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4,459karma·1,089submissions·October 15, 2011
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Minimalist tech lover.
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I’ve replied to your comment elsewhere and I get the impression that you are very disconnected with what Elon is like and is doing. Your comments echos mainstream media headlines which are misinformed…
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You should care if you already don’t. He runs some of the most successful businesses and people are in long lines waiting to get hired by his companies despite the high workload and below competition …
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> by a leader that spends time on flamethrowers and cave rescue submarines You are grossly misinformed by how Elon spends his time and seem to have read a few headlines years ago and assume that’s …
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From what I can tell, bunch of different things going on here. The highest priority IMHO is: > to never fully complete them and see it all the way through Others who do have the persistence to see …
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Absolutely. I have a bunch of waveform light strips (the highest CRI) which I use for specific lighting conditions (e.g. taking photos) and it's the difference between literally night and day. I&…
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I pack a V10 :) - Also, I didn't mean using it at night next to someone sleeping. But rather, as not to awaken your neighbors.
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> Whenever I see their hand-dryers in a public bathroom I just use paper towels Removing and replacing paper towels with hand dryers in public bathrooms has been an unfortunately shortsighted move …
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Dyson constantly improved their cordless vacuums in the past 6 years. I have a V10 which is leaps and bounds better than V7. The battery runs forever, the bin is larger and empties cleanly without med…
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> I don't get the point of wireless vacuum cleaner The point of anything cordless is how it eliminates the hassle of, well, dealing with cords. In case of a vacuum cleaner, one has to: - pull …
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> I hate Dyson shit so much I've been using Dyson products since 2005. Happy to shine some light on why people pay for it voluntarily :)
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From the horse's mouth: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1529089543969943553 …
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Starlink user terminal is "physically" not designed for working in motion. That is, it has not passed any safety tests that ensures it won't dismount, and fly off and damage property or…
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Interesting. What I noticed was that without changing service address, it would be in search mode for hours without going online. After the change, it would come to life in minutes. I did my trips lat…
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For those not aware, Starlink has no problem with working in motion as it's used on airplanes travelling at 1000km/h. This is more of availability announcement for end users.
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Nice! I took Starlink with me on few road trips so far with my Model 3 and rigged it up to work off my car's battery. I did have to change my service address prior to arriving at new locations bu…
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Well, over here in Oz, all roads have speed limits which Tesla knows about and displays. Will have to try myself and will report. Although I'm fairly sure you're confusing engaging AP when u…
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> they sell it as the safest driver on the road And it is "statistically" which is how all safety measures are evaluated.
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> Autopilot (without FSD Beta) will not go over 5mph of a road's known speed limit. I don't remember such a limit on my M3 but will check tomorrow. You can simply accelerate to any speed …
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> Almost a decade ago, we started encrypting traffic between our data centers to help protect user privacy. That should be around mid 2013 after Ed Snowden revelations. I remember some frustrated G…
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Back where I grew up, in the 90s, "La Petite Fille de la mer" played in between TV programs during the night. It was decades later that I learned who the composer was.
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> commercial use of a celebrity's image It's only commercial use if I made any sort of profit from it, which I didn't. So nope, not commercial.
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> commercial purposes It was a free app with no advertising, so it was not used in a commercial context. > I'm finding it extremely difficult to have any sympathy People have sympathy for m…
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Nothing is absolute. Even in absence of Google Chrome, you still have all cloud services and ISPs abiding by the laws of the country they operate in. The point is how much control one has over the end…
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F-Droid came to be in late 2010 and I built the app in early 2012. As such, I didn't really hear about F-Droid at the time and I assume the user base would have been very small (but still better …
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Nope. Just google searched and dropped it in the screenshot.
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I did — but only a tiny percentage of users can do that.
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Eons ago, I built an Android app which allowed using high quality photos for contacts. I made the "huge" mistake of using a celebrity photo in one of my screenshots. Lo and behold, few month…
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> How did they get burned? In the early days after Fedora made it available, I lost my root twice after a kernel panic and later after a hard power reset. EDIT: in comparison, I've been using …
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> why host other languages Here's an example: I recently finished building https://subzo.com.au which allows customizing and ordering 3D models. The way the model's cost, volu…
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> As the world quickly switches to electric cars, how are we going to get them from factories to showrooms, especially when they have to cross oceans? Pick the phone up and call Tesla logistics dep…