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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
I just checked a map. I disagree. That being said, coverage outside of key population dense areas isn't particularly great. Not that there are many people there to complain about it...
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
Given where Canada is and what we have, this is our perfect place. We have never needed to be a superpower, and we don't have the population base nor the geography. Our economy is resource based, and most everything centres around that
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
And where you live is better?
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
It's utterly bizarre how the Canadian medical system has been framed by some. It's not perfect, and probably overwhelmed right now, but it's a triaged, fairly effective system that does what it's supposed to. People that
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
Why just 20 years? This direction gives full control of a silicon roadmap. They can make it whatever they want or need. My guess is they have a more specific roadmap than even Intel or AMD at this point, as they're not commodity proces
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
Apple co-founded ARM. I recall somewhere that they did have a very special license, but can't recall the details.
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
Dozens of crappy computers sitting in my storage disagree. Lenovo Thinkpads (even back in the IBM days), Dell, HP, Acer, and on and on. I've used perhaps hundreds of computers in my life and possible evaluated thousands. Many were OK.
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
I've done this a few times. Between my big Linux desktop and M1 Macbook Air I'm not even sure what to do in Windows anymore. I don't need to run any Windows applications per say, and everything I do really need runs on MacOS.
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
I'd bet that some companies in Shenzhen would clone the components quickly. If there's money in it. Clone Framework boards and parts.
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
This would be way harder than most could imagine. Each of these pieces in aggregate would be interesting but aggregating, expanding, managing each part of the experience would be close to impossible. Kind of like asking what a killer car mi
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
This is common practice with most carriers like a FEDEX, UPS, post offices, etc. There's the contracted rate (or published rate for lower volume shippers) and then a "fuel surcharge" that's tacked on to offset the volati
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
Check out Drummond Drive and Belmont on the west side near UBC and Jericho. Makes First Shaughnessy look like paupers.
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
Almost. Annoying are things like geographic context in results that are terrible (for me) but it's more adapting queries. It's sad what today's web has become. Each year you see it degrade and there's no real fix I'
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
Nope. All fraud and chargebacks go back to the merchant/seller. The processor will immediately hold those funds in question pending a dispute or resolution around the fraud or chargeback. On top of that there's a hefty fee for any
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
https://matomo.org
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
I remember it took years for Windows to catch on - not until Windows 3.0 I'd say, so really a 5+ year gap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.0 There were other graphical desktops like Amiga and Atari ST arou
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
POS and payment hardware used to be a fairly high margin vertical hardware business, but I don't think so any longer. The real goal now is merchant / customer acquisition and service lock in. Basically I'd expect the hardwa
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
The original iPhone was also better than anything else mobile at the time though. Much better. As clunky an experience you describe, the rest were far far worse. VR is a cool niche experience, but the friction is still far too high for me.
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
I understand that OSs are really complicated. I've been exposed to every one now for almost four decades. What's dismaying is that in that four decades it's now just regression. I admittedly have used MacOS for a couple of de
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
No. IMO they were awful. Sony had Symbian (?) licensed as I recall on some models, and that was the best of it. Moto, HTC, and Blackberry - ugh. My last two pre-iPhone phones (and I've used many in between Androids - every other phone
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
But they don't. They've cloned some superficial UX bits. I'm still dismayed that in Windows 10 you still basically have 2 separate UI/UX experiences to configure the damn OS.
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
There were many. They just weren't particularly good UX wise. Some of them were great / good / fine soundwise, but the UX typically sucked.
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
Yes! Never thought about that, but it is. Especially for calls!
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
They sound better to me than the standard issue Apple wired earphones, but not remarkably better. The Pros sound much better, but don't stay in my ears so I've repurchased the original design (v2). The game changer for me is how c
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
Yet this is what practically all non fast-food restaurants do. And kind of how general strategy goes for many businesses. I know the few places I frequent often, I get a table mostly right away if anything is available, regular staff knows
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
They're not though. There are still many fabs available, just not the premium ones. It's up to every other company that wants those seats to pony up and do what they need to do to get that capacity. It's like a restaurant res
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
Not arguing the fact they do respond. Just that the timelines on products are very long especially with hardware. There are no fast or simple pivots, and not usually in months - more like years on many things.
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
Their biggest achievement is that they made all those things so cheap and accessible. It really reinforces that newer, innovative or edgier tech (ie: Kinect) isn't always the right approach.
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
Replaced the Retina 2012 15" MBP battery fairly recently, as well as the SSD a long while ago (with an adapter) and took maybe 8 minutes, minus the screws, each time. The worry is the 3rd party batteries won't last long or will sw
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by desiarnezjr 5y ago
So in just a few months Apple pivoted all their years of planning, engineering, design, supply chain and production for the new Pros to "compete" with a small startup that sells probably less in total than what Apple might sell in

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