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by nexuist 6y ago
At WWDC Apple revealed that their “Car Keys” feature would work 5 hours after the phone has died, so you don’t lose the ability to access your car. They didn’t announce new hardware that could do this. It’s available in every new iPhone. Th
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by nexuist 6y ago
> What would be your dream setup? > I'd like it if the Air was about half the size. I don't know why Apple won't make something in between the Air and an iPhone. :P
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Paul Graham Uses This (2009)(usesthis.com)
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Isn't Windows 10 free?
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by nexuist 6y ago
GPS is a completely passive signal, so it's not really surprising that it lasts a long time. You can get similar battery life with IoT SoCs deployed on the field. The difference between then and now is that modern smartphones use senso
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by nexuist 6y ago
One of the long term consequence of legally dismantling our Constitution (which is the US equivalent to "company values", both in terms of how often they are invoked and by how often the same people ignore them) is that it dramati
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by nexuist 6y ago
Supposedly App Clips can use every framework available to a normal app, except for HealthKit, which they explicitly prohibited. They did mention that App Clips can activate the camera, so I'd guess you can at least ask for microphone p
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by nexuist 6y ago
Instagram with a 1kb upload limit
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by nexuist 6y ago
Video voice mail? TikTok for enterprise?
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by nexuist 6y ago
It used to not be like this, back when I had an iPhone 4 it would boot immediately. But then it would die as soon as it got to the locksreen, halfway through me putting my passcode in, or as soon as I unlocked the phone. Having to wait a li
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by nexuist 6y ago
> Once upon a time the idea of a computer was that it is a universal machine that can do any computation for you. Right, and then more than 1000 people discovered what computers were.
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by nexuist 6y ago
The problem is that open source software is inherently trust-driven. I wouldn't blindly execute any random code on my machine, but I execute code from people or companies I trust all the time. Of course I could review the whole repo, b
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by nexuist 6y ago
This ignores the impact of advertising and FB's advertising algorithms, which promote stories from Fox etc. onto the feeds of users who otherwise wouldn't see them. Thus I don't think you can say this is an accurate represent
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by nexuist 6y ago
> That it'd be fine to give something with 300 million users a half-hearted effort? Is Twitter not free? What does Jack owe anyone? He didn't force you to sign up for anything. He didn't force you to work for him either. I
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by nexuist 6y ago
I must say I find it funny that the head of AI at Tesla used 1) computer memory 2) internal combustion engines as examples to relate to human biology :P
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by nexuist 6y ago
> These platforms were built once by folks who believed in freedom of speech and opinions. Let's not be silly here, these platforms were clearly built by folks seeking to generate profit, otherwise they would all be non profits. Any
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by nexuist 6y ago
And rock and roll won, didn't it? Everyone knows about rock bands and listens to rock music these days, and nobody cares about the RIAA. They rightfully lost the war.
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by nexuist 6y ago
What happened to Stormfront was due to them being involved in egging on mass shootings. You are free to say whatever you want but you cannot incite violence. Is that not the system working? They were not banned for being racists; they were
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by nexuist 6y ago
The payment processor I use to pay my ISP and registrar like...my bank account? To date I have never heard of anyone having their Internet cut off because their ISP did not like their political views. I am pretty sure neonazis are welcome t
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by nexuist 6y ago
You don't have to use a hosting service; you can purchase servers by yourself and run your own datacenter without ever involving a third party. Payment processors are not required; you can accept physical checks or digital currency suc
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by nexuist 6y ago
I should also mention, that under capitalism nobody is ever entitled to another person's platform. I can't just interrupt a Taylor Swift concert and start talking about whatever issue I want just because she has an audience willin
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by nexuist 6y ago
> There's no concerted effort by police nationwide to spy on black reporters and activists. But there was, wasn't there? And one could argue that what Snowden revealed about the NSA hints that there still is. > In his new bo
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I don't see why Republicans can't just use another platform like gab or voat if they think reddit has become hostile to them. Reddit being a private company has every right to control what ideologies are promoted on their pages ju
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by nexuist 6y ago
People at construction sites are required to wear a hard hat all the time just like company policies require firewalls to be placed on corporate networks. Not really sure why you're making this comparison, because connecting to the Int
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> I think Tesla has done remarkably well and I suspect they were able to do it because they were small and nimble when OTA capabilities first became feasible. I think Tesla have done well for another reason: they are strictly a software
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This already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS I think you would be hard pressed to classify cameras as weapons. No one is being harmed by the action of taking a picture - you would have to introduce a sep
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by nexuist 6y ago
Because third world economies run on stuff from the 1980s. Most of the world still doesn't have WiFi routers.
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by nexuist 6y ago
I think it depends on your definition of collapse. A total apocalyptic collapse I think is quite unlikely; even in nuclear war we don't have enough warheads to cover every square inch of land. What is far more likely is decentralized c
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The key to understanding where aerial warfare is going is understanding that next generation fighter jets aren't meant to be soldiers, they're generals. What do I mean by that? What I mean is that most of the time, the F-35's
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A grenade is not that different from a bomb, and although most grenades have a relatively small blast radius, there's nothing stopping you from making really big grenades (at which point the main differentiator between it and a bomb is

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