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by grvbck 4d ago
As far as I know, watermarks never took off because the technical complexity and lack of standardization. Nielsen researched and developed ACR technology but it never required watermarks. When Nielsen first started collecting data (1950s),
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by grvbck 7d ago
3G also got gps and the app store. I'd say that was a pretty significant upgrade. MacBook Air -> MacBook Air 2: unibody aluminum construction replaced plastic, ssd option introduced. iPad -> iPad 2: cut thickness and weight by 30
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by grvbck 7d ago
Yes, but 1:√2 keeps the ratio even when you rotate the screen vertically. A folded 1:1 screen becomes 2:1 when "unfolded" and the area doubles, so you can go from showing one 1:1 window to two 1:1 windows side by side. But when ro
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by grvbck 7d ago
The touch bar was not a bad invention. Apple just neglected it and never gave it the software support it deserved. With some proper development it could have been great.
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by grvbck 18d ago
Thanks to your comment TIL that snow algae is a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_algae
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by grvbck 2mo ago
No, I tried to be pretty clear that "at least one side got caught" is not always better than "nobody got caught" if corruption dictates who gets caught.
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by grvbck 2mo ago
I understand that perspective to some degree, but imagine a hypothetical country with say, two parties in power, where prosecutors only crack down on white collar criminals if they are supporters of one party and not the other. We would cal
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by grvbck 2mo ago
Wireless Router or Wireless Router Technology is the common interpretation, but to my knowledge, Linksys has never officially confirmed this.
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by grvbck 3mo ago
Sure, a common use of bread, potatoes, cabbage/other vegetables, hearty meat dishes etc but the Polish kitchen is closer to Ukrainian/Russian in technique/ingredients. Barszcz, pierogi, fermented everything, pickles, sour rye
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by grvbck 3mo ago
I really want to like this, but does it bring anything new to the table? I see the same low-effort buzzwords I've seen on other "dumb" phones. And the design…it looks like a Motorola.
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by grvbck 4mo ago
It is a rabbit hole. I just checked the latest release of GiMP (3.2.4). The "GiMP built-in sRGB" profile is supposed to be a functional match to the ArgyllCMS sRGB color space – the true sRGB profile according to the addendum in t
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by grvbck 5mo ago
I'd bet my money on no. To my understanding, those hallucinations are basically brain-level disturbances in perception, where the brain does its best to fill in ambiguous activity with known objects. So I guess if you've never see
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by grvbck 5mo ago
> This masterpiece by an unknown artist Not unknown. It is signed "G. Clement", for Gerald Clement. The title is "Lesson 3d" because it actually is the third lesson in a tutorial for MacGrid, a software developed by C
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by grvbck 5mo ago
> You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts. Continues to tell us how he did listen to the advice because the editor actually had a point that made the story better, got the book published and won him an award.
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by grvbck 5mo ago
On one of my first qualified jobs, my manager (a lovely older lady) did exactly this. All incoming emails were printed and put into a binder. Then she would go home, write an answer with a pen on the back side of every single one, and on th
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by grvbck 5mo ago
Broken calculator or am I missing something here? Macbook Air M2 8GB 12h/day -> $647/month Mac Mini M4 32GB 12h/day -> $290/month I mean, I'd be happy to buy a few used M2 Airs with minimal s
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by grvbck 5mo ago
Not strictly DIY because a professional anodizing workshop did the actual anodizing, but cool results nevertheless: https://lowendmac.com/2024/ryan-andersons-colorized-anodized...
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by grvbck 5mo ago
That is really poorly worded by Apple, because if I understand it correctly, the "Files & Folders" list is just a list of apps that have requested Full Disk Access/FDA (or other locations). It's really confusing th
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by grvbck 5mo ago
Won't those cut right through the ANC just by volume alone? A domestic fire alarm is 85–120 dB, I don't think my airpods can mute that. And of course there will always be fringe cases. What if I go to sleep with regular foam earpl
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by grvbck 5mo ago
> imagine if you were at the grocery store, blocking the isle and someone lightly chimed a bell at you instead of just saying "excuse me" Greetings from Sweden, where some people will verbally announce "honk honk" (tu
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by grvbck 5mo ago
I don't know… If I'm sitting at home or at a cafe working, I want my headphones to block all bicycle bells and ambulances on the street. Those in traffic could perhaps just turn their ANC off?
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by grvbck 5mo ago
For anyone that wants to actually hear the bell before reading all the marketing material: Bell sound starts at 2:09 in the video.
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by grvbck 6mo ago
> Things leave your field a view much faster than anticipated. Not sure about that. NASA has been using Kineto Tracking Mounts and ROTI (radar-assisted and optical tracking) since 1981. Those systems were developed for the Columbia launc
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President's new science council: 9 billionaires and 1 scientist(scientificamerican.com)
53 points by grvbck 6mo ago|15 comments
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by grvbck 6mo ago
That's what I was thinking too. A clock without any culture-specific aspects could just rely on astronomy. The most objective form of that would just be a progress bar, from zenith to zenith. Perhaps with a marker half-way, and so on.
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by grvbck 6mo ago
Most likely Ansel Adams, famous landscape photographer.
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by grvbck 6mo ago
> you can put panels on your rooftop and slow charge it during the day The real Mad Max will be roaming the apocalyptic wasteland in a Kia EV5.
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by grvbck 7mo ago
For now it's in-house counsel Jeffrey Bleich, former special counsel to President Obama. https://www.inc.com/chris-morris/legal-legend-leading-anthro...
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by grvbck 7mo ago
> what exactly are you looking for? File management that doesn't suck, incl. better handling of external drives.
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by grvbck 7mo ago
My 2010 Macbook Pro with 8GB works still. Not a daily driver anymore, but Word, Excel, Lightroom, Garageband, MainStage etc work just fine. Youtube videos up to 1080p play without stuttering in Floorp. It's not quick, but it is useable

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