prongletown

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by prongletown 7y ago
The branding is confusing. It gets worse, the deeper you get into car technology.
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by prongletown 7y ago
Because Audi views themselves as a performance brand over a luxury brand. They're also hungrier and thus more responsive to consumer demand. BMW allows carplay with a monthly subscription to the rest of their services, largely because
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by prongletown 7y ago
My comment is based on my interpretation of the original point. But I feel like you're pointlessly nitpicking, which is against the hn rules, so please read those.
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by prongletown 7y ago
I think you may be confusing Android Auto with Android for Cars. The former is the mobile app and headunit-only integration (audio controls) via video stream, which requires minimal integration with the vehicle. The other is Android repurpo
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by prongletown 7y ago
Not true. Depending on the state, many laws still apply, including: - Accessible Parking - Unlicensed driving (for example, shared private spaces such as parking lots) - Drunk driving
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by prongletown 7y ago
>eat well raised cow meat It takes significantly more feed to raise a cow. The calories extracted from cow meat is extremely inefficient considering the high number of calories in (feed) and water. So, you could not use feed (vegetable d
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by prongletown 7y ago
>We need to break their grip on the desktop/server/laptop market. I'm curious as to why you think this "needs" to happen? I have my own reasons, for example, openness of ISA and IP from up top at the browser all
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by prongletown 7y ago
Well, the point of the jungle is that we need to form a socialist worker's state. Instead, everyone freaked out about sausages. He had a quote along the lines of "I aimed for the heart and hit the stomach" edit: > "I
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by prongletown 7y ago
I've been a vegetarian for a few years. Part of the impetus for my choice was the lack of regulation and health code standards in this country. Recent news that the federal government is reducing inspection of meat really does scare me
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by prongletown 7y ago
People have been harping on "staying woke" and "cancel culture" as a way of criticizing changing values about sexual abuse and positions of power. When you dig into every case where you see this, there's almost alwa
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by prongletown 7y ago
This is not an issue of "staying woke". Arguing that statutory rape is "absurd" is not "staying woke". Stallman said some things that were deeply troubling to a lot of people, myself included. That aside... His
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by prongletown 7y ago
Apple is well documented (for it being a secret project) as throwing tons of resources into compelling AR products. I'm not saying they're going to succeed, but they're certainly trying - unlike Nokia, who was in the middle o
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by prongletown 7y ago
Apple has the resources, the install base, and (crucially) the data to make it happen. The "iPhone of AR" is probably going to be an iPhone.
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by prongletown 7y ago
I'm not making a moral judgement (FB is a big yikes), just technical. They'd have to: - build lists of every phone, including carrier variant and internal revisions (pretty common!), to make sure they could be sure they had a comp
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by prongletown 7y ago
>This wouldn't be possible in Linux, right? If you have read access, then yes. Conventional desktop and server linux distributions would allow this behavior. As does android. Good luck using dylibs without it, anyways. Since the and
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by prongletown 7y ago
I actually do. I have a couple of different silicone plugs with different capabilities, including hifi, low att, etc. They work, but it's annoying wearing them in all the time. I also have Sony XM3 adjusted to reduce most (not full) no
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by prongletown 7y ago
I have moderate hearing damage in one of my ears, mostly in the midrange according to audio graphs. Too many raves without hearing protection. I have lost the ability to hear people in bars, or the 200sqft tile room where the elevators are