babypuncher

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by babypuncher 8y ago
How many cars does Lincoln make in a week?
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by babypuncher 8y ago
I don't really see how this frees up much space in the basement compared to a Vive. Room scale VR will still require a large empty space to operate in, as I imagine the technology to make the user phase through solid matter is still at
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by babypuncher 8y ago
I got tired of Apple forcing their music streaming service down my throat, while making the music app worse every year. I finally stopped syncing music to my phone entirely and just stream from my home server with the Plex app. The best par
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by babypuncher 8y ago
No mention of KeePass, which is a shame
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by babypuncher 8y ago
There are options that let you write the bulk of your code in one language then code platform specific user-interfaces against that library. This is basically the Xamarin philosophy for iOS/Android development, and Xamarin apps general
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by babypuncher 8y ago
Android basically owes almost all of its usability to iOS. Before the iPhone was announced, Android looked like a junky Blackberry knockoff. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#/me... )
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by babypuncher 8y ago
True, but Apple likes to keep products around for a long time, unlike other phone makers. Their latest and greatest high end monstrosity comes with premium performance and a premium price tag. Meanwhile Apple is plenty happy to sell you the
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by babypuncher 8y ago
I pay $75/mo
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by babypuncher 8y ago
I thought the context was wireless ISPs becoming viable alternatives to landline ISPs like Comcast, so it seemed like a relevant comparison.
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by babypuncher 8y ago
Have these actually been tested in court? I believe if someone actually decided to sue it would go about as poorly as non-compete clauses in employment contracts.
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by babypuncher 8y ago
I question how many of those horror stories are legitimate. Many users who have made these claims have later been revealed to have been violating the platforms rules in an egregious manner (i.e. cheating).
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by babypuncher 8y ago
T-Mobile only enforces their soft cap when the tower you're hitting is at capacity. Basically their soft cap deprioritizes your traffic rather than throttling it.
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by babypuncher 8y ago
That still doesn't compare to the 300Mbps I'm getting right now even through Comcast, or the 1Gbps I'll be getting once the local fiber company builds out in my neighborhood in the next year or so.
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by babypuncher 8y ago
I was under the impression that the real improvement in "5G" systems was in how many concurrent users they can handle, not the amount of bandwidth they can offer a single user.
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by babypuncher 8y ago
It sounds like your motor home just had a really crappy automatic transmission. I've spent a lot of time driving around the Rocky Mountains (since I live here) and have never really had this issue when towing trailers.
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by babypuncher 8y ago
I refuse to believe the entire marketing department is dense enough not to see how that would backfire.
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by babypuncher 8y ago
My HP Zbook at work is the worst laptop I've ever used. Most of the time, telling it to shut down doesn't do anything except kick you back to the login screen (seems like a bug with ACPI, not Windows). Behavior with the Thunderbol
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by babypuncher 8y ago
X today is a different beast than it was 20 years ago
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by babypuncher 8y ago
Doesn't the cost of these advanced repairs kind of negate the value of getting your device repaired versus just replacing the whole thing (or parts)? I'm sure Apple has done lots of cost benefit analysis and found that it's w
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by babypuncher 8y ago
While it may not be risky for those of us who are comfortable dismantling hardware and soldering third party chips to the motherboard, you have to admit that is a much higher barrier to entry than browsing to a website designed to leverage
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by babypuncher 8y ago
What is Microsoft doing right that Nintendo and Sony can't seem to figure out? Near as I can tell, the Xbox 360 is still pretty ironclad short of risky hardware modifications. However all recent Sony and Nintendo consoles have been bro
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by babypuncher 9y ago
Well just for comparison, I have Notepad++ running right now with 4 medium-sized files open in it, and memory usage is still comfortably under 5 megs.
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by babypuncher 9y ago
The much more likely reason, at least in the case of the Switch, is to lock users out of old software vulnerabilities that could enable piracy.
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by babypuncher 9y ago
Consumers like it when their 10 year old video games still work, but those users probably weren't buying Macs to begin with.
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by babypuncher 9y ago
I've been saying this for years, but Windows is genuinely a better platform than OS X for media production because Microsoft actually gives a crap about supporting legacy software.