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by arvinsim 6y ago
I am more interested in the workflow of using one separate keyboard for each hand. That is probably trivial to setup on conventional keyboards but I wonder if it is ergonomically better.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
> On the other hand, not having Office is kind of a feature, it makes you learn better tools :) I think this kind of attitude is why Linux on the desktop will probably never be mainstream.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
As long as people/corporations value convenience and profit, everything else is secondary.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
I made the mistake of applying the hourly schedule to my personal life and it's horrible. I had to always update my calendar seems things never go as planned. I also was having anxiety even in my off days since I feel that I have to &q
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by arvinsim 6y ago
I still fail to see how this will apply to iOS. iOS doesn't magically lose it's sandboxing and become Windows just because 3d party stores are allowed.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
I am ignorant on this field so please indulge me with this question: Isn't in China's best interest not to make public any innovations that they can leverage against other countries?
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by arvinsim 6y ago
> Then there's the fact that many positions are not requiring a college education at all. Tell that to companies who still are filtering applicants based on their college education.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
Or could it be that the amount of information needed to be competent in our fields is getting too high? It doesn't help that we are expected to have T-shape skills. We need to be both deep in one area and broad in other areas at the sa
789.
by arvinsim 6y ago
> Seriously, I feel the US has a big education problem, with part of it being cultural I think. Seems being educated, knowledgeable, having expertise, learning about science and technology, medicine and law, just isn't valued anymor
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by arvinsim 6y ago
> While long-term this might end up being great for RISC-V, it's going to cause a huge fracture in software stacks at the exact WORST time. Finally we're starting seeing huge convergence on ARM in Mobile/Desktop/Serve
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by arvinsim 6y ago
> If third party App Stores are ever forced onto iOS devices, that market vanishes completely. Crashes, slowdowns, battery drain, malware, and information theft will become the norm. Go no further than your gaming PC to witness the night
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by arvinsim 6y ago
Made the same assumption too.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
The stereotype of it being juvenile and for "nerds" is alive and well. It will take one generation who grew up playing video games to normalise it.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
> Nowadays, I get Native Instruments Ultimate — and despite sounding orders of magnitude better, all I do is toying around. I always have the nagging feeling there's gotta be one sound or effect in that endless library that's s
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by arvinsim 6y ago
That's why Apple is so afraid of sideloading. Because it threatens their business model.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
This is obvious, until you realize that the line between company and customers(shareholders) have been blurred, creating perverse incentives.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
I want the definition for monopoly be reviewed by law making entities. It was made from a bygone era, where the digital concept didn’t even exist.
798.
by arvinsim 6y ago
Are theme parks essential to your daily life? Because that what smartphones has become.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
Sport is not so much a modern relaxation as a new religion; and is more serious and unsmiling even than most new religions. - G. K. Chesterton
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by arvinsim 6y ago
Got it. I just activated this feature in my Mac :)
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by arvinsim 6y ago
Designer and engineers are not the people you should tell off. Go to the business owners and product managers who actually drive the product and more often overrule design and engineering.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
> People are forced to use many products of big companies and others which are largely responsible for this. Same way as dev employees are forced by companies to prioritise features over optimisation.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
> The real issue is why should an otherwise capable CPU from 5 years ago struggle to render the average website today, when it really shouldn't be that hard. Scrolling through someone's marketing website _should_ be a painless
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by arvinsim 6y ago
It's interesting that this is Singapore's 3rd Apple store while other Southeast Asian countries don't even have one.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
> * Clipboard history (screenshots on clipboard in the history is extra useful) Are you fine that Alfred can read the clipboard? > * Workflow for opening Jira tickets in my browser quickly Yes! Navigating JIRA is much easier with Alfr
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by arvinsim 6y ago
I will wait for benchmarks. Their 2x qualifier was RTX On. Not sure if they meant general performance or RTX performance only.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
They did have a disclaimer that it depends on your PC configuration. If you run something like the Ryzen 3600, it might be fine.
808.
by arvinsim 6y ago
1 year of use is fair. I have 5700 XT and I think I got good value of it.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
I already expected AMD to only compete in the low and mid level range. But NVIDIA pegged the 3070(which is faster than the 2080 TI) at $499. That's pretty hard to beat!
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by arvinsim 6y ago
It's even worse. The previous generation can just put in 9-5, work in one company their whole lives. and rely on their retirement pension in old age. Millennials today have no such luxury. They have to manage their careers and finances

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