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by whalabi 5y ago
Does the strap include a counterweight? I see the battery elite strap weighs 179g, but from memory the HMD weighs over 500g. I wrapped a couple portable batteries (they're dense) in a bag and tied it to the back of my basic strap, and
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by whalabi 5y ago
Tip: if you find the HMD pressing into your forehead or face, make a counterweight and attach it to the back of the HMD. It's completely changed things for me.
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by whalabi 5y ago
Tip: you can use a spare wifi router as a dedicated link for oculus air link. Plug your PC in with ethernet and your HMD via wifi. I get 200mbps with a very old router.
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Ask HN: Do you follow any individual stack overflow answerers?
3 points by whalabi 5y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 5y ago
The fact that GNOME Shell can be easily customised in JavaScript is such a boon for all involved.
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B.1.1 decendant associated with South Africa with high number of Spike mutations(github.com)
1 points by whalabi 5y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 5y ago
4/9 of the technical steering committee are Google employees, and 3 others are from big tech platforms (Pinterest, Microsoft, Twitter) https://github.com/ampproject/meta-tsc/blob/master/README.md
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by whalabi 5y ago
What's the agenda?
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by whalabi 5y ago
Not sure you're being fair here. There's roughly 2 dozen photos of people on the page, 2 of which appear to be white-ish men. One whole section of six photos is explicitly there to demonstrate that their cameras now work as well
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by whalabi 5y ago
> These suggestions — which aim to enhance and speed up your searching experience To me this is clearly not spin or weasel words, this is glaringly blatant dishonesty.
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by whalabi 5y ago
I remember having this thought while watching TNG - if the computer was having trouble processing a "recursive algorithm" you'd know about it from a series of hesitant chirrups. I've thought about making an app that lets
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by whalabi 5y ago
Author declares themselves a "bitcoiner" and writes things like: > PostNote: This article pairs well with my piece on Bitcoiners having integrity. What it boils down to is there is no integrity in Ethereum and nothing but integ
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by whalabi 5y ago
Out of curiosity, is Austin an exception?
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by whalabi 5y ago
Wait why is it illegal to build dense walkable neighbourhoods? Which laws?
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by whalabi 5y ago
That's the one. From the conclusion: > Indeed, with a benefit-to-cost ratio of 0.2σ increase in test scores per $1,000 of expenditure, air filter installation is one of the most cost-effective education policies available to policym
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by whalabi 5y ago
Can't Google right now but there was a story about, I think, Californian schools that installed air purifiers to deal with some kind of temporary pollution problem (fires?), and apparently they then found that after the problem had end
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by whalabi 5y ago
This is a good point. Reddit is a self-described hive mind and there are certainly things that will get you abused. I imagine you were fairly safe from death and rape threats, as happens frequently on Twitter, but you're right it'
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by whalabi 5y ago
That's a good point, seems less enticing to a troll to rip into an anonymous username. Reddit's moved a bit in that direction in recent years, with full fledged profiles, user feeds, profile pics, etc.
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by whalabi 5y ago
Yeah I thought the same thing re communities, it's a super important aspect and gives you some of the.. social geography you get in the real world. Tgat and the personal, per-community moderation.
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by whalabi 5y ago
I've wondered why Twitter seems far more toxic than Reddit (certain now-banned subreddits excluded) and I believe the downvote is a powerful tool used to achieve this, along with Reddit's community-style moderation, even though th
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by whalabi 5y ago
Good point, PS4 is about 8 years old now and games still look pretty great.
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by whalabi 5y ago
It's 1280 X 800 on the device, I wonder how it fares playing AAA titles at higher res on a TV or monitor. Have only given the specs a cursory look so far but seems the GPU is (understandably) significantly less powerful than, say, a la
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by whalabi 5y ago
2 years ago, I openly wondered why Google gives AMP preferential treatment when they already have the ability to rank pages by speed. AMP is about control, not speed: https://unlikekinds.com/article/google-amp-page-spe
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The ludicrousness of being forced to watch YouTube in 480p on a 4K TV(unlikekinds.com)
5 points by whalabi 6y ago|1 comments
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by whalabi 6y ago
I wrote about how Google doesn't need AMP to rank pages by speed: https://unlikekinds.com/article/google-amp-page-speed It's important to note that Google will continue to require AMP for things like swiping
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Former Facebook leaders are now [Biden] transition insiders(politico.com)
10 points by whalabi 6y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 6y ago
> I can choose to drop Google any second This is true, bit misses the point. The point is that through whatever means, but including cheating, Google has become incredibly, obscenely powerful. And one of the many reasons that is undesira
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by whalabi 6y ago
Hey thanks, I didn't see Twitter's response, I'll update the article.
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Twitter appears to prefer white people for thumbnails(unlikekinds.com)
15 points by whalabi 6y ago|14 comments
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by whalabi 6y ago
Yeah https://youtu.be/s_jWTrRguzU

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