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by II2II 2y ago
> What particularly amazes me more than the CPU power is the amount of storage that I carry in my pocket. Even though the histories of computers seem to focus upon computational power, it seems as though the most challenging aspect in th
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by II2II 2y ago
To many people these days, computers are synonymous with laptops. They have limited need for portability or, if they need portability, a couple of hundred grams does not mean much to them. As for battery life, it is possible to get PCs that
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by II2II 2y ago
You could choose a collection of metrics that would make either widget look better. In the end, the individual metrics may be objective yet the selection of metrics will be subjective. For example: those who prefer widget A may cite things
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by II2II 2y ago
> Macs do have a much more premium feel to them, but I've had great experiences with cheap laptops. Even if I drop it, shucks, I'm out 750$, not 3k. Not to mention that feeling premium doesn't mean that it is more durable.
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by II2II 2y ago
When a consumer can afford to means they have the opportunity to, not that they will. If you told me that I could buy widget A for $10 or widget B for $30, where both widget A and widget B will satisfy my needs, I am going to buy widget A.
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by II2II 2y ago
The article even alludes to them asking the wrong question when they say that people who value time over money tend to be happier. Perhaps they should ask something to the effect of how much money they need to feel secure about their needs
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by II2II 2y ago
The thrift stores in my area have tonnes of VGA cables. If you're the type of person who regularly visits thrift stores, taking the time to go through the cables and wall-warts is worth it. The staff don't know what they have and
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by II2II 2y ago
I suspect a lot of the current disdain is a product of function creep. While the original Raspberry Pi was used as a desktop and server, people understood its limitations. Now that many of the limitations have diminished, to the point where
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by II2II 2y ago
Seeming as newlines may appear in file names, it is a good use. Otherwise something as mundane as a bug in program A (which produces a file name with a newline) has a potential to expose a bug in program B (which fails to interpret a file n
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by II2II 2y ago
> In terms of total data, probably not. > In terms of important data, 100% not. Choosing not to focus upon quantity or quality is likely the reason why SQLite is so popular. It is a lot easier to manage and develop for SQLite than it
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by II2II 2y ago
> Like I get that people expect content online to be free and the alternative sources of information are freely available but its just so tragic. There is more to it than wanting free stuff. At least for some of us. I have never subscrib
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by II2II 2y ago
In many contexts, the title slide is there to let people know they are in the right place or to let people know what a presentation is about while they wait for things to begin. It is not necessarily a part of the talk itself. If it is up a
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by II2II 2y ago
Political and economic disasters are still disasters, disasters which many people flee out of desperation and not necessarily because they were responsible. And while the parallels between political/economic disasters and natural disas
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by II2II 2y ago
Are you sure that picture of a man relaxing with a news paper while waiting for his wife to serve breakfast/dinner isn't cringe? I'm pretty sure the post was making a reference to the addictive properties of cigarettes and sm
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by II2II 2y ago
Once you create a product/project that is in some ways similar to that of a former employer, you have entered potential conflict-of-interest territory. If you can afford the time and legal expenses to argue that it is not a conflict of
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by II2II 2y ago
>> His divisional heads always had the same answer. Microcomputers—home computing—were a fad. They were low-cost and low-profit. Let others scrabble around in the metaphorical dirt of home computing. Those views seemed to be relativel
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by II2II 2y ago
A common approach is to mess around with name resolution. Many operating systems have a hosts file that can be modified. You can do DNS on your own computer. Piholes are a variation on this where people usually use a separate machine to h
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by II2II 2y ago
The problem with that approach is that it also weakens security for people who genuinely need it.
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by II2II 2y ago
The DMCA does not apply in Canada, so I'm not sure if telling someone how to break the lock is illegal. Being a Canadian, I really should look this up. That being said, I try to avoid situations where I would want to break a digital lo
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by II2II 2y ago
In addition to corporate control, I believe that consumer consent is a major issue. Sure, labelling something as a GMO is going to have a short term impact. Yet it is a fairly safe bet that the vast majority of people simply won't care
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by II2II 2y ago
> A hand written email [...] I remember when a hand written letter literally meant a hand written letter. Preferably in tidy cursive. Some viewed it as more personal. Others viewed it as a reflection of thought and effort. It is easy to
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by II2II 2y ago
> The Cat even allowed you to include computer code in the middle of a document that could be executed with a button press. I miss the 1980's. If I recall correctly, Raskin conceived the Macintosh as a computer that was easy to use
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by II2II 2y ago
You don't even have to go the conspiratorial route to realize that repair doesn't make sense to big businesses. The cost of diagnosing the problem, performing the repair, and validating the repair is fairly high. It is also diffic
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by II2II 2y ago
> If housing affordability is a problem, live somewhere else. There are a few problems with that statement. Less expensive homes tend to be in regions that lack jobs. Most of these regions also lack adequate infrastructure for remote wor
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by II2II 2y ago
> I think a better solution would have been to use the serial port rather than the modem port to send a fax. Serial-to-USB adapters are easy to find. Two potential problems. I have tried serial transfers on a similar vintage of Mac, and
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by II2II 2y ago
> If an app is so hard to distribute in any other way, that to me is a red flag that the app is not up to my quality standards or otherwise violates my sensibilities in some way. I have run across the periodic application that violates b
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by II2II 2y ago
If you're going to bring in RISC-V, why not mention ARM? They're currently more of a threat to Intel than RISC-V and likely will be over the next decade. They have a near monopoly for anything that is not a computer that requires
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by II2II 2y ago
> Everyone has to eat, and everyone who has a car has to get it fixed sometimes. I realize this isn't what you meant, but some people have gardens to supplement their food supply and some people repair their own car. I'm not a
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by II2II 2y ago
It always irked me when people called it the Second Iraq War. From my recollections, people always referred to the war in the 90's as the Persian Gulf War and it was instigated by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The war in the 2000&#x2
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by II2II 2y ago
> I don't trust any company It does not have to be a matter of trust. People make mistakes. The wrong mistake can lead to a vulnerability. Technology advances. What was considered secure 20 years ago is not considered secure today.

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