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by jsjohnst 2y ago
> Can't be taken away from you / frozen. Then explain why the US government has confiscated so much of it.
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by jsjohnst 2y ago
> By visually confusing the two airports. There are procedures to avoid it, but it still happens. Like the 747 that landed at Jabara airport, a tiny corporate/general aviation airport.
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by jsjohnst 2y ago
> I would like to see a hard disk with all open source software. You’ve got me curious of the use case, is it fascination or some other reason? From a security perspective, it seems straightforward to just encrypt the bytes before sendin
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by jsjohnst 2y ago
Encryption is not just for encrypted emails.
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
I’m about 10mi from the epicenter and noticed most of the aftershocks today. What’s interesting is there was a 2.2 a couple weeks ago at the same area and I thought I noticed it, but didn’t look it up at the time thinking it was just a truc
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
Well said.
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> What investors? GP made a broad statement, I was replying in general following suit.
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
Looking at Canva’s pricing page makes me glad I have a perpetual license to Affinity’s products. Now the question is, will I ever get any updates to Photo/Design/Publisher? I don’t need new features, but I do care about bug fixes
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
Because not everyone can or should IPO. Once you get to a certain point in size, your investors will start pushing for an exit (where you have two main options, IPO or sell).
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> Chromium itself is a standalone browser, not just a rendering engine. WebKit has always been and still currently is a standalone browser. WebKit even has a standalone browser version for Linux too.
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
Let’s say there’s a hypothetical world where Safari had 90% market share like Chrome does. Would the fact that WebKit is open source make a difference? Chrome is to Chromium as Safari is to WebKit after all.
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> I cannot name any other company that has enough user information and behavioural analysis to achieve this Maybe you can’t, but a bunch of others can. Google is in a rare group, but it’s definitely not the only one.
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
It’s frustrating to me how every studio / network feels it needs its own streaming service, one where they control the entire experience. It’s stupidly user hostile and yet there’s no alternative other than physical media (with all its
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
If you have a counter claim, especially one you can back up with as much facts as I did, please do so. Otherwise, please either stop straw manning or find some other place to do so.
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> Bluetooth transceiver > if you blast in/out the right 5GHz binary digital signal These two things are not related.
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
Where do you think those fans blow the heat?
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> why would I care about power consumption Environmental impact maybe? Higher power usage = more heat = more noise? There’s a bunch of other cases too.
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
The old school phone network used in-band signaling for call setup/control. If you made long distance calls pre-90s you might remember tones after the call started connecting as an example. One of the most significant frequencies in th
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
Sure do. But it’s also a quite a bit more expensive phone too, which helps level the playing field some. Either way, there will never be a perfect apples to apples comparison. That said, there is sufficient evidence to support my claim made
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> How many countries was the Nokia N95 available in VS. the 2G iPhone? Way more, especially since the original iPhone was only available in the US for the first 5 months. It was available across Europe, North America, South America, Chin
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
Weird, definitely didn’t for me. Wonder what’s different between us?
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
It’s not my neck that is the issue, it’s as much or more the pressure against my face.
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
Not that I disagree with you, but… > A quine is a program that outputs its own source code, not a program that outputs itself in binary form. I’d therefore argue though that a “proper” quine should in this case output not the actual ASCI
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> 1st Iphone did extremely well Citation needed. The 1st gen iPhone sold 6 million units over two years. The Nokia N95 (not a super mainstream device, but in a similarish price category) sold 10M. Other Nokia phones of the time period so
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> watch a movie in private, with much better immersion than any alternative, on a plane. As someone who’s worn mine to watch movies on multiple flights, the problem is two fold. 1. The device is ridiculously hard to get into “travel mode
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> Go was build for writing web services Yes, I very much agree. The comment I was replying to however was referring to “other languages”.
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> Yet, we still have some languages who's developers refuse to include even a basic http API in their standard libraries in an age where even embedded systems have started to speak http. There’s also the philosophy that the language
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> Dropped in just to say, no one understands GPS, including 99% of hacks and tech people... Go buy a $5 dongle and stream the feed, its just lat/long repeating maybe sometimes a altitude... So you’re also one of the 99%! That “feed”
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> it's a proper satellite fix, with the precision to give turn-by-turn navigation instructions in good time That’s not entirely true. Phones do sensor fusion when doing turn by turn navigation. Accelerometer, gyro, and barometer ar
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by jsjohnst 3y ago
> for some logins where I think it could be benefitial to easily type it See my reply to sibling commenter, I had already covered this case in my original post.

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