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by roryisok 4y ago
I don't but now I'm curious
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by roryisok 4y ago
the first one. I don't really care about updates. as long as it has a browser and takes photos, its pretty much all I use it for. I actually was a Windows Phone user until very recently (and WP8, not even WP10! how's that for behi
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by roryisok 4y ago
I hope this trend continues. I wonder will people find uses for the components in the same way they do with the framework laptop parts?
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by roryisok 4y ago
I live waaaaay behind the curve, phone wise. I buy phones from about 5 years ago and I don't spend more than about 150 at a time. Every now and then a phone comes along that makes me want to break that trend and buy something new, and
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by roryisok 4y ago
Stupid question, but what are security updates in a smartphone context? Surely Android updates are the security updates? Wouldn't keeping this thing up to date with the latest version of Android be enough to be secure? Or am I running
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by roryisok 4y ago
I'm not angry at Netflix. Are we supposed to be angry at Netflix? I'm not up to speed
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by roryisok 4y ago
I agree, but I'm intrigued by the _patterns_ of headlines. At first, they were all in the format of "I asked chatGPT to write a blog post, here it is" and "I used ChatGPT to talk to my mom so I don't have to" T
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Ask HN: How do you communicate at work, and whats the worst thing about it?
1 points by roryisok 4y ago|2 comments
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by roryisok 4y ago
Pretty sure closer approaches have been recorded. They just don't escape afterward.
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by roryisok 4y ago
I think its fantastic that people go to such lengths to keep old titles like this playable on newer hardware. I was never a big fan of The Sims, but I loved SimCity, and I was very into with SimCopter for a year or two.
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by roryisok 4y ago
Such a hilarious use-case. Like someone would pay to for a Boston Dynamics Atlas robot, and then put it to work on construction, as a gopher.
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by roryisok 4y ago
> Now imagine launching 100 projects on Mars, most of which could lead to an explosion, and predict that 99 of them will fail (and probably explode) Well I'm just picking holes now, but in the Martian atmosphere is 95% CO2 - nothing
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by roryisok 4y ago
> just don't put all those resources into useless Mars, and instead try to save life on Earth. _instead_ is the word I have a problem with. the idea that we must do one or the other. that either we fix climate change OR we go to Mar
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by roryisok 4y ago
obviously not, right now. but if this tech can be scaled up it would be. yes, it's not a certainty. but solar power was once seen as only useful in space where you couldn't run a diesel engine. Then it got more efficient, and chea
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by roryisok 4y ago
So many posts on here (and I suppose the original post too) are making this a binary argument "Either we fix Earth, or we go to Mars". What happened to doing both? They're not incompatible with each other. We don't have
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by roryisok 4y ago
> the real cost of the rockets is an uninhabitable Earth I've seen more than one person here express this opinion - what about rocket launches makes you think they will render the Earth uninhabitable? They certainly aren't very
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by roryisok 4y ago
Ah but we need to eat the plants. We can put factories that create fuel out of nothing in the middle of the ocean, where we can't grow corn.
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by roryisok 4y ago
Why? Healthy people care about having descendants they'll never meet.
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by roryisok 4y ago
Solar power wasn't economically viable once, nor was Wind power. Sucking fuel out of the air anywhere you like has to be more viable than sailing out to sea and building a huge rig to drill underwater for pockets of gunk that you then
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by roryisok 4y ago
> While the cost to colonize elsewhere is "mine the earth to a wasteland" I'm not sure where this idea is coming from. I think the idea of most modern colonisation plans is to use materials at the location to build habitat
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by roryisok 4y ago
The idea of finding another Earth is not so much about moving everyone from Earth to somewhere else, but rather about "backing up" our species and civilisation in additional places. If an asteroid is going to wipe out Earth, we ca
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by roryisok 4y ago
I got three estimates. Huge variety in price. All three companies sent someone out to survey the house. Two were very friendly salesmen who took photos of the roof and told me how much I would save, but couldn't answer technical questi
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by roryisok 4y ago
> Anybody that believes that we have the technology capable of setting up a self sufficient Mars base should be invited to demonstrate such on the Moon Is this not exactly what we're doing with the Artemis Program? From its wiki pag
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by roryisok 4y ago
Same here. zero appeal to me. I'm very biased because I already hate social media (Discord is about as social as I go) but the idea of strapping something onto my head to do the equivalent of a video call sounds very unappealing.
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by roryisok 4y ago
Ravine or Space-Team
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by roryisok 4y ago
another one, not much of a hack, more of automation 2001 I worked for a localisation company and we had to do this mind-numbing work that involved opening an image, selecting the picture, cropping it to a certain size, selecting the image,
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by roryisok 4y ago
only just remembered this. going back about 20 years. a radio station was having a competition to win $5k. the game was, you had to identify all the song titles hidden in a block of text they read out only once. I worked in a net cafe at th
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by roryisok 4y ago
was buying beer once for a party, and a crate of 12 pint bottles was ringing up for the price of a single bottle. so I bought 4 crates. we drank well that weekend
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by roryisok 4y ago
"Not ready reading drive A: Abort / retry / fail" Now I suddenly want to play SimCity
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by roryisok 4y ago
I made my writing app dark mode by default and so many reviews praised the dark background as easier on the eye. even though all the writing apps out there have customizable colors, the small gesture of making dark the default helped a lot

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