jdnewmil

@jdnewmil@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As you add more compute per user interaction (“smart” features), you increase power consumption. To keep an 18hour discharge cycle, you have to have more battery. Since phone thickness is a negative marketing feature but increased screen size is a positive marketing feature, you end up with bigger phones.

  Every time they reduce compute power consumption, feature inflation overtakes the gain and more power is needed over time. Try turning on battery saver in the morning… even with “normal” use the battery will last significantly longer due to disabling background power consumption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the Plane and Helicopter Crash in Washington, D.C., Happened: Maps and Graphics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  3d trajectories. Heli was 100ft higher than it was cleared to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intruder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this basically the plot of “Home Alone” and it’s very popular sequels playing out with a firearm? With FPS games as the cultural backdrop, why is anyone shocked at this? Or is this just hand-wringing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you meant “propagated”.

  How do you monitor your email functionality? How long would it be before you noticed it was offline? What about paying for and configuring the new email server?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure it is, if you don’t understand economics, which few Merkins do. The evidence is right in front of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree. For clarity, the circuits that show the low-voltage status are much less hungry for current than the circuits that measure weight. So no, having enough battery to report low voltage does not imply that there is enough to make an accurate weight measurement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calculatable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clear and Clear Entry.

  The better option is to use an RPN calculator as Hewlett-Packard used to make. Then the back arrow button just eliminates one digit at a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Straightforward.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Published in the Journal of Improbable Research?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Releasing everyone's SSN and the hacks used to acquire them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did anyone who up upvoted this actually follow the link and look at the script? This is a troll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mermaid: Diagramming and Charting Tool⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I will just say that I think mermaid is great. I use it via the DiagrammeR package in R and via Quarto. In addition to manually typing in diagrams I sometimes write ad-hoc code that helps me visualize my data (and source code) by emitting one of the relevant mermaid syntaxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How To Prevent Damage to Your DVDs and Blu-Rays⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? www.travsonic.com/what-happened-to-the-blu-ray/#:….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The future shines like gold⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …especially the knowledge that your gold was taken.