TheMagicHorsey

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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
The only reason I'm buying a new iPad Pro is the screen and because the battery on my 2021 iPad Pro is slowly dying. I could care less that the M4 chip is in the iPad Pro ... all I use it for is browsing the web, watching movies, playi
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
I never understood how PE firms get blamed for rising costs in doctor's offices and vets. If a PE firm can just unilaterally raise prices, then why didn't he mom n pop practices do the same? Where is the competition? Why is the
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
If the PE firm is charging more than a vet operating alone would, then why wouldn't a vet operating alone just undercut the PE firm's veterinary practice? There must be some barrier to entry in the market that prevents that, and t
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
I bought a couple of M5Stack Cardputers to build my daughter a pair of wireless texting machines (over LORA). I have to say, for about $50 a pop, they are amazing little computers. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bx4Mef
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
Great article. But I hesitate to call feathers one of evolution's cleverest inventions. The natural world is chock full of amazing evolved engineering from the huge (the hearts of blue whales) to the intricate (the brains of hominids
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
This is great. But I hope they do the same thing to so called "legitimate" universities who have long deceived students as to the value of the degrees they grant. I recently met a liberal arts student from an Ivy League universit
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
Talk about useless government nonsense. If we need a strategic reserve for Maple Syrup, then why not strategic reserves for everything else? Why not one for sugar, playstations, shoes, jockstrap itch cream, etc. I'd rather go withou
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
This makes me so sad. He was my favorite sci-fi author. I was looking forward to more books in the Fire Upon The Deep and Deepness In The Sky universe.
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
No. It seems you were incapable of understanding what I was saying ... which is MORE IS WORSE. In other words, the only people who think MORE IS WORSE is a meme are people who think the exceptions are the rule. Almost always more regulati
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
How’d that work out for you with the Brexit vote? Still placing your undivided faith in polls by people that benefit from presenting a particular ideology as being popular?
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
Spoken like someone who has never seen the waste, lack of reason, and counterproductive incentives of a highly regulated market such as healthcare and telecoms in the US. Also, if you are not selling in the EU you would never start a high t
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
I'm hoping something like Mojo makes it so the CUDA lock-in fades over time. Its never a good thing to have one company, like Nvidia, have a stranglehold on the hardware the whole ecosystem evolves on.
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
I don't think that's what that stat says. For instance, if Amazon hired ten people in January, retained 5, fired 5 in February, and replaced them. Then, I fired 3 in March and replaced them. Then fired 2 in April, and replaced t
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
Seems inevitable. Newspapers no longer have a business model that works. Even the "savvy" ones are overly reliant on display ads ... and display ads are getting less and less desirable to advertisers vs other modes of marketing
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
I think we should take these stories with a grain of salt given that workers still seem to prefer to work at Amazon Warehouses over small mom-and-pop stores in many markets that have thriving economies and worker shortages. Not to mention,
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
Anyone that has owned DJI drones and compared them for quality and cost against US and EU equivalents should continue to be very worried about Chinas ability to build smart munitions at scale for warfare vs the West. And sustained smart mun
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
What if people ran their own local gateway that forwarded messages to a third party message broker?
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
Godot is awesome, but I wish that when people start ambitious new projects that are meant to last for decades they’d choose a language that has more modern conveniences than C++. The compile times suck. The language is such a complicated me
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
This is a heavily subsidized project situated by geopolitical concerns ... not a practical calculus based on economics. Even so, even after so much government coddling, it has an uphill battle for raw materials and labor flexibility. I wish
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
Read this. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/11/job-losses-likely-at-vw... And I don't think Volvo is in much different condition.
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
On a related note, I think you have to consider very carefully whether or not you can manufacture in Sweden. For some companies like Teenage Engineering, Elektron, etc.,it can make a lot of sense as your labor cost is such a small fraction
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
Isn't being level a requirement for the condenser pump?
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
OP is underselling Brother. My Brother printer takes bulk ink from bottles and doesn't require stupid expensive cartridges. My Brother printer can be left off, turned on for a print job, connects to WiFi with no issues, and prints fr
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
My wife had a roommate when she was younger who lost over 100 pounds over the course of two years. The woman went from being just average-looking to quite conventionally beautiful. It was almost comical to see her completely confused by t
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
This is a troll lawsuit. We really need to get rid of patents for software in this country.
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
I saw one that was similar except that it used triplets of pi digits (3.xyzxyzxyz..) and drew line segments with direction (x,y) and magnitude z.
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
The way you should think about it is they didn’t want to spend the money on a full employee for that position. If they were forced to do that they just wouldn’t hire for that position. Or that position would be as competitive as any other j
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
What level of “rich” triggers the law? What level of “harm” triggers the law? Am I harming you if I make an online store and you browse it too much? How do I know what too much is? How much browsing of a social network is too much? I don’t
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
So if your app gets too "good" and users use it too much, then you have broken the law? Interesting logic to think through.
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by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
If you had a set of 1000 cards, where 495 have color 0x00000000 +- x and 495 have color 0xFFFFFFFF +- x and a further 10 have color Rand(0x00000000, 0xFFFFFFFF) and you had to categorize these, if x is very small, you would probably end up

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