starky

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by starky 4d ago
How are you deciding if a test applies to your case? I can't do that from the subjective testing that he does. At best you have a comparison that Phone X is maybe stronger than Phone Y since there are no measurements taken to ensure co
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by starky 4d ago
You determine what specifications you want to test the product to and develop a test plan to test those specifications in a repeatable and methodical way. Ideally you use industry standard tests that allow for more direct comparisons, but i
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by starky 7d ago
I mean, we still have the ridiculous separation between the Macbook Pro and iPad Pro with the same processors where you have to choose between a fully featured OS or a touchscreen. We are a long way from an iPhone being used in that way.
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by starky 7d ago
The entire presentation fell into the uncanny valley for me. Not only was the presentation flat, but the appearance of the video just felt off for the entire presentation. At one point I was questioning if they were going for something that
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by starky 7d ago
JerryRigEverything drives me absolutely nuts as someone that works in product design. His tests have zero basis in reality and don't actually test whether a product will survive daily use. I wouldn't take anything from his videos
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by starky 7d ago
I still think that there are very few examples of apps that utilize tablets well even among the apps that aren't stretched phone apps. I don't know if it is the ergonomics of the large screen or what, but the experience of using a
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by starky 17d ago
I had just enough issues with archinstall the last time I tried it that I went back to EndeavourOS which essentially gets you a GUI installer and some pre-installed utilities on the stock Arch install. The only significant change I'm a
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by starky 20d ago
No I don't actually see it, but I can clearly think of the concept of it down to the details and can alter that concept in space (like spinning the globe in Google Earth). What happens when you think of memories? Like imagine the feeli
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by starky 27d ago
>The complaint here is about lazy answers. But what about all the lazy questions? >What's the equivalent of "Google it yourself" these days? When you ask something of somebody, the expectation of the other side to drop
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by starky 29d ago
I've used mailbox.org for a few years and been quite happy with it. Its definitely more basic than Fastmail or Proton, but it meets my needs perfectly. They did recently increase their storage from 10GB to 20GB (along with a price incr
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by starky 1mo ago
Most of the sites I have accounts on did let me change my email. Looking at my password manager, about 1/5 of those that use email for login don't use my current email. I wouldn't say it is easier than expected though, loggin
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by starky 1mo ago
>Contactless payment is simplifying some of that. But you still, for example, have the need to tap out in some places but not others The tapping out thing can be so confusing, even as someone that uses transit a lot. I was traveling rece
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by starky 1mo ago
I'm pretty sure this is a purposeful "feature" of security at least for North America. They don't want anyone getting comfortable with the process and constantly make changes to ensure this. I'm not sure what this i
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by starky 1mo ago
We have a training thing at work that sends out phishing emails and you are supposed to report them using a handy button in the email app. If they are training emails you get a good job website that pops up. I greatly enjoy reporting every
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by starky 1mo ago
The MSG health panic was racism against Chinese people and their restaurants, nothing to do with health. So many foods and sauces contain glutamic acid yet nobody is complaining about their health being impacted when they eat them: Meat, To
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by starky 2mo ago
This is a good way of putting it. People who advocate for over-engineering don't consider cost-benefit vs not doing it. This is where FMEA analysis comes in when developing products, you assign values for severity, occurrence, and dete
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by starky 2mo ago
>But for me the take away still is: “hardware is as hard as you make it”. I dislike this statement. Hardware is as hard as the product dictates it needs to be. A 25 component PCBA and a clamshell of 2 injection molded parts is about as s
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by starky 2mo ago
Seriously, microSD cards are the second worst hardware component to have to deal with (first being labels). For being a "standard" you end up with cards that are subtly but significantly different from each other, the slots are AL
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by starky 2mo ago
That is awesome. I worked at a bowling alley as a mechanic in high school (Brunswick A2) and got a sense of how stupid expensive the replacement equipment was. At one point another employee spilled their coffee over the keyboard used to con
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by starky 2mo ago
>People think this doesn’t matter, but GoPros are used all over in aerospace. If we replaced the brand with Insta360, that puts a big attack vector all over the place. I'm actually surprised to hear that GoPro is used in aerospace a
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by starky 2mo ago
It seems like every recommendation algorithm gets into a state that is broken eventually. For the music streaming services, I find they end up in one of two states, either it shows me the exact same artists and songs over and over again eve
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by starky 2mo ago
The functionality is literally built into both Android and iOS. For example, I've got some of my self-hosted services linked on my home screen. On Firefox for Android you just browse to the site, click the 3 dots, and then under more i
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by starky 3mo ago
This is China's massive differentiator than anywhere else. They have impeccable supply chain management. You will find that certain items are almost always made in the same city. Shenzhen (and surrounding area) is just the hub for elec
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by starky 3mo ago
It depends on how you look at it. I've traveled all around Asia visiting different factories for projects over the years. After some time, factories just tend to blend together, big rooms filled with machines where materials come in on
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by starky 3mo ago
I'm pretty strongly in the camp of trust the science and measurements for audio stuff. Thus I suspect its mostly just better sounding masters, but I was shocked at how much I noticed the sound quality of Tidal compared to Spotify when
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by starky 3mo ago
This doesn't answer the most burning question I have, which is why the wind-up gear has the spiral around the shaft...
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by starky 3mo ago
>In simulations, their approach solved 99% of Wordle puzzles, while the traditional method solved just 90%. This seems wrong to me, getting a 98%+ solve rate for Wordle is pretty common.
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by starky 4mo ago
I've definitely made the effort when traveling for work to always say "Bill of Materials" if I'm doing any work in an airport.
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by starky 4mo ago
Tourism is a huge benefit for many places and brings lots of money into their economy. But at the same time over-tourism can significantly harm locals and the environment. My photo example is just a example anecdote that proved a point, bei
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by starky 4mo ago
>Usually explained by a different time of week/year/month I hadn't thought about that and checked the dates of the photos I took on both trips. Coincidentally apparently I was there within a week of exactly 10 years apart!

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