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throwaway54_56
3y ago
I understand the problems with people using your email to register for sites. My confusion was the claim that verifying the email for some random stranger causes fewer problems than ignoring the verification email.
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
I have seen patents. The whole point is to share a method of doing something, in return for exclusive use of that method for a period of time. That's the theory, anyway.
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
> Violating patents is one thing, as you're only violating the concept/idea, but the implementation is still up to you The concept/idea is not what is patented. The patent is (or should be) for the specific execution of th
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
Less of an ad and more of a "here, watch this instead"
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
Yes, but I don't understand what problem that poses for him. After he verifies the incorrect email address, they have full functionality.
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
I get these every so often and I'm curious what you mean my ignore at your own peril. My approach has been to ignore it and assume they will realize their mistake and reregister.
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
24 fps is the standard for cinema because that gives the preferred look for most content, with nice looking motion blur and whatnot. High frame rate may make sense for some movies, but it's not a win for the whole industry to go 48 or
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
Here, here. I'm a bigger fellow than average, and the best size for me is the smallest one I can fit in comfortably.
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
> “We find that three years of security and OS updates still provides users with a great experience for their device.” Terrible non-answer. It's a great experience for the first three years and then the experience becomes much less
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
I'm not underestimating the impact of the switch and I am as in favor of it now as I was years ago. All else being equal, I would go for the USB-C device every time. The point I was trying to make was that an android phone having USB-C
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
The charging cable was obviously not the leading factor when the purchase decision was made. It doesn't matter much that a different platform that runs different software and has different capabilities had models available with USB-C.
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
The lifespan of those phones remains for the people that buy them used/refurbished. There is a strong secondary market for iPhones.
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
I moved a mile away from my old house and had to switch cable providers. I preferred the old one, but apparently I crossed the boundary.
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
I'm not a contract expert by any means, but this is what it says on the order page: "The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous. The activation and use of these features
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
Subscription is a pretty generic term and it means the same with apple as it does everywhere else.
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
"We" doing some heavy lifting here
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throwaway54_56
3y ago
> It's just like a phone call from 30 years ago Disagree that it's the same at all. Sending discrete messages at your leisure is quite a different experience than a real-time conversation.
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throwaway54_56
4y ago
I think "touch based" is used here to mean knobs and buttons, not a touch screen.
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throwaway54_56
4y ago
I was able to order a pi 4 B+ this morning by watching this site. They sell very quickly once listed so it took couple weeks before I could land one. https://rpilocator.com/
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throwaway54_56
4y ago
If their efforts yielded minimal results, somebody else must have had success. Online discord seems to have been sown somehow.