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The temperature sensor was an interesting idea. Wonder if smartphones will ever get that. Probably not, since it is cheaper to get this information online (but then it is often inaccurate).

The pixel 9 xl has a infrared temperature sensor. I was surprised when I learned this.

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/14103759?hl=en


what would be the point of a temperature sensor in a smartphone. the smartphone is carried by me. that means I already know if it's cold or hot.

Same with any weather app... you already know if it's rainy, sunny or snowing as well.

a weather app provides also forecasts and weather information for places you intend to visit in near future.

The tiles UI was simply not good.

The phones themselves were very good. I have a functional Windows phone in a drawer, that I sometimes charge (and it still works!), but after playing with the tile UI for few minutes... eww


Absolutely LOVED the tiles UI and so did everyone I know that gave Windows phone a shot. By far the best mobile experience I've had outside of a few apps I wanted missing. I really miss the OS. I think in general though the other commenters were correct that there was already too much market share coming from iOS and Android.

Agreed, for what we had in 2012, it was absolutely wonderful UI.

Also agree. Windows Phone 8.1 and 10 were great smartphone interfaces.

Would have been great if it had apps, too.

As an absolute harbinger customer, I wholeheartedly agree. I also think iPhone Air doesn't look so bad.

I absolutely loved the tiles interface and held onto my Windows phone for as long as I could. I eventually had to switch to Android when apps I depended stopped working on Windows phone.

Someone in IT will probably say "why pay for a Macbook, which is a toy, without even real MS Office, when you can buy a chinese configuralble laptop for same price that will have 256gb of RAM and a 5090"

I imagine that a lot of poor people will pay this, in order to try to show off as rich

> as an expat

How can we know that you arent a russian propaganda account, who created a legend that you live outside of Canada, when in reality you never lived there and your lies that "Canada military bad" are just written from Moscow?


How do I know you arnt a CSIS account that targets the chats of those with lived experience in Canada and tries discredit them?

I suppose it's not possible to know nowadays given LLMs and all.

Looks like regulatory capture. What do the AI bros want to do that they require such law?

I guess it is future proofing to defend scraping. Scraping that ignores robots.txt


Makes me wonder if cooks, who (in many countries) stand in front of a gas stove for long hours every day have a statistically higher chance of asthma?

Even worse than asthma

https://preventcancer.org/article/lung-cancer-asian-american...

> Environmental exposures, such as cooking oil fumes and secondhand smoke, have long been identified as risk factors for lung cancer among women in Asia who do not smoke


Those exposures are completely unrelated to the burner used in the kitchen.

Doom which was countless fun for people up to this day who make mods? (E.g. the great Myhouse.wad that was perhaps FPS of the year... 2023)

Quake, which was a good game, but arguably a better engine that lead to things like Half-Life 1?

Other games?

Shared the code to Doom and Quake?

I guess you dont understand how big of a game Doom was. The first episode holds suprisngly well up to this day, even after hundreds of doom-clones as they used to call FPS games.


But he didn't design the Doom game. He designed its graphics engine.

You understand how games work, do you? Please tell me you do. Else, what kind of argument is it?

The engine enables people with actual creativity to realize their vision. I believe Carmack was part of that creative process, but the condescending tone of your comment really isn't appropriate because in most games the engine is just a means to an end (nobody sane idolizes games because they're using unreal underneath, for example)..

Just decided to talk shit on Friday? What you believe doesn't matter. Facts matter, and your knowledge of facts are far away from truth.

What is your point?

I think English was not set as an official language since... Trump?

It was the de facto language, but not the official language. What was baffling.


If your bank is exporting and importing csvs, the problem is on the software stack side.

Both xlsx can be exported and imported. It is just harder


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