alistairSH

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by alistairSH 7d ago
Have you tried using a 3rd party photo app (like Halide)?
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by alistairSH 7d ago
I just want the extra (vs non-Ultras) button THAT'S ALREADY THERE to allow mapping to "lap". Blew my mind that wasn't possible when I went to try one at the apple store. LOL @ downvoting this of all things.
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by alistairSH 7d ago
An "Ultra Mini" with a proper lap button would open my wallet very quickly.
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by alistairSH 7d ago
Sure, I guess, but I don't have a Mini, or any tablet for that matter. I used to and found the form factor didn't meet my needs. I'm happier with a phone and a laptop.
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by alistairSH 7d ago
Slightly better for documents and spreadsheets? Although I have a laptop for those, so... I guess I'm not the target audience.
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by alistairSH 7d ago
It's also more than the cost of an iPhone Pro + a MacBook Neo (or several other combinations). I'm just not seeing the value proposition for a $2000 phone. I already can't comfortably hold or type single-handed on the normal-
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by alistairSH 7d ago
yeah, not sure what the right answer here is... but it definitely isn't "trust us, we would never lie (fingers crossed behind back)". What does a non-AI company do? If I emailed Tim Cook and said I had a gun and was coming fo
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by alistairSH 7d ago
1b. Anthroptic refused to provide the police with evidence of said AR-15 wielding person. "Some guy said he's after me, why would I lie about such a thing?"
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by alistairSH 8d ago
That's fair, but the United announcements had enough detail and were timed with obvious crew movement (flight, gate, mechanical), so all seemed plausible enough. Maybe they were just blowing smoke up our collective ass, but a few deta
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by alistairSH 8d ago
In the past year, I've flown for vacation twice, with delays on one leg of each. First one, United flight from IAD to SJU, 4-5 hour delay, mechanical issue, with updates from the gate agent every 45 minutes or so, basically keeping us
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by alistairSH 8d ago
Like the sibling said, you have to look at large monitors or commercial displays. But both tend to cost a lot more for similar features (due to not having ad revenue attached, I assume) or have other compromises. The best options seems to
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by alistairSH 8d ago
I'm confused, the article claims the TVs are uploading data when offline? That's is literally impossible. Are they using a different definition of offline from normal people?
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by alistairSH 8d ago
IIRC, BT does this in the UK (via the EE Wifi program).
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by alistairSH 8d ago
Lack of access to the public doesn't necessarily mean there's an expectation of privacy. Criminals in jail typically have far less expectation of privacy in the US. That's been upheld by SCOTUS. Guards are (mostly) free to en
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by alistairSH 12d ago
What liberty am I trading? The government already knows who I am.
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by alistairSH 14d ago
Whatever society needs... this is why we have elections and stuff. Really, the broader point is I'm tired of giving away massive chunks of my PII (SSN, DL copies, etc) instead of just having something from the government that will say
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by alistairSH 15d ago
Not just that, but they go as far as claiming that single-use Solo cups are more environmentally than using a mug. Literally anything made cheap and quick and with little energy is better by their calculus. Doesn't pass the sniff test
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by alistairSH 15d ago
Not sure how you jump from "ID with chip" to "AI-based drone and camera network". We can do one without the other.
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by alistairSH 15d ago
Which is insane. The federal government already knows who we are, via SSN, tax returns, and whatever else. The state already knows via tax returns, driver's license, and whatever else. If we, collectively, don't want a true natio
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by alistairSH 16d ago
Huh, glad I grabbed my Neo two weeks ago. It's the "top" spec version, but still a good bit less than a MBA - seemed like a pretty reasonable replacement for the M1 iPadPro it replaced (wanted to go back to a normal laptop v
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by alistairSH 17d ago
Fair enough ;)
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by alistairSH 17d ago
And I'll admit I watch his shows. The first two seasons of Clarkson's Farm were good TV. And with May and Hammond, he provided years of entertainment for car enthusiasts. None of which should excuse his boorish behavior off-scree
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by alistairSH 17d ago
He might be a treasure, but's he's also a prick. He has a long history of letting his on-screen persona leak into meatspace (or maybe it's the other way around) and that's not a good thing. Edit - since people seem to no
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by alistairSH 20d ago
Where do you draw the line between money and speech? IE, would you "simply" ban all political advertising completely - one can scream from a soapbox and that's it?
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by alistairSH 20d ago
Corporations are just groups of people. That's the logic. The problem isn't "corporations can do the same thing as people." The problem is anybody (solo or as a group) can legally run an unrestricted indirect campaign.
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by alistairSH 22d ago
creep I think the word you're looking for is "sociopath."
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by alistairSH 22d ago
"Nobody" puts down 20%. That hasn't been a requirement for decades (in the US). And there are plenty of places in the US where you can buy a house for $150-$200k. Maybe not places you want to live for one reason or another, b
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by alistairSH 22d ago
Detroit, Cleveland, etc. Basically huge swaths of the rust belt. Plus a smattering of small towns in the south.
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by alistairSH 22d ago
Sounds broken, somehow. The M1 iPad Pro I just traded in worked fine. Traded it for a Neo and the Neo does some stuff faster, but for day-to-day casual use, it's not notably different.
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by alistairSH 22d ago
That appeared to be the norm in Italy when we visited earlier this summer. Most of the main towns in Puglia seemed to have at least one pay-per-use toilet.

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