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by vosper 2y ago
> Netflix also auto-scales the quality they are sending based on their understanding of your connection. Netflix dropping to potato quality after a few minutes is infuriating. Refresh the browser and quality goes back up for a few minute
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by vosper 2y ago
Why does nvidia release models that compete with its customers businesses but don’t make any money for nvidia? Are they commodotising their complements?
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by vosper 2y ago
Does reduced congestion not also make it much healthier to walk/live/work close to busy roads? We know that combustion and tire pollution causes a number of health issues.
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by vosper 2y ago
> In today's new fangled world, a lot of developers don't use a lot of the great stuff that RDBMS can provide - stored procedures, SQL constraints, even indexes. The modern mindset seems to be that that stuff belongs in the cod
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by vosper 2y ago
That, or all the particulate matter from cars that might be causing Alzheimers... https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/2... Or, hey, why not both...
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by vosper 2y ago
It’s the trap of the weekly science/academic podcast. There isn’t enough science, they eventually run through their expertise, their friends’ expertise, but they gotta keep cranking podcasts out. Quality inevitably goes downhill. Most
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by vosper 2y ago
That sounds really fun to use, I love it
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by vosper 2y ago
How did it work out? Did you get useful information and start a successful business? Of so is the business still doing what you thought it would be doing after you’d done those interviews?
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by vosper 3y ago
Worldcoin is still a thing? Does anyone care about it? I figured at this point it was just another failed cryptocurrency venture.
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by vosper 3y ago
Thanks for giving me an answer, all the other posts in this chain just seem to be people naming Microsoft products (I get it, people love bashing Microsoft...)
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by vosper 3y ago
What are the “layers of spyware and adware cloaked in dark patterns and requiring extraordinary measures to back out of hidden spyware installs done without permission” in Office 365?
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by vosper 3y ago
What are the “layers of spyware and adware cloaked in dark patterns and requiring extraordinary measures to back out of hidden spyware installs done without permission” in Windows 11?
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by vosper 3y ago
What are some examples outside of the OpenAI one in Schneier's blog post?
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by vosper 3y ago
How do you imagine that EEE could be applied to a type checker?
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by vosper 3y ago
They are also considered critical companies for national security / capability reasons and neither will ever be allowed to fail by their respective governments, unless a local replacement exists.
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by vosper 3y ago
Thanks, that makes sense. I don't know anything about rooftop solar mounting systems, I will show my ignorance here: I was imagining that perhaps you could attach the panels to rails running vertically rather than horizontally, to allo
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by vosper 3y ago
I'm hoping to get solar on my next house, which we're designing now. Is there a way to install roof panels that improves convection / reduces temperatures, like using a different mounting system, if that's a thing?
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by vosper 3y ago
What do you think of RPS now? I read your comment as implying you might not like RPS so much anymore, but I may have misunderstood.
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by vosper 3y ago
What does this break, if anything? Anyone run into sites or apps where Adguard Home needed to be disabled? How easy was that?
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by vosper 3y ago
> Hate Apple's business mentalility as much as you want I didn’t see anything about hating Apple’s business mentality in the post you’re replying to. I think you’re both right, but you erected a bit of a strawman there.
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by vosper 3y ago
Perhaps it’s because getting hit by a SUV tends to be much worse for a passenger or cyclist than being hit by a smaller car?
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by vosper 3y ago
Breaking a bone is a serious injury. It doesn’t always heal properly. People jokingly say that kids bounce, but sometimes they don’t. It blows my mind that people treat broken bones in kids as not a serious injury.
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by vosper 3y ago
For walking, no - it doesn't matter when I do it. Though I would avoid going for more than a light stroll within an hour of bedtime. For resistance training or cycling I'd try to avoid finishing within two hours of bedtime - those
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by vosper 3y ago
I don’t know if they’re better, but from watching reviews I believe Roborock and Dreame are considered pretty good competitors. I’m certainly happy with my Roborock (which has no cameras, and their latest model also comes in a no-camera var
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by vosper 3y ago
> I just need to get an adequate amount of strength training and cardio exercise during the day and I sleep straight through the night. Same here. Plus drinking much less, I rarely drink these days, and when I do it’s not more than 2 bee
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by vosper 3y ago
> On the other hand, is that even necessary? At what scale is this important? I can see it being helpful in front of a shared resource that doesn't have any way to control priority or fairness. My use case would be Elasticsearch. I
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by vosper 3y ago
Yeah that sounds about right, too. Sometimes I move the slider and it doesn't adjust. Sometimes the slider is in one place and jumps to another without me touching it. Not often, but I'm pretty sure it never used to happen. I&#x27
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by vosper 3y ago
And I don't know if it's just me, but responsiveness seems worse in recent months (using iOS app, don't know if it's the app or the bulbs or the hub). And sometimes the app is out of sync with the actual light states. I
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by vosper 3y ago
Because a regular microwave can't do what was described in the comment you're replying to? A microwave just heats everything - maybe irregularly, but not intentionally irregularly > By regulating the oven’s heat in one place, y
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by vosper 3y ago
I'm not sure it's an invisible hand - seems pretty well known amongst people affected by it (podcast producers, advertisers). This is the second time I've heard of this downloading change in the past few weeks, and I've

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