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newZWhoDis··on M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a red KSF phosphor film
Make the screen a wear item then.

OLED has been better in every way except longevity since 2018.

6 years later I’m not buying a piece of garbage LCD for $6k

newZWhoDis··on M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a red KSF phosphor film
Does a bear relieve himself in the woods?
newZWhoDis··on M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a red KSF phosphor film
I don’t care how much they improve the CPUs, not upgrading before OLED
newZWhoDis··on Starship's Sixth Flight Test
You have zero evidence of that.

More likely you’re just used to suppression of everyone right of you, and when that was taken away you think it’s unfair.

newZWhoDis··on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back
Funny, because teslas (even without stalks) have physical buttons for the wipers (either on the wheel, or the left stalk push button).

Even outside of that, one of the most basic things any driver in a new car should do is familiarize themselves with standard controls (wipers, defrost, backup camera, turn signals, etc) before shifting into drive.

Sounds like your friends were danger to themselves and others on the road.

newZWhoDis··on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back
The new stalkless models are great. All the controls are on the steering wheel it’s very convenient.
newZWhoDis··on Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
My problem with a pour over is how agonizingly slow it is, and it requires 3-4 refill interactions to actually make a decent “pot” of coffee even with the largest chemex they sell.

I timed it once and I can literally get in the car and drive somewhere and get home with a 32oz coffee faster than my chemex can produce the same amount.

I’d pay $3k or more for a coffee maker that

1) had water line hookup capability, or at least a large glass reservoir 2) integrated conical grinder 3) all stainless/glass internals/zero plastic 4) timer functionality

I want to wake up and get ready finding a perfect pot of coffee on my schedule, with the only manual work being to remove the previous grounds each day and periodic maintenance.

AFAIK no one makes this.

newZWhoDis··on Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
We need to eliminate plastic wherever possible, especially where it might come into contact with food.

What I hate is even paper containers have plastic lids. I worry the plastic snap-off lid is shedding microplastics into my orange juice, or by beef is getting plastic strands when I cut in to the vacuum sealed packaging.

newZWhoDis··on Chain-of-thought can hurt performance on tasks where thinking makes humans worse
Which funny enough is why I hate rocket league.

All those years of baseball as a kid gave me a deep intuition for where the ball would go, and that game doesn’t use real gravity (the ball is too floaty).

newZWhoDis··on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
The education system in the US is broadly staffed by the dumbest people from every walk of life.

If they could make it elsewhere, they would.

I don’t expect this to be a popular take here, and most replies will be NAXALT fallacies, but in aggregate it’s the truth. Sorry, your retired CEO physics teacher who you loved was not a representative sample.

newZWhoDis··on We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger
GDPR is toothless eurotrash.

I saw a consent form that had 72 optional, 21 “legitimate interest” cookies.

GFB

newZWhoDis··on Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event
The discussion you’re looking for is happening over on X. It’s long been dead here.
newZWhoDis··on Fluoride in our drinking water may not be as useful as it used to be
Absolute nonsense.

The coffee, soda, beer, or kombucha you drink was made with fluoridated water. Your salad was grown with fluoridated fruit was washed in fluoridated water.

Fluoride permeates modern supply chains because it’s literally in the water which is an input to countless things.

Fluoride proponents have utterly failed to control dosage and harmed public health in doing so.

newZWhoDis··on Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible
Both Reddit and Nextdoor are suffering greatly from their volunteer mod problem.

They have basically allowed the worst elements of their community to dominate and manipulate their most valuable properties (the subs belong to Reddit, and when a bad mod team ruins a sub that hurts Reddit more than anyone)

Reddit corporate has also ruined small communities and directly allowed this kind of power mod takeover via minimum activity rules.

newZWhoDis··on macOS Sequoia is available today
I was excited to use this, and confusingly it requires the attached phone to use the same Apple ID/iCloud account as the Mac!

This makes it practically useless for developers.

newZWhoDis··on Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined
I just want solid diamond cookware.

Wouldn’t a diamond skillet be incredibly non-stick, easy to clean, and totally non toxic?

newZWhoDis··on Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
Now this is how you do guerrilla marketing.
newZWhoDis··on Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit
I wonder if Rome had similar disfunction prior to collapse

“1000 men to make 5 chariots/day?!”

newZWhoDis··on Bcachefs, an Introduction/Exploration
That means you have no bitrot protection, in fact you’ve now increased that possibility.
newZWhoDis··on Bcachefs, an Introduction/Exploration
That’s why you need ECC RAM.

Our RAM should all be ECC and our OSes should all be on self-healing filesystems.

newZWhoDis··on Ruby methods are colorless
Ruby/rails is full of shortsighted crap like this.

I feel stuck, our whole backend is legacy rails and I can’t escape.

newZWhoDis··on I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century
No we don’t. That idiotic “word” was coined by a fanatical YouTuber, not anyone that should be taken seriously.

I dare you to say “stroad” outside of your online echo chamber.

newZWhoDis··on I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century
>Looks like where I live, deaths are more closely associated with big, wide, fast roads.

This is sort of like saying “most child p*rn is transported by undersea fiber optic cables!”

newZWhoDis··on Panic at the Job Market
Eliminate payroll tax and watch the job market explode
newZWhoDis··on DOJ to offer Boeing "sweetheart" plea deal in pursuit of criminal charges
Boeing is a strategic embarrassment to the United States.

Jail 5 layers deep from the CEO to send a message.

newZWhoDis··on Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data
If you actually cared about safety you’d require airbags, crumple zones, licensing, insurance, and crash testing for cyclists. You’d also ban them on roadways with speed limits far above what a human can reasonably propel a bike to, since dV is a major driver of accidents and lethality.

Expecting a 15MPH ~250lb bike with none of those features to interface safely with 55MPH 5,000+lb traffic is moronic. You’re better off building parallel infrastructure and taxing cyclists to pay for it via licensing.

newZWhoDis··on Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores
Apple needs to do the following:

1) Write an Android wrapper and integrate it to Xcode so swift/SwiftUI can run normally on Android

2) Release the App Store for Android, with full App Store purchase/subscription support

They could collect a TON of revenue on the Android platform doing this, and most developers would opt to re-release their iOS apps on Android to save on dev costs.

newZWhoDis··on Swift Static Linux SDK
More software should “enforce” their preferences, many decisions are objectively superior and this “anything goes” attitude has done nothing but hurt OSS/Linux adoption.

Everything about the shared lib model is stupid, and has contributed to poor Linux market share to date.

newZWhoDis··on The largest solar farm just came online in China
That’s terrible for nuclear, and I’m pro-nuclear. That’s the “Chinese reactor made in Pakistan price”

GA famously took 7 years and spent $17B.

newZWhoDis··on The largest solar farm just came online in China
Meanwhile Georgia spent $17B and took 7 years for ~2.2GW.

What a joke. Nuclear is great and all, but not when it’s run like this.

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