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by cgrealy 4y ago
By “abortion”, I don’t mean the act itself, more the attitude and specifically voting preferences of others. Regardless of your stance on this, how others think and vote will affect other people. For example, I am pro-choice. I believe peop
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by cgrealy 4y ago
People seek to change the minds of others because their opinions (and subsequent actions) often affect the people themselves. A simple example of this would be abortion.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
> A very tiny percentage of PC gamers have the kind of rigs you are envisioning. I'm not talking about the people buying i7s and 4090s. 100% agree they are a tiny minority. I'm talking about the same modest setups you are. Even
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Hard to say. There are all kinds of factors at play here, none of which I have any concrete data on. First up, there are probably way more console users than pc users. However, a percentage (not a majority, but certainly significant) of tho
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I would have said the same a few years ago, but my experience has drastically changed. My family has a whatsapp chat (yes, Facebook, but could easily be Signal) where all the child photos, news sharing, etc happens. Of my friend group, almo
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Are you looking at it as someone doing business with them or as an end user? I agree that if you're an app developer, you cannot ignore Apple, but as an end user many people can (and do) completely ignore Apple, Facebook and Paypal. Go
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by cgrealy 4y ago
> I suspect HN comments are not very representative of reality You're correct about that, but not in the way you think. This site actually tends to lean more libertarian than most people in the real world.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Governments do have rules about the look of buildings. There are zoning regulations about commercial vs residential properties. Many places around the world will require that your building conforms to the character of the local environment.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Never said it was. History was (and continues to be) littered with terrible law. If you want to argue that government shouldn't regulate billboards, fine, that's a valid argument. But the general principle of governments setting r
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by cgrealy 4y ago
> There's the obvious idea that governments shouldn't be involved in telling people what they can do on private property The government literally tells people what to do on private property all the time. See zoning rules, smoki
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by cgrealy 4y ago
> With physical content, at least you retain the control. To an extent, yes. Practically, you have control. Legally, you have still purchased a licence to view that content on that media in limited scenarios. You can't (legally) cop
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by cgrealy 4y ago
>4k Blu-Rays' bitrates are around 128 Mb/s. For comparison, Netflix tops out around 17 Mb/s. Surely, this is just a current business decision of Netflix. As internet speeds increase, the bit rate is almost inevitably going
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by cgrealy 4y ago
The issue with resale of digital content is that there is no discernible difference between new and used. Why would anyone ever pay full price for a "new" game if there were "second hand" copies that were completely iden
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Food laws are about safety, not taste.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
>> Organized developer: >> Find clean plate and utensils. If there are no clean plates and utensils, then wash some. Then eat putting the food on the plate, using the utensils. Then wash your dish and utensils when you are done
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Do you have any evidence of that? Anecdotally, that's not true of people I know (and even less so for people not in tech), but anecdotes are not particularly useful.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I've built that kind of setup (HTPC, bluetooth kbm, etc) before and now I have a smart TV, and I definitely like it for all the reasons listed. But it's also not unreasonable to want a smart TV that doesn't plaster the UI wit
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by cgrealy 4y ago
You could pick up a soundbar that works with hdmi arc. No sub, works with tv volume, and better sound than tv speakers.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I'm honestly a bit surprised whenever I hear someone talk about the speakers on a TV. Surely most people (especially for anyone who is dropping decent money on an OLED) are running external speakers?
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I have an LG GX and there are no ads on the input switch screen.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
It's not just the money. I bought a new LG OLED last year. I didn't care that it had integrated Netflix, YouTube, whatever because I had a chromecast. But the experience of using the integrated apps is just better. It all just wor
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Get an LG. Picture quality is just as good, and bugger all ads. I will never buy anything from Samsung ever again.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I have an LG TV with WebOS. It's connected to the internet and I use it to watch Netflix, Prime, etc. There's a "recommended" strip on the home page that shows various movies/tv shows from streaming services, and th
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by cgrealy 4y ago
> Good people leads don't lead people whose jobs they can't do. That just doesn't work. I don't need to know how you achieved something to know I want it done. Unless you expect every people lead to have all the skill
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by cgrealy 4y ago
The Peter Principle is explicitly about the risks of someone being promoted into a role they can’t do because they were good at a role they could do. People should be made people leads because they are good people leads, not because they
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Absolutely agree that a background in technology is important! I’m talking about the idea that someone who started as a dev many years ago is going to be able to write code in a current environment with the same level of skill as someone wh
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Being "technical" is a full time job. The idea that anyone "above" you should be able to do your job is not only ridiculous, it's insulting to the engineers. The CTO should be able to have an informed and intelligen
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I wonder if age matters. School and high school are the formative years of your life where you are essentially building who you will be as a person. College is generally your first taste of independence. Do people who go to college as matur
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by cgrealy 4y ago
My other favourite tactic is block booking my own time. When I was doing more dev, I'd quite happily block 4 hours out of my calendar to do some coding, and if you're booking a meeting during that time, the world better be explodi
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by cgrealy 4y ago
There is a middle ground between being homeless on a beach* and deciding to work 4 hours on a Saturday just to get stuff done. My point is that the reason I can take this attitude now is that I have spent 25 years getting to the point where

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