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by lucb1e 2y ago
My apologies that using available technology to improve upon suboptimal solutions disgusts you. In case it helps to know why "that screen" improves upon paper in the first place: - I'm not always home when I decide to want to
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> Any changes will be updated when you next get back home [...] removing need for the cloud More than one person can be in the grocery store. Syncing a file does not work because you overwrite each other's changes; this is what we s
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Phones being unreliable and making data-tossing decisions without your involvement is indeed the complaint I meant to share. It has been a pet peeve about Android since day one and it has only gotten worse (websites like dontkillmyapp come
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by lucb1e 2y ago
That is obviously what the headline is saying. Don't know if comment guidelines apply to when one responds to a headline rather than a person in the thread, but per "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someon
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> You don’t need to make software for mass appeal. Hear, hear. I would tell you all about the tools my household runs on but it is as you say. Still gives me a lot of satisfaction to make stuff that makes life better, and for someone mor
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> Why would they want to appear neutral? [...] There isn’t some “ideal” Getting some notion of what USA politics are like on HN, I can understand why you'd have this viewpoint, but I don't think it's true The news I am use
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by lucb1e 2y ago
I would read "neutral" here to mean "factual" rather than endorsing trump as part of being neutral or something. If one party proposes e.g. impossible things or financially stupid things or whatever it may be (general ex
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> 1) the ram is not integrated into the chip, per se, it's still discrete and soldered on a PCB right next to the CPU, and 2) the increased speed comes from additional memory channels built into the M-series CPUs Thanks, I did not k
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> replaceable ram is not really a marketable feature these days A week ago, I helped a family member select a laptop. One of the criteria is either sufficient RAM to begin with (16GB puts them into a price class above what they actually
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by lucb1e 2y ago
For bugs, perhaps, but for vulnerabilities, new attacks and techniques are being found. Or just nobody is looking at most things most of the time and it's not really correlated with age that clearly. Imo it's good to have the data
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Basically any significant Java software uses disproportionate amounts of RAM. My server can easily run a web server, database server, ftp server, memory cache, etc., times a few copies because various containers have their own web server or
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> "modern" as a value seems pretty loose, and it's often at least arguable whether it's objectively better! Well, there is research on this! https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminatin
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> All I wanted/needed was to make important calls. Can I recommend you a 40€ phone ? They've been making models that can do calls for a while now and they needn't cost as much as an Apple-branded device to do just that &g
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by lucb1e 2y ago
And while we're at it, can someone finally tell me where people find cheap ferraris? I really want a car but they're just too expensive!
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Also when buying second hand, you pay for that premium brand
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by lucb1e 2y ago
That sounds awesome actually. Makes me wonder how hard it would be on a rooted phone to just have it tell the software the screen is a few pixels smaller so you can touch chose sides safely, and remove the restriction again when you're
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by lucb1e 2y ago
This. Phones are already a real trade-off between usability and screen size. I've reached (or perhaps slightly gone over) the minimum amount of grabbing space I want on a phone and mine isn't quite the sleekest model
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by lucb1e 2y ago
It certainly was, like eight years ago when I got the bigger SD card for my phone At this point, the only word that can be applied to it is "overdue" for anything who uses it beyond a thin client for server-side storage or a strea
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by lucb1e 2y ago
What performance boost? As in, same software running for comparison on the hardware of interest, one soldered and the other not. I never heard that soldering your SSD on makes it faster...
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by lucb1e 2y ago
an edge case you can come up with != typical experience. What you're saying is not far fetched, but also not the common case, especially at home and it's not like this latency only occurs on RADII networks
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by lucb1e 2y ago
That finally explains why this super cheap crappy device where you need to configure the BSSID and IP address statically is so insanely fast to connect to WPA2-PSK compared to every other system no matter how beefy. Thanks! I didn't re
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> 1 second of a 1080p Netflix stream will use 5x the total daily bandwidth of an IoT device reporting temperature once every 10 seconds Don't have a Netflix file to test with but YT, the video data is 73KiB for the first second (tes
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by lucb1e 2y ago
The two-letter ones are all countries/regions/territories. See also .su for a blast (thankfully not literal) from the past https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su
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by lucb1e 2y ago
That's a good world model until it's not. There was an HN article on this some months ago, I can't remember what keywords the title used to find it again though
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Wikipedia says the burning of methane produces CO2 and water, seemingly at a 1:1 ratio between the methane and CO2 molecules (chemistry isn't my strong suit, though). CO2 is a lot better than CH4 afaik, so rather than venting it direct
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by lucb1e 2y ago
Always the same issue for hobby sites. Was hoping to recoup the cost of two domain names (one real, one typo catcher) and cheap hosting by putting ads on a search engine for lyrics. Site could not be verified because it "has no content
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by lucb1e 2y ago
> donate back the value they received from them Maybe this is not the topic you were going for but this triggers me because I've long wondered how to do pricing fairly in general. If you're a monopolist or in a highly competiti
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by lucb1e 2y ago
For those not familiar with every CVE ID, that's a WiFi driver bug for a "chipset commonly used on embedded platforms that support Wifi6 (802.11ax) including Ubiquiti, Xiaomi, and Netgear devices"
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by lucb1e 2y ago
I would not have held it for possible to be a functional person, "healthy and intelligent" according to "medical professionals" at the time, while weighing only 2.1 kilograms, so I thought I'd share Has anyone else
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Lucía Zárate, the lightest recorded adult (2.1kg according to Guiness)(en.wikipedia.org)
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