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by chao- 5y ago
I agree with you in general, but disagree on the time scale. Particularly: >The creative class (us) will quickly have largely all ARM computers within 4 years. I think good options might exist in 4 years, but still possess trade-offs, wh
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by chao- 6y ago
You are right, and I stand corrected. I was completely mis-remembering something I read, analyzing the reasons behind expectations of Rocket Lake power consumption.
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by chao- 6y ago
EDIT: I am incorrect, and was mis-remembering something I had read, in a completely backwards manner! PREVIOUS (incorrect): You can buy them (the "Rocket Lake S" platform) beginning March 30th, I believe. One issue they are having
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by chao- 6y ago
Saying "be prepared to pull a gun, or don't ask your neighbor for anything" seems like a false dichotomy. Isn't that the very reason societies develop laws and governments? To not have people using violence to get their
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by chao- 6y ago
That's why you introduce yourself to all of your neighbors to your unit when you move in. I tend to bring them some food or something when I do it. That way they're not a "stranger" and their first context of your face i
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by chao- 6y ago
(slight followup correction: "stooping over" not "stopping over" but I cannot edit my post anymore)
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by chao- 6y ago
This is the recommended default, and I assume it is for good reason, but I would caution against adopting this on faith. If you feel pain, try different positions out. I had the setup you recommend for many years. At first I started getting
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by chao- 6y ago
Quite the opposite: Consumers are so aware that fried chicken is unhealthy that Kentucky Fried Chicken formally changed its name to just "KFC" so as to not explicitly reference the food item anymore.
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by chao- 6y ago
The easiest in terms of pure transit is the corridor in Midtown along the Red Line. From about Alabama up to Downtown. Second is Montrose which for some people will have a cooler vibe. Within Midtown, the further North you go, there are a f
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by chao- 6y ago
> Is there that much of a difference between owning a car...? I'd get rid of my car too if I could afford to have Uber haul me everywhere. With reference to my sibling comment, definitively yes. I personally spent less on a handful
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by chao- 6y ago
You can make a lot of things work in a lot of places. I have lived in both Dallas and Houston without a car, for example (but also Berlin, Santiago, Tokyo, so I have comparison points). If you don't have kids, and have the freedom to p
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by chao- 6y ago
To be fair, y'all did your best to dissuade expansion by intentionally avoiding some infrastructure improvements in the 90's and 00's. But then people came anyway, and it became impossible to ignore forever. This isn't t
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by chao- 6y ago
It is not egregiously gray on all devices. It is #575757 but is exacerbated by the choice of a lighter-than-normal font weight, so in that context it an odd call. You get a lot more variation between across screen densities and devices than
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by chao- 6y ago
I completely agree, but it is worth pointing out that even "the desktop" looks different from how it did when the phrase originated, to say nothing of the digital tools and spaces that are not desktops. As a daily user of Linux de
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by chao- 6y ago
Viewing activism as a binary—the only choices being "I am an activist" and "I am not an activist"—glosses over a wide spectrum of dispositional diversity that people inhabit. Put differently: There is a difference betwee
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by chao- 6y ago
The first time I encountered this I was legitimately surprised. I have since accepted it as "a thing that just is" when traveling, but I suspect the same is true for united893: they are lucky enough to have never needed to think t
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by chao- 6y ago
The resolution you choose has some stark effects on the narrative that you will allow yourself to be convinced of. The idea of "red state, blue state" is a peculiar consequence of a winner-take-all presidential election system, an
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by chao- 7y ago
EDIT: This comment ended up way longer than I set out for it to be. The TL;DR is "I used to not get it. Now I get it, but I will still discourage it." >Do they really not deserve a second thought? People do deserve a second t
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by chao- 7y ago
I have lived in Asia, so I am familiar with the model. Currently I am in a medium-sized city that isn't a major transit hub. I would take my own personal medical precautions, to be sure, if anyone within 2-3 counties away were a suspec
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by chao- 7y ago
Well, none of them are the weirdo doomsday prepper types who (as you say) seem to almost look forward to societal collapse in a creepy, power-fantasy way. For these friends and family, it is just a commonly-assumed, shared ethos. They do th
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by chao- 7y ago
Either we know different Americans, or have different expectations of what their response is likely to be. I have heard from several friends and from family about their acquisition of significant quantities of non-perishable food, boxes of
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by chao- 7y ago
Came here to post the same.. The "web" option isn't much assistance in this case either. Google preview showed a paragraph but led to the same paywall as before.
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by chao- 7y ago
In a Rails context, there are a dozen pattern-esque buckets that folks advocate putting non-template, non-persistence, non-validation logic into. Yet as often as seeing benefits from "service objects" or similar generic, I have al
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by chao- 7y ago
Same with a 580. Linux, many monitors, work, light gaming. Drivers are the first time I've ever not had issues with Linux graphics. Three years in I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Where are the driver issues? I'm
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by chao- 7y ago
Yes but those voluntary hours are necessary signaling to justify one's place in the contemporary social order. Without them, someone's peers might think them undeserving of their salary and/or status. So they wouldn't
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by chao- 7y ago
Coincidentally enough, Dell's recent upgrade to the XPS 13 includes a 16:10 monitor. Announced only a few days ago, available today. https://www.arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/dell-updates-xps...
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by chao- 7y ago
It sounds like (guessing based on phrasing) ameen is the only, or only senior, technical staff member? Why would they let them go? If I were a cartoon-villain, mustache-twirling higher-up for said company, what this post tells me is that th
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by chao- 7y ago
>In Japanese I provide the katakana reading for my name myself I did the same thing while living in Japan, but mostly because a rigorous, per-syllable transliteration led to a name too long to fit on most official forms, causing an occ
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by chao- 7y ago
When people ask me for a "user-friendly" or newbie-friendly Linux Desktop experience, I recommend either Elementary OS or Mint Cinnamon Edition, depending if they are coming from macOS or Windows, respectively. This is true so lon
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by chao- 7y ago
I completely understand how the current AMD APU chips are not necessarily competitive in compute or in energy efficiency (as mroche points out). Almost all of my company's engineers develop in Linux, and several have requested System76

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