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by folkrav 6y ago
To a point. Some things are complex enough that relying on a well tested and supported third-party makes way more sense than re-inventing the wheel.
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by folkrav 6y ago
Ah, fast growing and thick, yeah. I had to mow every week and could push it to 2-3 in very dry weather.
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by folkrav 6y ago
I don't know how much grass you have to deal with, but before renting, I had a small-to-medium sized lawn to mow, and I just didn't mow in heavy, damp grass. The electric I had supplied way more than enough power to mow everything
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by folkrav 6y ago
SEO was a thing before tracking and widespread advertising, though, and I can't see it disappear even if we somehow manage to ban those widespread tracking practices. Remember keyword stacking? Businesses providing paid services on the
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by folkrav 6y ago
Yeah, true. It was more of a poke at Google's tendency to do this very thing even outside GCP.
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by folkrav 6y ago
I mean, is every company required to tell you every single line of their tactical decisions? They presented a product, that product has specifications. As a customer you're free to check out the specifications, and buy the product or n
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by folkrav 6y ago
The only machines I've compared were my old gaming rig (with various parts bought or upgraded anywhere between 2009 to 2012-13) and my 2017 laptop. Not sure where that 3 years come from, maybe I'm misunderstanding.
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by folkrav 6y ago
> I recall the story about Microsoft buying all the available software out there and testing it one by one on the new version of windows and creating workarounds for specific versions of specific software. On the linux side of the things
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by folkrav 6y ago
After 2-3 years of working with one then the other, yes and no. They can be quite similar on some accounts, but not quite the same. GCP also has that very Google thing of having very slightly different yet still kind of competing products a
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by folkrav 6y ago
A decently fast laptop can definitely replace an older desktop computer without issue. When my old gaming rig died in 2017, I bought a laptop for work and plugged it in my monitors. Apart from graphics, the laptop was measurably faster on a
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by folkrav 6y ago
I'm getting the feeling the first gen M1's was about dipping their toes, just launching the line and getting people ready for the transition. There are still rough edges, very popular pieces of software still haven't been por
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by folkrav 6y ago
To be perfectly honest I also don't know 90% of AWS's services either.
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by folkrav 6y ago
I'm still kind of surprised to see people think of the internet as this static information library it was originally thought as. It hasn't been this way for decades.
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by folkrav 6y ago
> An internet composed of relevant and useful information stored as light weight documents could easily (and used to) exist without advertising. Any concrete traffic measurements between those sites then and now? I'd be extremely su
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by folkrav 6y ago
I really loved my Moto 360, didn't feel bulky at all to me. I really lost track of the current smartwatch market though, did they really get bigger? That'd be... disappointing. Funny about that social anxiety thing. On my end it w
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by folkrav 6y ago
moment.js is in maintenance mode and the library authors themselves try to push people away to other libs[1]. Seems like most people have moved to date-fns or day.js. Moment authors seem to point to Luxon, which I didn't know about. [1
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by folkrav 6y ago
After a quick search seems like this lib actually predates `pyarrow` by quite a bit.
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by folkrav 6y ago
> And they mostly suck. Agree to disagree - I pointed you towards 5-6 of them that globally don't suck. Macs also have tradeoffs of their own that you seem to have no trouble dismissing.
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by folkrav 6y ago
My point was, those high end machines that compete with mac laptops already exist. XPS, HP Spectre, Surface laptop, higher end ThinkPads and ZenBooks, Razer Blade Stealth and Pro... As for S76 systems, you can't really compare a $2000+
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by folkrav 6y ago
Thinkpads are far from being uniformly good, some models flat out suck. Macs aren't immune to lemons either - see all the issues with their keyboards after 2016, or the failing GPUs in some MBPs. Some XPSes are good, but many models ha
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by folkrav 6y ago
> Surveys say 21% of citizens claim "they don't pay any taxes", while gross and net pays are different by 30-40%. I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but depending on the wording of the question, people might
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by folkrav 6y ago
> It's baffling how many people here think they don't pay taxes AT ALL. Who and where are these people? Reading through the comment section, I don't see them. > While in reality they pay around 20% in prices of goods an
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by folkrav 6y ago
This is quite literally the exact opposite of software wanting to be its own special snowflake, so not sure spinning the argument around really works.
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by folkrav 6y ago
If true, kind of supports my point that "LinkedIn has the greatest built-in policing mechanism" isn't very accurate.
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by folkrav 6y ago
Same. Last two jobs were through LinkedIn recruiters.
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by folkrav 6y ago
> Of all the social networks, LinkedIn has the greatest built-in policing mechanism: its users' fear for their own reputation. I've seen so much blatant bigotry and thinly veiled sexism on LinkedIn that I'm having a lot of
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by folkrav 6y ago
Actually, that's supposedly a common misconception[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn5M48MVWyg
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by folkrav 6y ago
Eh. Outside Jetbrains' IDEs, I don't remember ever using a Java app that didn't feel like clunky as hell.
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by folkrav 6y ago
Of course. However, between the close to sweet f*ck-all support we used to get on Linux for some software vs. a decent enough Electron app, I'll still take Electron. But I admittedly do have some RAM to spare.
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by folkrav 6y ago
Again, this is extrapolation. Until they do it, they didn't.

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