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by filoleg 3y ago
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter to the end user whether it is due to the OS maker or the hardware manufacturer. That distinction would only matter if the comparison was limited to Windows laptops only, because that would estab
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by filoleg 3y ago
Cool. CEO is still a title of a person representing the face of the company, regardless of whether he or Gwyneth Shotwell actually runs the company (which, i believe, is very common knowledge at this point that Shotwell is). My point being,
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by filoleg 3y ago
> most of its exclusives were also available on PC. Halo 1 & 2, for example While I agree with your point about most Xbox "exclusives" being available on PC as well, Halo 2 didn't arrive on PC (Windows Vista only too i
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by filoleg 3y ago
Well, only one of you two is listed as the CEO of SpaceX. And I would expect that if there was much to complain about, it would be directed at that person, not at a random unaffiliated person on HN.
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by filoleg 3y ago
I got really excited upon seeing this, but then I checked out his twitter profile, and all his recent tweets were just rambles about UFO conspiracy theories with screenshots of snippets from random documents, all tagged with #ufotwitter has
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by filoleg 3y ago
I am not sure what they meant about "paying additional money to Turbotax" either. I just checked my account, and I have the ability to download final pdfs of my filled out tax returns for all the prior years I filed with Turbotax.
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by filoleg 3y ago
> It's closely tied to violence to be sure. If it were removed would the violence go away though? Would groups with a history of violence find other ways to provoke each other? I think you might be onto something here. Reminded me o
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Any celebrity should familiarise themselves with the companies and products they endorse. There is a difference between endorsing a product and acting in an ad for a product. The latter is an acted out sketch. To be ultra-pedantic, one
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by filoleg 3y ago
> But children do actually have more papillae (taste buds) than adults. As we age, we may gain skill in describing what we sense but we also lose taste buds which give us the raw sensory input to start with. Sure, but the point is that &
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by filoleg 3y ago
> I needed to translate the text in an image on my iPhone and there is no way to do it(from what I know) other than paying for a dedicated app and giving it Photo permissions Save Image => highlight text in the saved image from the na
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by filoleg 3y ago
It was already about to happen, but, sadly, Elon's mom said "no" and vetoed the whole thing[0]. I doubt that she will change her mind on that anytime soon, unfortunately. 0. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle&#x2
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by filoleg 3y ago
> It's a profession, every cop out there can just... not be a cop. Yeah, and every coal miner can just stop complaining about tough working conditions and decreasing number of jobs in their field, and instead learn how to code. It
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg were at Harvard. And they decided the value still wasn't there. No, they realized that they had a limited time-window opportunity on their hands that has a potential for a lot more value than the deg
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by filoleg 3y ago
Wow, I had no idea, but am not entirely surprised. Anecdotally, my Pentium 3 machine (forgot what GPU it had, sadly) back in 2004 was struggling with most modern (for the time period) games that had even a hint of graphical fidelity. Max Pa
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by filoleg 3y ago
> OS X just scales the entire surface and as result it always look blurry. I genuinely have zero idea what you are talking about. Typing this from my macbook connected to a 5k LG ultrawide monitor, and it is as crystal sharp as it can ge
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Good UX cost development time that has to be paid by someone There is a difference between "we would like to make UX better, but we don't have resources at the moment" and "the [obnoxious monstrosity of a] UX we alr
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by filoleg 3y ago
> lower pay than its competitors but also less work and less stress. Is the latter part not true? Unless you are in Azure org (and maybe some other small specialized teams i am not aware of), it is often true. Source: worked outside of A
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by filoleg 3y ago
How does poor UX and difficulty of use have anything to do with free vs paid? That's an entirely orthogonal problem. I, personally, am in the camp of people willing to pay for non-shit services that let me avoid ads and other annoyance
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Normies: But it's so easy and i can't be bothered to understand what i am doing anyway. Go away An alternative reading: Nerds screaming for decades: why make things easy for normies, they just need to git good. Poor UX is a f
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by filoleg 3y ago
You better make sure your plan won't backfire and won't lead to a large number of those highly educated youths staying in the US afterwards and contributing to the US economy. And that's after you, as an adversarial nation, h
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by filoleg 3y ago
Because as far as I can see, it is integrated with the default gas tank, so you don't need to stop to refill the built-in tank manually or worry about managing the two tanks separately. So this extension functionally works as if your s
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yeah, I am really confused too, given that the grandparent comment was making a pretty sane and relevant point. Sure it was a bit snarky and tongue in cheek, but it definitely wasn't something even remotely close to intellectually dese
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by filoleg 3y ago
You missed the point. It isn't the money spent ~on~ Call of Duty by Playstation users, it is the money spent ~by~ Call of Duty Playstation players on Playstation products/services/etc overall (some of which have nothing to do
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by filoleg 3y ago
> cost of living is 70%-80%, especially in the Vancouver area. If you check housing prices, the picture gets even worse. Even with seeing how crazy Seattle housing market is, Vancouver beats us easily with their residential property pric
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by filoleg 3y ago
For me, the article date shows as june 26th
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yeah, I hate imprecise wording like this too, but I think the title is technically correct. The title says that Rubio heard [someone else's] first-hand account of the situation. That would make it a second-hand account for Rubio, yeah.
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by filoleg 3y ago
> First class passengers on an airplane are the only ones that get a full meal on most domestic air travel. How is this different? Why go to meal comparisons instead of something more directly relevant? First class passengers get unlimit
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by filoleg 3y ago
IIRC Cmd+shift+4 by default stores to a file, but it is easily changeable in settings. Mine has been set to store to clipboard since a long time ago (since i mostly ever take them to send to someone in chat or to insert into my own notes, f
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by filoleg 3y ago
Looking at the pictures on the website, they look to be about at least twice the size of the most recent airpods pro, and much larger than the very first airpods (which are massive compared to the more recent ones). I would have compared th
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by filoleg 3y ago
The assumption here was that your trip will shift by a full week regardless, with the only difference being you spending that time at home vs being stranded at the airport or a layover location.

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