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creaturemachine commented on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android   ios-countdown.win/... · Posted by u/ozzyphantom
ryandrake · 4 days ago
> "Use it or your social group will not want to interact with you"

Maybe your "social group". If your friends refuse to talk to you because of the cell phone brand you use, I have bad news for you: They might not really be great friends.

creaturemachine · 4 days ago
This is the state of friendship in the social media age.
creaturemachine commented on London's most controversial cyclist   the-londoner.co.uk/jeremy... · Posted by u/cainxinth
JCattheATM · 7 days ago
That's the thing - even if it is illegal, it isn't hurting anyone, and no doubt cops do it as well. He may as well go around filming people jaywalking on empty streets for all the good it's doing.
creaturemachine · 7 days ago
Fortunately for the people in London and the UK, jaywalking is not illegal.
creaturemachine commented on Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial   techxplore.com/news/2026-... · Posted by u/geox
elevatortrim · 7 days ago
If engineering addiction for children is illegal, it should obviously be illegal to target adults too?
creaturemachine · 7 days ago
I suggest you read The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. As much as it is damaging to adults, it's much more so to children in early development all the way through puberty.

https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/

creaturemachine commented on Ode to the AA Battery   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
MarkusWandel · 18 days ago
Am I courting disaster by reviving won't-charge pouch cells by just manually running a bit of current through them until they're nonzero volts and then a normal charger will do the rest? So far, in the maybe half dozen times I've tried it (rectangular battery blocks for old digital cameras, the pouch cell inside a long-disused Kobo Reader) it's worked. They charge right up, they don't swell, and they still have decent capacity.

I'm running at the hairy edge and only high quality safety engineering is protecting me here? Or these cells can take a lot more abuse than they're given credit for?

creaturemachine · 18 days ago
I've jump-started my share of batteries this way. Such a deep discharge might affect lifespan but it's typically old devices we do this to anyway.
creaturemachine commented on Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth   scienceclock.com/voyager-... · Posted by u/ashishgupta2209
_wire_ · 3 months ago
> - 115 analog images encoded in the record’s grooves: how to build the stylus and play the record

To learn to play the record you've gotta play the record?

That thing is such a D/K pop-sci manifestation.

The writers of the Star Trek movie understood that Sagan's extra-solar artifact is merely a time capsule; humanity talking to its future self.

Some great grandchild of a millennial vinyl nerd, who lives and loves on the engineering deck of some Hyatt Regency in space, will have kept a perfectly maintained Technics, handed down across the generations, leading to a future crowd in ""Ten Forward"" being regaled by Sagan's Cosmos on a similarly well-maintained Magnavox 32-inch tube TV and VHS. "Billions of fucks were given for V'Ger to come back to us..." The meetup will be hosted by a curiously bald supermodel, a hunky but demure mensch, and an AI Carl Sagan.

creaturemachine · 3 months ago
The instructions aren't encoded in the grooves, that makes no sense. Rather the schematics are etched on the back sides of the records, and with those you can build the stylus and decode the images.
creaturemachine commented on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10   blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/abraham
bigyabai · 3 months ago
I'm pretty sure that iOS only has a file explorer app because Android supported it.

There was almost a whole decade there where Apple pretended that the feature just didn't need to exist.

creaturemachine · 3 months ago
Remember folks, the iphone was released in 2007, and the files app in 2017. Cut & paste? Apple didn't give ios a clipboard until 2021.
creaturemachine commented on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10   blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/abraham
OptionOfT · 3 months ago
The fact that I get excited about this is actually a good representation much vendor lock there is.

We used to be able to send files over Bluetooth before the iPhone came out.

creaturemachine · 3 months ago
Ever since the iphone apple has been trying to make you believe files aren't a thing.
creaturemachine commented on What happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?   theparisreview.org/blog/2... · Posted by u/benbreen
shermantanktop · 3 months ago
Fashion may not be the best example, given the propensity of fashion trends to drive large numbers of people to do ridiculous things. My recent favorite is the mania for women wearing a loose sweater but tucking it in to their waistband in the front. I’m sure it has a name, but I don’t know what it’s called.

EDIT: it’s called the “millenial tuck.”

I guess what I’m saying is that I wear shorts, I know some people think that’s bad, but their opinion is invalidate by their own ugly clothing choices. So we’re all guilty.

creaturemachine · 3 months ago
It's called a French Tuck.
creaturemachine commented on Steam Machine   store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/davikr
babblingfish · 3 months ago
In 2026 we should be getting Windows on a Xbox console with the Xbox skinned version of windows. This would be a direct competitor to that since most PC gamers have the majority of their game library on steam.
creaturemachine · 3 months ago
If MS even bothers to make another xbox this is what it will be.
creaturemachine commented on Laptops with Stickers   stickertop.art/main/... · Posted by u/z303
creaturemachine · 3 months ago
Prior to secret ballots being a thing you would have voted "viva voce" by saying your preference aloud. Violence and intimidation were common.

u/creaturemachine

KarmaCake day294March 8, 2016View Original