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by callalex 3y ago
Almost every program that I bought on the Steam store in 2009 runs flawlessly today on the latest Windows version, and even on new Linux distros that couldn’t have even been imagined in 2009. Exactly zero software that I purchased on the Ap
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by callalex 3y ago
Do you think there are benefits to telecommunications such as telephone and video calls with a doctor?
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by callalex 3y ago
The endgame does not matter. Banks are publicly traded, and like every publicly traded company, the only timespan that matters is 1-4 quarters.
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by callalex 3y ago
I do, constantly. Someone entering the lane in front of you does not mean that you lost today’s commute. It’s not a competition.
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by callalex 3y ago
For the price they sell their devices at, they could afford to throw in an extra hidden 50GB for a redundant system partition. Instead they choose to bilk customers for over $1/GB above the bare minimum.
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by callalex 3y ago
For MacOS, iStat Menus, the replacement of the older open source MenuMeters is a hard requirement that should really be built into the OS.
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by callalex 3y ago
It makes the “factory reset” button work instantaneously instead of taking several hours. Supporting the secondary market with convenient wiping should be encouraged from an environmental point of view.
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by callalex 3y ago
Who/what is limiting those resources? It certainly isn’t a lack of US Dollars. Is it executives on the financial team requiring a never ending increase in profit margins even though the margins from two years ago were also infinitely s
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by callalex 3y ago
At the same time, a more holistic educational experience could help to reduce long-standing social biases. For example a significant portion of doctors, to this day, think that for some reason having more melanin in your skin increases your
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by callalex 3y ago
The most expensive part of having tablet input is the real estate square footage required for a larger desk to accommodate it.
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by callalex 3y ago
Every remote unlocked vehicle I have used since the 80s has behaved that way. The difference is you can re-program the behavior with the screen in modern cars.
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by callalex 3y ago
Those two things are probably unrelated.
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by callalex 3y ago
In every car I’ve ever looked into, the baffle that selects between recirculate and windshield intake is intentionally leaky enough to prevent CO2 and moisture buildup even in full recirculate mode.
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by callalex 3y ago
I have the opposite air circulation problem with 2013-present Toyota/Lexus models. If you press the pollen filter button (which turns on an ionizer before the filter to make big particles get easily captured by the filter) will automat
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by callalex 3y ago
The real explanation is that every “L” or “B” mode on a hybrid or EV exactly duplicates the behavior of the original hybrid, the 2001 Toyota Prius. That vehicle made sure to get as close as it could to the behavior of automatic transmission
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by callalex 3y ago
There are so many people in these kinds of threads that tattle on themselves and will never admit that they might have unsafe driving habits.
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by callalex 3y ago
The industry seems to have created this problem for itself by spending huge amounts of marketing money to link new cars with financial status, and pushing hard on financially engineered products like 2-year leases and 0-down loans. Single y
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by callalex 3y ago
I’ll grant you that one, my 2015 Honda predictably does that on some low-speed turns, but I have pieced together that the triggering factor is retro-reflective stickers/indicators on utility poles or road markers that seem to trick the
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by callalex 3y ago
You must be part of the 0.001% of people that fasten their seatbelt BEFORE starting the car, or you are just not that observant/sensitive.
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by callalex 3y ago
My mental model is that every car designer peaked in the 80s. An FM radio automatically starts playing whatever it was tuned to when turned off. Therefore every car designer has decided that digital media should work exactly the same way, w
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by callalex 3y ago
If you are regularly engaging the automatic braking or even warning, you and your driving habits really are the problem. It’s quite trivial to slow down and leave adequate braking distance when driving on public roads. Not every journey is
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by callalex 3y ago
Those features aren’t for you, they just put a coat of paint on them to pretend like it is. They are an excuse to increase data collection and reporting to the company.
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by callalex 3y ago
I would never have one because I prefer to actually own and repair my car, but this kind of UX stuff is what separates a Tesla from the dinosaurs. Although the other day it took my very technically competent friend over 3 minutes to open th
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by callalex 3y ago
The company doesn’t need that info. One random product manager or marketing manager that wants a promotion and has a KPI to beat Subaru cares about that metric for the 6 months that metric matters to them, and as a result hundreds of millio
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by callalex 3y ago
Ruined the web? It sure seems like the web still works from my perspective. What has been ruined for you?
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by callalex 3y ago
I really wish modern touchscreens spent the extra few cents to support hover. Samsung devices from the ~2012 era all supported detection of fingers hovering near the screen. I suspect it’s terrible patent laws holding back this technology,
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by callalex 3y ago
Ok but we’re talking about a whole computer with redundant power and connectivity and memory and disk storage compared to throughput on already-installed non-redundant wires. One of those certainly costs way less than the other, but Comcast
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by callalex 3y ago
There is some truth to what you say but Comcast charges me around $1 per gigabyte over my cap. It absolutely does not cost them that much more money to serve me.
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by callalex 3y ago
1TB/mo is not “very large” since you can get that kind of data allocation on a $2-4/mo server.
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by callalex 3y ago
Also new media (streamers and tubers) rely on uploads and are eating cable’s lunch. It’s just extortion through monopoly.

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