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8 votes
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Former nail biters --- how did you quit?
I'm sitting here reading about Jeremy Renner's failed app and new Amazon store and filing my nails down. I've mostly stopped biting, but I still do every so often. So if you've quit, how the hell...
I'm sitting here reading about Jeremy Renner's failed app and new Amazon store and filing my nails down. I've mostly stopped biting, but I still do every so often.
So if you've quit, how the hell did you do it? The bad tasting nail polish stuff doesn't taste bad enough for me... is there an Allen Carr for biters?
22 votes -
Why Sergio Leone played music on set
9 votes -
Libraries and archivists are scanning and uploading books that are secretly in the public domain
8 votes -
How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2019
7 votes -
Final Fantasy VII Remake | Tokyo Game Show 2019 trailer
9 votes -
System Shock 3 | Pre-alpha gameplay teaser
5 votes -
The FDA is finalizing a plan to clear the market of all unauthorized flavored e-cigarette products to help combat youth usage
8 votes -
University of Virginia health system sues thousands of patients, seizing paychecks and putting liens on homes
14 votes -
Methods of creating invisible tutorials
7 votes -
Democracy devouring itself: The paper predicting the end of democracy
20 votes -
Turkey information thread: AmA you're curious about Turkey
@gergir mentioned the idea, and I thought, why not give it a try? I'm a young adult from Turkey, lived up until now in Istanbul. Whether specific to that city or not, and whether about life,...
@gergir mentioned the idea, and I thought, why not give it a try?
I'm a young adult from Turkey, lived up until now in Istanbul. Whether specific to that city or not, and whether about life, tourist attractions, politics, culture, etc., just AmA.
If you have anything you don't want to publicly ask, I'l love to help if you PM me your question.
32 votes -
Sacklers would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma under settlement proposal
11 votes -
Hubble telescope spies water [cycle] on distant world
12 votes -
Sayonara Wild Hearts | Launch trailer (releases September 19)
5 votes -
Ryan Celsius - Trappin in Japan 14 (2019)
3 votes -
Brexit: Scottish judges rule Parliament suspension is unlawful
17 votes -
The iPhone and Apple’s services strategy
7 votes -
US Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas's radical vision of race
14 votes -
string length is complicated
13 votes -
Apple Keynote Discussion Thread [September 10, 2019 @ 10:00 am PDT]
The Apple Keynote is on September 10th, at 10am Pacific Daylight Time (daylight savings is in effect). I'm making this thread as a place to discuss the announcements here on ~tech. TIme: 10:00am...
The Apple Keynote is on September 10th, at 10am Pacific Daylight Time (daylight savings is in effect). I'm making this thread as a place to discuss the announcements here on ~tech.
TIme:
- 10:00am PDT (California / Apple time)
- 5:00pm GMT (Greenwich time)
Livestream Links
- Apple's website stream -- requires a browser that supports both HLS and HEVC (safari and edge)
- Apple's Youtube stream -- first time Apple is streaming on youtube. Should work anywhere that Youtube works :) They'll probably break the stream record.
Tl;Dr of actual announcements (updating right now)
- Apple Arcade announced
- $4.99 / month and one month free.
- 100 indie exclusives on launch
- Apple TV+ announced
- $4.99 / month, launching November 1
- New originals every month! 100 countries at launch
- Including 1 year free with device (iPhone, iPad, or mac) purchases starting today.
- New base model iPad
- 10.2 inch display, Runs A10 Fusion chip, (optional) smart keyboard
- New iPad is made from 100% recycled aluminum (like the new MacBook air)
- Starts at $399 (competing with chrome books). $299 for education customers.
- includes Apple Pencil support
- Apple Watch Series 5!!!!
- Health and Fitness video
- 3 New health studies!!!
- Apple Hearing Study
- Apple Women's Health Study (How cycles affect various health conditions)
- Apple Heart Study
- Enrollment is voluntary. OPT-IN by downloading the app and getting enrolled. - Apple Watch Series 5
- ALWAYS ON LTPO OLED display, with Dynamic Refresh Rate (1Hz - 60Hz VRR)
- Same 18 hour battery life
- International Emergency Calling on all cellular models
- 100% recycled aluminum.
