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by ghaff 10mo ago
I don't love being on a plane for a very long stretch, even in business class. And IMO food is very mid-tier restaurant. But I don't necessarily disagree with your comment. Even with transport and airport conveniences that a rel
842.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Unless you pay the sort of money (or more) that supersonic flight would realistically cost. Even without going private, business/first seating (along with expedited service through security, airport clubs, and arranged private car to y
843.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Musk has proposed lots of things.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Yeah, my new induction range after a kitchen microwave fire is on, I think, a 40 amp circuit. But the whole kitchen electrical (and, indeed, much of the house) was being redone anyway.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
The counterargument is that, if you think a post is idiotic, you could say so but, if you don't articulate why in detail, you'll probably be downvoted or modded. So better to just downvote if you care and move on.
846.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Eh. I have newish Apple Silicon MacBook up in my office that I mostly use for multimedia work. But I spend the most time on a 10 year old MacBook on my dining room table that I basically use as a web browser because that's mostly what
847.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Easier said than done. - It's risk for them with basically no upside. - Someone at their company needs to do a deep-dive into the code and verify that there aren't licensed third-party libraries and possibly remove them. Even comp
848.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Humans are often really good at unstandardized tasks that require a lot of physical manipulation even when they're considered "unskilled" or at least blue collar. I think of so many things I pay people to do with respect to
849.
by ghaff 10mo ago
It's a long running topic in a lot of areas. I remember back when data warehousing was the hot thing, collecting and cleaning all this data was supposed to be the key to insights that would unlock juicy profits. Basically didn't h
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by ghaff 10mo ago
I won't really argue much. I can get by with just my iPhone. I think a MacBook (don't have an Air) is better for a lot of things even if the iPad is better for media on a plane. The weight difference is minimal if you count the ke
851.
by ghaff 10mo ago
I have to believe that cordless broom vacs have put a dent in robovacs generally as well. When I looked at robovacs last, I came to the conclusion that my house wasn't great for them and that a broom vac I could just pull off the wall
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Even expensive brands are usually made overseas. I looked at a couple of random pieces of expensive Patagonia outerwear in my closet. One was made in Vietnam. The other in Bangladesh. Sure, you can get custom/semi-custom dress clothing
853.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Exactly. I tend not to use my iPad that much except when traveling--partly because I have an old MacBook that lives on my dining room table. If I didn't have that I would certainly use my iPad more (and would doubtless get more comfort
854.
by ghaff 10mo ago
The magnetic keyboard lets you use the iPad without it having to be resting on a solid surface like basically every tablet/keyboard combination out there. Microsoft has tried various hybrid laptop/tablet arrangements that did both
855.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Quality by the standards at the time or at least a good value for most purposes. Yes.
856.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Certainly. The 2.4 kernel and IBM embracing Linux at around that time pretty much made all proprietary Unix legacy. The desktop took longer with less well-defined transition points and, arguably, MacOS with its BSD foundations (and command
857.
by ghaff 10mo ago
It's somewhat understandable. A lot of us felt at the time that surely laptops and tablets would converge. Otherwise, what a waste of hardware. But it hasn't really happened. From a hardware perspective, things have gotten closer
858.
by ghaff 10mo ago
The turn-off-the-phone crowd tend to be in situations where parents, young kids, doctors, interview calls, etc. getting in touch isn't a priority. Yes, voicemail is a partial answer but an imperfect one in this day and age. Didn't
859.
by ghaff 10mo ago
A lot of people don't have room for larger exercise equipment in their houses--if they have a house. Heck, I just had some reconstruction/reconfiguration done after a fire and I'm figuring out where to now put my rowing mach
860.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Not that I've ever belonged to one but I understand people wanting access to various equipment or even a swimming pool. Personally, I prefer to walk/hike but I understand that isn't enough for everyone.
861.
by ghaff 10mo ago
And multiply by dinner eating. Which I have done solo many hundreds of times between business and other travel. Not something I think twice about. In fact, at conferences, I've sometimes been peopled-out by the end of the day and activ
862.
by ghaff 10mo ago
There was also MSDN. But it was also a different world at the time.
863.
by ghaff 10mo ago
It did in the early days, especially up until 2.4 which was generally considered the first enterprise-ready kernel version. (You can argue about whether the old "enterprise-capable" definitions still applied but they were a benchm
864.
by ghaff 10mo ago
WRT Linux. Sure, 1991 or really even mid-90s Linux was clearly immature. But Wall Street was adopting it instead of Solaris by the turn of the century. Plus "open source" so it wasn't the case of a new proprietary Unix just e
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by ghaff 10mo ago
I was never really a serious gamer and don't do it much at all any longer. But one of my senses is that the sort of games that really benefited from a desktop system--primarily Windows--like serious simulations and resource allocation
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by ghaff 10mo ago
That was my thinking reading this. You need the basics but I would assume the main motivation is to look at a company's financial statement and at least recognize a lot of the language and the significance of the relationships. Of cou
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by ghaff 10mo ago
That’s about where I am along with a couple bundles plus a few computer related subscripts like Backblaze, VPN, and Adobe related. To the other point, a lot of people have a more or less daily Starbucks or other breakfast related habit.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
The situation with public domain in part because most US government works are public domain and PD isn’t even possible in some European countries—related to moral rights.
869.
by ghaff 10mo ago
It probably worth at some level not totally losing track of various subscriptions or routine daily purchases. Won’t buy you a house but can be a few thousand a year.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Agreed. The one time I worked through a publisher I beat every schedule and it was all smooth enough. I’m glad I did it but I’m not sure how much the publisher added beyond some prestige and a few bucks. The first edition in particular I fe

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