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by arijun 7d ago
Yes? I don't trust big corporations for a lot, but I do trust them to act in their own self interest. If they are all doing something, I would assume they know better than me (or other couch economists) what makes them more money. I do
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by arijun 7d ago
The video they have showing off taking photos has one scene where they open the phone like a laptop to hold the phone to take a photo. That means the front screen was face down on the concrete. Has the durability of the displays gone way up
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by arijun 10d ago
I mean, regular employees have done that as well. As with any risk, it’s possible that the probability•cost is less than reward. And since it seems most large tech companies are using the technology despite those risks, I will have to defer
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by arijun 10d ago
How much thinking is going on beyond the spoken-aloud “thinking”? Does it have enough capability to have goals it doesn’t express explicitly? I suspect not, but I’m no expert.
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by arijun 13d ago
That is my understanding as well. But having another band allows for error correction as a side benefit.
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by arijun 13d ago
The noise wouldn't be significantly lower during takeoff/landing, only during taxi, right? Good for workers on the tarmac, but doesn't get rid of the largest noise pollution issue.
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by arijun 13d ago
Oh interesting, I think I conflated two things; Selective Availability and the military-only bands on GPS. While it's true that access to the military band could improve accuracy with dual-band receivers, consumer devices can use dual-
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by arijun 13d ago
It seems that all the device manufacturers (they mention Apple, Samsung, and Google) are using BeiDou anyway. I don't know if that includes Garmin watches, though. https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-agency-probe
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by arijun 13d ago
> BeiDou GPS blows away US GPS for number of sats and precision Both BeiDou and GPS are supposed to be limited to 10m precision for civilians. But, going down a rabbit hole, I found that BeiDou is way more accurate than 10m--3.6m and
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by arijun 16d ago
> You talk about poison, but that is pure lie I think it's fairly well accepted that the high obesity rates are caused by the shifting American diet. Yes it's more available than the 1950s (although I suspect not terribly so),
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by arijun 17d ago
> Anyone who did and could do so turned it off immediately I know I’m not alone as someone who’s bothered by the postscript, but too lazy to do anything but delete it every time. There’s even an entire (well part of) song about it: http
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by arijun 18d ago
Just because it's not in the title and most people won't be scrolling all the way down: its only enabled for web and Remote Control sessions, per a maintainer.
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by arijun 21d ago
Because it doesn't do the job well. It's difficult to send any media, group chats are a pain, international messages often incur fees, it doesn't work on wifi-only, and so on.
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by arijun 21d ago
The points I was raising have long time frames, there hasn't been enough time to see if they've succeeded. "So far global warming hasn't caused catastrophic damage to our crop outputs, looks like everything's workin
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by arijun 21d ago
Do you have opinions on laws surrounding abortion in a state you don't live in? People can and often do have valid opinions about things that don't directly concern them. I will say I'm not sure my opinion is one of them--I e
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by arijun 21d ago
I'm not from NYC (nor do I have the same difficulty seeing past politics that gp seems to have), so I didn't research this stuff so closely. But from what I saw, it seemed that a lot of his policies seemed populist. - Rent freezes
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by arijun 25d ago
They shot down some drones and lent an army base? Hardly rousing support. If I’m not mistaken, Jordan also shot down some drones, are they next up? I’ll agree with gp, in any case seems unwise to give the UK cause to further involve themsel
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by arijun 1mo ago
I mean, it seems likely repetition could help it stick for a point they really don't want it to screw up on. Also, I'm not sure e.g. sexting with a fictional minor would be considered criminal, but it is likely something they stil
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by arijun 1mo ago
Any in-ear headphones can cause ear infections from prolonged use, the airtight seal makes for a nice humid environment bacteria like. The solution is to not wear them as long, especially right after a shower or the like, when there is extr
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by arijun 1mo ago
A true Mobius strip doesn't have "sides" like the paper model of one does. You can see that in the quote from Martin Gardner where he talks about a creature completing a loop becoming a mirror image with respect to it's
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by arijun 2mo ago
Does anyone know how they’re monetizing it? Are they planning on selling the terminal multiplexer?
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by arijun 2mo ago
You simply add 3.67, multiply by .27, and then subtract 1.0. Easy.
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by arijun 2mo ago
Are you logged in? I think they generally don't let people use old.reddit not logged in. I use all three of those. > apple security... requiring you to install the app It's the reddit website that freezes me out, nothing to do
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by arijun 2mo ago
Side note--is there any way to access reddit now for people who refuse to log in or get the app? Old reddit asks tells me I have to use new reddit for "security" and new reddit says "Get the app to keep using Reddit".
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by arijun 2mo ago
An interesting analogue to "What color are your bits" in the tech world, as well as a direct disproof of your "two identical numbers are the same bits" statement (although perhaps only technically so), is the idea of pro
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by arijun 2mo ago
You don't think Americans care about cost savings, with how much they complain about gasoline prices?
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by arijun 2mo ago
Exactly. The vast majority of the launching torque comes from the electric motor, even if there is no battery at all.
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by arijun 2mo ago
> the gas will just spin without driving the wheels ... and instead drive one of the motors, generating electricity to power the other motor to push the car forward. I feel like that video you're mentioning did a poor job if it didn
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by arijun 2mo ago
What do you imagine happens if the battery is low and the car wants to start from a stop? The engine can't shift down to first so it would just stall out if you tried to use it to drive the driveshaft directly, and there's no othe
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by arijun 2mo ago
> you climb quite high, especially in areas with serious terrain. Interesting, thanks. > In our theoretical aircraft with batteries, mass is the same. The fuel that's expended during cruise reduces the mass.

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