going crazy! And seems like it does work, at least on me. From the frontpage, the Netflix catalog always feels like twice
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by isametry 4y ago
The upcoming "next generation" of Apple CarPlay strives to be exactly that: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/apples-next-generati... Funnily enough, given the… mixed results Apple's UI
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by isametry 4y ago
> element of catharsis for people on the receiving end of "metric is superior" Yes, I get that, but that's what it will always remain — just a cope, but not much else. The reason: Customary isn't criticized, as far as
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by isametry 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder why I constantly hear the Fahrenheit people whine about Celsius, but almost never the other way around. https://i.ibb.co/7zJ640F/d9p762f83xw71-jpg.webp
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by isametry 4y ago
Wait, those “articles“ still exist? The ones where you search how to resize an image, and the very helpful guide on coolmagictech.com tells you somewhere around the 2nd step to download and run the CoolMagic® MagicResizer™ tool? I haven’t s
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by isametry 4y ago
IKEA went ahead and actually did it — their SAGOSKATT line of plush toys is designed by children in a drawing contest. 2020 — https://www.ikea.com/us/en/new/meet-the-2021-sagoskatt-soft-... 2021 — https:&#x2
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by isametry 4y ago
Huh, this is interesting! So to put that into context, driving a car is only the 1st derivative right? The steering wheel angle corresponds (although nowadays non-linearly) to that of the wheels, a function of which is the driving direction
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by isametry 4y ago
We’ve come a full circle where rather than using the “Car Analogy” to picture the consumer realities of personal electronics (”imagine if they locked the performance of your car like they do with your phone”), it’s now the other way around
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by isametry 4y ago
Well yeah, I assume they referred to "writing" as in the entire workflow, including drafting, reference, revisions etc. Because otherwise, I have zero idea what that sentence was supposed to imply. If "serious writing"
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by isametry 4y ago
Before the original commenter answers: I'm gonna guess collaboration with others. The reliability of being able to send anyone the original file, them being able to open it with all Word-specific features and content, and e.g. sending
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by isametry 4y ago
Rule #n of the internet: If Meta does anything which doesn't explicitly protect the privacy of users, you can safely assume that it harms the privacy of users.
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by isametry 4y ago
In general you might be right. But let’s be honest – in this case, despite any amount of context, respect, critical thinking or benefit of the doubt, the content of the link is still just stupid. No way around it. Now granted, there’s a l
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by isametry 4y ago
Actually good point, looking at that article again, 190° is edge-to-edge — i.e. also including single-eye areas. True binocular FOV is 120° horizontal, which makes it close to a square actually. It’s not like that remaining 70° is complete
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by isametry 4y ago
Also don't forget that our eyes are… you know… next to each other. Rather than stacked vertically. The aspect ratio for the average binocular human is almost 2:1 (vertical FOV is around 100°, while horizontal is up to 190°). [1] https