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by skc 10y ago
Perhaps a dumb question, but I assume these don't stop working in airplane mode?
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by skc 10y ago
I somehow hate that he used the word "probably" Takes the sting out of the piece.
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by skc 10y ago
Everything I've ever read about working at Amazon has been terrible. Despite this, from the outside at least they still seem to execute flawlessly and are still adored by geeks who don't work there.
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by skc 10y ago
Some basic online data such as? I'd wager these people still want to be able to view pics, watch videos and download music like anyone else. And in any case, what does "basic online data" even mean today when you consider the
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by skc 10y ago
Me too, but I suppose they are attempting to get with the times. There's always been an air of pretension and stodginess around the whole process. Undoubtedly the food must be excellent, but this is also a feel good story for Michelin
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by skc 10y ago
500MB doesn't really get you that far on the modern web though
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by skc 10y ago
I really do miss my Windows Phone, which has sort of surprised me, having expected to be wowed by current Android device. The app gap is/was a brutal death blow to an otherwise very nice platform.
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by skc 10y ago
I'm curious about data residency in African countries. It's very hard to find any information on what restrictions are there. I'm from Zambia and we simply can't host locally (cloud services) because it's a) too exp
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by skc 10y ago
God, the double slit experiment drives me absolutely crazy
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by skc 10y ago
This game has all the makings of a fad. The AR angle is new but this is simply Flappy Birds all over again.
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by skc 10y ago
I'm surprised at the variability of pricing by different vendors in this space. I would have imagined they would all be competing on breadth of API rather than price. An SMS to a number on a particular network provider should cost pret
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by skc 10y ago
"Privacy, security, and altruism" Hmm, the cynic in me thinks that they will play up those aspects of their offerings that make hurt their competitors. They sell hardware after all. Google sells "people".
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by skc 10y ago
For me the thing I'm finding most annoying is how many errors I get just setting up this stuff, whether it's Angular or React or something else. I'm on Windows though so I assume a lot of my issues stem from the tutorial auth
554.
by skc 10y ago
Reads like a typical Thorium article. They always seem to imply that there is some worldwide government conspiracy against Thorium based energy. And they always gloss over the fact that this is an old idea that to this day still hasn't
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by skc 10y ago
The reluctance for people to be skeptical of anything to do with Magic Leap is strange to me. How is their product not rightly described as vapor ware? I feel like I've been hearing about how amazing it is for ages and still...nothing.
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by skc 10y ago
The most annoying thing about Sinofsky is that nowadays he's all in on anything Apple related. That makes one wonder why he made such disastrous decisions when he was in charge of Windows. Apple execs were publicly (and rightfully) moc
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by skc 10y ago
I think he's overstating the possible negative effects of this shift for Apple. Facebook and Google especially wouldn't dream of excluding Apple devices (read, very lucrative Apple customers) from their ecosystems. Apple make thei
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by skc 10y ago
Yep, and washing clothes by hand is oddly therapeutic as well. You end up looking for other items to wash, like bedsheets and towels and what not. But it does do a number on your hands.
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by skc 10y ago
Every time I read anything on how wierd quantum mechanics is I wonder how theoretical physicists can stay sane. It's all so bizarre that I don't see how anyone can look that deeply into it and not come away thinking our entire exi
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by skc 10y ago
Pumped hydro is always brought up, which is bizarre to me because it's highly dependent on your geography, unlike battery storage.
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by skc 10y ago
I think this is what it is. Smartphones in general have reached a point where we are barely wowed anymore. I got myself a cheap xiaomi phone as a stop gap after my high end phone died. A year later, I'm still using it and have no energ
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by skc 11y ago
You're being quite presumptuous in assuming the Chinese people served by local firms are miserable or worse off than their Western counterparts. Not everything has to be seen through Western colored goggles. There is something quite ad
563.
by skc 11y ago
These stories or production cuts come out every year and every year they are debunked.
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by skc 11y ago
>"The problem with monads is that truly understanding monads renders one completely incapable of explaining monads to anyone uninitiated"< This implies to me that no-one should be using them in code that is meant to be read
565.
by skc 11y ago
Hell of an assumption there. How many Windows sys admins are there in the world what percentage of them do you know?
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by skc 11y ago
Good, means we can get a season five of "Vikings"
567.
by skc 11y ago
Pretty sure that's just that guys personality. Why would you extrapolate his persona to all of Microsoft?
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by skc 11y ago
Uhh, yea actually. Both "fam" and "zero chill" are phrases young people use quite a lot.
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by skc 11y ago
It's not the comment that was absurd. It was the fact that Apple seemingly has no answer as to why there are over 600 million people still using old PC's. Instead of exploring why that might be the case they instead decided to moc
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by skc 11y ago
I find it very interesting that to a layperson, the idea of a computer being able to beat a human at a logic game is pretty much expected and uninteresting. You try and share this story with a non-technical person and they will likely say &

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