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28uwedj commented on YouTuber builds his own x-ray machine after $69k hospital bill (2021)   popularmechanics.com/tech... · Posted by u/ck2
jedimastert · 4 years ago
> He just could move to Canada or Europe

You know it consistently baffled me that someone can look at a person who struggles to pay a hospital bill and think that moving to a different country is a viable option.

28uwedj · 4 years ago
When the moving cost is 1/100th of the hospital bill. really? this baffles you? it's an investment.
28uwedj commented on Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses (2020)   blog.jonlu.ca/posts/ninte... · Posted by u/lord_sudo
todd3834 · 4 years ago
Not too long ago I was still supporting old versions of IE because employees for large chain we built software for would not allow them to upgrade their computers
28uwedj · 4 years ago
sounds like the government.
28uwedj commented on War stories: how Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation (2020)   arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/vector_spaces
fps_doug · 4 years ago
It's still magic though, isn't it? The hardware was slower and more limited, but at the same time the GPU wasn't event that much of a GPU by today's standards, for example. You had to do a lot of what modern GPUs do for you by yourself, on the CPU, sacrificing even more of what little performance it had.

A modern dev would wonder how on earth he's gonna get Node.js plus a thousand npm packages running on this so he can create a WebGL context to start making a game. ;)

28uwedj · 4 years ago
You are confusing a development machine with a production machine. You think they developed these games on those systems?
28uwedj commented on Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System   kodi.tv/... · Posted by u/dkobran
28uwedj · 4 years ago
Stremio is way better.
28uwedj commented on Man Creates Traffic Jams By Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phones In A Trailer (2020)   iflscience.com/technology... · Posted by u/pain_perdu
legitster · 4 years ago
I believe Google uses this same functionality when it gives you an estimate of how "busy" certain restaurants are. And anecdotally, it can feel like their estimates underestimate the crowds at expensive places were most people have iPhones and overestimate the crowds at cheap places where Android user propagate.
28uwedj · 4 years ago
Because iphones dont have google maps installed at all.
28uwedj commented on TinyVG: A challenger to the throne of vector graphics   zig.news/xq/a-challenger-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
28uwedj · 4 years ago
Tiny differences? Shits blurry as hell.
28uwedj commented on Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar   twitter.com/Sega__JEANAsi... · Posted by u/kaycebasques
kemayo · 4 years ago
This is news just because it's an Apple device being used for something that was already trivially possible.

GPS trackers designed to be magnet-attached to a car which report their location via cell signal cost ~$20 on Amazon. You then tend to need to pay for either a SIM card or a subscription to the device maker's service -- bringing you up to about the cost of an AirTag. These are much harder to detect, as you might imagine.

The Apple device does try to make itself less useful for abusive purposes. Nearby iPhones will notify you if there's an AirTag following you. Apple released an Android app to scan for them (manually -- it'd probably be nice if they released something that did the same passive scanning as iPhones get, but there's battery trade-offs there, and obviously most people won't have that app). AirTags will also beep if they're separated from their owner.

In fact, this is news we're hearing about because of the steps Apple took to make it harder to use these devices for bad purposes. The tweet author got a warning about the device following them.

It's tricky to make something that lets you find where you dropped your keys while walking the dog that can't also be used for nefarious purposes.

28uwedj · 4 years ago
In Australia to activate a sim you need a form of ID, if you were to put a sim card in a GPS tracker you could easily be identified. air tags not so much.
28uwedj commented on DeviantArt notifies original artist about his own creation being sold as NFT   twitter.com/liamrsharp/st... · Posted by u/ManuelHeL
thesuperbigfrog · 4 years ago
Artificial scarcity is artificial.

Nothing prevents someone from making copies and selling each "unique" one.

Since it is decentralized, there is no centralized authority to take down the copies (that is, a DMCA-style take down).

The "no one can censor you" upsides of decentralization are not without downsides: you cannot censor or take down others, even in cases of copyright breach.

28uwedj · 4 years ago
Wrong, The artwork is stored on a server. not base64. all a NFT is, is a link and a wallet address
28uwedj commented on Pico CSS Framework   picocss.com/... · Posted by u/brianzelip
keyle · 4 years ago
I'm an old timer and I've built many sites. Laughed at bootstrap since day one, especially when it's on job ads.

That said I tried to use pico and bulma in small personal project and it's handy to have a baseline. The problem is that you inevitably spend most of the time later override and fighting the said frameworks that helped you get going quickly. So I wonder, if you know CSS, are you really saving time?

28uwedj · 4 years ago
Yeah frameworks are terrible, But tailwind is amazing. once you get your config set up you chern out templates/designs. there is no fighting to override stuff either.
28uwedj commented on HashiCorp IPO today   hashicorp.com/blog/a-new-... · Posted by u/colemorrison
andy_ppp · 4 years ago
Yes I think they'll do quite well, might be worth investing.
28uwedj · 4 years ago
not at their current valuation.

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KarmaCake day21October 25, 2021View Original