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by D13Fd 4y ago
> This reminds me of the realization that the difference between a Star Trek replicator and a microwaved can of Campbell's soup is about 30 seconds. Well, 30 seconds plus the entirety of the farming, production, supply, transportat
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by D13Fd 4y ago
So what?
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Not a great analogy. It’s more like if you steal their lunch you are more likely to steal money out of their wallet if you run short. Or, if you’ll lie on an expense report, you are more likely to falsely shift the blame to them when the ch
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I mean, that's not implausible. This sounds like exactly what would happen if one person had a specific font preference and happened to be in charge.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Out of curiosity, have you tried the Apple ones? After years of using the button-less trackpad that simulates clicks with vibrations, ones with buttons just seem weird.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Just wait until the buyer falsely claims they didn’t receive the item. Or that it’s broken. Or that it’s not as described. I rarely sell there any more because it’s just not worth the hassle.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
The M2 Air is basically perfect design-wise IMO. My only mild complaint is that it feels almost too dense and heavy given its size.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
This is an increasingly niche need. It’s rare for people to upgrade HDDs or RAM in laptops.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I wouldn’t call the display limitation intentional crippling just yet. It seems like it’s a legacy of the history of the base M1 / M2 chips. Although if they don’t resolve it in the next couple of generations I’ll agree.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
It was this way for Windows for 1.5 decades with Boot Camp. On Intel chips they provided strong support for running Windows natively. In the end it seems like few people used it.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
This is a weird take IMO. I use PC and Mac daily (primarily Mac). Windows works fine in my view. There is really nothing that impacts my day to day work other than some great third-party software that is missing on the PC side.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Straight-line performance per watt is not the problem IMO. The problem is something along the lines of sleep/wake states and how MS + Intel can’t seem to get it together to handle the times when the CPU doesn’t need to be working.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Yeah. It feels more like they have a long to-do list of settings menus to update and they just can never quite get through it.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I bought 2 real leather belts from a flea market 20 years ago. In that time I’ve had several other leather belts fall apart, with the stitching failing or the material cracking, but these two are perfect. They are just simple leather, one p
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by D13Fd 4y ago
They change over time. My absolute favorite fork is from ikea. Our other forks cost 3x as much but I like the ikea one better. Sadly I’ve never been able to find that set there again (bought it 20+ years ago)
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Yes, we absolutely have to figure out a way to transition away from it and both here an in other countries around the world. An outright ban probably isn't achievable or effective in the short term. We could tax it to raise the cost (d
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by D13Fd 4y ago
> Why would I use Firefox when it is worse than Chrome in every way? To avoid Google? Google funds Mozilla, Firefox would be dead without Google money. Yes, to avoid Google. There is a huge difference between using Chrome and signing a
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by D13Fd 4y ago
What device are you using? On my iPhone 14 and last-gen iPad, I don't notice any of that with Firefox.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
> You will always have to work - you need to feed yourself, clothe yourself, shelter yourself, etc. How you go about doing all of that is what matters. Did you read the post? The person has 6-7 months coming up where they will have a job
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by D13Fd 4y ago
> But in a world with little nuclear and precious few renewables, it just seems premature Most people aren't talking about banning existing gas stoves in existing homes. But every easily avoidable greenhouse gas emission should be
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by D13Fd 4y ago
> Type "At what level does debt-to-GDP ratio hinder a nation?" into ChatGPT Wow, is this what we’ve come to? This is a valid thought process now? I have no strong views on your point. But I really don’t think it’s safe to trust
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by D13Fd 4y ago
> Cross-border payments My impression is that cross-border payments are a pretty small use case, especially if you mean legal cross-border payments. I.e., “something the law allows you to do but you can’t find a financial institution t
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I'm far from an expert here. But hearing about Fentanyl makes me wonder if legalization could be the way to go for recreational drugs (which, for what it's worth, I've never used). The problem absent legalization seems to be
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Exactly. If I'm listening to a podcast on a specific subject matter, I want discussion of that subject matter. I don't want 30 minutes of irrelevant back-and-forth about personal issues by the hosts before they get to the relevant
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by D13Fd 4y ago
You may not need to buy an extreme case IMO. My 5 kids have had mostly free reign on a first-gen retina iPad in a $15 pink fake-leather case, over the course of 7 years. Somehow it still works just fine (I guess we won the battery lottery).
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by D13Fd 4y ago
The problem is knowing when it is failing. How can you know what you may be missing? How can you know how much time you are losing by not getting the best results? Etc.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
You're demanding an awful lot out of a $10/mo product here. And I think you're missing the forest for the trees. It's still an as-good-or-better search engine than Google with no ads and a focus on privacy. The fact that
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Sorry, I'm far from an expert here. They started recently and just went out of closed beta I believe. I've been using it for a few months now. They have a lot of nice features pulled from Google and DDG: https://help.ka
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I last tried DDG a couple of years ago, so it may have improved. But I gave it a good hard try for several months, and I just kept finding instances where I couldn't find something that I knew should be out there. Then I switched back
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I don't like being tied to one company's peripherals. The best solution I've found to this is to use a keyboard with firmware that instantly switches between bluetooth and wired (I use an M60 python keyboard). That way I can

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