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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
> A killer app for me would be floating name tags above people's heads, but I imagine that would require better HW than what is available here. This is a societal issue, more than a HW/SW issue. Google Glass explicitly bans thi
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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
Burger King ends every commercial with “you rule!”. I don’t believe them and build my life around what they say either.
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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
They aren’t telling you to “become bitter and cynical”, they’re saying to be realistic. Life isn’t fair, and part of growing up is realizing that.
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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
> When it comes to things like FLoC (now Topics) [1] the privacy implications of having an agile standards board are more important than ever, and may actually have significant impacts on people's physical safety. This sounds like n
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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
> Good on the author for acknowledging (twice) that not everyone shares their sense of aesthetics. I disagree. For example: > unless you like them, I'm not questioning anyone's personal taste This type of soft-pedaling is to
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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
You’re right, that would make no sense. That’s why my reading is that he’s referring to the satellite photos, not airplane.
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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
Why would you correct someone about what they call themselves? That seems incredibly condescending.
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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
> the person failed pretty hard How did they “fail” when you plowed right into them?
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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
From TFA: Scientists have put forth some theories to explain why mosquitoes swarm to some of us more than others, including one idea that differences in blood type must be to blame. Evidence is weak for this link, however, Vosshall says.
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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
This is wrong. There are plenty of ads outside of the App Store, like: - There are adds for iCloud in the Settings app. - There are ads for Apple News in the Stocks app.
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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
“There’s evidence that Black boys are more likely to be suspended for the same behaviors as other children, right?” This feels like a statement that needs some serious backing up, since the implication is that most teachers are racist. Assu
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Biden announces student loan relief for borrowers making less than $125,000(cnn.com)
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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
> I feel like by selling to a company like Amazon that the rug is being pulled out from beneath me. I am truly disappointed in this move and all the people involved. How so? What promises were made by iRoomba when you bought it about t
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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
> The agenda for LGBT rights movement? Marriage equality in law. You’ve got a clear goal. I think a lot of people wish it was that simple. Instead, the progressive trans movement has crept into sports, prisons, spas, toy aisles, etc. whi
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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
> As someone who doesn't usually like to accept gifts from random strangers I'm dubious this happens enough for you to even have an opinion about it. What sorts of gifts are random strangers giving you?
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by atomicUpdate 4y ago
> I spent a few hundred hours trying to figure it out, but ended up liking 2000 better. The complicated mechanics in 4 destroyed much of the fun. A few hundred hours is an insane amount of time to spend on a game where much of the fun wa
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by atomicUpdate 5y ago
You can opt out of the Find My network: https://www.igeeksblog.com/how-find-my-network-work/
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by atomicUpdate 5y ago
> That's a valid argument, I wasn't aware absolute hospitalization numbers <30 were this low. And yet you were more than willing to make the baseless claim in the first place, which is one of the biggest issues with all of t
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by atomicUpdate 5y ago
It doesn’t matter if it improves fire safety, since wood frame houses are already safe to live in. There is a point of diminishing returns that a change like this clearly goes beyond.
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by atomicUpdate 5y ago
I really hope this is sarcasm.
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by atomicUpdate 5y ago
The results of the study are that more orphans were created by the lockdowns than covid.
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by atomicUpdate 5y ago
Virtue signaling. The same thing that drives most of Twitter.
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by atomicUpdate 5y ago
> Google must write an app that works on that device. Why? Saying they must support Roku devices is a pretty firm (and strange) stance to take. Where does the line get drawn on what devices they do or don't have to support? >
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by atomicUpdate 5y ago
> Use the settings app for settings, so they don’t clutter your app. I’m glad most app don’t do this, except for where they have to for notifications, etc. It’s really unintuitive to go to another app to adjust settings for an app you’re
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by atomicUpdate 6y ago
I suspect this news will get far less attention than the initial changes, so Apple still gets (almost) all of the good PR from the change without actually hurting the app developers. They certainly still get to claim they are focused on pri
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by atomicUpdate 6y ago
You mean Google: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
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by atomicUpdate 6y ago
Should we store the exhaust used to transport your food, clothes, etc. in your house also? Seems unfair to punish the delivery man for your consumption.
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by atomicUpdate 6y ago
ANGLE is OpenGL ES 3.1 conformant with the Vulkan backend, which runs on Windows, Android, and Linux. A Metal backend was also added recently, though it doesn’t get nearly as much attention as D3D or Vulkan. Seems like fixing their ANGLE in
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by atomicUpdate 7y ago
The estimates place 5-10k people died from suicide alone due to the 2008 recession. Others claim at least 10x that due to lack of health insurance and subsequent health care, so missed cancer diagnoses, treatment, etc. I would not be surpri
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by atomicUpdate 7y ago
> vs the chaos that could entail if they didn't A campus full of runny noses for a couple weeks? These are overwhelmingly young people of which the vast majority would be perfectly fine.

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