- Stainless Steel, Titanium, Ceramic
- Series 3 watch starts at $199, Series 5 starts at $499
- iPhone 11!
- Aluminum and Glass, comes in a bunch of colors
- Spatial audio + Dolby Atmos for next level smartphone sound
- New Camera -- 120º FOV Wide angle camera, 12MP with 100% Focus Pixels
- 0.5x Optical Zoom out :)
- New Image processing pipelines, with semantic rendering and adaptive tone mapping
- Portrait mode improvements (wider portraits, and more) (yay, now for pets!)
- Night Mode has adaptive image slicing and fusion for reducing blur in long exposure.
- 4K HDR video at 60fps (was previously 30fps!)
- Front Camera is now 12MP wide angle
- 4K 30fps HDR video, Slowmotion Video for front facing camera! :) - A13 Bionic processor
- fastest GPU and CPU ever in a smartphone
- Game demo showing off Metal 2 Shaders, Bloom, and AA in realtime at 60fps
- Battery is now 1 hr longer than the previous XR
- U1 Chip? (on slide, not mentioned) - Wifi 6 support!
- 2m water resistance for 30 minutes
- 6.1 inch Liquid Retina display
- Priced sanely at $699
- iPhone 11 Pro
- 3 camera array
- Matte Textured Glass
- Super Retina XDR Display.
- 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio
- 1200 nits of brightness
- 426 ppi
- Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos - A13 Bionic Chip Design
- Machine Learning Matrix Multiplier Accelerators make matrix operations 6x faster on iPhone
- Best ML platform of any Smartphone
- Lower power design using 7nm+ lithography
- 8.5 Billion Transistors
- 4 High Efficiency CPU cores
- Hundreds of Voltage domains and clock domains
- Each region of the chip is at least 20% faster, and uses at least 20% less power - 3 camera system
- 4x zoom range (0.5 to 2x)
- 53-13mm focal lengths, and f1.8 to f2.4
- Deep Fusion camera system - stitches together burst photos + long exposure to maximize detail and reduce noise.
- Filmic Pro demo -- allowing multiple camera use at the same time. - iPhone 11 Pro at $999, Pro Max at $1099
- iPhone 11 at $699 and XR at $599 and iPhone 8 at $499 to complete the lineup.
- Apple Store Updates
- Apple Watch Studio - pair any watch with any band of your choice. Configure as you want
- iPhone trade ins can now be used for a lower monthly rate if you buy an iPhone, rather than simply taking off the purchase price.
- 5th Ave Store is being redesigned and re-opening Sept 20th!
Other miscellaneous / fun stuff
- Apple Keynote Bingo Card -- 5 in a row to win! :)
- Upgrade Podcast Draft Card -- the hosts have predicted what they should see at the event. Person with the most points wins.
Edits:
- fixed part about browsers with HLS support, and added a table showing compatible browsers.
- remved "what we're expecting" section, and started updating the event live feed.
26 votes -
How to make alkaline, low-hydration ramen noodles at home
9 votes -
Charles Koch has spent a fortune pushing the American government to the right. Now his foundation is promoting a vision of US power shared by many progressives: restraint
4 votes -
Has science shown that consciousness is only an illusion?
6 votes -
Strike with the band - The world of classical music is neither noble nor fair, though its reputation says otherwise
6 votes -
Will the millennials save Playboy?
