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by Infernal 8y ago
From the article: "I doubt we will see a seismic transition to a new Mac OS" This doesn't feel like the same speculation that you read?
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by Infernal 8y ago
Do you (or anyone else) have recommendations for applications to view OPML files on macOS?
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by Infernal 8y ago
I think you're both making good points here but just to clarify: I did not account for the interest that could've been earned on that $17k (which could conservatively be $1700, aggressively could've been another $17k). I also
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by Infernal 8y ago
So I have also meticulously kept track of my mileage, from January 2013 to November 2017 (my wife began driving it in November, and I didn't have an iPhone app to track it prior to 2013). The current average over that time frame is 36.
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by Infernal 8y ago
Ah, good point. I was referring to about $400 per set of tires including installation. My original post was unclear in that regard.
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by Infernal 8y ago
To help quantify this a bit - in 2008 I bought a brand new Honda Fit (cash) for about $17k. Has 120k miles on it now, very low maintenance, few repairs, definitely a budget/economy car. Over 10 years, another $600ish a year in gas (lif
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by Infernal 8y ago
Jeep Wrangler?
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by Infernal 8y ago
Not to be picky, just an opportunity to inform - the word you're searching for is anecdote, rather than antidote. Also just while I'm here, normally I wouldn't point out spelling but, epitome.
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by Infernal 8y ago
Tagging on to say I just tried this - even though I activate Siri without unlocking, I was asked to unlock my phone to continue with the email.
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by Infernal 8y ago
Yeah - seems like it would be one of those things that you could allow the user to configure and they'd set it once and never again. I suppose you could switch your client to plaintext composition, but would be nice if there was a sett
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by Infernal 8y ago
I use the Option+Shift+Command+V all the time, especially in emails - that text that I copied from SAP or a Word doc invariably has bizarre formatting and if I Command+V paste it into my email, now the rest of what I type after it is going
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by Infernal 8y ago
If you have previously identified one of your contacts as your mother, yes. If not, Siri will ask who your mother is and if Siri should remember that piece of information.
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by Infernal 8y ago
Or cell tower... or WiFi SSIDs... or NFC payments...
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by Infernal 8y ago
Maybe we only hear about their frustration precisely because they don’t have the power to change things. “Leadership changed things for the better” isn’t much of a headline, it’s the expected/desired outcome.
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by Infernal 8y ago
Just reading the headline I immediately thought of Brian Jacques. I devoured (heh) those books as a kid.
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by Infernal 9y ago
I imagine part and parcel of this unhappiness is that it is taboo - you have to create a throwaway account or otherwise find an anonymous forum in which to express it.
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by Infernal 9y ago
As I mentioned elsewhere, Bezos was 29 when he quit his full time job and 30 when he wrote up the business plan for Amazon. I think that's close enough for this argument.
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by Infernal 9y ago
Jeff Bezos was 29 when he decided to quit his full time job and 30 when he founded Amazon. Close enough?
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by Infernal 9y ago
Maybe a valid rephrasing would be "This makes young people more able to take actions that older folks with more obligations would consider to be giant risks".
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by Infernal 9y ago
> phone note apps for me tend to be write only In that vein, I've recently realized that the CRUD model also defines how I interact with task management apps - I Create lots of stuff, Read maybe 10% of that, Update maybe 50% of what
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by Infernal 9y ago
If you compare to hybrid cars, landing is more like braking to a stop light (unless you need to gun it again to abort the landing). Takeoff is like accelerating from a stoplight (where you need the most power). If electric could take over a
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by Infernal 9y ago
The last computer I built required soldering and Digi-Key. As I found out after lots of trial and error, I got a bad molex-to-sata power adapter, and it took killing two hard drives before I narrowed it down to that cable. The SATA end was
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by Infernal 9y ago
There is no way to prove you voted one way or another with anonymous ballots, so there is no incentive to bribing or threatening violence to influence your vote. The desired outcome is to prove that each vote came from a valid voter, while
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by Infernal 9y ago
Which Pilot sued Palm?
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by Infernal 9y ago
But policing the expression of wide (and fluidly defined) swaths of thought that some believe to be "toxic" isn't?
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by Infernal 9y ago
I'm less sure regarding Facebook (as I'm rarely on it) but there is a large amount of information created (or at least initially disseminated) on reddit. Places like /r/DIY, /r/woodworking, and countless others
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by Infernal 9y ago
So presumably you’re able to optimize better given the same amount of time? That feels like a productivity increase to my way of thinking.
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by Infernal 9y ago
Is this the one with the cup of boiling water that you pour into the batter right before it goes into the oven? I don't know why more people don't make that, it is my mom's (and of course mine now) go-to chocolate cake, and i
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by Infernal 9y ago
So I'm asking this not to move the goalposts, but because it's the situation I'm in - what do if your manager is too weak/distracted/uncaring to actually act on this information and/or the projects in wait stat
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by Infernal 9y ago
As an American who grew up in the US, I've only ever heard TBL cited as the inventor/father of the web (or sometimes internet), and have never heard of Vint Cerf before as best I can recall. Anecdata, for what it's worth.

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