Arizhel

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by Arizhel 10y ago
No to the gourmet coffee. They can have it, but they need other options for the non-coffee drinkers. I propose chai tea lattes and fruit smoothies. It's a lot cheaper than office space in Silicon Valley...
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by Arizhel 10y ago
What machine was that? I've had two front-loading washing machines now with counterweights, and neither one of them was remotely easy to remove the weights in.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Doesn't that violate Betteridge's Law?
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Not the UK: In which probably 50% of the population feel the government doesn't represent them. When you have a situation like that, it seems like it's time to break up the country into smaller units so that you don't hav
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>In an ideal world, I want possession of real CP to be a crime ... that is, if it could stop there. I partially disagree with this. I think it should only be a problem if it's actually real , and can be proven to be, and thus ca
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by Arizhel 10y ago
That's what you get for buying fake leather. A polyester jacket will perform better and be lighter, and not need maintenance. It won't look like leather, though. That's why you're having problems: you're trying t
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Of course, but it depends on the project and all the skills it entails. If it's a big, complex software project like a AAA game, you're going to need more than 7 people just for the programming work alone, and you can't expe
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by Arizhel 10y ago
American here. Sorry, no: American cars from the 70s were complete and utter junk. The reason you see some (not a lot) still driving around is because their owners love them and put a lot of time into keeping them running. It's just
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It would make sense if 1) the fridge could somehow detect how much of various things you had left (milk, butter, etc.), 2) order these things for you automatically, and 3) there was an economical way of getting these perishable things shipp
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Because way too many buyers would be put off by that and not buy the car. Sure, some young technically-inclined people would have liked that option at the time, but most buyers would not have.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
With the counterweights, it'd be nice if it was easy to open up the machine and take the counterweight out. This would make it much easier to move a heavy machine up stairs.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
This doesn't really make sense. There's only so much efficiency to be gained in washing dishes or clothes; we're reaping a lot of gains here in the last 10 years or so because of electronic controls and sensors, compared to
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I thought the entire reason to have an OD disable switch is for towing.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Kenmore is not representative of the appliance industry. Kenmore has been nothing more than a rebadger for probably its entire existence, and certainly more than my lifetime. It's not a secret, and never has been. The advantage to b
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Not necessarily. The problem here is that many appliances are the property of the landlord, and it's their responsibility to repair or replace them. Landlords who buy cheap junk appliances that need quick replacement are going to see
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Then you can't offer the features and efficiency that the competitors' models do. Replacing the simple mechanisms of yesteryear with microcontrollers and sensors is how our appliances have become so much more efficient, just like
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by Arizhel 10y ago
This sounds right. Many things require different talents, and the tasks can be divided so that people with different talents can focus on what they do best. If I were involved in a video game, I could be productive in programming, but def
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I fail to see how neo-lib doctrine has failed in this instance. If the middle class is priced out of a certain area, then fine, they go move somewhere else. We see this in NYC today: lots of businesses and restaurants have closed shop and
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>And what do you call it when a city becomes a place that only the wealthy can afford to live in? There are so many people that contribute and make a city function who are not even remotely middle class. Where do they live? I'm not
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You're right of course, but to most users, File Explorer is the normal window into the filesystem so to them the two terms are interchangeable in a colloquial sense.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It doesn't annoy me, it makes me laugh. As for friends and family, I've already switched two of them to Mint/KDE and they're both quite happy with it as it suits their limited needs extremely well (web browsing, simple
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>even Foss software pushes or bumps other complementary packages. Citation needed. If you're talking about Ubuntu, that does not represent all FOSS software just like Oracle does not represent all proprietary software; there's
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Ads baked into the OS, especially one you'be paid for, is disturbing.. For me anyway.. Better get used to it; that's how people think these days. Just look at some of the other messages here that say "it's no big de
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I don't understand your problem: the Windows 10 spying, "stupid" updates policy, etc., are all good examples of Nadella's excellent business sense and revolutionary thinking. He's finally cast off this obsolete, id
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by Arizhel 10y ago
No, they don't deserve better. As a wise Frenchman once said, every nation gets the government it deserves. Besides, if you're only met "nice, intelligent, loving americans", you haven't spent much time in America,
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>In your opinion, is work not worth doing if those mammoth companies are pursuing it? Depends on what it is, and what kind of resources you have. In this case, you're talking about a massively difficult task (between the technical
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Canonical didn't just get criticized for the Amazon search integration: a bunch of users jumped ship to other distros, especially Mint (which is basically Ubuntu + other DEs on top). There's a good and simple lesson here: if you d
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Sinking ship? Microsoft's financials are quite solid. And just look at the comments here in this thread, on "Hacker News", a site you think would be full of techies: they're mostly advocating sticking with Windows. Ho
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You don't need thousands of engineers to keep a mobile app up-to-date, and the driverless vehicle thing is a boondoggle as there's already other companies doing that work, which are much better at it (Google, GM, etc.), and don&
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Very good point. By most accounts a great product, but not great enough to get either enough volume, or fetch a high enough price.

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