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TheRealSteel

1,523 karma · joined June 20, 2019

Hobbyist developer particularly interested in augmented reality and computer vision
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TheRealSteel··on Ask HN: Favorite Thing Built to Last?
My 2005 Prius had one major fault from when I got it in 2012 until this year. It goes to show that sometimes adding complexity can increase reliability. Amazing car.
TheRealSteel··on Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
There's no such thing, the Shuffle and Mini were separate models.

The Shuffle was the size of a USB drive, used solid state storage, and had no screen, the Mini was the one with the first touch Click Wheel and metallic colour choices, and used a 4GB spinning hard drive.

TheRealSteel··on Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
Never used a Shuffle, but the original iPod Nano was absolutely beautiful. Just a bit too easily scratched and maybe too small.
TheRealSteel··on Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
The Galaxy Z Fold 3 I'm typing this on is really well implemented. It's not perfect but it's a marvel of engineering and an excellent implementation of an ambitious idea.

The app Sync for Reddit Pro has basically precisely the UI I want from a reddit app. There's almost nothing I would change.

I absolutely love the feel of just about every part of the Xbox One controller, and you can even get back buttons on the Elite model.

My 2005 Prius feels great to sit in and operate. Foot operated park brake, keyless entry and pushbutton start, comfortable seating and controls, plenty of space, sensible layout.

All models of Macbook Pro except the TouchBar era have been a pleasure to use.

TheRealSteel··on Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill
You're victim blaming.
TheRealSteel··on Moderna's Financials
Or, alternatively, the vaccine is worth roughly 2/3 of GTA V
TheRealSteel··on DeepFaceLive: Live Deep Fake
I don't get why you wouldn't just ask for donations, you can rent a GPU on Paperspace for less than a dollar per hour.
TheRealSteel··on Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
>People in the US are no longer allowed to question the legitimacy of their elections on most social media platforms.

You mean, they aren't allowed to spread absolute blatant lies and falsehoods, that have already caused at least one deadly riot, in an attempt to overthrow a fair and legitimate election that just happened to not be convenient for their personal agenda? Good.

TheRealSteel··on Mario Paint Masterpiece
Very good!
TheRealSteel··on Mario Paint Masterpiece
Me too! What's your favourite?

Here's mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eFXPibI6-4

TheRealSteel··on Mario Paint Masterpiece
I absolutely love hearing songs I like remade in the Mario Paint composer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eFXPibI6-4

TheRealSteel··on MGBA Integration: Introducing the Integrated GBA
The technical stuff is a bit over my head but their write ups are so good at explaining things I always read them in full anyway.

I don't even play GameCube games, but I really respect the Dolphin team.

TheRealSteel··on Google tries out error correction on its quantum processor
"like factoring the number 15 - it's apparently 3 * 5 with high probability"

I thought you were talking about deep learning there for a second

TheRealSteel··on An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
Exactly. Meanwhile, TikTok includes an official "save video" button...
TheRealSteel··on I Stopped Using Emojis
I hate this so much. Facebook Messenger does this too, in fact almost every app does. They've banned the old style smileys altogether -- there's no possible way to send a message containing one -- and it really bothers me.

If I type punctuation, I want the punctuation, if I wanted the emoji I would have typed the damn emoji. I can't believe anyone thought altering people's messages without their consent was a good idea.

TheRealSteel··on Podswap: Keep airpods alive and out of the landfill
Great idea, would love to use this for my dead first gen pair if could.

It doesn't mention what country or countries this is available in, so I'm guessing it's America only?

TheRealSteel··on Google Internal Comics
An employee cannot realistically hope to change the morality of a publicly traded corporation.
TheRealSteel··on Apple and Intel first to use TSMC 3nm
Transistor size is not the only factor in processing speed, architecture is also important. We will still be able to create specialised chips, like deep learning accelerators and such.
TheRealSteel··on USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops
I'm going to be very annoyed if Apple ditches the Touch Bar and gets that close to making the perfect laptop, then takes away my USB-C charging.

Knowing Apple they would never offer both.

TheRealSteel··on Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
It's actually worse, climate change is going to kill all of us, medicine unavailability will only kill some of us.
TheRealSteel··on Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
What does mining crytprocurrency have to do with earning income? The two are completely mutually exclusive, in fact mining is a great example of making money without doing any useful work
TheRealSteel··on Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
Mining crytprocurrency isn't "earning" income. Doing work is warning income. Crypto miners are about as useful as landlords - they shouldn't exist and don't deserve any money
TheRealSteel··on Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
I'm no longer free to live on a planet that has been destroyed by climate change. Crptocurrency mining uses more energy than Argentina.
TheRealSteel··on Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
They are indeed economic parasites. Much like landlords, they are not doing any useful work, not contributing to society in any way, but sitting on their ass expecting to collect a free paycheck while other people work.

Miners are parasites.

TheRealSteel··on Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
So, you think poor people shouldn't be allowed to play games?
TheRealSteel··on There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic
What do you mean?
TheRealSteel··on Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)
"React was basically invented by John carmack to do doom 3 and copied to render web pages. "

Does anyone have any reading material on this? I've never heard it and a quick Google turned up nothing, but I'd love to read about it. Unless it's a joke that went over my head...?

TheRealSteel··on Universal basic income to be tested in Wales
The service industry in America is having difficulty hiring because they aren't paying enough. That's all their is to it.
TheRealSteel··on Goodwill doesn't want broken toasters
This could be said about every tax ever
TheRealSteel··on Labor shortage or terrible jobs?
If their entire European, Australian and New Zealand operations weren't profitable, why would they run them at all? They wouldn't use American profits to support them, they'd shut them down.
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