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Some older android phones like the Huawei P20 Pro had a combination of 40 MP main sensor and 8 MP monochrome sensor and combined them to produce a better image. But modern phones t…

The real answer: making money on the App Store is extremely difficult. Developers have worked out subscriptions make more money than one-off purchases over time, even if a large % …

Only applies to Android. Apple make it deliberately expensive to publish apps and deliberately annoying to run your own apps locally (have to refresh every 7 days).

The UK doesn't have 軍隊式教育 and that is a major factor in why Japanese society works as well as it does.

Two things can be true here 1. The UK "surveillance state" narrative pushed in the US is overblown and we do not think about it or care about it as much as Americans do 2. Living i…

Most people aren't that fast or impatient. The world isn't going to change to suit your brain...

This stuff is user tested, many people prefer animations because they get confused if the UI changes instantly. For example if a button moves position when a sidebar is collapsed, …

Where's the utility? If it's a fun hobby to optimise old hardware that's fine. But there's nothing noble about using AI and expensive modern GPUs to get 5% more juice out of old ha…

Reddit has the same phenomenon where the audience doing the upvotes is very different to the audience posting comments. As I'm in the second group I would love to say it's because …

"Linux users" is a pretty big spectrum. My XFCE install uses barely any ram.

Steam for some reason gets a pass even though it normalized the use of DRM for PC games over 20 years ago.

They specify that the BIOS needs to be patched.

Absolutely not. Folding phones just aren't for you!

"The final cost depends on the availability of high-capacity memory modules."

Historically even if you invest into index at the worst possible time (prior to a crash) and keep holding you still outperform inflation long term. Timing the market is impossible.…

The prose and art is obvious AI slop. If the author somehow thinks that can deceive an intelligent reader then they've lost me already.

You can still enjoy Reddit and it's still a useful source of information. Just avoid the popular subs (including those you mention) or anything with 100k users or more. It's not di…

It's just how he is. Prior to LLMs he was cramming a datasette link into every thread. Downvote and move on.

I think it's 2. I frequently get told there's no capacity for Pro and the query is answered by Flash with extended thinking. And tbh it's hard to tell the difference between the tw…

It's easier to split USB 3 into two stages: 1) USB 2.0 - 480 Mbps, 0.5A (2.5W / 5V) 2) USB 3.0 on Type-A - increases data to 5/10 Gbps (e.g. for SSDs) and power to 0.9A (4.5W / 5V)…

Choice of tone can communicate the same thing as 3-4 paragraphs of calmer discourse. Should we ban the use of tone? Personally I appreciated it and the frustration was palpable.

I agree there is some technique involved. It's just so trivial compared to hand coding that I find the comparison meaningless.

"practice techniques for AI-assisted development" I guess people don't like to admit that AI is doing 95% of their job so they pretend they are "practicing techniques" or "experime…

Pretty good summary. It can be confusing since type C is "just a connector" but it's pretty heavily coupled with the protocol now.