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  • Building subterranean rail after the fact is just not feasible.

    Japan probably has the best rail system with JR. To do that in the US, you would probably need to remove a lot of roads. I would welcome it, but I don't know how the public would feel about losing roads to trains.

  • The Material Design 3 guidelines expresses how content should flow with foldable with slight differences compared to a tablet, for example:

    https://m3.material.io/foundations/layout/canonical-layouts/list-detail

    But you can mostly get away with a standard, two-pane layout as you would a tablet, though the center padding may be off.

    You probably want the center 24dp spacer to be where the crease is, but it gets a bit complicated if you want to use a Nav Rail since it'll offset your layout by 80dp. Here is a web based demo of what the configurations can look like.

  • Touchstream met with Google in December 2011 but was told that the tech giant wasn’t interested in partnering with it in February 2012. For reference, the first generation Google Chromecast was released in 2013.

    Not really patent trolling when you meet with the company, they say no, and then they launch their own version.

  • None of those are 8.x inches. They're all 10" or greater. Once we're talking 10+ inches, I'd just use a Surface Go. It seems nobody besides Apple wants to sell a tablet in that form factor that has decent speed.

    Even the Lenovo M9 is vastly superior to the M8 in terms of CPU. Good 8 inch tablets outside the iPad Mini don't exist. I'd gladly pay $400 for something that's good on Android. I've even thrown money away for a Dell Venue 5855.

    The only reason I stopped using my Tab S 8.4 was because you can only get so far trying to keep it alive with LineageOS.

  • People who fail to understand the value of peer-reviewed code are just going to copy/paste bad, but popular, code practices.

    There irony here is that Stackoverflow was considered a common source of copy/pasted code.

  • Haha, yeah I see have one. It seems targeted for Samsung DeX and/or using it on a TV. It has a straight up a wireless keyboard on the back of the remote. Could make sense since, if you're trying to use it as an Android TV replacement, you can't use the on-screen keyboard.

    Their website is easier to find stuff and each product has an Amazon link.

  • Alt-Mode HDMI stopped at 1.4b. Everything now is DisplayPort Alt-Mode to HDMI. The translation is simple enough it can be done passively and components can fit inside the connector, meaning it looks like a simple cable.

    Drawbacks are you can't get GSync, Freesync, or VRR. Also Nvidia's drivers only output 2.0 Audio over DisplayPort, so no surround sound.

  • Did about a year of a docked laptop setup. Basically anything CableMatters is good. I used the ‎201331-BLK-J (DisplayPort Ultrawide) and the 201310-BLK-N (HDMI 2.1 OLED TV).

    I would pass through my 100W charger and it worked fine. Audio would be sent over the video connection which meant no driver issues. I had speakers connected to the monitor.

    The rest of the USB ports were miscellaneous and at least one cable going to the monitor to use its USB ports.

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  • You can use SharedArrayBuffer but honestly it feels like something engineered for one specific purpose (OpenGL).

    It would be nice to have shared objects and strings with whatever syntax helps sync locks. You can technically use UTF8 with helpers like TextDecoder, and I could probably sit and write all that logic using Promises, but I'd imagine the amount of data conversion to make it happen would negate the performance gains from multithreading in the first place.

  • I stopped using Samsung because the bloat. But my last one was a Note 4. I'm really interested in the Fold 5 because the stylus, but hesitant because the OS. If Pixel Fold had a stylus, it would be a no brainer for me.

  • I went from Pixel 2XL to Pixel 4a 5G to Pixel 7.

    I've had no software issues except maybe WPA3 auth.

    It's all the same really, but the improved camera is probably worth it. I got a decent pair of Bluetooth headphones now so headphone jack doesn't bug me so much. But I literally only listen to music on my phone when traveling.

  • Pixel 7 because its slim OS and good camera. Would love a stylus though. I've made peace with the lack of headphone jack.

    Originally had Samsung since Galaxy S, then left at Note 4 because the bloat was bad. Then Sony Xperia X5 Premium, but the camera was bad. Now Pixel since Pixel 2XL.

    For watches, had LG Watch R, then LG Style, Galaxy Watch 4, but ditched Android Wear for a Amazfit Bip S that lasts for days which allows me to track sleeping.

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  • I used to not like JavaScript when I started, having done C# and Java for about a decade before moving.

    But I feel differently now, having spent about a decade with it and having better tools (VSCode, Typescript, eslint). I code in JS, and use JSDocs whenever Typescript's automatic type detection needs help (no-implicit-any).

    The 2015 changes brought a paradigm shift to write more expressive/declarative code and it's continued from there. async/await is much easier than the Future<T> in Java. Tree-shaking of imports is great at reducing code bundling size. Classes are also optional, not mandatory which helps simplify code (functions vs methods).

    But for the nerdy stuff, I like I can still pass around functions as objects, something that harder to do in C# (delegates). It makes building functions more versatile dealing with arguments, so I can pass a string|number|function|Promise to one function and write more expressively httpPost(variableContent).

    Not perfect though. The prototype system is powerful if you learn it, but definitely confusing. Multithreading is basically non-existent in usage since you have to essentially convert a function to string (serialize) or script threads into their own file.

    I heard python is better for beginners, but I grew up on C style and needs my braces over indents.

  • Which is why rewarding good content will still be part of Reddit. Though we’d love to reveal more to you all now, we’re in the process of early testing and feedback, so aren’t ready to share official details just yet. Stay tuned for future posts on this!

    "Super-upvotes" will cost real money. There will still be normal upvotes of course, but content creators (and Reddit, of course) will be able to get real money. It'll be like YouTube or Twitch and people will make Reddit a full-time gig.

    It'll start a commercialization wave that just results in clickbait and celebrities controlling the culture.

    It'll make them money though, and that's all they care about.