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If I remember correctly, wasn't that because you can't fit proper antenna into the phone?
Something-something antenna 1/4 of the wavelength physics. And FM wave is roughly 3 meters long.
When people carried antennas (headphone cords) around it was handy, but not a lot of people would carry antenna now
My mom grew up in a small town (village? settlement even?) like that (surrounded by nature, lots of hunting, animals can wonder in town) in a country where guns weren't free.
Every family still had a rifle, getting license isn't that hard when you could answer questions about your intentions.
No handguns though, not very useful for self-defense or wildlife. I believe mom made and shot her first arbalest around 6-7 yo though.
Similar cultures, but one of them allows for outsiders to screen potential gun owners, and the other doesn't. Which, I believe, is the point – there always will be mentally unwell or ill-intentioned people. There should be a way for a small town to revoke the trust of allowing weapons in their hands.
As an artist, I was taught that when dark area meets a lighter one, I should add a slight gradient, deepening the dark near light.
Is it realistic?
No. But it looks more realistic. Because as our eyes track across real room, they adjust to the brightness.
So the darker region would look much darker near a light region – not on camera, but to human eye. And we replicate that effect in drawing, to trick the nerve behind the eye into believing that our pupil adjusted.
That's it, I think. We are not cameras, and our realism doesn't look like a photo.
> once people started publishing books or whatever in the 1600s - the world runs on ads.
I remember seeing old books (early victorian era) that were printed with healthy "subsidize" from the ad revenue. They honestly looked very much alike any site without ad blocker looks now. And I had the feeling that some content of the book was sponsored as well. Kept mentioning specific shops by name.
I wonder what did we do right, to stop books from looking like that? Maybe it could help us fix internet issues.
I know few web sites that has unblockable ads. Mostly nerdy themed websites that has relationship with small nerdy webstores. They just host the ad themselves and it's a part of the site.
It's cheaper for a webstore to pay one good website personally, and people trust ads like that a lot more. It's almost like a personal recomendation from the team curating knowledge base.
And no ad trackers, plus quicker website, win/win|win situation for everybody
I'm half joking because the situation is quite bizarre and I never encountered anything like that.
Where I live usually it takes a few eyewitnesses testifying for a police to take someone into custody for a few hours and give them a talk (like general "don't do it again or next time we will detain you for a 15 days" talk). And after a few talks, they would generally really just detain someone (it's different from a criminal record)
Not to mention the owner could just ban a person thatch bad for business. Or just install a camera, since police demands a proof.
From your retelling it seems like not only owner doesn't give a damn about it being bad for business, it's actually isn't even bad for business! You still go there, your friends still go there (do they know that you fear for your life filming the evidence of abuse for police to take action? Surely a friend would help you film this. Or at least be sympathetic enough not to go to a place where you fear for your life?).
I'm not saying anything about your testimony, but from your words alone it really seems like you life on a different plane of reality from everyone around you.
To hear you tell it, you can genuinely be killed or assaulted but everyone (including your friends??) is okay with that. And – most confusingly – you yourself is also okay with that?
I can't just wrap my head around that. If I feared for my life and health, I would just not go there, and fuck my friends for suggesting to risk it. Are you suicidal? Is that a missing piece of puzzle? Because even when I try to believe you, those pieces do not fit together.
I can't have a message or a LinkedIn connection without other person registering with messaging app or LinkedIn, willingly. When they setup LinkedIn or message me, they are fully aware of the fact that I will either access or receive that information. Not comparable.
> face recognition, memory of interactions etc should stay on device
It can't be processed there, chip too small. And physics don't allow us to make chips smaller anymore.
I wonder, though, if it could be hosted on a phone and processed here. Not realistic for current smartphones, but if we talking about theoretical, it's would be a neat trick.
I can imagine a future device that has three parts: lightweight glasses with HUD as a thin client, a glovelike input device to track your hand, and a small box you put in your pocket/bag.
I'm sorry, there is a guy in a coffee shop that routinely threatens you, and it's still is your go to place?
Damn, just how good is that coffee?
(if that's real, and pulling phone out really is dangerous, can't you just ask the employee to film next time it happens for 10 bucks?)
The bigger problem is that you essentially need to host somewhere a database with personal information of everyone you met, including their names, biometrics and private details. Nonconsensually. And it has to be accessible through the internet.
Honestly, just take notes and reread them sometimes, maybe?
> Take pics or videos with your phone
Positioning smartphone camera seems way easier then positioning your head for a good photo. What do you do when you want low perspective? Or an overhead view?
> Alcoholic beverages, aloe leaf extract and aspirin
Where I am, they all are known to cause birth defects. I never met woman with children that didn't take measures to avoid them (and a dozen of other products with similar effects) during pregnancy.
If you liken your bike to them, that's, uh. That's one hell of a bike. Probably should stay away from pregnant woman while riding it, huh
Common philosophical answer is that people only can know the approximation of reality, never the reality itself.
Better approximations usually score you more points, which is why our perception usually evolves closer to reality.
Bad scoring systems exist.
