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by xbkingx 7y ago
Same. FF dev, uBlock, Decentraleyes Changing the FF content policy from Standard to Strict appears to have no impact on the score. Opening in a Private window drops it to 0.7 for me. I have a bunch of add ons allowed in Private Browsing, so
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by xbkingx 7y ago
Wasn't there some kind of scam people used to pull where they'd add a prefix to a cell phone's outgoing calls, such that it bounced through a paid service relay? If I recall, someone would nab your phone, add the dialing pref
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by xbkingx 7y ago
As someone that was in college in 1997, I think that estimate is way low. I bought ~4 CDs per month and so did most of the people I knew. You're forgetting that we traded and sold back discs, and that music was more actively discovered
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by xbkingx 7y ago
I've always thought that binding robocallers in a contract that they must accept to speak or leave a message would be fun. Notify the caller that you charge a fee that's your state's maximum small claims award and add that th
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by xbkingx 8y ago
That's because they've got all the enthusiasts they want right now. The S is clearly meant to bring more people into the VR market, not act as an upgrade for existing owners. It's a good option for people that waited to buy a
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by xbkingx 8y ago
Are they still going to take all sorts of telemetry and 'share' (read:sell) it to third parties if I pay for the service? Yes? Okay, then I'll continue to support the most dastardly peglegs to ever sail the seven seas. I valu
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by xbkingx 8y ago
(This is a very basic run down of what I understand to occur. There are places where I omit steps and oversimplify, but I THINK it's pretty accurate. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.) Mining is basically the way that everyo
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by xbkingx 8y ago
I still maintain that not picking Chicago would be a major mistake. I only think this because I want to see them take over most of the Sears Tower and convert it into a delivery drone launch site. A) How bonkers-cool would that look? B) Ide
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by xbkingx 8y ago
Yup. I've used tablet PCs since the Windows XP Tablet Edition days and magnetic pen docks have always been a big no-no. The pens fall off more when handling because you bump into them when repositioning and they're easier to forge
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by xbkingx 8y ago
There's probably more to it than that. With some knowledge of the ordering scheme, you can determine relative locations and route drivers without storing every address on a street. I think it's very easy to imagine a cases where h
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by xbkingx 8y ago
So you're saying that a Macbook Pro isn't up to snuff if they replace a single broken keyboard key. They need to replace the battery, too. I mean, the user might have pressed on the key slightly harder than normal to determine it
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by xbkingx 8y ago
What dystopic future world do you live in where everything is integrated on every device? Maybe for phones, but that kind of lock-in isn't THAT common. It even makes economic sense for OEMs to use standard parts, so it's not like
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by xbkingx 8y ago
On flashlights, yup. Plus, they use less efficient drivers and no substantial heatsink, so they're at least 20% less efficient out of the gate and 30-40% less efficient once they heat up. On batteries, I just don't buy them often
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by xbkingx 8y ago
I think we middle-aged/older geeks like to harked back to a time when you could drill a hole in the corner of a Double Density floppy disk and it would work fine as a High Density floppy. Subverting the dominant paradigm and sticking i
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by xbkingx 8y ago
Flashlights (including anything that has a battery and led bulb) and batteries are almost in how brazenly they falsely advertise on Amazon. I would have to say that well over half of torches on Amazon exaggerate their claims by at LEAST 100
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by xbkingx 8y ago
Oh, I totally agree and that was my point (besides offering up some advice for others with these issues). These are all annoyances that can be dealt with easily once you know the solutions, but you have to know how to arrive at those soluti
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by xbkingx 8y ago
This is a great price point and excellent feature set for mainstream VR. I have almost no interest in it, but would be comfortable recommending it to less tech savvy friends and relatives. Having a Vive and GearVR had taught me that I don&#
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by xbkingx 8y ago
Chiming in to say no problems here on my Windows PCs. I do see where you might bump into these troubles, though. Installing Nvidia drivers will usually set the default sound device to HDMI for your main display instead of restoring the prev
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by xbkingx 8y ago
My guess is that the complexity of integrating sensor information and maintaining calibration isn't refined to the tolerances needed. In theory, you only need to detect physical resistance and visual variations (not like the assembly l
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by xbkingx 8y ago
I love it and agree. It's like this at the start of every major change that has an impact on all levels of society. Even if these tokens are failing, they exist because they caught some unique insight into how the tech will change the
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by xbkingx 8y ago
On the contrary, THIS comment one ups YOUR comment by both disagreeing and proposing the opposite of what you said as a thought experiment. Further, I propose that all the above opinions are equally wrong and right, both absolutely and rela
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by xbkingx 8y ago
It's the classic problem of truly appreciating magnitude and scale. Humans are amazing at it within a very narrow realm, and then terrible beyond that narrow range. This is the sad realization I had about brain-computer interfaces towa
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by xbkingx 8y ago
But that doesn't really matter to the average resident - I've never received a notification that the recyclables list has changed, let alone fire pricing reasons. Different communities have slightly different rules (they've
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by xbkingx 8y ago
Crazy bonkers idea... The cities I've lived in (in the US) provided the garbage and recycle bins. How about printing the recyclable materials and exceptions ON THE BINS. Put it on the lid, so it can be easily customized for each commun
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by xbkingx 8y ago
Over the past 5 years, Amazon had turned into a veritable minefield and I've come to treat it like I do when ordering from direct-from-China sites, like dx and banggood. Every department has their own unique problems riding on top of t
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by xbkingx 8y ago
Doubtful it was either. The fact that everyone washed their hands, the sick and immunologically compromised didn't prepare food or partake in regular group activities, and those working manual labor (ie- hands covered in bacteria) didn
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by xbkingx 8y ago
> Like anyone involved in software, you're surely an expert in all of these topics and thus qualified to make this claim without backing it up. PhD in neuroscience, undergrad research on reward and behavior. So, yes, yes I am qualif
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by xbkingx 8y ago
And then you have those magical psychological effects at different price points. I remember when almost every piece of "shareware" was $20+ and most full "programs" were $100+. Now people balk at apps over $0.99 and even
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by xbkingx 8y ago
One that ignores the entirety of human psychology, probability, and what we understand about motivation, reward, and healthy socialization. Technically you could successfully perform your own neurosurgery at home with a spoon and a dull but
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by xbkingx 8y ago
When they launched Wave there were reports of all kinds of chaos because people were automatically added. I don't remember if this was a case of "oh, you had this contact? We'll add them to your friends automatically." o

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