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541.
by arvinsim 5y ago
I don’t know what version of PopOs you are using. But mine with the 20.10 version supports fractional scaling on my desktop. Are you talking about their laptops?
542.
by arvinsim 5y ago
> People who’ve succeeded at achieving ambitious goals are able to look at success from both vantage points: from having yet to succeed and succeeding. You fell for the classic survivorship bias fallacy.
543.
by arvinsim 5y ago
> It boils down to having a reason to put in the time to become proficient You just gave me an epiphany about why I am having a hard time creating music.
544.
by arvinsim 5y ago
This sounds like one of Cory Doctorow’s short stories in his Radicalized book.
545.
by arvinsim 5y ago
Some laptops still ship with 256GB storage for the base model.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
You will have to 1. Inform users what they are missing out 2. Instill a culture of performance first over features in software dev shops. The financial incentives of doing these are not very compelling.
547.
by arvinsim 5y ago
One can stop working, win the lottery and be successfully financially.
548.
by arvinsim 5y ago
Nope, as the poster said, you can be successful just by luck alone. Hard work not necessary.
549.
by arvinsim 5y ago
But US Big Tech does affect at a global scale. What are the chances of a country developing their own search engine? Their own mobile OS and hardware? Their own social networking app?
550.
by arvinsim 5y ago
Seconded. I have been using 144hz for a couple of years.
551.
by arvinsim 5y ago
This perhaps explains why my Intel Macbook's fan runs louder when I plug it into a high refresh display.
552.
by arvinsim 5y ago
At least WFH would be normalized which is a big win
553.
by arvinsim 5y ago
I would take a paycut to have much less work hours. Could be a win-win but maybe a lot of people prefer to earn more.
554.
by arvinsim 5y ago
It makes no sense to optimize for niche power users over general casual users.
555.
by arvinsim 5y ago
You could say tech fosters a dependency on itself by people to sustain itself.
556.
by arvinsim 5y ago
It's a pipe dream though because company revenues need people buying more devices, not less.
557.
by arvinsim 5y ago
Didn't know this. Thanks for the tip.
558.
by arvinsim 5y ago
It surprises me that lobbying even exists. Looks like legalized bribery/corruption to me.
559.
by arvinsim 5y ago
Some people like the status quo and would defend it to the death because they make money off it.
560.
by arvinsim 5y ago
10 years is a pretty short time for "this has been always been this way".
561.
by arvinsim 5y ago
Why is everyone consenting with this favoritism?
562.
by arvinsim 5y ago
The fact that Fanhouse got approved means Apple's rules are arbitrary.
563.
by arvinsim 5y ago
So you still can't use Facetime without a phone number.
564.
by arvinsim 5y ago
> How to write a design doc, take feedback, and drive it to resolution, in a reasonable period of time Are there any templates for design docs?
565.
by arvinsim 5y ago
I think the problem is that design teams don't bake in internationalization when it is not explicitly asked for. It used to be the same thing for responsive pages.
566.
by arvinsim 5y ago
Was about to comment the same but wonder that there must be someone else who also saw the anomaly.
567.
by arvinsim 5y ago
But that is what capitalism ultimately is when pushed to the extreme.
568.
by arvinsim 5y ago
> Don’t half-work just to put in the hours. It’s better to give full effort half the day and then be done. Cultivating an ass-in-seat mentality is harmful to myself. When needed, give full effort all day, exceed expectations and demand c
569.
by arvinsim 5y ago
Couldn't it be that our memory adapted in the sense that we don't really need short term memory as much as our ancestors did?
570.
by arvinsim 5y ago
As someone who doesn't have a physics background, I thought they were putting an animal in the accelerator at first glance.

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