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Jrockwar

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  • DivestOS ends development

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  • I moved from Fennec to Iceraven for some reason I can't remember (frequency of updates?). Since I can't remember off the top of my head I'll just say, maybe consider Iceraven too and research whether it's a good alternative for you.

  • Tesla sales are tanking in Europe

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  • Polestar sells something for a similar price and better quality, and without awkward associations with a billionaire nazi.

  • This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats

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  • Great western railway operates like this, offering you a "mystery seat" regardless of whether they've sold 120% of the seats in the train.

  • This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats

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  • I think people answering these comments are from other countries that don't understand that on a train from Reading to London in rush hour, there might be 60 seats and 80 passengers per carriage. 20 of these pax standing despite their ticket that said "Feel free to sit on any free seat you happen to find!"

  • This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats

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  • Yeah but why even give you the checkbox/option for reserving a seat, only to tell you that you might actually be standing if the train is full or you don't arrive early enough?

  • This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats

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  • Except you haven't, that's the point.

    If you don't get to the train early, you have to stand. That's how British trains work. People who get to the train will see many seats unreserved saying "Seat Available" on the overhead sign, regardless of whether they've reserved a seat.

    So someone who hasn't clicked "reserve a seat" on the booking process might sit on that, while you stand in the hallway.

    The ticket literally means "sorry, you don't have a seat assigned".

  • Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom

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  • Ah I see. I understood you meant that bigger RAM modules aren't available in the industry so apple couldn't add this even if they paid more, not that we as customers couldn't spec a phone however we'd like. That makes sense now.

  • Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom

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  • What do you mean couldn't pay for more? There are plenty of sub-$200 android phones with 8GB of RAM, and 12-16GB are fairly standard on flagships these days. Asus ROG Phone 6 is rather old and already came with 16GB what, three years ago?

    It is definitely doable, there only needs to be willingness. Apple is definitely skimping here.

  • "BoomerBuggy".

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  • The tango was quite special, not only did it do freeway speeds but it could do 150 mph, 0-60 in 3 seconds, and had 800 hp and a price tag of >$300k. They didn't make many. It was weeeeeird.

  • The best phones with a headphone jack - December 2024

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  • I am firmly in the 3.5mm jack camp because having more options is always better, but I don't think this is a valid argument. All the devices I find on a daily basis have Bluetooth. For rarer things that you don't deal with daily such as planes, a £10 Bluetooth dongle provides way better quality than the garbage entertainment system in an airplane can provide anyway, while taking just as little space as a 3.5mm jack's cable does in your pocket.

  • Can't think of what to do, hence scrolling

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  • Yeah it does. I mark notes with #review (again, this is an obsidian-specific workflow purely because it's the app I use), and then go through the notes with that tag, tidying them up and also looking for interesting things. Obsidian has a graph view which shows your notes as interconnected notes, which I look into and try to find disconnected notes to link them to something else. I find it quite rewarding and relaxing.

  • Integrity API error with Aurora Store

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  • If you end up having to go through the route of electric trash, I'd recommend buying a phone that is

    • used
    • tiny

    So that you're not buying something new, and so that you can use it as a "key fob".

    For example, there was the palm phone in 2018 or so which was a massive flop because it was small and underpowered. Unihertz devices could be another good alternative. Also older, smaller Xperia phones - a 2018 flagship would cost peanuts and be way more powerful than you actually need to run a key fob app.

  • Can't think of what to do, hence scrolling

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  • What has helped me is taking notes. I use Obsidian for note taking (I don't mean the app itself is the solution, just the one that works for me).

    When I'm out and about I take notes whenever I think of something "oh, I should probably look into this book!" Or "make an app to do X and Y".

    When I'm at home and I have nothing better to do I tidy up my notes. Sometimes doing this is an entertainment in itself, and sometimes this reminds me that I wanted to watch a certain movie and it's a great day for that.

    I rarely get bored anymore because I capture the fleeting ideas I get through the day, and I'd need years to carry them all to fruition. On a given day reviewing my notes I might be interested only in 1 out of 10... But that's still one idea that keeps me busy and entertained, and then it's also something fulfilling because I've chosen it mindfully, unlike scrolling tiktok endlessly or watching whatever slop Netflix's algorithm force feeds me that day.

  • Are users deserting Elon Musk’s X en masse and where are they heading?

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  • Racists, intolerant people are by definition people who have broken the tolerance social contract. This means they're no longer bound by it, and there's no need whatsoever for anyone to tolerate them. :)

  • Tesla Is Looking to Hire a Team to Remotely Control Its 'Self-Driving' Robotaxis

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  • Two notes on this as someone who works in the sector.

    It's "completely normal", but only if you're not having a full time driver for each vehicle, which is what the article sounds like... Then the vehicles wouldn't be autonomous, they'd just be teleoperated.

    And the second part, why is this an industry standard and why are investors ok with it? Imagine you have a product (robotaxi) that is autonomous but can't deal with absolutely everything on its own (not even Waymo is that advanced). The key component that you need to build into the system is the ability to come to a stop safely, and be recovered remotely. Then these "teleoperators" can recover the vehicles if/when they fail, and given a sufficiently low failure rate, you can have one operator for each X vehicles. Even if this is more than "0 drivers", having 1 driver per 10 vehicles is a massive cost saving. Plus zooming out and thinking of other things than robotaxis, there are sectors like mining where they don't care (that much) about the number of drivers - their primary goal is to have the drivers away from a dangerous mine. They can save money from simplifying operations that way.

  • Do 10% of developers do nothing?

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  • I've seen this claim recently and it's rubbish.

    Yes, if by "nothing" we mean writing next to no code, because they're busy either:

    • architecting software solutions, as they're knowledgeable enough that they should be doing this instead of writing code
    • understanding a lot of what is going on in components and/or the system so that when there's an issue they say "oh, this is likely because of X" and the resolution takes days instead of weeks.

    I.e. yes, there is a percentage of developers who we pile other tasks on and they don't get to write code.

    My experience is that the more knowledgeable developers get, the less code they write.

    Then neurodivergent peeps are different - an Autistic dev might be super knowledgeable and happy writing unit tests because they don't enjoy the uncertainty of large problems, or an ADHD developer might have a large system-wide view but write what seem like small contributions.

  • Selling Stuff

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    • Does this work with a UK plug socket?
    • Do you offer shipping?
    • When could I go and pick it up?
    • Do you have any other matching lamps/etc?
    • What types of light bulbs does it use?
    • Does it still have manufacturer's warranty?

    I know this is only a comic... but he's answering questions, just not the ones in the post!!

  • Captain Marvel gets a de luxe tickle

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  • Oh wow, this is horrible. Wow.

  • Help with "Right to Choose"

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  • I've gone through problemshared recently because

    • it's what my employer's health insurance offers, so I didn't have to pay
    • it's only so the friction was minimal

    The process was super smooth and from first GP appointment to diagnosis it was about 2 months. I am pretty sure they are in the right to choose list because my partner has mentioned this before.