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901.
by brimble 5y ago
> Jeebus man. What is it that you FAANG developers do that is so much more complex than what regular developers do? Nothing, for nearly all of them. Hell, half the time they're not even particularly impressive at executing on the to
902.
by brimble 5y ago
Replicating Dune on IMAX with modern theater sound system at home would be... expensive. And take up a lot of room (gotta have room to place at least nine total speakers to even get close, to give them space from the wall and keep them su
903.
by brimble 5y ago
> Ask what a file is, or a directory and majority of iphone users have no idea! Permissions too! I have bad news for you if you think normal computer users were mostly good at understanding or explaining these things in the 90s or 2000
904.
by brimble 5y ago
Some of the late Ice Planet (dunno the real name) space stuff from that same series, and some of the underwater exploration sets from IIRC about then or a year or two later, are specifically what I think of when I think "where did le
905.
by brimble 5y ago
A ~550-piece set from my childhood (90s): 10 minifigs and accessories, end result will fill about a 1-foot cube. Plenty of room for small hands to get in and actually play with it. Construction simple enough you can easily put it back toget
906.
by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, weird. I thought I was an (softish) Android fan who got converted to Apple by working at a place developing on both platforms, and being exposed daily to just how much wildly better an experience my phones and tablets could be. Guess
907.
by brimble 5y ago
I haven't seen any real-world evidence that high levels of individual firearm ownership correlate with the preservation of liberty and democracy. Most examples people like to bring out are resistance to a foreign occupation, typicall
908.
by brimble 5y ago
I guess I'm used to the flat-tops that have some kind of weird plastic coating. Over time (and not that long) they get crap stuck to them that just won't come off, and various scratches and gouges make them impossible to ever ge
909.
by brimble 5y ago
> Strange new world if only the ultra rich are welcome. Hardly. Most countries treat the rich differently from everyone else, when it comes to immigration/visas, and have basically forever. It's the overwhelming norm. In plent
910.
by brimble 5y ago
Good solution for when I have to have a real flame. That'd let me do the handful of things I can't practically do on induction. I like it.
911.
by brimble 5y ago
Part of the cost factor is that it's pretty easy to find (even quite good) gas stoves on the used or factory dent-n-ding market. Electric, even easier. Induction, not so much. That can mean in effect 4x or more the price, for a simil
912.
by brimble 5y ago
That Twitter thread claimed the NO2 issue, at least, isn't mitigated by (proper, outdoor-venting) hoods. Is it wrong? We'll have a hood regardless of fuel source. Enough stuff comes off the top as a direct result of cooking, that
913.
by brimble 5y ago
Well, the reason for maybe switching in the first place is that the oven interior doesn't hold temp correctly, so we'll have to replace it at some point. And the health concerns have me not wanting to get another gas stove... bu
914.
by brimble 5y ago
Oh shit, I forgot about that part. The one time I've gotten to cook with induction, that indisputably sucked. They all want to put touch controls on something that gets water drops on it, or is operated with wet hands, with some re
915.
by brimble 5y ago
May be swapping ours soon since the gas stove is malfunctioning anyway (won't hold temp, have to constantly screw with it). I'm happy about improving air quality, but not happy that it's gonna be significantly more expensive
916.
by brimble 5y ago
What tripped me up was the seemingly-conflicting notion in the post that, typically, salvage belongs to the salvager, not the owner. It seems like the opposite is true? How it read to me was that there must be some kind of exception for ins
917.
by brimble 5y ago
As a user, a huge part of their value proposition is that they act as a private regulator, to good effect. It's the libertarian dream of paying companies to be your private regulatory enforcement agency (see Friedman and others). Then
918.
by brimble 5y ago
I picked the most-viewed one I saw on there and it was like "pWISS-unt" I really hope that's one of the incorrect ones, because otherwise I've never once pronounced it correctly. I pronounce it as in the French but witho
919.
by brimble 5y ago
Yeah... one reason I don't use cake mix because by the time you have to have do the egg part yourself, you may as well just mix the rest too. Everything's a totally normal ingredient any minimally-stocked kitchen will have—which,
920.
by brimble 5y ago
I read it the same way you did, but I'm confused that paying out insurance gives the insurer a stronger claim to property than buying something. Is a wreck at the bottom of the sea only still someone's property if that someone i
921.
by brimble 5y ago
I'm with you. I'm not following how reimbursing the original owner years and years ago gives the insurance company a stronger claim to ownership of a wreck than being the original owner (if un-reimbursed by insurance so that&#x2
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by brimble 5y ago
> SPAs are useful where the latency and overall UX of a button press can be translated to some tiny % increase in a KPI through A/B testing, etc. This is frankly irrelevant to 99% of projects and companies. And even so, I can't
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by brimble 5y ago
Right. Consider: >>> What do you do for a living? "I track animals." Oh, cool, like you're a hunter or in animal control or something? Trekking all over the wilds, keen eye for detail, grand adventures, lots of mud a
924.
by brimble 5y ago
Sort of. Again, it's possible to personalize ads without tracking, unless tracking means "collecting literally any data, including order history for a logged-in user" or things like selecting ads based on geography for an add
925.
by brimble 5y ago
Why would disabling personalized ads necessarily disable tracking? [EDIT] Consider: toggling the display of something does not necessarily change the underlying data, or data collection, behavior. Why would all data used to personalize ad
926.
by brimble 5y ago
Exaggeration, trying too hard to sound smart, and ugly euphemism are all hallmarks of business language. That's why it's so gross when it leaks into real life.
927.
by brimble 5y ago
Is the issue the language? It's not clear from the language or the article that Apple's version disables any tracking at all. It seems like two different things.
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by brimble 5y ago
I alluded to European expeditions to Egypt for a reason :-) Though maybe there's only a brief window of development in which a culture is both not superstitious enough to be scared by this, and also lacks the technology & knowledge
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by brimble 5y ago
I've found the opposite: it's often even hard to find out that some piece of knowledge might exist on the Internet. I think it might(?) be better for math and things like that, but dig into social sciences or history or whatever
930.
by brimble 5y ago
3x8 is when most of life stops revolving very heavily around selling your time to do what other people who have money tell you to, and anything else whatsoever has a chance to become the main thing a normal person dedicates their life&#

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