BitwiseFool

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by BitwiseFool 25d ago
My comment was in regard to the average PC user. The kinds of folks who would never install an operating system and would likely agree to use Edge while signed in to their Microsoft account.
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by BitwiseFool 25d ago
Windows 11 effectively forces users to register with a Microsoft account. Once that's established, all it takes is for an unaware user to fill out an e-commerce form and save an address for auto-fill.
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by BitwiseFool 3mo ago
>"The electron wave function will simply just appear wherever it wants (within the electron probability cloud)." I don't know which is more ridiculous, the fact that reality works like this, or, that a species of apes was
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by BitwiseFool 3mo ago
It needs to load in all those recommendations for you to ignore.
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by BitwiseFool 5mo ago
>"I've got no idea what he's like as a person" Case in point? From what I've read he's reserved, keeps a very low profile, and is dedicated to his work. We know next to nothing about his personal life.
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by BitwiseFool 5mo ago
Personally, I hope the lack of advertisements in Apple Maps comes bundled with the fact that I purchased an iPhone. A lack of ads is a selling point.
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by BitwiseFool 6mo ago
While I have many grievances with Windows 11, I am particularly upset about the taskbar. Back in Windows 10, I used a double-height taskbar positioned at the bottom of the screen. I forget the name of the specific setting, but all windows
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by BitwiseFool 7mo ago
>"It reminds me of the web before Apple-style minimalism took over." The loss of color and texture is my biggest gripe. So many webpages and user interfaces abandoned the idea of distinguishing components using different colors
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by BitwiseFool 7mo ago
Liquid Glass looks pretty from a distance, but my biggest gripe with the design language is just how difficult so many things become to read or interact with. Given that the whole raison d'être of liquid glass is transparent effects, t
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by BitwiseFool 8mo ago
I would love to switch away from Teams. Sadly the organizations I belong to do not want to pay for anything else.
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by BitwiseFool 8mo ago
This is quite well made, thank you for sharing. I appreciate the relevance and knowledge section on each page's subject.
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
Imperial China thought they were the Middle Kingdom, but that title belongs to New Zealand.
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
I'm told that was the reason, which is a shame because I would continue to buy the "mini" version if they kept making them. Sadly the only dimension Apple seems interested in reducing is the thickness.
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
>"I'm pretty sure I'm that guy on some topics." The use of 'pretty sure' disqualifies you. I appreciate your humility.
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
>"It didn't help that the LLM was confidently incorrect." Has anyone else ever dealt with a somewhat charismatic know-it-all who knows just enough to give authoritative answers? LLM output often reminds me of such people
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
That's a strike against your character but I'll let it slip.
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
>"But seeing all governments are looking closely to regulate the coins, I believe it will be locked down just like the credit cards." The Bitcoin crowd is adamant that no government can regulate Bitcoin. They are correct in the
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
Plate tectonics created a serious rift in the Geology community, with both supporters and detractors citing serious faults.
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
This is a pet peeve of mine, but I dislike when any corporation resorts to using "One" to brand something. It signals a lack of creativity; it is just so bland.
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
Personal anecdote: As a child I played a lot of Sim City. In those games bridges must be perfectly straight and as a result I developed a mental model that curved bridges simply don't exist. When I first drove over a gently curved brid
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
I like to believe that, by definition, the only person who speaks English properly is the King of England. Everyone else has an accent.
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
Fascinating. Do you have a link to that, or the name of that species?
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
The JWST is a marvel of engineering. It is also a machine designed around the restrictions of what the most powerful rockets of the 1990's were capable of. Just imagine how capable future telescopes will be now that we have multiple su
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
As unsafe as it may be, I plan to just keep using Windows 10 past the EOL date this October. I practice reasonable discipline in regards to online security and I will just handle all of my sensitive accounts and login activity on my Mac. I
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
You can simply disable these by paying for the monthly SmartHome One™ Plus subscription.
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
Quite frankly, that quote sounds like the premise of some new Netflix original series.
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
I belonged to an organization that had password complexity requirements. That's normal and understandable. However one requirement was that no part of my password could contain a three character subsstring that was included in my ful
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
Computers refer to this as 'the Big Boot'.
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
I understand that many people yearn for a religious explanation to answer the question of what caused the universe to exist. I myself am content with the "it just happened" explanation, as any information prior to the big bang, if
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
I suspect ego played a part in Steve Jobs selecting Tim Cook as his successor. Famous CEO's tend to pick a successor that is less charismatic and more risk-averse than they were. CEO's that retire 'honorably', so to spea

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