The tech has been in Samsung phones for several years, and is good enough that one’s fingerprint will read through vinyl gloves if they aren’t too scrunched up. It’s fast and decent.
Does make me wonder though, it’s a Qualcomm tech. Does that mean Google is finally going back to Qualcomm chips? The pixel modems have been trash ever since they left.
Fun fact. The Thunderbolt had two modem chips, a 3G modem and a 4G modem. Normally phones have one modem. Also the 4G modem was indeed super inefficient and ate electricity for breakfast. It was necessary at the time as Verizon hadn’t fully integrated CDMA and LTE yet.
API is sitting there cackling like a mad scientist in a lightning storm.
Separate containers works like a dream when one app starts shitting the bed, gets auto-cycled, and everyone else just chills. Not surprised on the Reddit downvotes though. That place is so culty, especially now.
True, and also true.
“Hey, it appears to be int most of the time except that one time it has letters.”
throws keyboard in trash
If done correctly, it also forces devs to write smaller more maintainable packages.
Big if though. I’ve seen many a terrible containerized monolithic app.
Motorola released the Skip tag line around 2013, including a keychain battery that could charge your phone, and had Bluetooth and could use that service to locate whatever it was attached to.
…in 2013.
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This and many others are reasons a switch to Linux has been so joyful. No more Windows trying to guilt me, nag me, push me, trick me, abuse me to use shit the way they want. It’s so much more…quiet.
They don’t even need to push an update, they just need to send a kill command from their activation servers.
There are some that do power negotiation on the input side, and then power negotiation on the output side so you can have your cake and firewall it too.
Yeah, apologies, I was being a bit glib there. Honestly, I kinda subscribe to the Star Trek: Insurrection Ba’ku people’s philosophy. “We believe that when you create a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man.”
While it makes sense to replace some tasks like dangerous mining or assembly line work away from humans, interaction roles and decision making roles both seem like they should remain very human.
In the same way that nuclear missile launches during the Cold War always had real humans as the last line before a missile would actually be fired.
I see AI as being something that becomes specialized tools for each job. You are repairing a lawn mower, you have an AI multimeter type device that you connect to some test points and you converse with in some fashion to troubleshoot. All offline, and very limited in capabilities. The tech bros, meanwhile, think they created digital Jesus, and they are desperate to figure out what Bible to jam him into. Meanwhile, corps across the planet are in a rush to get rid of their customer service roles en masse. Can you imagine 911 dispatch being replaced with AI? The human component is 100% needed there. (Albeit, an extreme comparison.)
It is definitely a very American oddity, and possibly Michigan-specific as well, as each state’s laws can vary significantly. Like, Michigan let’s you know when your license is about to expire by mail. Colorado, by comparison, cares not one bit, and it is up to you to remember to renew. Colorado IDs are tied to your birthday, however, while MI is an arbitrary date at day of issue. We like to keep things so complicated in the US that nobody really ever knows what is going on. Probably by design or “freedom” or something.
Since he already has a state ID, he already has an account. So they don’t even need to stub it.
I think, and I apologize in advance if I get this wrong, the part you may not be understanding is that it seems he never had a license to operate a vehicle. The state can still charge a person with suspending driving privileges legally, however, which would then likely stop their ability to apply for a license, and be a gateway to stack further charges in the event they were caught twice.
A State ID is used to buy booze and plane tickets. A Driver’s Licence is a State ID with a driving endorsement. Above that, there are then license endorsements like CDL (semi trucks), motorcycle, limo/chauffeur above standard driver.
Different types of ID for different purposes.
So more an iterative family member, which I suppose was more what I’d expect with how Microsoft hisorically handled programming languages. Still interesting! Thanks for the fact-check!
Reimagined
Ftfy (/s)
Exactly this.