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by fierarul 6y ago
So it would seem but the CPU might still be worth it, even if I connect it to an external display. We'll see...
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by fierarul 6y ago
Because I need a fast CPU for builds I'm looking at ASUS "gaming" laptops. The ASUS TUF Gaming A15 in particular is under $1000 before taxes here and has a good Ryzen. There are even better gaming laptops from ASUS that are t
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by fierarul 6y ago
Any communication is data! There are tracking pixels that return 404! Why? Because once you've hit their endpoint, it did the job. The TLS negotiation is enough to send quite enough info.
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by fierarul 6y ago
I see the above comment heavily downvoted but I'm specifically looking at 4000 series Ryzen laptops as my 1st move away from MacBook Pros. Such incredible CPUs really make the decision a bit more acceptable. The laptop I'm eyeing
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by fierarul 6y ago
BitCoin is such a big disappointment. From a global way of making micropayments it became a global multi level marketing pump and dump scheme. The true believers always told how BitCoin will be the one true saviour when shit hits the fan --
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by fierarul 6y ago
Many vendors do think like this when they start their offer with 'how much is your time worth'? Indeed, your tool might save me 1 hour but it's not necessarily worth the price. On complex codebases though I mostly need the ID
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by fierarul 6y ago
I agree about repairs/maintenance. Dentists too.
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by fierarul 6y ago
I think you would be surprised how many people have still been making stuff in the mean time. They closed down non-essential stores here but many companies have still be producing stuff. Also, no need to make more car tires when the demand
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by fierarul 6y ago
The initial burst will exist but only for essential items I think. No need to get a new car if the old one will do.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Sigh, this keeps getting downvoted... The thing is: look how much we love convenience! Instead of having two devices (a decent phone and a much better separate camera, both rarely updated) we prefer to constantly upgrade the phone to have a
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by fierarul 6y ago
Yes, but no reason then to upgrade your phone to get a better camera at premium prices. How about using the camera phone if you are strolling down the street and want to make a Pulitzer photo and getting a better camera for those times yo
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by fierarul 6y ago
I agree that doing something just so something is done about it is not a solution and it generally produces a worse outcome. Ultimately I started questioning a lot of these rules and discovered in time what I said in the original post: a lo
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by fierarul 6y ago
Well, yes, but until we fix something at a societal level which takes decades some poor people on a given street struggle because all the new buildings increase people and car density but not parking space. Which means, it makes sense to ap
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by fierarul 6y ago
I agree that laws could / should approach software. But we've been having bugs and exploits in software since the beginning. And law has to cover an even wider field of situations.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Dealing with people you discover that all the weird rules are there because somebody or a situation made them necessary. For every well meaning well behaving individual there is another that will park his car in your freaking back yard if y
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by fierarul 6y ago
Education already is subsidised through state and private scholarships. And I believe rent is also capped in many places. Seems a tautology that access to high-opportunity would help an individual. But if rent is too high as to be unafforda
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by fierarul 6y ago
Clearly you are smart enough to realise what point I was trying to make, although it was perhaps tangential to your original question. I do apologise for replying to you. If only HN would have a feature to block me from replying to you in t
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by fierarul 6y ago
Hm, death as a practical solution.
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by fierarul 6y ago
It might be the total package or it might be inertia. While Apple had a head start on polished hardware, all of the producers are catching on in some ways. If you can do your work on another OS (and, generally, you can but habits are strong
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by fierarul 6y ago
An open source foundations with billions does not exist, except Mozilla Foundation but they don't really spread out the money to other projects compared to what they spend on their own products. So, the answer is that nothing exist. Ou
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by fierarul 6y ago
I assume you are aware Apache does not pay for any kind of software development. They only spend money on some minor infrastructure to have JIRA and the mailing lists and build servers running; plus administrative / legal personnel. Al
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by fierarul 6y ago
Yeah, right. One should expect transparency from little startups showing us their monthly revenue and such. We have to wait for the yearly audited reports to get a small glimpse into the world of non-profits. I've read a few of these r
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by fierarul 6y ago
This announcement makes no sense. You do not have 35 employees without some sort of stable budget. Seems very unlikely the budget changed so much in the past few months that you have to reduce your headcount by 40%! Then they even mention t
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by fierarul 6y ago
I find it interesting how affordable housing must be very near high economic opportunity. Seems to me it's a fight for convenience too. They built Las Vegas in the desert to avoid restrictions, what's preventing this generation to
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by fierarul 6y ago
> charging more just because you can You can try to charge more, but it's rarely obvious you will receive that extra money. Currency risk is a cost of doing exports. Of course, sometimes it's also advantageous if your local c
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by fierarul 6y ago
> Manufacturers have slowly started realizing this circumstance and are obviously able to exploit it by making products cheaper to manufacture down the line. I believe this is a known technique in mass-produced markets. Called 'deba
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by fierarul 7y ago
Yes, easy, just charge more! I wonder why doesn't everybody just do it? Because it's non-trivial, it involves risk and you might end up making less money! While cost saving has almost no risk. Here's a relevant piece of the
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by fierarul 7y ago
Haha :) Tiny companies should put pressure on $1T Apple to change the install flow... I wonder how could Apple take 30% their revenue out of this -- yeah, by forcing them to submit the apps to the AppStore instead!
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by fierarul 7y ago
A little automation can help you here. Errors could be auto-transformed into bugs somewhere and duplicates just add +1s or votes, etc. How you detect duplicated depends on your configuration but it should be doable (eg. use the stacktrace s
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by fierarul 7y ago
I find amazing that Vanguard also suggests this: https://investor.vanguard.com/investing/online-trading/inves... > When you DCA, you need to think about all the money that's NOT invested during that time,

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