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by owenwil 4y ago
The past isn't exactly an indicator of the future, though. Competition like Roborock's vacuums are laden with cameras and can do full object categorization, including furniture type and layout, but also what's lying around an
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by owenwil 4y ago
I initially thought this, but the technology from competitors like Roborock (I have the S7 maxV) gives me pause: their more modern vacuums not only recognize furniture and layouts, including the chair layout, couch type etc... but they also
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by owenwil 4y ago
Newer robots from companies iterating on the technology, like Roborock, can detect cables/shoes/stuff left on the floor and just drive around them. They're a lot better than what Roomba is selling, and much better at dealin
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by owenwil 4y ago
We've been waiting for our Ioniq 5 Ultimate since our order in Q3 2021...latest from them is that it'll come in "late 2023." 2 years seems optimistic at this point–and dealers have no idea, nor do they communicate about
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by owenwil 4y ago
Why would they arbitrarily limit this to 2022? I converted my account a while back because I had to in order to get more storage, but now I'm punished for giving them money for a year or two? Google is so bad at this!
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by owenwil 5y ago
Whoops - you're right!
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by owenwil 5y ago
The technology to do 5K @ 120hz just doesn't exist yet. 5K @ 60Hz is already maxing out Thunderbolt 4.
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by owenwil 5y ago
60hz, there isn't enough port bandwidth in TB4 to handle 5K @ 120hz. Anything coming close to being capable enough is years away still.
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by owenwil 5y ago
There's a good reason for this: Thunderbolt 4 doesn't have enough port bandwidth. TB4 can carry a max of 30Gbps but 5K @ 120hz is 32Gbps. There's no way Apple would do two cables for this, and the next gen of Thunderbolt is a
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by owenwil 5y ago
> Say it's raining, this makes riding a bike much more dangerous. Wait what, why? Because I'm going to get a bit wet? The rain is no more a threat to a cyclist's safety than it is to a car on a wet day. You just might need
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by owenwil 5y ago
I had two stolen over the years I owned one in Amsterdam. The first one was recovered in about a week. The second was never found, but they replace it when they don’t find it as a part of that guarantee–which is why it’s actually a really g
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by owenwil 5y ago
It’s interesting because in my 5 years in the Netherlands, the general opinion was the opposite of this: bike theft is such a common occurrence because everyone rides the same, probably stolen and resold, black bike that you should ride a n
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by owenwil 5y ago
Wow, glad to see this. Allbirds is a great business, makes good products, and cares about having an impact on the world/reducing climate impacts - not sure if I’ve ever seen any other S1 filing that mentions climate impacts/goals
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by owenwil 6y ago
According to who? PHP is still behind ~70% of public websites: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php
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by owenwil 6y ago
I wouldn't call dealing with this sort of thing on every other update rare.
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by owenwil 6y ago
I waited ten minutes and it worked. Felt like a long time when it was sitting there blank!
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by owenwil 6y ago
The ironic thing about that suggestion is that if you’re reading that article, your Mac is already non-functional anyway, so good luck doing a backup :)
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by owenwil 6y ago
Trust me, I don’t usually care and would have given up – I think it was way too difficult to fix this. I’ve written extensively about switching from macOS to Windows and much prefer using a PC personally: https://char.gd/blo
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by owenwil 6y ago
I had this happen to me on a late 2019 MacBook Pro as well, but dramatically worse: the machine was totally unresponsive, no chimes, no power up, nothing. I tried everything, including the usual PRAM clear and whatever else, but Apple sugge
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by owenwil 6y ago
I also live in Ontario (Toronto) and was struck by how practically 0 of police I've seen here over the last few months have been wearing masks – even when they came doorknocking in my neighborhood about a theft that happened on the str
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by owenwil 6y ago
It's not about privacy rules of any kind, it's about Apple demanding too much control – similar to iOS, I suppose – meaning a bunch of big providers opted out. I get it. https://9to5mac.com/2019/03/18&#x2
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by owenwil 6y ago
It's the other way around – Apple imposes certain demands on content owners to appear in the app, one of which is basically treating them as dumb content pipes under Apple's brand – so Netflix, IMO wisely, said no. https:/&#
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by owenwil 6y ago
The BIG difference here is that Netflix is fully integrated with the search/queue/discovery experience, along with all of the other major streaming services like Prime. Apple hasn't managed to land that one yet – having acces
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328 points by owenwil 6y ago|437 comments
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by owenwil 6y ago
That's because it's available in France. If you try to load it in The Netherlands, it does what they're saying.
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by owenwil 6y ago
Google Assistant was actually pretty interesting – they have a new feature called 'Hold for Me' that allows you to put it on hold when you're in a call waiting queue with someone like your bank and it'll let you know whe
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by owenwil 6y ago
Almost all of the banks include it for free at this point on all but the most basic plans.
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by owenwil 6y ago
When I moved to Canada last year, no landlords I talked to took cheques, thankfully. They all required E-transfer, which is free, and near instant. This is in Toronto.
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by owenwil 6y ago
Wow, this is the most New Zealand landlord thing ever. I bet they've installed the Meth Minder but don't provide proper heating still.
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by owenwil 6y ago
Wha? There are ways around this. Apple could just build sanctioned support for specific payment gateways (e.g Stripe/Adyen) and subject them to rules as a part of the app review process in the same way they are now. It doesn't nee

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