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FYI the purpose of an entire branch of government (judiciary) is to have opinions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_opinion
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Almost everyone overestimates their ability to be aware of and manage their emotions. While it's important to work on how we react to things, it's also important to be clear-eyed about our in-built fallibilities and how difficult
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Yeah, Smith's little chestnut requires heavy interpretation and contextualization. Definitely not the 'anytime any person or organization sells anything in self-interest it is good for everyone because markets' definition whi
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Nominative determinism strikes again, sadly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
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The article is more about motivating through excitement than motivating through insight (I call this 'puppy motivation' vs 'insight motivation'). I sometimes have the same reaction to things - I remember once being baffl
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TV resolution goes at the pace of available content, and everything goes at the pace of context (living room 8-12' away), which is presently stuck at roughly what the human eye can resolve at that distance, which is about 4k. There isn
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Makes me wonder if there may be newer shipwrecks atop older shipwrecks, and we may miss these older interesting finds because the newer ships atop them are considered not worth exploring. Extremely unlikely in the vast ocean but I imagine s
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Good advice if you're already confident a number of things you find troublesome about your life cannot be resolved, such as if you've already gone through therapy or tried more focused interventions that have not worked. Sometimes
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Sure Americans would still kill each other without guns, but would they do so to the same degree? Even if the exact same intent exists, if things are harder to do, they won't get done as much. After all, many people have cars in Japan,
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Yeah I'm really curious what Apple's next-gen GPU (with raytracing and a bunch of other stuff) brings to fix some of these shortcomings. It was supposed to show up on last year's iPhone 14 followed presumably by inclusion in
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by npunt 3y ago
Its exactly why PC/console gamers (generally, not talking about GP) make terrible customers and Apple is right to not play with fire by courting them too closely - they're loud, cheap, immature, mercurial, and demanding, and being
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I would take a guess that Apple is shipping (far) more TFlops of GPU power than Nvidia or anyone else in the mobile GPU market. Few people are buying laptops with 80-150w TDP GPUs, as those start to stretch the definition of both 'lapt
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I respect that you want to make that call for your kids, I'm not in favor of one size fits all solutions. What you're describing here tho is a textbook slippery slope argument [1] in reaction to a small movement suggesting some re
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That's cool you, a tech-savvy HN poster, has managed to wield technology to find a high-reward/low-risk way to parent using devices, but perhaps your 'correct' solution may not work in all contexts for all people. Perhap
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It also may not have been wrong then. Being outdoors and playing with others is great for kids, watching TV is... mixed. Same w video games. Definitely dosage dependent. And it's pretty clear social media is not good for kids.
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AirPods were called 'q-tips in your ears' from people who thought they looked stupid but that faded pretty quickly once the utility became clear
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Any 'should this product be launched' critique should come armed with an understanding of what the product's trajectory is and what it could be capable of, which the author failed to demonstrate. That's not particularly
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tbh the real question is not the output (whether this succeeds or fails), it's whether Apple followed the same inputs that made prior products category-defining like Apple II, Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Watch, and Airpods. All of those t
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3d photos should have been an iPhone feature for sure, it felt really out of place on Vision. Generally using this in a physical social context doesn't make a lot of sense except in a workplace with others wearing them and working on s
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Garden variety no-analysis hot take demonstrating a lack of understanding of how platforms launch & grow and what trajectory this is going in. Personally I think Apple missed a bit in the marketing by positioning this so heavily on aver
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Looking forward to playing with Journal, but I'm a bit underwhelmed by the preso, doesn't feel like they made it really unique vs third party journals. I was hoping for more of an integration to messages and individual app experie
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This is literally how modern internet propaganda works: selective reporting that provides enough truth to be plausible but omits enough and/or distorts to avoid being comprehensive and accurate. There's lots of studies that discus
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These articles are from May 2020, Nov 2020, and Jun 2021. That's pre-vax, pre-delta, pre-omicron, etc. I wouldn't expect the science to be anywhere near definitive by those times. Personally I discount just about anything covid-re
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Probably several reasons both hardware and software. 1. LCD panel grade - panels are graded when they’re manufactured and Apple buys the ‘A’ quality panels while others including manufacturers tend to use a mix of different graded panels or
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So in other words, "its going great" :)
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Back in the day when I was working on another RTS of the era (Dark Reign 2), pathfinding was the bane of our existence. We weren't able to dial the pathfinding in because we'd pivoted late in the development cycle from the more in
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You're getting quite close to the age that presbyopia is going to set in, which will make gaming in bed or any other near-vision activity significantly more difficult and even painful. Happens more when you're tired or in darker l
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This is a really cool project! Is it possible to run a program in DOS to switch the sound card being emulated? I could see creating the ideal RX (Retro eXperience, you heard it here first) with .bat files for each different game/progra
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dang - should be (1930) not (2017)
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It's fun to see the patterns of history repeat themselves. Two things stood out: 1. Open Source - auto inventors shared ideas because of their desire to prove skeptics wrong about their new industry, and in response to being sued by a

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