usrusr

49 ms·

781.
by usrusr 3y ago
If you don't have a complete Apple development environment, PWA is the best shot you have getting that little offline note taking to run on an iPhone.
782.
by usrusr 3y ago
I expect PWA to remain noticeably limited relative to native, and probably with a noticeable gradient between Google and Apple. But I also expect PWA to steamroll all conventional app development nonetheless: PWA optionally bundled with som
783.
by usrusr 3y ago
I'd say it's somewhere between the -soft hypothetical and landgrabs like T-anything that have been tried in reality. Of course the real question we all want to see answered is did they dogfood the trademark application documents?
784.
by usrusr 3y ago
From a gameplay perspective, the demo gives me the impression that it's mostly about avoiding unrecoverable mistakes while attrition takes its course. I guess that's what real war is like, but for a game I'd rather win by fin
785.
by usrusr 3y ago
Right, there was a lot of bending over carrier side riding on the waning but still strong "white earbud cables" ad image. Carriers were still dreaming of being able to recreate the glory days of paid SMS I guess. The project that
786.
by usrusr 3y ago
No other brand could have had much reach beyond a tiny luxury niche at the price point required to build the iPhone in 2007. It was the iPod that paved the way in the early aughts, when it was quite literally the only way to liberate ones e
787.
by usrusr 3y ago
Any other company, if they had the iPhone, would have failed selling it in numbers. Because only at Apple it was preceded by the iPod that set a unique precedent in how much more expensive than all competitors a device could be. And that sh
788.
by usrusr 3y ago
On Windows, chances are that once you have a working installer you will be so deeply stockholmed that the idea that updates might go any other way than through a future incarnation of that installer is completely alien to you. That being sa
789.
by usrusr 3y ago
Do we know which studio investments of the 20th century weren't of that kind?
790.
by usrusr 3y ago
Bad experience with too much undetected nepotism might be a reason they decided to start looking for slightly more objective procedures. When those then still get gamed, perhaps even harder, that turns into a slippery slope and in the end y
791.
by usrusr 3y ago
Nice, can we call those solid state? I was thinking more along the lines of sluice gates mechanically operated by floats.
792.
by usrusr 3y ago
How would solar be the same? That "reservoir" is emptying wether we hold silicon into the photon flow or not. Tides and wind aren't quite as far from just taking what is already disappearing, but even there: the natural drag
793.
by usrusr 3y ago
Have they? And how many of them can be ordered to surface under tide power, for easy maintenance access and towing into a maintenance dock without involving expensive divers? I presume the tether on this would be built long enough for contr
794.
by usrusr 3y ago
The good news is that we do have a bit of experience with metal machines that operate in sea water for decades. We (as in humanity, I don't) know exactly what to expect. You'd want to have a permanent service operation scaled exac
795.
by usrusr 3y ago
I could imagine that licensees for music in games ask for so wide a range of use cases and possible future distribution channels to be included in the licence, that licensors are genuinely scared that a forever grant would be almost like co
796.
by usrusr 3y ago
Oh, it's an analog computer. I was hoping for water-driven logical gates. I think those could be awesome as interactive urban decoration installations. Perhaps a three bit adder in the park that you can also dip your feet in on a hot s
797.
by usrusr 3y ago
The spring boot dread: which of the defaults are a terrible idea to replace, and which of the defaults are a terrible idea to keep? I do wonder, when looking at the examples, if it might be nice to have a spark/javalin-like that depend
798.
by usrusr 3y ago
Not divulging boring details of stuff you have clearance to and keeping quiet about the biggest adventure of your life, while being a person so talkative that you once spent 44 billion on your favorite blogging tool? Those are very differen
799.
by usrusr 3y ago
Yeah, listening in wouldn't work because you can always stack more encryption on top of the one the carrier might listen in to. But Starlink can't operate without exact knowledge of antenna locations for aiming the phased arrays (
800.
by usrusr 3y ago
PS: oh, you meant reservoirs in contributory valleys left and right of the main river. Sorry about the misread, "above and along" should have been clear enough.
801.
by usrusr 3y ago
That's what GP suggested. But unless the mine happens to be in particularly water-friendly rock or is carefully prepared for safe repeated flooding/dewatering, that would only speed up the conversion from mine to uncontrolled sink
802.
by usrusr 3y ago
Nice hit piece that looks like written by someone deeply invested in chemical batteries (or going mercenary for patrons who are). But his dismissal of mine shafts omits some important parts: when you have a mine, you don't just dangle
803.
by usrusr 3y ago
Exactly one reservoir (or a number of tiny ones not worth mentioning), because even all the way from Richland to Portland there is hardly any elevation drop.
804.
by usrusr 3y ago
When I thought about that silently, my answer was that storing water underground is a challenge when unprotected walls can turn into sludge. Water would require expensive preparation of the existing mine volume, whereas dry material could j
805.
by usrusr 3y ago
PS: what was up with my mind when I wrote this? (second paragraph) Some serious confusion about throughput and power: power and mass throughput are obviously the same at a given shaft height, the advantage of a chain with less gaps/mo
806.
by usrusr 3y ago
Do waymos perhaps pass through behind a vehicle much faster/closer than a human driver? That would appear like one of those things that "computer accuracy" could do that humans would never try. A cyclist confident to be able
807.
by usrusr 3y ago
Part of me certainly hated myself for not stopping to read right there. But it's an interesting approach despite the bad writing: if you fill a 1400m shaft with a dense chain of buckets (my term, they seem to call them vessels) you&#x2
808.
by usrusr 3y ago
In a very bad way. I suspect that I'm really not doing him justice because he's probably not all too fond of any of the subcultures be portraits, but I can't completely shake off that change in perception.
809.
by usrusr 3y ago
REAMDE's ending with those gun-preppers orgasming over the idea of finally getting an excuse for hunting human did it for me. Stephenson nerding out about that subculture is a thing I can't unsee, now it colors my perception o
810.
by usrusr 3y ago
Diligent boss: I can't get to my keys. Just wire the money (to a honeypot account operated by the security department)

More ›