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by ashark 10y ago
Our first few USBC MBP users in our office are having a ton of "fun" with that. Also the "which monitors do and don't work with this thing? Which adapter(s) do I need for this one again? Damnit that didn't work, lem
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by ashark 10y ago
> They are higher for the cool jobs, like the CS ones. Well, for the cool CS jobs, yeah, which is maybe 1% of the total. The rest aren't cool—they're brain-meltingly boring, often frustrating, health-destroyingly sedentary,
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by ashark 10y ago
Good lord. I somehow took (and passed!) a year of high school calculus plus a semester in college, and I never had a good sense for the word "Integral" in a math context as anything but arbitrary jargon. And I've spent a no
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by ashark 10y ago
I read a whole lot of posts by a Russian world traveling photo-blogger a few years back, and one of a few consistent themes was that most remote Pacific islands kinda look like garbage dumps, if anyone lives on them. Others included: former
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by ashark 10y ago
Our standard of living depends on a great deal of the suffering of others. Most of nature is essentially a constant living horror movie for all participants, which we just barely sit outside of (as long as food remains plentiful and the T
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by ashark 10y ago
The very first anecdote (IIRC) in Cialdini's Influence is about exactly that effect. Seems to happen most when people don't have a good way to evaluate product quality (which is most of the time , really—consumers with the ti
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by ashark 10y ago
Yeah, solidly 80-90% of my time working has never really led to anything like enough benefit to anyone to justify it. Much of it's never benefitted anyone at all. There's a ton of stupid money in software right now. Enough to wa
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by ashark 10y ago
> I've read elsewhere on the Internet that Dune the novel actually is an inspiration for the Star Wars universe, even if the Star Wars cinematography predates and must influence (even if through intentional avoidance of such appeara
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by ashark 10y ago
My guess is any such collapse (if it could even happen, sans some pretty serious privacy-protecting regulation) would be very temporary. Free ad- and spying-supported services make all sorts of other business models very difficult or unte
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by ashark 10y ago
Way more role-playing potential in Mass Effect than, say, your typical JRPG. And than most of the story's-barely-there stat-bashing dungeon crawlers, Western or Eastern. For that matter there's more in Dishonored, and your charact
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by ashark 10y ago
Not knowing how/where/to-whom my posts would show up (and how/where others' posts or status updates or whatever could be seen) was my biggest (non-privacy-related) problem with Facebook when I briefly tried it back in &#
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by ashark 10y ago
Biggest mistake to me looks like that there should have been fewer, shorter buildings, closer together to achieve roughly the same overall density but without all the for-cars space and weird not-parks. And yeah, ground-level retail, which
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by ashark 10y ago
Without kind-of ignoring the limitations of the constitution, we'd likely have had an Articles of Confederation style crisis at some point, and had to replace (or heavily amend) the Constitution since then. Which would be better than
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by ashark 10y ago
As a local I would agree that 1) most KC barbecue joints are unremarkable, and 2) even done right it's good , but not "OMG I've never had meat so delicious" good. Still, though: good. I recommend Q39 and Joe's KC t
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by ashark 10y ago
Google sure spends an incredible amount of money making their UIs worse (and usually increasing memory use by a large multiplier at the same time).
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by ashark 10y ago
The ability to show photo hotspots on the map and look at the photos was really handy for planning trips to unfamiliar places (or even familiar ones, really), but AFAI can tell it's gone now. Seems it was part of some service they boug
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by ashark 10y ago
Exactly. A ticket for a seat on an aircraft has no justification for being more complex or confusing to buy than, say, an apple. It ought to be way less complex than apples, in fact, since they can rot or suffer from poor storage and so
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by ashark 10y ago
> So now you know. Incidentally, this is pretty good evidence of this subthread's point: you expected to be told all of this by going through a 3rd-party aggregator where you can search by cost. If you are representative of the aver
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by ashark 10y ago
Try Lakka. Better performance (especially on menus) and generally better UX than RetroPie or any other emulation frontend I've seen. Several common controllers, including (what I use) bluetooth PS3 controllers supported out of the box,
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by ashark 10y ago
The problem is comparison shopping for these upgrades. Is this flight eligible ( i.e. are there any upgrades left on this aircraft)? Is this ticket eligible (see my other comment about United's bizarre rules, some tickets being whol
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by ashark 10y ago
First: thanks for the link, interesting to know that there's kind-of something out there for this. From the FAQ on the linked page: > Who can purchase Economy Plus seating? All customers who are not traveling on a Basic Economy tick
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by ashark 10y ago
Seriously, show me where I can pay an almost-reasonable (say, 10-15%) upgrade fee for 3-4" more legroom over whatever the lowest is they can get away with (so, what they actually use in economy ordinarily) and I'll pay it every s
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by ashark 10y ago
Yeah, I answer nearly zero calls from numbers that aren't in my contact list. If it's important they can leave a message. If it's a local number I'll google it, and maybe call back even if there's no message and i
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by ashark 10y ago
Besides, the author feeds us the fact that others have reacted poorly too her telling of those events, and leaves the reality of the events ambiguous , surely on purpose. The various anecdotes are examples of when she's done someth
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by ashark 10y ago
We're all terrified of doing something wrong and losing our livilihood, if not our freedom, over it. Or of doing something right but having something unfortunate happen anyway, and not having followed the proper blame-deflecting or b
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by ashark 10y ago
Clear regulation stating that a passenger may not be forced to leave for any but safety reasons once they're seated, rather than leaving it up to a contract, and providing sufficient funding to whichever organization enforces that regu
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by ashark 10y ago
The free spy-economy option weakens or kills privacy-respecting community and commercial options yet again . This won't stop until this crap is illegal.
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by ashark 10y ago
I'm definitely entitled not to let your document which you chose to send me on request cause my hardware+software to do things I don't want it to, like make any ol' network request it pleases without my say-so.
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by ashark 10y ago
Don't the jumpseats have more legroom? I thought the ones I'd seen did, just by not being part of the ordinary aisles and being smaller (slimmer back especially). I'd take a milking stool over the regular seats if it meant no
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by ashark 10y ago
There's probably some relation between this and growing up with the TV on 100% of waking hours, even when no-one's watching (which is really common).

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