TomVDB

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by TomVDB 5y ago
> Tap to click should _always_ be turned off; it's bad and it should feel bad I love tap to click and it works great on my 2012 MacBook Pro trackpad. However, on my brand new, expensive Dell Precision laptop from work, it's c
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by TomVDB 5y ago
One of the reason I choose a Tesla was because of the superchargers that are everywhere in California, and because of their long range: I only need a 30min intermediate recharge to get from the Bay Area to Lake Tahoe. When I google for supe
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by TomVDB 5y ago
Contrary to my MacBook, I don’t tend to leave my monitor laying around the house with the charger plugged in. I’m clumsy, I tend to accidentally stumble of cables that are plugged in. (It doesn’t happen that often, of course, but once ever
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How strange. I routinely drive uninterrupted stretches of 160 miles in my Model Y without emptying the battery. Are you sure they weren't pressing the acceleration and break pedals at the same time?
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Nothing at all. I've driven a Tesla for over a year now, and this is the first time I've even heard about it, let alone experienced it.
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Yes, but people aren't impressed by the M1 chips because of 5% KPI differences.
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> Does anyone expect x86 to close a factor-of-6 perf/watt difference? The one number that surprised me in this review was that the perf/W of Threadripper for the rendering phase: it is very close to the M1 Max. I understand tha
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by TomVDB 5y ago
I wasn’t a Mac user back then, but when the original iPod was revealed, I was blown away by its looks, and it was something we talked about at the office. I don’t know what was so special about the 4th generation clock wheel though…
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Did he say anything controversial?
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When 1999 rolls over into 2000, you’re going to be telling everyone that we should be celebrating 2000 rolling into 2001 instead, right?
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40 years ago, The US Coast Guard used to have a pigeon powered sensor to detect sailors lost at sea. https://medium.com/war-is-boring/that-time-the-u-s-coast-gua...
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I once attended a press briefing, as a supporting demo engineer, that started with a very stern “Under NDA” warning, followed by some pretty mundane technical disclosures. Not 10 minutes later, one of the attending journalists was blabbing
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by TomVDB 5y ago
Try committing suicide while surrounded by family without risking those present to be charged with murder.
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Does that motorcycle pass modern emission requirements? The engine controle unit plays a major role in emission control and fuel economy.
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Dude, this is not complicated. All wireless carriers offer huge incentives to come to their network. Because there’s a lot of friction for people to change. Offering generous trade-in programs is just part of the same tactics. They’ll make
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by TomVDB 5y ago
Your premise that you don’t save money by buying your phone through the carrier is incorrect. AT&T has had generous trade-in options to upgrade an existing iPhone to a new one since forever. I’m typing this on an iPhone 12 that was boug
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by TomVDB 5y ago
How do you want a savings bank to invest? Government bonds? Corporate bonds? Stocks? Crypto? Are you willing to cover their potential losses with government guarantees? Savings accounts are supposed to be a safe storage of money. They have
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by TomVDB 5y ago
Banality of evil is about ordinary people performing profoundly evil acts, like participating in mass genocide. It has nothing to do with the banality of legally optimizing your interest rate by opening a few bank accounts.
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If there is only one investment vehicle (other than the stock market) that offers considerably higher returns than everything else, then that vehicle carries pretty by definition a much higher risk than you seem think it does.
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Other than that, how was the play, Mrs Lincoln?
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What did you pay for it? I don’t see any prices on their website…
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That astute guess is so out of left field that it needs at least a bit of justification. To my limited ASML knowledge, ASML is a fab equipment maker, not a silicon IP procider.
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It’s already like that. Most houses in the Tahoe area that are surrounded by a certain amount of trees are insurable only via the California FAIR plan.
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2012 MacBook Pro with retina screen here too. I've replaced the battery twice, and I've had 2 SSDs going dead, but other than that it's still going strong. I love the screen, I love the keyboard, I just wish I didn't che
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by TomVDB 5y ago
I’ve noticed in various places in the Bay Area that new and improved bike lanes are being added. A good example is a Bubb Rd, the part north of McClellan, in Cupertino (which has a bunch of Apple offices): much improved signalization and th
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by TomVDB 5y ago
Spend a bit of time on the /r/nursing subreddit and weep. ICU nurses have been worked to the bone for 18 months now, and often already at higher patient/nurse ratios that customary. The coming problem won’t be one one of insu
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They don’t. They want to link a new GV account to a real phone number that is not theirs, so that they can use the GV number for other scams. It only works when your phone number doesn’t already have a GV linked to it.
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This is very common scam. AFAIK it’s a way to create a new Google Voice account (linked to your phone number) with the goal of using that account for other scams so that they can’t be tracked. I fell for it, but since I already had a Google
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I don’t think the magic cookie was anything deliberately complex, but you’re right that guessing wouldn’t have been very practical.
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Reminds me of a friend of mine who wanted the ability to have Unix shell access on his work machine from home. (This was early nineties, when Internet log in to work was not a thing.) He ran a service that piped all income emails to a scrip

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