StRoy

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by StRoy 10y ago
> - Teacher: It's unlikely any teaching will be done by an AI. Behavior management in particular is difficult enough with a human, let alone an AI. When an AI robot is teaching our students directly, we have bigger problems on our h
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by StRoy 10y ago
> Also, manufacturing jobs have _not_ been falling, far from it. > This all seems like a big ruse for globalists to use to lower wages and move jobs to the currently cheapest place, where ever that may be You are decades behind the t
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by StRoy 10y ago
> There are mental jobs being created at greater speed But not of the type that most of the population could ever do, and most of HN, possibly you, seem to think it too because HN tends to support the idea that things like H1B are needed
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by StRoy 10y ago
Free print news has existed since 2002 in France : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_minutes_(France) In actual print form. It seems even older in the US : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_newspap
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by StRoy 10y ago
> Actual reporters need to be paid :) The idea of free access to news is relatively recent, since wide-spread web access. Prior to that, people paid for subscriptions, or bought papers at new stands or from boxes. True for physical media
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by StRoy 10y ago
Which is not as convenient to use on larger phones, one handed, compared to a gesture that works anywhere on the web page. I have a Honor 8 and while overall I'm very satisfied with the apps, speediness of the phone, the lack of gestur
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by StRoy 10y ago
> I thought Chrome was famous for being a resource hog. That's only in comparison to Safari and Edge. If you open enough tabs to cause memory issues on Chrome, Firefox would have frozen and slowed down to a crawl before filling the
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by StRoy 10y ago
> Of course you can continue using Python 2.x after 2020 but you will receive no security/bug fixes. I keep seeing this irrelevant line all the time from Python 3 Ayatollah and High Priests. Python 2 isn't only CPython. So what
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by StRoy 10y ago
Film is automatically much worse any time you need higher sensitivity because of low light situations and can't use a tripod or need to capture a more mobile target. 400 iso film in 35mm format is noisier than any modern DSLR used in 3
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by StRoy 10y ago
Most of the weight is due to the toughened design, not the battery, actually. We are talking about laptops you can use as a weapon to bludgeon someone, then take with you to swim, and they'd still be in a working state. Actually you ca
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by StRoy 10y ago
> Not any more Actually that is still the case. He said "de facto" not "official". Imgur still represents the majority of image links on most subreddits. https://www.reddit.com/domain/i.imgur.com&
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by StRoy 10y ago
> For many of us, plastic does just fine. Probably not that many of you actually. When given the choices between more "noble" materials versus plastic at close prices, the market always sides so heavily against plastic that the
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by StRoy 10y ago
This kind of predictable reactions to specific human gestures.. I fear it will have great uses for certain type of crimes. What will you do if someone stops you with the purpose of assaulting _for eg, a robbery_ you and the car refuses to r
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by StRoy 10y ago
Talking about the rule of silence in GUIs, I wish I could slap the eurocrats who decided to force websites to show the cookie warning on a first visit of all websites. Did they even understand the consequence and wasted time of what they we
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by StRoy 10y ago
Without any conflict, uh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ > Nvidia has been the single worst company we've ever dealt with. > - Linus Kernel devs are antagonizing the only two GPU makers that matters.
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by StRoy 10y ago
I'm not old enough (and certainly wasn't in a household wealthy enough to afford it at the time) to know what's going on with the Lisa, but there was nothing with the Apple Tv, or Magic Mouse. For those products, we're s
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by StRoy 10y ago
> * C# is a far better language than Objective-C, and Visual Studio is a far better IDE than Xcode. C# is a nicer language, and VS a better IDE when it comes to language integration but.. the platform APIs are far more productive on OS X
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by StRoy 10y ago
Actually that was how some forms of alcohol used to be made, for example sake in Japan. > The first sake, kuchikami no sake, (口噛みの酒) or "mouth-chewed sake," was made by people chewing rice, chestnuts, millet, and acorns and spi
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by StRoy 10y ago
That's all really a software issue. The iPad Mini allows you to hold it even with your thumb touching the screen and it works perfectly fine, for example. http://www.slashgear.com/ipad-mini-thumb-rejection-technolog...
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by StRoy 10y ago
They only look luxurious from the exterior, the interior is really pitiful for the price when compared to a samely priced car from, say, BMW.
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by StRoy 10y ago
As someone who has owned the first LG Prada: please, don't. The LG Prada was nothing like the iPhone and I was glad to get rid of it by the time the iPhone 3G came out. First of all, the discussion here was about the design/look o