superpie

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by superpie 2y ago
[ Speaking Spanish ]
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by superpie 4y ago
A manual transmission does have one upside. It creates engagement around the experience of driving, which I believe is something many vehicles lack. I sound like [old man yells at cloud], but people just do not seem to be paying attention t
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by superpie 5y ago
It seems this is more likely for devices that are stationary but limited to battery power. Off the top of my head, I could imagine replacing the battery in my electronic front door lock with a tidy hardwire to avoid the need for occasional
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by superpie 7y ago
It's fantastic that he provided a place to host code for game modders / developers as well, I definitely spent years of my life playing http://svn.icculus.org/tremulous/
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by superpie 7y ago
While I'm for blocking malicious ads, I'm not huge on the idea of one of the biggest advertising companies deciding what ads get blocked in the world's most popular browser.
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by superpie 7y ago
This seems horrendously expensive at $36 per user per year to incentivize basic community tasks. Maybe it just doesn't fit into my world, where we do things like put dishes in the dishwasher as we use them and put them away when they&#
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by superpie 7y ago
Almost everything they design seems to require a case as well, which contradicts the spirit of the wonderful looking products they sell. Camera bumps that scrape against tables on all of the iDevices, and laptop feet so shallow that the bot
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by superpie 7y ago
Facebook sort-of-recently introduced measures to defeat ad blockers, which I think has greatly increased the number of clicks.
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by superpie 7y ago
A while back I'd explored trying to own my data, especially with email, and found that the efforts involved in hosting your own email server were tantamount to a full-time job. The amount of fighting you have to do to stay on everyone&
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by superpie 7y ago
Not a fan of the predatory "Sign up for a 7 day free trial, and if you forget to cancel we'll bill you $60 for the year membership" system. It's also a week trial, but the AI takes 8 workouts to learn -- not great for a
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by superpie 8y ago
Michael Crichton did this in State of Fear. It was page after page of graphs, graphs, more graphs, with long detailed explanations. It really put me off of reading his books.
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by superpie 8y ago
Randall's book "What If?," which is a collection of these absurd hypotheticals, is for sale on Amazon for $3 right now. I've got it, it's a fun read. Edit: I should add that it's the eBook.
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by superpie 8y ago
I've heard that carbonation in some drinks acts as a more efficient alcohol delivery system, so mixing heavily carbonated drinks (beer) with higher proof ones (liquor) will maximize absorption and potentially lead to a stronger intoxic
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by superpie 8y ago
This is pure speculation, but I wonder if this has anything to do with the AirPower wireless charging mat's development?
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by superpie 8y ago
They did post a writeup here: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/ Although, I expected to see a notice after my own tokens had been reset by Facebook before or after logging back into m
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by superpie 8y ago
Has anyone found the full text of this tax funded study published anywhere that's not charging $35 to read it?
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by superpie 8y ago
Some car manufacturers sell ash trays as "add-on" items at the dealer since that space can be used more practically for the non-smoking majority.
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by superpie 10y ago
That mobile revolution still relies largely on cloud compute platforms, I feel that this is more like building better destinations for automobiles to go to.
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by superpie 13y ago
It really does bother me that few people these days are concerned about actual sound quality. At my local Best Buy, there is an entire isle dedicated to headphones with about a dozen on display and connected to a central music box. This mus
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by superpie 13y ago
I feel that with low enough risk rates, prevalence in new battery products will still increase to the point that Lithium Ion and similar high end batteries are currently at. When cell phones and laptops were making frequent news stories by
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by superpie 13y ago
"But all the other kids are doing it, mom!"
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by superpie 13y ago
What I want to know is, why are these systems accessible from the public internet in the first place?