SkeuomorphicBee

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by SkeuomorphicBee 7d ago
Naming it like that would subjectively tie them to the release schedule of the main Iphone line, while I imagine such a niche device will have a much slower schedule between new versions. If that is the case, they would want to continue sel
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by SkeuomorphicBee 24d ago
Not for everyone in many places. Many carriers still only allow VoLTE for a limited alow-list of phone models. Any customers of those with less popular models still gets dropped to 3G calls.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 1mo ago
When discussing systems like the sequential vs the grid, the article misses one other important type of addressing: the metric system (used in most cities of Brazil for example). In this system the number are roughly the distance (in meters
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3mo ago
> When did the industry put the onus on the user to understand how the computer works? Just after the turn of the century, that was when there was a big shift in the industry to move all user interface design work to artists, and away fr
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4mo ago
(I was editing when you repplied so I'll add it here for you:) And just to add, you can have "chargeback" for PIX as a separate service, most banks offer PIX insurance that is basically CC chargeback by a different name. But
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4mo ago
That is by design. It separates the payment processor so it does just that, just payments. It is like money, once you give it to someone else there is no automatic way to fish it back from their pocket to yours. The correct avenue to deal w
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4mo ago
What makes Portugal's situation unique is that it is a small population that is eclipsed in models by the bigger weights of the much bigger population of Brazil. Yes, there are much smaller European countries, but those are generally t
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4mo ago
> Ethanol is not a good fuel source for something like a personal vehicle. It is about as good as gasoline (or better), Brazil has been running a good chunk of its personal car fleet on sugarcane alcohol for decades. Yes, EVs are better
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4mo ago
You are wrong and right. Wrong because Brazil DOES fuel cars on sugarcane alcohol. Most petrol stations in the country have pumps for sugarcane alcohol, nearly all the ICE cars sold in the last two decades have a flex engine (in the past yo
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by SkeuomorphicBee 5mo ago
My last phone was all glued and the entry point was the screen. The repair guy said there was a 50% chance the screen would break in trying to unglue it so it was not worth the try. It was a shame, it was a decent phone killed prematurely b
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by SkeuomorphicBee 1y ago
On my Debian system I use the flatpack version of Steam, it comes with the 32bit stuff inside the container, so you don't need any 32bit packages in the OS.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 1y ago
Not in C. In C signed integer overflow is underined behaviour that may or may not be compiled to the equivalent of mod arithmetic dependingonthe whims of the compiler.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 2y ago
It is like chocolate cigarettes, they are not real cigarettes, they don't have nicotine nor smoke, and yet they serve to present and normalize real cigarettes to kids, so there is an argument for banning them. Where you draw the line i
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by SkeuomorphicBee 2y ago
He was fined a billion dollars, but it will never be collected, he never lost a billion dollars. With this decision all his debts are pardoned and he gets to keep his megaphone, that is very "no consequences".
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by SkeuomorphicBee 2y ago
I cant speak for epileptics, but I do suffer from photosensitive migraines (which the author briefly mentioned in the article), and in my case failing flashing LED lights are indeed an issue. Luckily for me it is not as instantaneous as a s
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by SkeuomorphicBee 2y ago
That is great. Now they just need to add a easy way to alternate between different profiles on the same computer, because having to log-out and log-in every time you want to hand the controller to someone else in the family is a big hassle.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 2y ago
> "For the time and the media their CGI is pretty good. And yes, it's not perfect, but completely adequate to the time I think." I watched it then, and i can tell you that NO, it wasn't pretty good for the time nor th
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by SkeuomorphicBee 2y ago
For me the best feature of Celsius, the one that makes it much better for weather, is the zero on the freezing point of water. Everything changes in life when water start to freeze, roads get slippery, pipes burst, crops die. So it is impor
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by SkeuomorphicBee 2y ago
This is also fine for any long-running processes and servers where the "vector" in question is not expected to shrink its allocation, which I would guess is the main use of vectors. Shrinking a vector's allocation is a niche
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by SkeuomorphicBee 2y ago
What an utterly absurd judgment, that should have no place on a free society. They have a literal kidnapping/assassination plot, and yet the Judge considers it all above board and that it doesn't show any prejudice.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
>Use attribute selectors to convey unicity. > /* Do */ > [id="main"] { max-width: 80ch; } > /* Don't */ > #main { Max-width: 80ch; } I strongly disagree with this kind of guideline. Th
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Interesting how it can be different from person to person, mine looks nothing like that. For me it is not colourful, the border feels more like gray TV static than the rainbow in the video. Or sometimes it feels like a black and white strip
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
> Seems like it’d be more productive to reduce attrition of this sort by releasing a Switch with less-anemic hardware. That is difficult for Nintendo, the GPU architecture used on the switch is long dead, so Nintendo has no easy way of r
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Exactly, Chinas biggest secret is to lean on economies of scale. In case of transit they standardised early-on on only five types of train/rail-corridor and then whenever a city needed a metro, lightrail or any other type of rail trans
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
> Putin is not some crazy drugged up megalomaniac. Morality aside, his moves are clearly rational and shows a high level of sophistication. Nothing rational or sophisticated about trying to build a 19th century style land empire in the 2
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
That upplays the financial incentives and downplays the psychological incentives. Cops seize stuff not only to have the money or shiny stuff, but also for the rare trill of punishing "bad people". In their job it is extremely rare
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
I lived thought the Brazilian hi inflation periods of the late 80s and early 90s, and I remember some interesting workarounds that people adopted: - People kept a mental model of prices in dollar, especially for expensive not day to day ite
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
That is throwing the baby out with the bath water. The amount of fraud doesn't justify creating such burden on users. The problem is there is a market failure in the form of misaligned interests (the provider's best interest is to
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Looking from the outside I would guess this is one of the big reasons for the "missing middle" [1] (lack of medium-density housing) in most North American cities. It is simply not economically feasible to build a small to medium s
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Your mundane explanation misses the main point that perfect security can't exist while maintainint function. It is not just a matter of cost cutting, it is a (sort of) fundamental law that security and usability are opposite ends of a

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