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by jwells89 2y ago
SAC/Second GIG were a rare case of the entire production firing on all cylinders. Even its English dub was leagues better than the average (and IME, somewhat necessary for those who can’t understand Japanese; even as a subtitle watcher
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I’ll echo the titles you recommended, but given what the MC goes through in Re:Zero I’m not sure that it falls into the bucket of wish fulfillment nearly as much as most shows of its genre do. I can’t think of many people who’d want to be t
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A big differentiator is that local models have access to more user data without sending anything over the wire (which ignoring privacy implications, isn’t free). Local models can also more easily plug into existing macOS/iOS facilities
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I believe that the stability being spoken of here is in the micro-environment of the household, and primarily concerns two things: first, the parents’ ability to provide for the children and keep a roof over their heads, and second, the par
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It was great, but when I use it there’s little bits of accumulated polish here and there that I feel the absence of (e.g. inertial scrolling, which as it turns out is something I use heavily). Would love it if someone were to build a deskto
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Those AirPort routers were incredibly solid and unfussy. I wish Apple would get back into that product category, like they did with monitors.
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It might be, but at least the offending site can be taken care of by closing a single tab. The part that sucked about old style popups is that they leaked into and on occasion would hijack (in the case of popup chains) your OS’ windowing sy
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by jwells89 2y ago
Other analog media like minidisc has also seen a notable uptick in popularity, albeit not nearly as much as vinyl. Also while not analog, iPods modded to be a bit more modern (replacing their mechanical HDs with higher capacity flash and ad
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Yeah, those look like they’re too small to be reasonably cooled. What I had in mind is shaped like the main body of a laptop but maybe 2-3x as thick (to be able to fit plenty of heatsink and proper 120/140mm fans), stood up on its side
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This is why I think Apple’s implementation of LLMs is going to be a big deal, even if it’s not technically as capable. Just making Siri better able to converse (e.g. ask clarifying questions) and giving it the context offered by user data w
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Battery life followed by heat and fan noise have been my sticking points with non-mac laptops. My first gen ThinkPad Nano X1 would be an excellent laptop, if it weren’t for the terrible battery life even in power save mode (which as an asid
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by jwells89 2y ago
I’ve been wondering for a while now why ASUS or some other gaming laptop manufacturer doesn’t take one of their flagship gaming laptop motherboards, put some beefy but quiet cooling on it, put it in a pizza-box/console enclosure, and s
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Apple is also deliberately avoiding having “celeron” type products in their lineup because those ultimately mar the brand’s image due to being kinda crap, even if they’re technically adequate for the tasks they’re used for. They instead pos
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by jwells89 2y ago
The most common situation where screen brightness is an issue for me is in rooms with big windows and a lot of natural light. On sunny days I find ~400nits to be about the minimum required to cut through glare on matte displays… for mirror-
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The biggest market would be for travelers who essentially want a work/leisure toggle. It’s not too uncommon for people to carry both an iPad and MacBook for example, but a 12.9” iPad that could reboot into macOS to get some work done a
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Biggest difference is aspect ratio. Phones are taller and less pleasant to use in landscape, tablets are more square and better to use in landscape. You could technically make a more square phone but it wouldn’t be fun to hold in common pos
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by jwells89 2y ago
Yeah, one of my biggest frustrations as a person who likes keeping around both recent-ish Mac and Windows/Linux laptops is that x86 laptop manufacturers seem to have a severe allergy to building laptops that are good all-rounders… they
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by jwells89 2y ago
It might work if running in Mac mode required a reboot (no on the fly switching between iOS and macOS) and a connected KB+mouse, with the touch part of the screen (aside from Pencil usage) turning inert in Mac mode. Otherwise yes, desktop o
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Additionally, not all in app browsers are custom things. Good apps use the system-provided SFSafariViewController on iOS and Custom Chrome Tabs on Android which are “real” instances of Safari and Chrome respectively and don’t allow app devs
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by jwells89 2y ago
At least in the US, synthetics can be difficult to avoid. While 100% cotton/linen/wool/etc articles can be found, blends like ~70%/~30% or ~95%/~5% natural/synthetic are much more common. That’s for men’s stuff
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The way I see it, it’s a matter of creating suitable environments for humans in space. For the most part, that’s perfectly achievable even with current technology; the primary bottleneck is quantity of building materials, as human-friendly
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I tend to agree, and you can kind of see the creep of “seriousness” increase over the years in popular media (characterized by dark/edgy/gritty/“realistic” tones), with the Nolan Batman films being something of an inflection
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I like this concept, but worry that the space afforded in common UI (e.g. 16px tray/menubar icons) isn’t sufficient to display the added detail. Perhaps “language symbols”, which take the idea of language flags and simplifies them into
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I don’t think people as a whole are as fearful of insects as they are avoidant of getting bitten/stung or having their living space and especially foodstuffs infested. It’s my belief that most benign insects just get caught in the cros
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As a layman it seems like the natural follow-up is to figure out how to grow tooth buds from stem cells and implant them, which in theory would allow people to grow whole new sets of teeth.
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I’m curious about this too, also having an adult tooth that never developed.
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I know they get advertised heavily but my Ridge wallet has served me well for the better part of a decade now. They also sent me a new pack of screws for free after some of the originals fell out, several years after purchase which was cool
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The biggest issues with the touch bar, from my perspective: - It couldn’t be used without being looked at, due to it having no physical keys - It was always kind of hacky, being essentially a long thin Apple Watch (down to running a watchOS
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> …even if you almost never use the special keys they're missing, it will still be annoying the .1% of the time you need that key. I guess at that point you just grab another keyboard… Unnecessary with layers, e.g. FN + 1 = F1, whic
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Layouts being configurable in firmware is a must for keyboards for me at this point. Having to rely on OS/DE configuration or especially crappy third party software sucks.

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