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1801.
by voidUpdate 2y ago
she doesn't have an iPhone or a MacBook because I do think they're expensive. I buy my phones used on eBay and cringe if they cost more than £50
1802.
by voidUpdate 2y ago
Is it just me, or is $269 monstrously expensive for some injection moulded plastic, plastic geared servo motors, an arduino compatible board, a battery and some connectivity modules?
1803.
by voidUpdate 2y ago
Fake news, I bought a book just last week
1804.
by voidUpdate 2y ago
I honestly believe a fully automated drone delivery system is easily possible with our current technology, the only issue would be funding and widespread adoption. And the delivery drivers annoyed at losing jobs
1805.
by voidUpdate 2y ago
Electric cars don't have a gearbox that you can put into neutral
1806.
by voidUpdate 2y ago
I'm sorry, but I hate the recent web trend of scrolling not making you scroll, and it instead advances some flashy animation
1807.
by voidUpdate 2y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
1808.
by voidUpdate 2y ago
The snowmobile was for data transfer, not data storage. The idea was that you upload your data to the truck on-site, then they drive it to the backup and download it again, faster than you could transfer it over the wire Never underestimate
1809.
by voidUpdate 2y ago
Yeah, the HTML is definitely... interesting. I guess if they've been working on it for over 40 years, they made the website before CSS was a thing?
1810.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
I've had a lot of problems changing my name with my bank in the UK to a name of a different gender. Despite bringing a valid deed poll signed by two witnesses that stated someone with my old name is now using my new name, validating I
1811.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
I've restricted my phone to only using 4G because I've had a lot of problems with 5G feeling a lot slower than 4G. I've not done any quantitative testing on it but it just generally feels a lot slower, even when I'm look
1812.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
I can't comment on whether the quality of the features (display, interaction, tracking etc) are any better than the competitors, but the existence of those features is not innovative in itself. They're an iteration, and from what
1813.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
I live on the outskirts of a city in the middle of England and I /very/ much doubt I'll see 10gig in 10 years
1814.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
It's definitely bad the default was changed, but you can hold shift to get the old menu back and I believe you can make a registry change to get the old one back permanently
1815.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
At my work, I've had the opportunity to work with several headsets of different flavours, and eye tracking and pinch to click is not an Apple innovation. It was definitely in the Quest Pro, and possibly some others (its been a while si
1816.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
> But AI will take away all coding If AI takes away all coding, who will program new AIs? And when you want to tell an AI what to make, you have to tell a computer in very precise language what you want it to do, otherwise you might have
1817.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
A minor annoyance, I prefer to keep my mouse out of the way to one side when I scroll on a website, but if you have you mouse outside of the narrowest extremes of the columns on this website, scrolling does nothing. Otherwise an interesting
1818.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
That does feel really weird... "There's no exactly defined standard for how to not track you, so we're just going to track you anyway"
1819.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
I mean, all encryption is reversible, that's sort of the point :P I'd much rather it was hashed instead
1820.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
I should really redo my website haha, I'm currently using several of the things in that list
1821.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
Apart from the customer service agent that tried to flirt with them :P
1822.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
Theres also the wonderful "Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type" by Toshi Omigari which has pages and pages of fonts used in arcade games, sorted by style, most of which are 8x8
1823.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
Ever year, Matt Parker calculates pi, and this year it was the largest manual effort to calculate pi in a very long time[1] . I took part this year, though I didn't end up in the video sadly. It was lots of fun though, and a nice trip
1824.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
Didn't Epic Games violate the app store ToS a while back? I'm not a fan of Apple but it still seems reasonable to me to terminate a developer account for breaking ToS
1825.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
It does specifically ask for a "Perception check" at one point, and makes heavy use of easy, medium and hard DC checks, neither of which translate over to a system like Mothership very well and are very DND-centric
1826.
by voidUpdate 3y ago
To tell you how many times you've used the toothbrush, of course! https://youtu.be/V39qPwKpcGg