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DeTrotseTuinkabouter t1_ityagyi wrote

Reply to comment by techieman33 in Android phones offered early US quake warning, beating iPhones to the punch | Google's earthquake detection network turns Android phones into seismometers, and it paid off yesterday. by chrisdh79

Someone near you could warn you.

And finish what you're doing? Why? For tons of power tool uses you can simply stop. It might take a second to stop but that might take a ton shorter than finish what you're doing. E.g. if I'm drilling a hole in a brick wall then I can stop just fine.

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Tommyblockhead20 t1_ity5uom wrote

Reply to comment by techieman33 in Android phones offered early US quake warning, beating iPhones to the punch | Google's earthquake detection network turns Android phones into seismometers, and it paid off yesterday. by chrisdh79

I’d imagine it wouldn’t just be a normal notification. It would probably be like AMBER alerts if you’re in North America. A max volume alarm, even if the volume is turned down. Maybe some extreme scenario it wouldn’t be noticed, but what’s important is that most of the time, it will be.

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techieman33 t1_ity5lki wrote

Reply to comment by Tommyblockhead20 in Android phones offered early US quake warning, beating iPhones to the punch | Google's earthquake detection network turns Android phones into seismometers, and it paid off yesterday. by chrisdh79

If your using power tools your not going to notice an alert on your phone and even if you do your going to finish what your doing because that is the safest thing to do in almost all scenarios. The only way you might be able to do something is if you had headphones in and the alert came in over them.

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EnglishDutchman t1_ity3fre wrote

Reply to comment by VincereAutPereo in ‘SiriSpy’ iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your Siri conversations before fix by prehistoric_knight

To be fair, Siri never understood a single thing I said to it anyway. It barely had a 5% success rate which is one of the other reasons I turned it off. Utterly pointless. It had no concept of context so between that and getting 95% of things wrong, it took longer to constantly check everything it was doing than to just do it the old school way.

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thenerdal t1_ity3at8 wrote

Reply to comment by giganut2 in ‘SiriSpy’ iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your Siri conversations before fix by prehistoric_knight

No.

Think of the difference of hearing and listening.

If you hear someone talking but don't know what they're saying, you are just hearing, not listening.

When you understand what they're saying, then you're listening.

The handicapper doesn't know is constantly trying to detect ('hearing') for a certain noise, but doesn't know what any other noises are. Once it hears a certain noise, then it turns on/off.

This is essentially how all voice assistants work. They're 'hearing' for a specific sound to activate the part that then is actually listen.

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ChickpeaPredator t1_ity310f wrote

Reply to comment by tobsn in ‘SiriSpy’ iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your Siri conversations before fix by prehistoric_knight

>can’t calculate fahrenheit into celsius on my own

For a rough guess, simply subtract 30 and divide by 2.

This would make 70°F ≈ 20°C (actually 21°C). 100°F ≈ 35°C (actually 37.78°C) and 30°F ≈ 0°C (actually -1°C).

This quick and dirty formula starts to break down at cooking temperatures, but still great for a rough guess at weather.

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NewDad907 t1_itxzbxn wrote

Reply to comment by AskingForAFriendRly in Android phones offered early US quake warning, beating iPhones to the punch | Google's earthquake detection network turns Android phones into seismometers, and it paid off yesterday. by chrisdh79

I’ve had firefighters literally come to our building and describe how the stairs collapse inside the stairwell shafts, crushing and killing people.

I live in Alaska where earthquakes are a part of life.

Find an interior door and stand in the door frame.

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jakejm79 t1_itxynut wrote

Reply to comment by Mastasmoker in Melted RTX 4090 16-pin Adapters: A Sign of Things to Come? | This was using the standard 12VHPWR 4x8-pin to 16-pin adapter by chrisdh79

For this generation 4x 8pin might not be a big deal, but in the future you could be looking at 6x 8pin or more. Also there are additional benefits when the 12+4pin is paired with an ATX 3.0 PSU.

You have to remember that with an 8 pin connector it's really just 6 pins for the power delivery.

They could have done something like they did with the dual 8 pin cables, basically made a pigtail 12 pin with each connector at the GPU just doing 300w for 600w total, but you'd still have 600w from the single 12 pin at the PSU, plus they were trying to reduce the number/size of connections on the GPU.

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