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by cehrlich 4y ago
The downside is you might end up resenting your hobby
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by cehrlich 4y ago
Absolutely. IMO the best current ThinkPad in terms of performance per dollar is the T480 (Quad Core Intel 8th gen). You can find them shockingly cheap if you're patient. Like only 50% more than the T420, which has an ancient Dual Core.
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by cehrlich 4y ago
The most recent X1s still have good keyboards, but slightly shorter key travel than the older ones. If you're a ThinkPad keyboard lover it might bother you and is probably worth playing with one IRL before buying. If you just want a pr
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by cehrlich 4y ago
You say this as though it wasn’t possible to rent before everything got bought out by corporations
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by cehrlich 4y ago
The fundamental problem seems to be that there is one group of people who believe that smartphones should be 'real computers', and another group that wants it to be something different, more limited. For my personal usage I'm
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by cehrlich 4y ago
“I’m not an expert” is a bad starting point when you argue that everyone else is wrong. It’s more likely that you’re just not aware of all the variables that influence a given situation.
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by cehrlich 5y ago
And he basically has, in spirit.
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by cehrlich 5y ago
I think there is some truth to this. Many of my colleagues who come from well-off families seem to struggle with finding meaning in their life, and I suspect it might be because work quite literally doesn't have a purpose for them - th
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by cehrlich 5y ago
I like the 'guard clauses that return 0 etc at the top, "real" return at the bottom' style in general, but I find it important to be careful that it doesn't degenerate into 'returns in the top, middle, and bott
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by cehrlich 5y ago
Yeah, this is the central thing that a lot of people don't seem to understand. Housing can either be a good investment that outpaces inflation, or affordable in the long run. Having both is not possible. Setting aside some amount of ho
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by cehrlich 5y ago
I love the idea of an e-ink computer, used to own and love a Psion Series 3 [1], and would like to think that I'd buy this sort of thing, but to be honest in the end probably wouldn't. The MacBook Air is just too good as an all-ro
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by cehrlich 5y ago
Interesting idea, I like the premise that people might build fancy ways to interact with this such as VSCode addons with a 'real' UI, but there will always be a plaintext fallback. I already manage my hobby software projects using
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by cehrlich 5y ago
Same. I gave up Apple ever releasing an affordable standalone display last year and bought a 4k 27". I can't tell the difference between it and the 5k 27" panel on the iMac. It also has multiple inputs, and USB-A outputs. Obv
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by cehrlich 5y ago
Sure there are exceptions, but I'd say it's much better than most online communities. The couple of times that I've been (factually) wrong about something on here I'd say it was 50/50 between being corrected politel
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by cehrlich 5y ago
Apple's $5000+ Pro Display XDR uses DSC when you plug stuff into the rear USB ports, so I think it would be fine to use it on the Studio Display also.
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by cehrlich 5y ago
I don't think the person you're replying to was comparing those two monitors, just pointing out that 5120x2880 at 120hz is the same amount of data as 5120x1440 at 240hz.
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by cehrlich 5y ago
It's the exact same vertical size as a 27" 16:9 monitor.
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by cehrlich 5y ago
I have switched to Kagi for everything other than trying to find stuff that's on Google Maps. Search results are consistently better. I think their backend is mostly just Bing?
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by cehrlich 5y ago
I did actually "upgrade" my Keychron to Boba U4 switches (a popular choice for silent switches) because my family found the noise that the Browns make annoying. But to be honest in terms of typing experience the Browns that came w
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by cehrlich 5y ago
Mechanical keyboards don’t have to be a rabbit hole. Just get something in a normal layout with brown switches (or silenced if you need that) and call it a day. I got a Keychron because they have Mac function keys, it was less than $100 and
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by cehrlich 5y ago
Yes, that's my point. I don't think it's necessary to "go out and seek a mentor", just be kind to and stay in touch with people you run into who are good.
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by cehrlich 5y ago
Everything I do always ends up fitting exactly into the amount of time that is available to do it, whether that amount of time is excessively short or excessively long.
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by cehrlich 5y ago
I've had some people who I would describe as 'mentors' in retrospective, but they were just people I met who were a few years ahead of me in their career/life and were patient with me and helped me and were always up to
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by cehrlich 5y ago
Yeah you're right, looks like the first Socket A CPU was the Athlon 650 [1] [1] https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Athlon%20650%20-%20A06...
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by cehrlich 5y ago
Socket A made it from the first Athlon all the way to right before AMD went 64bit, but there were several different chipsets IIRC
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by cehrlich 5y ago
Remix looks cool, look forward to hopefully trying it on a small personal project sometime this year. The main issue with React is the things it doesn't give you, and these frameworks are beginning to solve that quite well.
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by cehrlich 5y ago
Their Flexbox and Grid guides are the best. I've been using both since pretty much the start and I still look up syntax from them at least once a week.
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by cehrlich 5y ago
It’s a difficult situation. A new React project should obviously use functional components and hooks. But there are still large code bases that use class based components, and I don’t see that changing too soon, so it needs to be taught. Im
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by cehrlich 5y ago
I think it’s self evident that React has won for the time being, so there’s no point in evangelising it anymore. But let me just say: I love Next.js. More opinionated than React, but almost no learning curve and solves probably 80% of the t
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by cehrlich 5y ago
I had the same experience. In addition to many jobs being less than full-time, it's also not a very secure job, in the sense that depending on your specialty there might only be a handful of universities that could ever potentially hir

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