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- Comment on Android apps will soon let you use your face to control your cursor 3 days ago:
Samsung did it first, with their eye-tracking auto-scrolling, which was the first thing you turned off after buying a Galaxy phone.
Gyroscope-controlled mouse will be less awkward and more responsive.
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 1 week ago:
Laptop has keyboard, you can type your password with the same speed as pressing your finger and waiting for it to unlock.
Most casual users won’t even know that their laptop has a fingerprint sensor.
When a company needs a proper security, they buy every user a hardware token like Yubikey.
But most of all, it comes down to the tradition. Manufacturers won’t add fingerprint scanner because users do not demand firgerprint scanner. Users do not demand fingerprint scanner because they are used to have no fingerprint scanner. Try removing a fingerprint scanner from a phone, you’ll see your sales drop like a brick.
- Comment on But they wouldn't know the taste 3 weeks ago:
Peak evolution
- Comment on A single atom layer of gold – LiU researchers create goldene 4 weeks ago:
Gold leaf is like 500 atoms thick, by just beating gold with a hammer.
I’d thought they already have a process for making one atom thick gold, like vapor deposition.
- Comment on Moon Standard Time? Nasa to create lunar-centric time reference system 1 month ago:
When you are measuring precise distance to the Moon using lasers, 50 microseconds is about 1.5 kilometers.
- Comment on Chart: JP Twitter Followers Gained Week 12 1 month ago:
The most cultured anime of the season at the fourth place, yay.
I’m surprised that Solo Leveling did not even get into top 15, on the torrent sites it’s in the second place in popularity, right after Frieren.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You did not include the scale in the photo.
- Comment on Radical New Discovery Could Double The Speed of Existing Computers - simultaneous and heterogeneous multithreading 1 month ago:
I’ll believe it when I will see Linux ported to the shader language.
- Comment on Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 2 months ago:
Windows is not a ‘better’ product, that would be ChromeOS. Zero configuration means nothing can get broken.
The average user who started with MS Office 95 is now 50 years old. The younger average user at least knows there are alternatives to Windows.
PC gaming is a whole other can of worms. I keep hearing that Valve did some black mahic and now most of Steam games work on Linux with no issues.
- Comment on Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 2 months ago:
The only reason Windows is still relevant is a massive volume of legacy x86 applications.
If that laptop won’t support x86 emulation, it’d be actually worse that Linux ARM laptop.
- Comment on PC Engine (TG16) games are so colourful! I wish more modern games use bright colours like they used to do. 2 months ago:
It wasn’t an engine limitation, it was a design choice. Heretic is a colorful game, and it was using Doom engine.
It’s especially bad in Quake, all monsters look like a moving piece of a wall, and the level design is walls on top of walls with some walls in-between. If not for the revolutionary game engine, it would seriously flop.
- Comment on PC Engine (TG16) games are so colourful! I wish more modern games use bright colours like they used to do. 2 months ago:
The answer is 256-color (8-bit) palette.
- Comment on dotnet developer 3 months ago:
It was pretty smart marketing move. Business people hear ‘dot net’ and nod wisely. Tech people hear ‘dot net’ and scrunch their faces. Either way people keep talking about Microsoft Java.
- Comment on ELI5 the whole Wayland vs 11x going on? 3 months ago:
X11 is an ancient piece of crap which no one wants to update or maintain.
Wayland is the new and better display manager.
However, many old applications only support X11, because they depend on some arcane feature not yet supported by Wayland. Hence, the drama.
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 3 months ago:
At this moment, 1 gram of radioactive Nickel-63 costs around 4,000 USD. Nickel-63 isotope does not occur in nature, it is obtained by irradiating Nickel-62 inside a nuclear reactor.
- Comment on xkcd #2880: Sheet Bend 3 months ago:
I want to see IRL photo of this connection.
The knot also needs to be adapted for common two-core electrical appliance cable, if you remove a piece of the insulation on one side and with an offset on the other side, the cable needs to be twisted mid-knot to match the correct wire.
- Comment on Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse 4 months ago:
So what the article says is not supported by my personal experience. Hmmmmm.
Oh well, it’s probably a Silicon Valley specific thing.
- Comment on Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse 4 months ago:
AI has very little effect on my job. When the common task I’ve given is ‘write an ASN.1 parser that will fit into 100Kb flash’, AI can only copy code from existing ASN.1 libraries, and both of them are GPL-licensed, so it’s no-go for a proprietary firmware.
- Comment on A gel injected into the scrotum could be the next male contraceptive 4 months ago:
How does it compare to Vasalgel?
- Comment on Why is alcohol measured in percentages? 4 months ago:
You have to print a separate label for each bottle size then. Much easier to print something like ‘10% strength’ and slap the same label on all of your barrels and bottles regardless of their volume.
- Comment on Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times 4 months ago:
You can always run few extra experiments to make your hydrogen bombs smaller or more reliable.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Just let another manager bite you. Incubation period usually lasts one month.
Congratulations! You are now a meeting spreader and a spreadsheet warrior!
- Comment on Pentagon Scientists Discuss Cybernetic 'Super Soldiers' That Feel Nothing While Killing In Dystopian Presentation 5 months ago:
Those abilities from the article are useless for a soldier.
You don’t feel much stress shooting the enemy. You feel a lot of stress when the enemy shoots back, especially the artillery. So you get less stress when your artillery has more range, because you don’t get shot at.
Using painkillers is just ignoring the problems with your health. If you want to stay in the army for more than a year, go to the doctor and get a proper treatment.
The food is not a problem, we got ten thousand variations of canned meat.
The most pressing problem that soldiers is the lack of hygiene. If you can shower once per month without getting sick, you’ll make a better soldier.
It’d also help if you’re short and can carry heavy stuff.
So, I imagine actual super-soldiers to be muscly gypsy dwarves who eat a lot and complain when they get health issues.
Source: has been in the army.
- Comment on DOS_deck offers free, all-timer DOS games in a browser, with controller support 5 months ago:
It’s cool, but no phone support yet. Games themselves run on my phone fast enough.
- Comment on Mullvad's public encrypted DNS Servers run in RAM now 5 months ago:
This makes it harder for russian military to steal one of Mullvad servers to track your porn usage over VPN - once they unplug it, all links to porn will be gone.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
On the bright side, look at all the porn!
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Is there a community for mobile/Android gaming? For now I’m just posting into askandroid community, and existing androidgamers community has something around 50 subscribers.
Granted, androidgaming on reddit was all about complaining that Play Store sucks, still it was big enough.
- Comment on Recommend me some Android games 6 months ago:
Hey, I’ve played most of these games, except for Pocket Rogues and 9th Dawn.
Games from 10tons studio are almost all good.
- Comment on Recommend me some Android games 6 months ago:
Play Store link play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlec…
- Comment on Recommend me some Android games 6 months ago:
Ugh, no good way to get an up to date app unless you want to compile it yourself
Here’s a really outdated build, ot works fine on Android 12 despite printing a whole lot of warnings.