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by S_A_P 8y ago
Wait a minute. Apple actually directly addresses most if not all of the Spotify claims. I did not read the entire article but this is absolutely not true. I don’t think Spotify has a leg to stand on here. I’m all for equal opportunity, but
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by S_A_P 8y ago
Anecdata I know. I have gotten a flu vaccine for the past 5 years, and always got some sort of really bad cold/possible flu. This year, I skipped the flu shot. Guess what, I had a house full of people with confirmed flu(and all of them
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by S_A_P 8y ago
great story- I spent some time watching/discussing piano tuning with the guy that does my yamaha C2. You basically bring it up in 3-5 passes depending on how out of tune it starts in. He started with a tuning fork and then continued wi
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by S_A_P 8y ago
Indeed. There are careers to be made with the wrong sets of skills.
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by S_A_P 8y ago
agreed. Further if they can convince other tech companies not to pander to this district, they may reconsider their position. This has long been a money play by that judge/lawyers in the area.
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by S_A_P 8y ago
Agreed. In Houston, the people are all incredibly passive aggressive, clueless or blind to folks in the left lane. If someone is behind me approaching at a high rate of speed, I get out of the way. Why this is not someones first instinct bl
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by S_A_P 8y ago
Im curious what is generating the pictures? I want to play around with this toolset.
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by S_A_P 8y ago
Which mbpro are you referring to on the GPU upgrade? Ive not been keeping up. I will add that the T2 chip seems to be a solution looking to create a problem. I had a lot of grief with my iMac Pro and the T2 chip causing kernel panics. I had
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by S_A_P 8y ago
The problem is that diet sodas are seen as a cheat that allows a person to eat more calories than they should. This usually is linked to people with poor nutrition habits. Those same people are probably more likely to stroke out or have a h
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by S_A_P 8y ago
you can sue anyone for anything you can convince a lawyer to take a case for. Doesn't mean you can win, and I certainly haven't seen cases where the butt of a joke sued and won. I would definitely be interested in reading about th
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by S_A_P 8y ago
Tangentally related. Joe Rogan had Rafinha Bastos on his podcast this week. He is a comedian from Brazil. Apparently, he has come to the US because he was getting sued for making fun of people in Brazil. Similar things seem to happen in Can
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by S_A_P 8y ago
I see that coinbase seems to be pushing the 0x/ETH as the solution, and maybe I just don't understand how the 2 are supposed to work, but it seems clunky to me. By that I mean I can't abstract the concept easily based on thin
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by S_A_P 8y ago
Fellow consultant here that has seen a lot of similar issues. I am currently tasked with rewriting a Delphi application that supports business in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually. It was written by a guy in his garage in Alabama
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by S_A_P 8y ago
I don’t see any way to solve the paywall problem except to have Spotify for news/written content.* Even then there are too many hands reaching into my wallet to the point where I just don’t read some things. *Until there is a universal
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by S_A_P 8y ago
A lot of assumptions here. Do they know that is the explicit purpose of the app? Has it been reported? Again I don’t agree with their policies, but who’s job is it to keep track? I would think the press. However since the business mandate s
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by S_A_P 8y ago
I don’t agree with the kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s stances, but I also feel like keeping a list of each state that violates human rights is not in Tim Cook’s or Sundar Pichai’s job description. If we are just being honest with ourselves the l
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by S_A_P 8y ago
My initial thought is that if you worry about losing money on a micro level you aren’t charging enough for your time. I actually feel like I can work about 50% time and be just fine.
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by S_A_P 8y ago
I have a few issues with YouTube that I don’t have with other things computer/screen time related. 1) I can’t police what they are watching easily. I’m not saying I want to have them be completely sheltered, but since any knucklehead
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by S_A_P 8y ago
I’m becoming more and more frustrated with YouTube, because I have seen it take my stepson and my son and turn them in to bedridden sloths. Ok that was hyperbole but there is a whole new level of friction to get them to do anything around t
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by S_A_P 8y ago
I don't disagree with this, and I think the trend of weaponizing marijuana to ridiculous levels of strength is concerning to me. But even at the new crazy strength, as far as I know it has not caused death by overdose. I would prefer t
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by S_A_P 8y ago
I would argue alcohol is among the most dangerous drugs available, and its legal, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by S_A_P 8y ago
Wait, what??? Think really long and hard about how that would play out. This is a scarce resource, that like many digital items feels cheaper than it really is. I personally think that domain registration should cost more. That would a) sto
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by S_A_P 8y ago
I tend to agree after reading the bulletin. It seems to be a safety net for the plane/engines that maybe needs better input validation so that a pilot eager to hit the brakes cant do this again. In this context its a UX bug.
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by S_A_P 8y ago
This got me following the rabbit hole and I found this NYTimes article from 1987 about the subsequent lawsuit against Morton Thiokol by Boisjoly. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/29/us/engineer-who-opposed
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by S_A_P 8y ago
when is “too far”? I’m certainly thinking that we are there, but when does most of the world get to that point?
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by S_A_P 8y ago
Maybe slightly off topic but I would be curious to know what the artifact of lower bit rate mp3 encoding is actually doing. It’s not aliasing, but it’s in the 6-15khz range. I could only describe the sound of the artifacts as a flock of sea
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by S_A_P 8y ago
Thats it- thanks. https://www.amazon.com/Prophet-Silicon-Valley-Complete-Seque... link to the book.
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by S_A_P 8y ago
I recently read the biography (for lack of a better term) of sequential circuits. Dave Smith(the founder who still makes awesome synthesizers today) was a primary stakeholder in pushing the standard though. What essentially happened was All
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by S_A_P 8y ago
Ive the 2018 i9 MacBook Pro. "upgraded" to this from a 2014 model. Not only is the keyboard not as terrible as claimed its many times worse. I have few words to describe how terrible it is. I use an external keyboard whenever I ca
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by S_A_P 8y ago
Don't conflate an SUV with a full sized truck. An SUV can be the same size as a Ford Fiesta or as large as a school bus. I would argue that most of the US is buying small to midsize SUVs and not the full size suburban/expedition t

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