For example, let's say if an extremely privileged person – a favorite son|daughter of a billionaire – takes random chances and people around him|her always agree and accommodate for them to win (because they want a favor from a parent), than this person will most likely have a very warped sense of reality through no fault of their own. Basically their only approximation could only be "Do whatever, just don't touch fire with bare hands and don't make daddy angry"
On the other hand, the suffering child from "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" would also have warped sense of reality, because they lose no matter what action they take. The only reality approximation they can know is "everything feels bad"
Sidenote: in my philosophy, the continuous warping of reality happens mostly to people in overprivileged and underprivileged positions. Which is why I believe that a good equality index makes for a healthier society. But thats my pov, I'm not trying to sell it or anything :)
Note that I wrote "continuous warping". While sometimes bad approximations got rewarded more than good ones, reality is probabilistic. Since it can't be comprehended by people, we basically define reality as "something that is more likely".
And that's the answer to your question. If you tune past the reality, you start scoring worse again, and turn back. It's a distance thing, and the goal is to get as close to zero as you can, doesn't matter from which direction.
> they have a new wave of crime from anonymous telegram operators
I love how your solution isn't "country should decide for themselves and pass the law that suits them" but "let people that have nothing to do with that country take something away from them (sidenote: I also don't have nothing to do with that country)".
Drug abuse is a systematic problem, if telegram single-handedly enabling it to alarming rates, the solution should be at least to ban a tech stack. Otherwise it will get replaced in a seconds.
> why exactly is the US responsible for feeding people in random countries around the world
they are responsible because they took that responsibility. If I say to someone that I will sponsor them through collage, and than drop sponsorship without warning – I'll be an asshole too.
Also, everyone knows that USAid was a bargaining chip that bought USA ability to build military bases on a foreign land. It's not like USA just did it because they were great of heart.
> doesn't sync properly between devices
which is good, actually. We don't want a way through which a server could tell a new device all the information it needs to decrypt messags
> at half the calories, not so insignificant in a world where obesity is the #1 public health crisis
It's not so simple. The problem is that fat calories and whole milk/cream make you feel fuller, leading to decrease in eating, leading to decrease in calories
While air with sugar – especially corn syrup – doesn't make you feel full as much, leading to overeating later. High blood sugar isn't good, so your body is mostly working to turn it into stored fat as fast as possible. After it's done converting, you will feel hungry again.
Fat inside your stomach on the other side is metabolizing slowly, and it's products are mostly spend on whatever you do.
People that count their calories could make an informed choice about their calories intake and just deal with additional hunger. People that rely on hunger and individual understanding of their bodies could misjudge easily when fat is switched to gum and syrup.
Original comment stated that it was 10 documents, all LLM-generated.
In my experience, it does take a lot time and effort to find contradictions between 10 documents. Even with good documentation, it's hard to build a mental map for that amount of information.
Because they will fix it and send again.
Unless you can write a good-sounding reason why it's on them to review a LLM output before sending it to you, they will outsources this reviewing to you, and it's a lot of reviewing.
does it matter for coach gaming if I can have spare batteries and just swap them. That's honestly sounds better then increased life with only cable recharge
Sony Xperia Z solved in 2013: Water jet protected & Waterproof up to 1 meter in 30 minutes
I'll be the third one with anecdata: somehow my switch lite battery is still okay. I recently found a good repair shop and thought about replacing it, but after paying attention concluded that it's almost the same as new
I remember same floss-hack used to work to replace a smartphone screen without replacing touchscreen
Oh how far we fallen
math checks out, assuming typical car is flying
> And the really insidious thing about this, is the fundamental asymmetry of effort between creation and deletion
There is more assymetry between writing yourself and checking other people work.
And it's by design, the work of one person could only be reliable if checked over and over by other people. People that agree on common rules
If you want to write a good article that wouldn't go through this rigorous checks and made abhor rigid rules, may I suggest writing a blogpost
Brainfuck is quite famous though? It even started the wave of 'joke languages', I vividly remember few years when every few month somebody makes a new language
Learning brainfuck was a wildly known challenge back in my uni days (and not only for IT studunts, but in mathematician circles as well). I have yet to know any students that would get competitive over writing in Odin.
694 public odin repositories on gh vs 2064 public brainfuck repositories. And most of the brainfuck fame was before using github so wildly popular.
Brainfuck is the definition of not widely used, but notable
> Building codes are a joke!
It's not the codes, but the physics. The first two years after a building is build, it will change it's geometry until it settles. That happens because building has a significant weight and the earth under the building was unsettled, and now is under a pressure.
Not very noticeable in a light weight houses, but even small brick one-family house will do that.
Building codes account for that, but it's better and significantly cheaper to build that way then to build a totally rigid structure. Rigid is brittle.
Yeah, that should be criminalised.
I never have seen it happen thought, usually hotels dont even copy the passport, they just make you fill a form and then check your passport to see if that's correct. Taking a photocopy is already next level.
Is it a region specific thing? Where did you see hotels like that?
Cloudflare allows you to pass with 1 click? I had as many as 10 minutes of solving capchas on ot before turning away
I'm pretty sure, Cloudflare capchas could be endless
Sasha and Alexander isn't that obscure thought. Very common example The real obscure diminutive for Alexander is Shura :D
There should be some some way to sue for unlawful restriction of access to public infrastructure.
As far as I'm aware, you can't just put a border on a sidewalk.
Bots that stop you from using sidewalk are essentially that. A border on a public infrastructure put there by some company.