eertami

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by eertami 3y ago
The benefit isn't so much that you can be friends with your neighbours, but that the density makes all distances shorter and by extension your friends are still much closer. In a suburb many of my friends would be 15+ minutes away by c
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by eertami 4y ago
Why do you think Apple aren't tracking your usage of Apple TV, while assuming other smart devices are? iPhones are still spying on you, even if you tick the box to disable sharing of device analytics[0][1]. [0]: https://gizm
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by eertami 4y ago
I think it's actually the US which is more likely to take issue with you for breaking the copyright, than the UK would. Considering the US publishes an annual report on copyright/IP rights enforcement about it's trading partn
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by eertami 4y ago
Sure, except I don't live in any of those places, and in fact live in a left wing country that has many of the "freedoms" people in the US like to talk about (legal access to firearms, personal responsibility/freedoms&#x
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by eertami 4y ago
Oh wow, I didn't even realise they had reversed the decision, I moved my email domains to a different setup with the Cloudflare email routing and never even heard about the reversal. Although, I just went to try and click the 'Con
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by eertami 4y ago
Because these proposals are never intended to be implemented. It is an anchor, which is intentionally ridiculous and outrageous, so that when the next slightly less severe proposal is made it doesn't sound as bad as the previous one. I
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by eertami 4y ago
Having lived all over the world, but not the US, I don't think I've sent or received an SMS/text message once in the last decade (except for bad 2FA implementations). Apple's weird and semi-transparent (to the user) hybr
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by eertami 4y ago
People are likely to use weak passwords with Plex, just like they do with Netflix, so that they can easily share the details with other users and input it easily from memory on things like TVs and tablets. I think generally people consider
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by eertami 4y ago
> The difference is simply the reach we are giving charlatans. This is the key thing people miss in the free speech debates. The reach is because it is profitable to give people that reach and host them, even if they are spreading misinf
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by eertami 4y ago
Only if you're naive enough to think that Apple doesn't do the exact same thing with Safari when you launch other browsers... https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-...
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by eertami 4y ago
All you've accomplished then is to test LLVM vs GCC, not an M1 vs the 5850U. Apple Silicon strength is in efficiency and low power draw, they're mostly slower than high end AMD/Intel chips (which admittedly, use a lot more po
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by eertami 4y ago
How are those the only two conclusions you came up with? If all other independent benchmarks and data points to the 5850U being roughly comparable in performance to the M1 - yet for you it appears to be 5x slower, then surely that suggests
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by eertami 4y ago
This is cheating and while it might not be picked up in a high school essay, it will certainly be flagged for plagiarism at almost all Universities. It's very dangerous to do this unless your course specifically asks you to answer usi
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by eertami 4y ago
Perhaps having a 10Gbit internet connection and it is faster to download/upload things than 1Gbit? I'll never max it out, but it's $54/month instead of $44 for 1Gbit so why not. Why 1Gbit instead of 100Mbit?
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by eertami 4y ago
With a 5800X3D, I'm waiting for DDR6 prices to normalise ;)
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by eertami 4y ago
> didn't even think about them stealing his $1000 monitors They would be doing him a favour I think, considering the complete crime against ergonomics that monitor setup is.
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by eertami 4y ago
Or because the experience is just noticeably improved... I could play tennis with a 30$ racket from ALDI but it would be a lot less fun. I bet you use a high resolution monitor for work? You could argue that is blowing money on something fo
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by eertami 4y ago
I have to review job applications but I don't have LinkedIn, and without an account it won't let me see your page.
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by eertami 4y ago
>It’s crazy how far ahead Apple is getting in the laptop game with these new chips. I have the first gen MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro (ok maybe they’re not winning the naming game), and it’s a perfect computer. Battery life is literally a
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by eertami 4y ago
> Of making all your modestly rich people close shop and leave Switzerland has a wealth tax, yet it also has some very rich residents (wealth tax is applied to your worldwide assets/cash, and it includes companies you own, so you ha
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by eertami 4y ago
Because you pay a percentage of your total wealth in annual taxes every year (in addition to your usual income taxes). It differs between cantons (states, kinda) and has progressive banding. Someone with 100k in wealth will pay maybe 100-20
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by eertami 4y ago
Maybe the bar for "good person" is set too low, if convicted tax frauds are considered good people.
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by eertami 4y ago
Don't forget the inevitable change the following month where the skin is altered to be less advantageous, and people are upset that they're not getting what they purchased. ... and then they still buy the next "overpowered&qu
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by eertami 4y ago
True, "cereal" is a catch-all term here for many things. I usually make oatmeal/porridge with a little bit of fruit. But using just 40g of oats. Of course the Nestle-style cereals you're talking about are not ideal. But
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by eertami 4y ago
I think "work out more" can be a trap sometimes. Personally, the thing that has consistently worked is portion control. It will always be easier to eat only the calories you need, than to burn calories from over-eating. People loo
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by eertami 4y ago
Care to share any concrete examples on "useful" information that has been gathered this way? Also, FWIW, I'm assuming this hypothetical software is clever enough to only function in jurisdictions where that would be legal? Sp
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by eertami 4y ago
That's because the UK is way behind mainland Europe in this regard. My previous house in a very busy area of London had 80mbps max... However in a small town in Switzerland we have 25Gbps available. The UK could be in this position, bu
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by eertami 4y ago
> I have yet to encounter a predictive text system that handles more than one language well. Huh, really? I have "Multilingual typing" enabled in my Android keyboard settings and it works pretty well. I can write a message that
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by eertami 4y ago
Sounds like you just want the ability to swap in a charged battery with minimal downtime? Pretty sure those exist already, I know Steelseries produce some headphones with that feature.
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by eertami 4y ago
Nobody uses iMessage or SMS outside of the US. If those are the only two ways someone communicates on their phone, you can guarantee they don't have any international friends.

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