sovnade

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by sovnade 4y ago
There's plenty of good laptops out there not made by apple. Dell XPS 13 is excellent, asus has several zenbook models that are on par, etc. They don't get much media coverage because the standards we expect from laptops are so hig
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by sovnade 4y ago
2560x1920 for a 17" screen is perfectly fine. It's about on par with modern macbooks.
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by sovnade 4y ago
is that not enough for a 17"? I don't have that many on my 27" desktop monitors and it's totally fine.
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by sovnade 4y ago
Holding a monopoly and engaging in anti-competitive behavior are entirely different. The app store being closed and not allowing 3rd party stores would be considered anti-competitive. They have a 100% monopoly on the ios application market.
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by sovnade 4y ago
It's amazing how much our brain does in the background to smooth out processing because it can't handle all of the data coming in. This example several others (the one where you look at the center dot and all others disappear - br
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by sovnade 4y ago
Not until we can figure out the storage problem, which is not batteries. Pumping water with excess power up into a reservoir to later use for hydro power, or something along those lines, is likely the only "battery" big enough to
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by sovnade 4y ago
We can re-use nuclear waste now. Something like 90% of "waste" can be recycled and reused. It's not like we're just shoving it in yucca mountain anymore.
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by sovnade 4y ago
It started to wane slightly after 2 months. It was still nearly 100% effective at that point. It was still highly effective at 6 months (85%+), which is when a booster would return it to full effectiveness.
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by sovnade 4y ago
Yes - in science, definitions change all the time. We redefined what a planet was and booted Pluto out of the group. Which part of the new definition do you disagree with as being a valid definition for a modern vaccine? And what difference
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by sovnade 4y ago
And now it's more accurate - there's plenty of vaccines out there previously that weren't 100% effective, so there's no reason to have the absolute language out there. The measles vaccine is only 97% effective after 2 do
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by sovnade 4y ago
Remember Delta wasn't even around until late summer. Biden's speech was barely an exaggeration at the time when we were dealing with the original strain. Was it 100% effective at preventing all infection entirely? No. It was 100%
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by sovnade 4y ago
It was extremely effective against preventing infection (and transmission). The press release you posted said as much. But everything I heard at the time was that it was 100% effective at preventing severe infections (including hospitalizat
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by sovnade 4y ago
And this was mostly true from the original strain back in early 2021. The vaccine reduced the ability to contract and spread the virus dramatically. The chances of contracting and spreading the original strain, if you were fully vaccinated,
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by sovnade 4y ago
No official body has ever said "you will not get covid if you get the vaccine". Even the earliest trial results said "you will not be hospitalized or die if you get the vaccine", not that you won't get covid. And at
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by sovnade 4y ago
If someone has lost their motivation to live, then there could be many reasons for that. Society failure? Maybe. Could also be terminal illness, chemical imbalances, PTSD, or other things that are untreatable or uncurable.
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by sovnade 4y ago
and on top of that, it looks like there's other factors of diet than just choosing what to eat - it sounds like some people are just less hungry for indefinite reasons. genetics, gut biome, etc all probably play a part.
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by sovnade 4y ago
Don't forget the other part - being non-anonymous online makes it easy for stalkers and other bad actors to take it to the extreme. We need anonymity for lots of reasons.
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by sovnade 4y ago
It's not quite that simple though. "autopilot" is a blah term, but it's also not possible to say whether or not it has saved lives with auto-avoidance and braking. The hard truth is that for things to get better, they ne
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by sovnade 5y ago
Yeah this is bad for everyone overall. Disney is an even worse offender if you're looking at synergistic monopolies.
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by sovnade 5y ago
Back in the day sure, but the blizzard of 20 years ago is long gone. Diablo 3 is an abysmal followup to D2, every CoD is just an annual rehash, hearthstone is an absolute moneygrab, and HotS is the most watered down moba I've ever play
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by sovnade 5y ago
There's not likely to be any more mac x86 development from anyone going forward, and I think M1 is enough of a branch that it makes it difficult to justify it.
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by sovnade 5y ago
Could you install a different browser on the ipad, like firefox? Is there anything preventing the latest version of firefox from installing on an old ipad?
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by sovnade 5y ago
Except you lose a lot of that power through attenuation. You can't really send electricity from the sahara to europe efficiently. Even over relatively short distances (a few dozen miles), you're losing up to 10-15% of your overall
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by sovnade 5y ago
And we're putting in wind and solar at record rates, but that still doesn't cover us at night or when there's no wind. Batteries or other energy storage cannot meet the demand yet. Nuclear is still the best option for continu
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by sovnade 5y ago
This one seems to be mostly performance related with no/few functional changes.
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by sovnade 5y ago
I use it on ios, macos, and windows with zero issues. I can't remember the last time it crashed on me.
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by sovnade 5y ago
It depends if we're judging the overall predictions of everyone, or this specific author's predictions. I always tend to look at it at the author-level, because otherwise the infinite monkeys theorem applies anyway. I think this a
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by sovnade 5y ago
That only seems relevant if the author of this had a vast number of predictions. Overall, yeah, there were tons. That doesn't detract from how accurate this particular piece was.
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by sovnade 5y ago
They're also covered if you don't have insurance, but yeah that could be completely correct if you're not a citizen/resident of the US. Bummer.
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by sovnade 5y ago
Yeah...facebook isn't dominant because it's the best platform, it's because moving away from it requires your entire circle to move away from it as well, otherwise you're just running two platforms side by side. Google P

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