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by asark 7y ago
ftps not an option? Just too much less convenient (more set-up) than sftp, I'm guessing? I've not had great experience with WebDAV but maybe it's just the implementations I've used.
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by asark 7y ago
The small phones usually have much worse cameras than the big ones. Sometimes the mid-sized ones also have worse cameras than the really big ones. I'd love an SE-sized phone with a great camera, but that wasn't an option, so I b
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by asark 7y ago
For me it's a feature combo that's missing. Make a new SE, bump the price up $100, but give it a camera close to as good as the Plus phones, and that's my next phone, for sure. I only got the 7+ over the 7 for the camera, a
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by asark 7y ago
Google consistently gives me the impression of a company that (I suppose) has tons of smart people in it, but has badly broken management & incentive structures leading them to constantly do bafflingly stupid stuff at both large and sma
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by asark 7y ago
I always forget my rarely-used magical gestures/presses. I've had a 7+ for a good long while but only ever trigger that by accident. Couldn't have told you how to do it. Ditto Apple Pay. [EDIT] I think part of why I haven&#x2
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by asark 7y ago
> Ask any teacher. Rich suburb jobs are coveted because they pay well but the customers are very demanding. In my mid-sized midwestern city, the notoriously-bad inner city schools pay the best, by far. The pay's not why most teacher
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by asark 7y ago
In political science, the nation state is commonly understood as a (relatively) recent development and not a feature of medieval Europe. 15th century Spain is sometimes given as one of the first big steps toward the modern nation state, tho
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by asark 7y ago
An absurd suggestion because it assumes software developers know how to use computers.
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by asark 7y ago
1) Not to most of the best content, 2) other business models may have an actual chance when not competing with "free", 3) actually-free, community-driven sites and services (and standards and protocols—those used to be nice) will
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by asark 7y ago
> a) most internet-connected devices these days favor content consumption vs content creation (blogs vs instagram), You chose Instagram as your example, to make the point that phones favor consumption over creation?
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by asark 7y ago
> I bought a board game recently where the board was so thin, it bent from humidity! This is the case for just about any of the fiddlier board games and boardgame-adjacent things from back then. Often the story is some Chinese company bo
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by asark 7y ago
No, specifically it was how it's not illegal, even though it's abusive. You're disputing that it's abusive. It is certainly lying. You may be fine with it. But it's lying.
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by asark 7y ago
> Booking.com claiming so and so is selling out quickly! What is quickly defined as? Look, be whoever you want, but own it, don't hide behind equivocation. No one else is buying (haha) any of this. The only person you're workin
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by asark 7y ago
If true, that seems odd. There was an awful lot of very public searching for "what are Republicans, and how can we understand and empathize with them more?" after the last election. Tons. It's ongoing, in fact. It's mo
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by asark 7y ago
State insurance & hospital regulators can sometimes be helpful. Might try your state senator or representative's office. Sometimes if the officials are feeling salty they'll get directly involved and fix things for you, but at
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by asark 7y ago
Aside from the high deductible plans mentioned, even a fairly modest one can reach that if you split the pregnancy over two years :-( Yes, folks outside the US, we here in America try to time pregnancies over bullshit details of how our ins
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah, the main question under discussion here when I made the post seemed to be the racism one, which appears to have played out the way I depicted. The general problem is that it's really, really hard to design complex social science
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by asark 7y ago
Interviewer: "Will Republicans say the sky is blue?" Democrat: "No." Republican: "Of course it's blue. It's hot pink, which is a shade of blue." Democrat: "... wait, what? You think... huh?"
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by asark 7y ago
Wasn't so much the difficulty as the sheer quantity of homework combined with lots of unbroken butt-in-seat hours, most of which weren't very useful. A start time so early I had to wake up at like 6:45 didn't help, either.
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by asark 7y ago
I think the worst thing about it was that you could never just chill . It was friggin' relentless. Every day in high school's got a very do-or-die thing going on, for some reason, while at the same time feeling like the lowest-st
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by asark 7y ago
I went to a totally normal high school and found it to be way more time-consuming and stressful than college. 7+ hours in school and one to two hours of homework much of it due the very next day plus some longer-term stuff you really ough
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by asark 7y ago
The good-looking CRT filters take some serious hardware to run well, too. The cheap options like the "scanlines" mode on the NES Classic so little resemble the real thing that I'm not sure why they bother. Maybe people who di
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by asark 7y ago
For the 4GB model, my very usable if somewhat low-end IBM Thinkpad ~15yrs ago had about 1/10 as much memory. Probably similar on the processor—I bet one core on this is something like 3x as fast as the single-core Celeron I had in that
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by asark 7y ago
Playing your emulated video games on a real CRT TV so you don't have to use computationally-expensive CRT filters on your video output to get it to look even sort-of the way you remember? Can't think of another use but I assume th
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by asark 7y ago
Information is very poorly distributed. It's hard to overstate how bad this is. Yes, that's contrary to what's required for a well functioning market. That markets function even a tiny fraction as well as they're suppose
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by asark 7y ago
Looks that way. And it got two USB 3.0 ports. And up to 4GB of RAM (there are now multiple options). Hello new home file server, I think.
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah, I know, that's why the old one sucked. [EDIT] sucked is harsh—it did what it said it would. It sucked if you actually wanted to use the Pi for serious IO of any kind. USB2.0 and Ethernet limited to USB2.0 speeds was no good at al
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by asark 7y ago
Looking at the 3 vs. 4, my eye went to the memory options—up to 4GB in the 4, versus 1GB in the 3—the USB 3 ports, and the fact that the 4 just says "Gigabit Ethernet", not "Gigabit Ethernet over USB 2.0". H.265 hardware
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by asark 7y ago
I can only see that being kinda true on a technicality since modern literary heroes are probably hard to find in fiction before the development of popular adventure stories and, thence, genre fic, which was still pretty young when Holmes ca
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by asark 7y ago
It was municipal water. Whole town was that way. googles Looks like it came from the Ozark Aquifer. No clue what weirdness was happening to it in between, but it reliably drew a " sniff sniff WTF?" from visitors. Again, you cou

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