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by russellbeattie 6mo ago
I grew up with rotary phones... They really are not something to fetishize. I can close my eyes and still feel the plastic cutting into my index finger after repeatedly mis-dialing a long distance number, or having to redial a few times bec
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by russellbeattie 6mo ago
Hah... Your response proves my point quite well, thanks!
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by russellbeattie 6mo ago
Let me help. He's not whining, he's saying that the people who insist on using Fahrenheit are oblivious, ignorant, backwards, uneducated, closed minded, conservative morons and since no one like that would understand, let alone ap
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by russellbeattie 6mo ago
What I've always thought was interesting about folding bikes is that it doesn't seem like it's possible for it to be done elegantly. It's been 150 years since the "safety bicycle" was invented, yet folding bike
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by russellbeattie 6mo ago
You'd think by now the LLMs would have figured out that the body of a bicycle is basically just a bisected rhombus. → ◿◸ (I hope I don't ruin the test.)
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by russellbeattie 6mo ago
I think on my 6.8" WQHD+ 3200 x 1440 phone screen (70.5mm width), an actual 5x5 pixel square might be the size of a period → . Doing the math, 70.5mm / 1440px = 0.05mm per pixel, x5 = 0.25mm wide. Just a guess though, I'm not
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by russellbeattie 6mo ago
To those HNers working at Palantir - and there's bound to be a few - what's your deal? You do realize what sort of company you work for, right? Is it cognitive dissonance or are you really a paranoid right winger that's fully
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by russellbeattie 6mo ago
Suspicion, doubt and negativity is the default for this administration not the exception, for legitimate reasons. It's always hard to get tell with you people whether your attempt at trolling is based on willful ignorance, maliciousnes
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by russellbeattie 6mo ago
The use of the Web Vibration API Navigator.vibrate() is well done! I haven't seen it used much, but it really adds to the game. (Apparently iOS still doesn't support it [1]? It's been in Chrome for the past 12 years. Maybe
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by russellbeattie 7mo ago
If you're a massive organization and have need for a mission critical database that cannot fail for any reason, with massive scale and scalability, security, reliability, high availability, high throughput, etc., and you want instant e
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by russellbeattie 7mo ago
Huh, I hadn't thought of battery limitations. Good call. My initial reaction is that bigger/better batteries, hyper fast recharge times and more efficient processors might address this issue, but I need to learn more about it. Tha
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by russellbeattie 7mo ago
I have some macro opinions about Apple - not sure if I'm correct, but tell me what you think. Apple has always seen RAM as an economic advantage for their platform: Make the development effort to ensure that the OS and apps work well w
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by russellbeattie 7mo ago
Doomsday may not be the end of the world, but simply living in a country where you're being unjustifiably bombed by a foreign government lead by a delusional sociopath, and so access to information sources becomes limited.
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by russellbeattie 7mo ago
The photos of the symbol catalogs are incredidble. You really have to admire the precision printing they did in the early 1900s. All those glyphs were created by hand. I'm not exactly sure what sort of lithography process was used (I c
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by russellbeattie 8mo ago
LOL. I always enjoy a nice meme callback.
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by russellbeattie 8mo ago
The first one, though it's just a joke. I think honestly I'm more #TeamJustPickOneAlready.
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by russellbeattie 8mo ago
Agreed. The problem is that so much of our culture is tied to specific hours on the clock (e.g. "9 to 5"), even though it doesn't need to be that way. China has one time zone and it works fine. Most of Spain is west of Greenw
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by russellbeattie 8mo ago
Just last night some friends brought up the time change tonight and the news from British Columbia, and what the California government has or hasn't done about it currently and in the past and why we haven't just gotten rid of the
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by russellbeattie 8mo ago
You summarized my concerns almost perfectly. My only addition is that you didn't stress enough how much this anti-science administration has destabilized NASA, both directly and indirectly. The institutional decision making has definit
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by russellbeattie 8mo ago
Phineas and Ferb had some of the best scripts ever written for TV, and I'll die on that hill.
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by russellbeattie 8mo ago
When a clip of this first came up on my social media, I thought it was pure AI, and didn't give it a second's thought. It wasn't until it kept on appearing that I realized it was actual real video. I'm flabbergasted. I h
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by russellbeattie 8mo ago
> "...while KDE and Gnome slowly get better and better" These projects have been around for literally decades and really haven't changed much during that time. I think what you're noticing is that Linux desktops a
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by russellbeattie 8mo ago
Amazon marketing broke a fundamental rule about consumer tech: Don't remind users about how much Big Tech knows about you. Your various devices track everywhere you go, who you communicate with, what you search for, what you buy, what
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by russellbeattie 9mo ago
Widgets always seems like a cool idea. Tons of helpful little utility apps that are quick and easy for users to view or access and developers to create. Seems great, right? Then everyone realizes there are only a handful of things that are
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by russellbeattie 9mo ago
Heh. Here's a thread where the most verbose commenters come and write even more. I haven't written nearly as much as I thought: 2,410th out of 774,235 users, 159,634 words, Top 0.31%. A few years ago, I exported my HN and reddit c
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by russellbeattie 9mo ago
I don't think this is necessarily a good thing. The world would be a demonstrably better place if the average life expectancy had remained around 70, like it was the year I was born. Every new generation deals with growing populations
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by russellbeattie 9mo ago
I'm completely bike shedding, but I just want to say I highly approve. Moltbot was a truly horrible name, and I was afraid we were going to be stuck with it. (I'm sure people will disagree with this, but Rust is also a horrible na
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by russellbeattie 9mo ago
Can you really be "just" a hardware company and still compete with Apple, which is both a software and hardware company? Samsung has its own ecosystem of products and services to manage and unify. If I'm Samsung and I'm
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by russellbeattie 9mo ago
Huh! I had no idea about those services. I just checked my S21 Ultra and yep, they were there. It took like 20 seconds to force stop and disable them, though I'm sure they'll be re-enabled during the next update. Honestly, I'
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by russellbeattie 9mo ago
That "bloatware" is just alternatives to Google's software and systems, and much of it isn't bad, if not better. I prefer the Gallery app over Google Photos, the Samsung My Files app is cleaner than Google Files, Studio

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