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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
> For instance Lenovo or Asus definitely care about pushing laptops' limits and design. A lot. IMHO more than Apple. It's a bit more nuanced. Lenovo/Asus seem to be experimenting a lot more, but more like by throwing (rela
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
> Just don't ever use a metaphor on Hacker News. People will always misinterpret it I've always wondered why that is. No other community I'm active in insists so much on explicitly spelling out everything and very literal
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
Commutes can be very different, too. Someone who walks and uses public transport will feel differently about the weight of their laptop than someone who just has to lug theirs to their car and across the parking lot. Same with travel: Flyin
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
> But the upside is that those companies want to make repairs/upgrades easy for themselves, which in turn makes them easy for the saavy consumer to do. Do they? At least for the slimmer models, I was under the impression most have c
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
To me the 14" Pro feels like a brick, the 16" is a veritable paving slab. I want something I can toss in a backpack and not feel it's there, which the Air is still just about light enough for. That may be because I live in a
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
I don't think anything published about that test contradicts what I've written?
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
I don't think there are any space-based EMPs, at least no publicly known ones. There have been and perhaps still are plans to detonate high-yield nuclear weapons at high altitude above enemy territory to cause an EMP, but that is a ver
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
Security is well achievable, absolute security is not. Somehow almost everyone seems to grasp that intuitively, but a subset of IT keeps pretending they're the same thing.
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
I don't think they're saying that. I read their statement more like "someone might build an insecure browser", which isn't that invalid a concern I think. I'd like Apple to be a bit more daring and just open up
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
Not Linux, so it's probably not going to help you much, but the OsmAnd iPad app seems to work just fine on macOS and afaik those run as native apps on M1/2/3 machines, and this particular one feels very similar to the macOS-n
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
Their cultures are (more or less) survivors from a time when their mode of subsistence was the norm even on (most of) the best productive land. We know majority hunter-gatherer lifestyles have been incredibly diverse, but almost all detaile
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
I'm in Germany, not in Spain but I have family there. My impression is that young people in Spain do face quite a lot of insecurity and pretty dismal outlooks. Focusing on GPAs and the like is one way of dealing with that (that may be
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
That's signaling intention to uphold NATO by that particular congress, not something that would prevent a US government from bringing it down. If a US president were only to make it known that he or she would actively resist giving the
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
For now. A NATO left behind by a hypothetical second Trump administration might be a much less effective deterrent. With two nuclear powers on the continent and one latent nuclear power (Germany) and none in the east save Russia, things mig
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
They could be construed to advocate for more decentralized power production in order to be less vulnerable to targeted strikes in times of conflict. That doesn't rule out decentralized nuclear power production, though that has its fair
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
Won't they evolve around this too at some point? I feel like the only truly effective way to eradicate pests long-term will end up being swarms of little robot predators that wipe them out by force.
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
I think if you're in the 99.96 percentile for low height in women, that additional foot would be pretty difficult. You'd have a very hard time reaching all of the controls, and it's not like you can stand up to do so.
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
But then we often have nothing for millions of generations and absurdly large amounts of biomass for species that we know well enough to know where to dig – but nothing was preserved there, and we can't dig in more than a few tiny spot
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
There could have been a much larger amount of fossil fuels in the ground that was almost used up by the Silurians and now we believe what they left us with is all there ever was.
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
There was Homo floresiensis, a relatively close relative of ours, also called the "Hobbit". For modern humans, there simply are no known populations that have been isolated for long enough on a small enough island to exhibit dwarf
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
But back then their loss was more localized. the Ancient Egypt state came with a much-changed cultural base, but outside of the reach of that empire lots and lots of people kept their ice age customs. Nowadays much of the world is so unifor
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
So you'd not blame them for their simple mistake, but still fire them for it?
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
fish actually has a built-in profiler for its startup that can be enabled via an argument: > --profile-startup=PROFILE_FILE > Will write timing for fish startup to specified file.
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
I have a 2xAA Magic Mouse that I still use occasionally. Feels a little heavier than the later models, can't tell them apart otherwise without looking at the bottom.
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
> And IT does another cycle. People keep saying that as if it was a bad thing
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
I absolutely loved _why's guide, not the least because it made certain very serious, over the top professional people very uncomfortable. Bullshit in the guise of Very Serious Business Software Engineering is still bullshit, but if you
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
I remember fondly when RoR was the hottest thing, so elegant and easy to understand, but I haven't touched it in ages. Is it still good compared to the more up-to-date stuff? Is it still relevant?
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
Both notations are in use in different parts of Germany too. It can be quite challenging to catch these kinds of misunderstandings because even many Germans aren't aware of the possibility.
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
I'm from Europe, to me ICE refers to German high-velocity trains. I was not aware the US had an ICE office.
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by dividedbyzero 3y ago
Isn't Microsoft deeply integrating those peaks into Windows and Office? That's one hell of a moat.

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