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by gymbeaux 4y ago
An EMG/NCS isn't necessarily going to bear fruit. Studies and anecdotal evidence both support the idea that nerve conduction tests do not rule out nerve impingement in a particular area. TOS in particular can be tricky to "tr
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
Yeah, but at the same time I saw 3 orthopedic surgeons and 1 neurologist and 2 of them said "carpal tunnel syndrome", one of them said "arthritis" (after saying my X-Rays didn't show any signs of arthritis), and non
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
Awful from an ergonomics perspective
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
There are a litany of reasons why one’s hand may hurt. As far as non-traumatic injuries go (meaning pain that develops over a period of time as opposed to, say, a skateboarding accident), it’s usually going to be caused by inflammation of t
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
To point #1: it’s been my experience that ergonomics and orthopedics are incredibly misunderstood by the tech industry at large, and in my personal experience, orthopedic doctors are often wrong in their diagnoses. One of many examples is t
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
I think the main reason enthusiasts recap is to prevent damage to the rest of board when the capacitors swell and leak. E: I can't believe something so easy to Google is being downvoted as though it's false info: https:/&#x2
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
Agism is a thing, in both directions. I believe I have been discriminated against for being the youngest person on the team (I often was until mid/late 20s). Definitely though it will become an issue later in life, though I have to won
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
$25/hr isn't bad pay... Nobody at the local Chipotle is making $25/hr. That makes all the difference in the world, believe it or not. At $25/hr you and an SO also making $25 can buy a house, for example.
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
That's my point. Within the same model is a variance in price expected of the entire industry at the macro level. You can't argue that XPS is "premium lifestyle", that's what Dell says it is, but that's not wha
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
I got ya beat. You don't know anybody who meets that criteria, either.
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
It's just ironic that some people here are really pushing a $599 Mac mini as a valid option, while ignoring tablets. The argument that a Mac mini is a great alternative to a PC in that malware isn't an issue is totally valid, but
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
One thing to keep in mind is the demand of the specific OS/applications you are running. For example, 1GB of RAM is plenty for Windows XP, but 4GB for Windows 10/11 is abysmal. This is more or less why Linux is such a popular choi
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
"many people" is as anecdotal as it gets. I don't know anybody who A) only needs 8GB/256GB and B) isn't better-served by an iPad or something similar. I think if anyone from Apple Marketing is reading this thread, t
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
Interesting. I haven't seen that blog post. Thank you for sharing it! True enough, there's no guarantee C++ will eventually get the features Google is getting now with Carbon, and I realize they are a software company, and if anyo
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
True, but I would argue that it actually makes some sense for the XPS, Dell's only "pro desktop" option (does Vostro count as "pro"?). That the Mac mini can cost either X or ~10X is more like saying "a car star
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
But why would you buy them a Mac mini of all things?
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
I know from personal experience that if you are using the mini for anything of substance, and only have 8GB of RAM, you are using your SSD as "RAM" more than you probably realize.
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
I feel like such a "basic user" would be better-served with an iPad or even a MacBook Air, unless they happen to have a monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers and webcam from, say, their old PC. Historically Apple has marketed the min
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
I'm not trying to bash Apple in bad faith, but let's be real the $599 model is inadequate. 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD in 2023. There's plenty out there on the M1 Mac mini's 8GB being a bad idea even for casual users. I h
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
$4,500 maxed out. $4,500 for a Mac mini. God. They really think people are going to pay $4,500 for a Mac mini, don't they?
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
Fair enough, but unless the other guy was just being tongue-in-cheek, I took the spirit of his question to be more like "where in the world is it different from the US?"
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
I liked that LA Noire was "different" for the reasons you listed + things like picking out whether people were lying. RDR had some of that going on as well, and there really isn't anything like GTA. The Body Keeps the Score m
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
I don't know that I have seen anyone hype it, I just think it's funny that Google invented yet another programming language, and that (to me anyway) it's really just to gain access to features that are probably coming down th
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
Carbon is incredibly niche. I can't imagine anyone is using it for greenfield stuff. The idea that I can refactor my code base one class or even one method at a time is neat, but if I am the guy in the C-Suite dropping $10M+ each year
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
As far as I know, Github generally keeps up with Gitlab. For a while, I was on Gitlab because private repos were free, but since Microsoft purchased Github, Github has that too. Gitlab's own page about the differences between the two i
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
This is, of course, by design. ACA made it a bit more realistic for part-time/self-employed people to get health insurance, however if you have to get your insurance through the ACA marketplace (healthcare.gov), you ARE paying more for
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
I'm not familiar with the laws of Sweden, but a quick Google search suggests there is a law on the books limiting the workweek to 40 hours. Even if that is only marginally-heeded, it's leaps and bounds ahead of the United States.
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
I will say for CoD specifically, since the original Nazi Zombies mode was introduced in the original World at War ("CoD 5") in 2008, the franchise has made the Zombies mode INCREDIBLY complicated. Long gone are the days of holding
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
The "these are starter jobs!" argument is tired and invalid, because so many Americans north of 20 (30, even) are working those jobs. I almost want to say you should know I am not thinking about teenagers/college students in
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
On one side you have companies like Google creating entirely new programming languages (Carbon) that aren’t really solving a problem and aren’t that different from one or more existing languages (Rust, Go), and on the other you have people

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