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Comment Re:Distilled Apple to it's core (Score 1) 57

The lightning and this power connecter has the huge safety benefit of being solid without a hole which can be squeezed or get dust grains, or metal scraping inside.

USB-C are actually fragile and potientially dangerous for delivering power, if a tiny piece of conductive material gets stuck inside, and we know that many will try to pry out dust using a metal clip...

USB-C protocol is also pretty compliated, I already have some random USB-C cables that seems to only pass power, and some that may pass data only at certain speeds, great that all is possible with the protocol, a nightmare to find out which USB-C cables actually work for your job :(

Comment Re: A better facemask is a must anyway (Score 1) 52

When friends try my headset i switch the facemask, takes 2 seconds with the magnetic clip, and i really dont want others' sweat on my soft geekvr, so they will simply get to use the uncomfortable original :)

Playing vr games often causes sweating more than normally, while perfume, smoke or deodorant smells can stick, and you anyway need to buy a better facemask if you play for more than an hour at a time

Apart from any small risk, the eye area does feel like a private space, and would use alcohol on the controllers if it was a random person who was going to try it, they can absolutely collect grime...

Comment Re:Licensing (Score 1) 38

In this case, it was a human driver that first hit the pedestrian who tumbled under the self-driving car!
The self-driving car promptly stopped as soon as it registered something wrong, as you are supposed to, i guess very few human drivers will have the insight to stop that fast when another car brings accidents to your side...

Comment Re:Relevant XKCD comic (Score 2) 283

A linux that is fully cooporating with the phones is a must, most of the people i have helped only need internet and an office pack, so often a chromebook is enough, otherwise an old macbook

The reasons to avoid linux for those i have helped has always been confusion about the different interfaces and terrible problems with printers, using mac solves this by having a coherent design standard that people can relax with, windows changes too much, and linux is a sea of variable interface distros that causes headaches

Few normal people need to customize, they just need to work

Comment You still need the grip of a dslr (Score 1) 203

The grip, buttons, dials, viewfinder and connections of a modern dslr cannot be replaced by a normal phone

Bulky phone adaptors or fragile phone powered cameras are not useful, so we will see more processing power in cameras with smaller sensors, just as we now have great apsc and m43

Sony knows this and will continue their dslr business, very likely they will make more 1 inch power cameras with incredibly versatile lenses, yet we still need the grip and dials

Comment Let governments help universities research (Score 2) 58

If anyone had put a serious effort in testing whether known safe cheap medicines could help alleviate corona symptoms and effects then we may have avoided most of the pandemic. Just the very chance that the dirtcheap 4 billion times used ivermectin drug could be proven to have an effect would be well worth putting a few millions after in the very beginning of the pandemic, when there were reports of some efficiency Instead it was ridiculed and put off as a conspiracy as drug companies refused to support research when the nobelprize winning creators asked if not that should be done, especially since the drug has been used for decades with extremely few sideeffects Makes you wonder what other medicines could be waiting to be rediscovered if the governments took over the responsibility instead of letting the drug companies decide

Comment Greenwashing pigs with fake labeling (Score 1) 214

This very statement is part of the greenwashing effort of Danish Crown, with huge false marketing campains with fake "independent" labels about the pigs being good for environment and the soya feed not destroying rainforest, all danish stores are right now removing the fake labels and calling the bluff See this with english subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Submission + - Astronomers say there could be at least 2 mystery planets in our Solar System (sciencealert.com)

schwit1 writes: A team of astronomers has performed new calculations on the data that originally gave rise to the Planet Nine hypothesis, and these new numbers suggest that the hypothetical extra planet might not be alone – there could be multiple planets hiding at the edge of our Solar System that we've yet to discover. If the researchers are correct – which nobody knows for sure right now – it could really mean a do-over for the high school textbooks.

The scientists estimate that Planet Nine is 10 times more massive than Earth, and think it performs an extremely elongated orbit of the Sun, that takes between 10,000 and 20,000 years to complete.

The Caltech researchers based their hypothesis for the existence of Planet Nine on the unusual movement of six large objects floating in the Kuiper belt, suggesting that their orbits are being shaped by a hidden planet.

Submission + - Finnish scientist provides another explanation for the 'impossible' EM drive (examiner.com)

MarkWhittington writes: Ever since the EM drive entered the news about a year or so ago, it has sparked considerable controversy. The device is alleged to work by using microwaves that produce, in some fashion as yet unknown to science, thrust. Many scientists suggest that the EM drive is impossible as it violates known physics. However, a number of tests conducted in Great Britain, Germany, China, and at NASA’s Eagleworks at the Johnson Spaceflight Center have resulted in thrust that cannot, as yet, be explained by experimental error. The International Business Times reported that a Finnish scientist has published an article in a peer-reviewed science journal with a possible explanation as to how the drive works.

Submission + - Second Gravitational Wave Detected From Ancient Black Hole Collision (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Physicists have detected ripples in the fabric of spacetime that were set in motion by the collision of two black holes far across the universe more than a billion years ago. The event marks only the second time that scientists have spotted gravitational waves, the tenuous stretching and squeezing of spacetime predicted by Einstein more a century ago. The faint signal received by the twin instruments of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US revealed two black holes circling one another 27 times before finally smashing together at half the speed of light. The cataclysmic event saw the black holes, one eight times more massive than the sun, the other 14 times more massive, merge into one about 21 times heavier than the sun. In the process, energy equivalent to the mass of the sun radiated into space as gravitational waves. Writing in the journal Physical Review Letters on Wednesday, the LIGO team describes how a second rush of gravitational waves showed up in their instrument a few months after the first, at 3.38am UK time on Boxing Day morning 2015. An automatic search detected the signals and emailed the LIGO scientists within minutes to alert them. The latest signals arrived at the Livingston detector 1.1milliseconds before they hit the Hanford detector, allowing scientists on the team to roughly work out the position of the collision in the sky.

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