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by max51 11mo ago
If you are talking about the gyroscopic precession effect that happens when you push on a spinning disc, this is the best video I've seen so far that explains it in an intuitive way: youtube.com/watch?v=n5bKzBZ7XuM
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by max51 11mo ago
>Overall, the development world does not intuitively understand the difficulty of creating good interfaces I think it's because they are not using the product they are designing. A lot of problems you typically see in modern UIs wou
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by max51 1y ago
because if they allowed you to boot linux/macos/windows and dock it to get a full desktop experience, it could replace laptops and even desktop PC for most people. It legit has the cpu power of a >2k$ gaming PC. For the average
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by max51 1y ago
I strongly believe the "how many R in strawberry" comes from a reddit or forum thread somewhere that keeps repeating the wrong answer. Models would "reason" about it in 3 different ways and arrive at the correct answer,
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by max51 1y ago
>Know what else is artificial? Insulin and penicillin. Even if they may have side effects/allergies, we tolerate them because they provide extremely large benefits to the population. You can't compare that to a chemical we use
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by max51 1y ago
W8 and W8.1 are atrocious out of the box but you can customize them to make it even better than W7. Swapping the start menu for something good and customizable like Stardock Start8 will completely change the experience and remove 95% of the
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by max51 1y ago
In the early days of Windows 10, it was even worse because the updates could brick your windows install and you would get stuck on a blue screen or a boot loop after it forced you to restart. I've had to reinstall W10 at least a dozen
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by max51 1y ago
isn't the story of the books based around how these laws didn't really work and broke down in unexpected ways?
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by max51 1y ago
When she tried to run in the primary in 2020, she was last place and considered a joke candidate. If even the Democrats don't like her, do you expect republicans to be charmed by her and switch sides?
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by max51 1y ago
Is it even worth the time searching on forums to fix these issues? I can't speak for OP... but if an OS I freshly installed is unable to watch youtube videos and wake up from sleep, I'm wiping it and installing something else unle
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by max51 1y ago
For particulates (smoke, dust, allergens, etc.) you can get a good HEPA filter. For odours and VOCs, filters with active carbon can work extremely well but you need one with a big mass of carbon. A carbon filter is easier to jerry-rig to a
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by max51 1y ago
The ink gets its color back if you put the paper in the freezer
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by max51 1y ago
Zebra Sarasa are the best for avoiding smudges. Using a finer point (eg. going from 0.5mm to 0.4mm) helps a lot.
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by max51 1y ago
Most of the best pens refills are made by japanese companies (eg. Pilot, Zebra, Uni-ball, etc.) and Parker style is nonexistant in that country. If you look at any "top XX best pens" lists online, the vast majority is not avaible
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by max51 1y ago
Apple is a lot better at eating their own dogfood than microsoft. They had UI designers working on macbooks at the Microsoft office, that alone probably explains a lot of issues with the OS
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by max51 1y ago
The esthetic wasn't bad, the problem is that it was a massive reduction in functionality. For example, the fact that Metro apps included on windows could only be use in fullscreen mode and only one copy of it could be used at the same
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by max51 1y ago
> It tried to handle everything from smartphones to tablets to non-touch PCs with 27” monitors with the same UI That was a big part of the problem, but the issues with the UI/UX went far beyond that. For exemple, if you used the sea
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by max51 1y ago
exchanges that only support cryptos and not fiat money don't require KYC. In some cases, you don't even need to create an account at all. It is extremelly easy to swap from one crypto to another in a few clicks.
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by max51 1y ago
We used TI-Nspire CX CAS at my university but it was banned in the first half of the calculus 1 course. It would really make no sense to allow you to bring one to an exam where many questions are one liners, or close to it (eg. "find t
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by max51 1y ago
not op, The long story short is that a lot of data analysis that would normally require days of development can be done with a few clicks in excel. Would you get a better result if a team of 7 people spent en entire week working on it? Yes
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by max51 1y ago
No, it's not crazy, all the companies making expensive software are moving to subscriptions and they love the result. It is a lot easier to sell and to get people to renew their licenses. And 20$/m is not what I would call "v
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by max51 2y ago
The reason people didn't vote for these two had little to do with being "center-right". Both of them were very unpopular before they were forced as candidate undemocratically. Democrats would have won with Bernie and their ch
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by max51 2y ago
a major difference you are not considering is that bitcoin fees are fixed and don't change based on the value of the transaction. Right now they are at around 0.15$. That's too much IMO to go buy a 1$ coffee with bitcoin, but it w
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by max51 2y ago
>Still doesn't work I've been using LN regularly for over a year. It works fine and it's extremely cheap.
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by max51 2y ago
The way LLMs get it right by counting the letters then change their answer at the last second makes me feel like there might be a large amount of text somewhere (eg. a reddit thread) in the dataset that repeats over and over that there is t
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by max51 2y ago
The outcome is only uncertain because they are blatantly ignoring the laws.
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by max51 2y ago
The Facebook we had back then was completely different than what it is today. 100% of the content on the page was contents directly created or shared by one of your friend. No suggested posts, no ads, no news, no "influencers", no
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by max51 2y ago
Trump is namecalling politicians, the Dems are namecalling the voters.
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by max51 2y ago
>We can look forward to more war Do you really believe the Dems would do less war? They are literally siding with Dick Cheney. They were always very pro-war (eg. Hilary Clinton) but now they don't even hide it and they are embracing
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by max51 2y ago
The next election looks so bad for him that there is a chance the Bloc Quebecois could be the official opposition. That party has no candidate outside of quebec.

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