10 votes -
93% of British Columbians want to scrap changing clocks for daylight time, survey says
11 votes -
What has NASA's Juno discovered around Jupiter so far? (three year update)
5 votes -
On a night when several smaller parties are set for big gains in Norway's elections, some of the country's biggest parties took a bruising
5 votes -
Iceland makes the top of the list when it comes to online news consumption, a study conducted by the OECD revealed
5 votes -
noclip.website - A website that lets you view famous levels from all kinds of games in 3D
33 votes -
German fiscal frugality is the stuff of legends – but they have nothing on the abstemious Swedes
8 votes -
angel (short poem)
i have no idea where i am who i have been i have the slightest glimpse into the present a wavering image of a time long past my soul sits on siain heights above the fish and birds where we know...
i have no idea where i am
who i have been
i have the slightest glimpse into the present
a wavering image of a time long past
my soul sits on siain heights
above the fish and birds
where we know endless comfort
and a burning desire for wisdom
this version, far away from the peaks
that I am so accustomed to;
yet drawn to the body of man,
who screams in agony as he is raised to the heavens.4 votes -
The State of California is getting closer to adopting the Fair Pay to Play Act, a law that would end NCAA amateurism as we know it
12 votes -
How is China able to provide enough food to feed its population of over one billion people? Do they import food or are they self-sustainable?
9 votes -
Urban Meyer explains RPO
6 votes -
Evidence for bias of genetic ancestry in resting state functional MRI
Conference paper: Evidence For Bias Of Genetic Ancestry In Resting State Functional MRI [blocked] Preprint (not peer-reviewed): Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional...
Conference paper: Evidence For Bias Of Genetic Ancestry In Resting State Functional MRI
[blocked]Preprint (not peer-reviewed): Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional MRI
[not blocked]Someone posted this on Reddit. It purports to be a study which shows that it is possible to identify a person's genetic ancestry (in other words, their "race") by observing their brain activity.
Thereby, we demonstrated that genetic ancestry is encoded in the functional connectivity pattern of the brain at rest. We hypothesize that these observed differences are a result of known ethnicity-related variations in head and brain morphology
This feels problematic, in that it gives support to the racist idea that different "races" think differently. But I don't know enough myself to believe this study or debunk it. I present it for more knowledgeable people than myself to dissect and discuss.
6 votes -
metaphysical sigh.
one day i will die one day so will you. the pictures on the wall will end up in the trash or old and tattered in an attic. our greatest of great-grandkids won't know our faces or how deeply we...
one day
i will die
one day
so will you.
the pictures on the wall
will end up in the trash
or old and tattered
in an attic.
our greatest of great-grandkids
won't know our faces or
how deeply we were saddened
to never see them grow
to never learn the world they know
to never speak their modern language
or watch the trees around them
grow.
for we'll be dead in the ground
and we'll never hear a sound
for what comes next ain't only silence
it ain't blood and it ain't violence
it just
ain't.
so for now we're killing time perhaps
we'll get laid or
learn to paint.
but in the end, it all goes out
into the trash
into the dust
and rest assured
into the ground.
.
if you choose to abuse me
i'd rather hear threats for ever than
hear no sound.
because if you're still here to hurt me
i can say that someone
stuck around.
.
.
.
before i'm buried in the ground.
9 votes -
"Husband" x Amigo the Devil (2019)
3 votes -
Runaway story or meltdown in motion? The unraveling of the WeWork IPO
10 votes -
Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Discovery tour - Ancient Greece
3 votes -
12yo Alice Springs boy to speak at United Nations in push to change Australia's age of criminality
7 votes -
Best Buy is discontinuing Insignia smart home line
8 votes -
MegaCrit releases Slay the Spire's fourth character on the PC beta branch
8 votes -
Firefox’s test pilot program returns with Firefox Private Network beta
11 votes -
A space traffic jam: The coming cost of moving satellites
8 votes -
Coalition of fifty US attorneys general launch antitrust investigation into Google
17 votes -
Pomplamousse - Je m'suis fait tout petit [Georges Brassens cover]
7 votes -
You may be experiencing secular stagnation
13 votes -
What did a fictional character say that stuck with you?
Always loved some of the quotes from Harry Potter - Sirius Black and Dumbledore having the better ones. "If you want to know what a man’s like, judge him on the way he treats his inferiors, not...
Always loved some of the quotes from Harry Potter - Sirius Black and Dumbledore having the better ones.
"If you want to know what a man’s like, judge him on the way he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
— Sirius Black35 votes