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by kemayo 2y ago
It's probably the same as the 2x zoom in the iPhone 16 line. The 1x pictures are a 48MP sensor that does some pixel-combining to output a 12MP image. The 2x pictures are a crop of 12MP in the center of the sensor, that doesn't d
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by kemayo 2y ago
You can turn it off, still. (For now?)
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by kemayo 2y ago
It's probably the same as the 2x zoom in the iPhone 16 line. The 1x pictures are a 48MP sensor that does some pixel-combining to output a 12MP image. The 2x pictures are a crop of 12MP in the center of the sensor, that doesn't d
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by kemayo 2y ago
Yeah, they took the SE off their website at the same time as they announced this.
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by kemayo 2y ago
Let's see... it's replacing the SE, which is no longer on Apple's website. It's more expensive than the SE, at $599 vs $429. It's a pretty substantial hardware upgrade over the SE, including something like 75% more
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by kemayo 2y ago
That's a good idea -- it'd preserve the intent of the meme, which is to always be conveying "it has not been as long as it feels like based on events". As-is, if I visit and see "what a day / it's Friday
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by kemayo 2y ago
No, but that's not what this system is about. It's literally just "are you going to tell anyone else about what I'm doing?"
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by kemayo 2y ago
Yeah, but then it describes what's clearly third-party tracking. It's The Register , you can't rely on them getting technical things right. > As one programmatic ad news outlet pointed out, Facebook was actually hit the h
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by kemayo 2y ago
> The Federal Cartel Office claims that Apple's ATTF defines "tracking" in a way that only covers data processing for advertising purposes across companies – but that these "strict ... rules do not cover Apple's
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by kemayo 2y ago
Your argument about what Chesterton means remains built on deliberately misunderstanding what other sayings mean, so I'm skeptical.
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by kemayo 2y ago
"It's very inefficient to devote all those resources to auditing billionaires, so we've decided to refocus those people on clawing back $15 from people earning under $20k who made minor mistakes on their taxes."
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by kemayo 2y ago
Yes, I wasn't trying to imply that it was a good approach to apply to the US government. ;_;
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by kemayo 2y ago
..."can't put the clock back" doesn't literally mean that you can't change the time on a clock. It's referring to not being able to go back and change things that already happened. This is true. There are thi
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by kemayo 2y ago
The most charitable interpretation is that Musk's doing what he did at Twitter -- wildly cutting back, and then backing off and repairing when he finds that something he threw away was actually necessary. I'm not convinced that th
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by kemayo 2y ago
I'm sympathetic to the simplicity argument. I've recently had to help someone who's new to coding with some getting-started-with-git issues, and it's definitely reminding me of the appeal of a system that you can't
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by kemayo 2y ago
I believe apps can choose to hook into "sensitive content warnings" ( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sensitivecontentan... ) but I don't know whether any of the major social-networks-with-a-lot-
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by kemayo 2y ago
Apple's stance that this is a shocking development, and previously the iPhone was some sort of porn-free zone is... strange. Obviously, there's a web browser, but let's ignore that for now. More notably in this "we make
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by kemayo 2y ago
Second paragraph of the article: > US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer issued a preliminary injunction on Saturday to prohibit access, ordering Musk and his team to immediately destroy any copies of records.
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by kemayo 2y ago
Trump seems to be somewhat anti-EV (or, at least, doesn't want to push them in the same way Biden did), so it wouldn't surprise me if Republicans took their cues from him and stayed away. e.g. https://www.npr.org/2
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by kemayo 2y ago
I'd assume it's people who haven't done any research yet -- they said they want an EV, and then they got asked "do you like the idea of buying an EV from Brand X?". It's a pure gut feeling about the brand.
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by kemayo 2y ago
I think that "the government buys things that it uses" isn't inherently corruptive. In this specific case, Politico is apparently worth over a billion dollars based on its sale in 2021, so I think that the US government givin
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by kemayo 2y ago
You can certainly disagree with whether we should be doing it, but the fact remains that Congress made a law saying that we are doing it. The vehicle for changing that is to change the law, not for the President to decide to break the l
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by kemayo 2y ago
It's a dagger symbol! Which... I guess doesn't entirely avert that implication. (But really, it's the traditional second tier footnote symbol after an asterisk, which I couldn't use here because it triggers italics.)
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by kemayo 2y ago
Originally, yes. These days a "talking filibuster" like that is almost never used, apart from occasionally when someone wants to be dramatic about it. There's a thing called a vote for cloture, meaning a vote you take about w
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by kemayo 2y ago
I imagine the legality of that depends on the exact details of the law that created the organization. If it specifies that it be an independent organization, then that's probably not allowed either. If it's just "these things
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by kemayo 2y ago
They could†, but they haven't. †: They actually couldn't, without stripping the filibuster from the Senate.
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by kemayo 2y ago
USAID gave Politico $24k, not $8M. The entire US govt did pay Politico about $8.2M, presumably in the form of buying their subscription products. Politico really does do deep-dive analysis behind a paywall, and I can see why government pe
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by kemayo 2y ago
President doesn't have authority to shut them down by EO either. Congress does, yes. (It's one of those "power of the purse" things. If Congress has created an organization and funded it, the executive is required to s
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by kemayo 2y ago
Impeachment, followed by conviction and removal-from-office, in theory. In practice this is extremely unlikely because the threshold for the vote in the Senate is high enough that you'd need bipartisan consensus, and the US Constitut
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by kemayo 2y ago
Particularly not for the last reason mentioned -- declining an offered position because it's not in a place you want to live.

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