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by ashark 9y ago
It's more like concern that not having those skills (or something comparably advanced, but also with no immediate use in my work or life) will force me to slide down, rather than up, if/when competition from overseas finally hollo
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by ashark 9y ago
Yeah, I was expecting to upgrade my personal 2014 when the 2016s were announced, but "slightly faster but worse in every other way, oh and also we raised the price a bunch" was... not a compelling sales pitch.
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by ashark 9y ago
I use it as something to worry about not knowing how to use, and how that might make me unemployable in a few years, while also having no obvious need for it at all, and therefore no easy avenue towards learning it, especially since it requ
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by ashark 9y ago
The money in my paycheck has already been taxed a bunch of times by that logic, so my taxes should go down, right?
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by ashark 9y ago
Those belts that ratchet (Slidebelts?). Electric toothbrush (yes, really). Decent-to-good leather shoes. Wool socks. Button fly jeans. Rice cooker. [EDIT] my belt says "Trak Line"
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by ashark 9y ago
They are. My second favorite apple after McIntosh. Neither's super common, at least in the Midwest, and unlike most US produce in grocery stores they seem to come and go (seasonally? But apples store/ship relatively well, so I dun
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by ashark 9y ago
You... really think icons are more user-friendly if you take away color differentiation? I find that entirely confusing. It's the result of a "make this interface look like something out of a Mission Impossible movie, we want thos
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by ashark 9y ago
I won't defend the stamp thing's discoverability (though it's not that bad—and besides, if you know what an envelope is you probably know what a stamp is, and if you don't then it's because you're somehow enc
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by ashark 9y ago
It's just got to feel like one solid piece of metal, not actually be solid. Like how iPhones give that glass-and-metal-slab vibe, or (to a lesser extent) MacBook Pros before they thinned the body out (back when they could fit an op
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by ashark 9y ago
ALMOST awesome. I'd like this but: 1) Keep it thin, however 2) cram all that extra space full of battery, damn the weight, and 3) make the case solid metal. Steel if you must. I want it to feel like a contiguous block of metal with n
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by ashark 9y ago
iOS 6 was the pinnacle of iOS UI discoverability. I'm still baffled at some of their decisions. That slide-to-unlock element was perfection . It never needed to change because you almost certainly can't do any better (OK, sur
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by ashark 9y ago
Being able to tell things apart at a glance equals a "shotgun blast of color"? We're not talking about the Hotdog Stand theme, you know. The more methods you use to differentiate things from one another the easier it is to na
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by ashark 9y ago
I think it's 3rd party libraries/tools/SaaS, all sitting on top of a much more complicated stack, causing most of the problems. They provided enough of a boost to productivity that you can't justify avoiding them, but
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by ashark 9y ago
I only got around to updating my personal MBP to Sierra today. A major OS version upgrade took less time and messed with my stuff less than some Win10 updates have. :-/
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by ashark 9y ago
Not going to their physical stores can be rational. The one nearest us is sadness made manifest. All the workers and shoppers seem like they hate life. Plus, no-one who shops there knows how to exist in a space with other people without con
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by ashark 9y ago
> Anecdotally (I know, I know), I've ordered a few things recently from Walmart that were cheaper than they were on Amazon. Each time I received the items multiple days later than what the website told me. e.g. "2 day" shi
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by ashark 9y ago
> And most of the items I buy are cheaper at Walmart and Target. Even used products aren't cheaper on Amazon. Ebay's usually cheaper (and, these days, maybe more trustworthy) and for books in particular both Abebooks and Al
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by ashark 9y ago
A couple of my friends are in low-level positions with the state government. At least in their cases, I can say that their offices run so lean that cost-cutting attempts from higher up just lead to worse service and conflicting (or outright
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by ashark 9y ago
I recently composed an email for someone with a degree in mathematics but little experience with computers, outlining what they'd need to do to bridge the gab between their current position and someone with a degree or strong self-taug
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by ashark 9y ago
When I was a kid and first learning to use a computer, I thought the briefcase was just like a fancy folder where you should put your important stuff. So I put all my docs and bitmaps I drew in MSPaint and midi files of songs from movies an
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by ashark 9y ago
Some data messiness in that final chart. Maroon 5 versus Maroon5, Surfin' U.S.A but also Surfin' U.s.a
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by ashark 9y ago
> The planet; as-in this rocky, water-world orbiting Sol, will exist for BILLIONS of years Well, to nitpick a bit, not billions, for the "water-world" part. A few hundred million. It'll likely be quite parched by the 1 bil
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by ashark 9y ago
Interesting. So maybe it wasn't just my imagination. I remember butterflies being everywhere in Spring in this area when I was a kid. Fields and air full of 'em for weeks. Monarchs especially, but all kinds. I haven't seen
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by ashark 9y ago
Lots of Black Mirror is commentary on where we are now, not where we're going, even if the episode itself is set in future (15 Million Merits is an easy example).
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by ashark 9y ago
The information is being used to conduct asymmetric psychological warfare. The notion that it's harmless even if never outright abused where we define abuse as use for other than its intended purpose, is false. Being subjected to con
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by ashark 9y ago
> Most people are ok with not existing. It's the dying part that is tough to deal with. Is that true? I find it almost impossible to really even think about. It makes me feel like I'm falling down a well, and the fully-realiz
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by ashark 9y ago
Especially Moloch. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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by ashark 9y ago
Yeah, that line was surprising to me, too. I guess it's true in a sense (see: Vanitas art) but usually in the service of deflecting the idea that we actually end . Less "how can anything in this life be important when you stop
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by ashark 9y ago
Nvidia gtx 1050, official drivers. Steam games are fine, and everything else seems to be fine, but Firefox scrolling looks like something from the Win95 era.
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by ashark 9y ago
Funny, that's also a very common way for bug reports to be closed on Google's official Android bugtracker.

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