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by exergy 7y ago
The funniest thing is, I would happily pay Google a reasonable amount each month to have access to their service! Caveat being that they agreed to drop all tracking and adverts, of course. But I love Gmail, Drive, Youtube and, most of all
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by exergy 7y ago
I think it was a very valid thing to post. His comment made me dive into OPs history to discover that he might as well be a paid propaganda spreader. Or at the very least not someone worth engaging or taking seriously. Why is it considered
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by exergy 7y ago
I think Google may be about to find that a non trivial number of people share that last sentiment.
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by exergy 7y ago
Nailed it. Fundamentally, this is the first thing that needs to be said about the subject.
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by exergy 7y ago
God forbid you ever make a mistake. Editing standards at NYT are MUCH better than virtually any newspaper that you would care to point to.
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by exergy 7y ago
To call it a game is being rather hand wavy. It's not a game if the hapless tourist isn't in on it.
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by exergy 7y ago
Nah. You're getting too invested into it. Not much Joe Public can do methinks
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by exergy 8y ago
> Just block scripts And make the web nigh-unusable.
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by exergy 8y ago
Perhaps I would. I have terrible gear acquisiton syndrome when it comes to music and also outdoors-gear. In my defense, though, both of those hobbies tend to have BIFL gear. Guitars and tents last a long time.
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by exergy 8y ago
My wired phones are also on my person. At all times. Without even having to think about it. I can also wear them all day and forget they're there. Actually even better because foam is softer than the hard plastic of the airpods. The co
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by exergy 8y ago
Fair enough, but I'm already trying to tackle the other things: travelling by train when possible, /r/nocar, biking everywhere, making my phones and laptops last as long as I can, no children, eating mostly vegetarian (not th
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by exergy 8y ago
What is your brilliant solution then? It's rather simple. There are billions of us on the planet. You cannot have them all live the standard American lifestyle full of chromecasts and Apple Homepods and use-and-dispose Airpods. The bes
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by exergy 8y ago
Don't know what to tell you, except my experience didn't match yours. The only special thing I do to care for them is to fold them in figure-of-eights so that there isn't much stress on the cables when stowed. They've go
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by exergy 8y ago
Why does the conversation always devolve into "go live in a cave"? Surely you must agree that there is a spectrum of possibilities, and the further along it one can be the better? Eating mostly vegetarian food, driving as little a
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by exergy 8y ago
Two monitors, unless you're working at a NASA control center. No cars for journeys under five miles, unless you have disabilities. Food processors and wifi routers are OK, because they both are closer to BIFL compared to airpods. Wired
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by exergy 8y ago
Shure, and many other good companies, make earphones with removable cables. These MMCX cables can be bought relatively cheaply (decent ones on Amazon france seem to be about EUR 15 onwards). Even better, the ones that come with the earphone
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by exergy 8y ago
Let's come back to this thread in two more years and continue this chat. Are you in good faith arguing that airpods and quality earphones will last the same amount of time and have the same environmental impact? It's one thing to
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by exergy 8y ago
To me, that blows big holes in the argument that Airpods are better than wired earphones. It's compromises up and down the chart with the sole benefit being wirelessness? Are people nowadays really that rich that they can dump 150 USD
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by exergy 8y ago
How about arguing for the environmental cost of our throwaway culture? Airpods have a MUCH higher environmental impact than ordinary earphones. A lot of tech is crammed into these things, all of which uses energy, resources, distilled water
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by exergy 8y ago
Definitely no counter-arguments from me. Because of Apple's pricing insanity, I've made sure I own zero of their devices, and I think every person capable of independent thought should do the same.
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by exergy 8y ago
I've always taken exception to this way of thinking. Assuming for a second that the regulations are _good_, for instance that companies must DELETE (really delete) all data after 90 days, why should I care if a Johnny-come-lately can&#
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by exergy 8y ago
'Capacity' to do 'good' (even per your definition) is so strongly reliant on the environment that one exists in, that I do not think you can defend your position in a rational manner. I also find it mildly offensive that
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by exergy 8y ago
Yeah, as with everything, I guess languages need balance. In the case of Modelica (and others inspired by it), we can have functions that are not part of any class at all. So, you could just have a function called evalCollision that accepts
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by exergy 8y ago
A tangent here, but a place where object-orientation works better than anything else is in simulations of the real world. Thus, nothing to do with databases, and in fact it is referred to as object oriented modelling (OOM) rather than OOP.
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by exergy 8y ago
Or, as Stephen Schneider said when asked about Cap and Trade (in lieu of Carbon Taxes): Don't let the perfect get in the way of the good.
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by exergy 8y ago
Thanks for posting this. This whole thread is fantastic. Perhaps even in the good ol' days people were inwardly just as flawed and nasty as modern times, but the concept of 'manners' and 'etiquette' seems to have be
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by exergy 8y ago
Unfortunately, you fell for the myth. Mechanical keyboards might just be worse for RSI etc, because it's hard to rid yourself of the habit of pounding on the keys to bottom them out, which one has to do on a membrane keyboard. Most m
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by exergy 8y ago
I haven't. Indeed, I just found out about Hubski from your post. It looks like a much more refreshing place than Reddit, and kleinbl00 seems to be pretty active on it. One of my new year's resolution, however, is to quit Reddit, s
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by exergy 8y ago
I'm actually a mechanical engineer! So for sure there is a whole spectrum of science-ish people here, not just physicists. In fact, programmers are central to much of the science that CERN does, starting with 'Trigger' which
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by exergy 8y ago
What a nice thing to say! And a refreshing change from my own acerbic tone, so thanks for that. If you're interested in this sort of stuff, Maciek's blog (Idlewords) is fantastic. He is humorous but gives every topic he chooses a

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