jessewmc

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by jessewmc 7y ago
I'm not an expert, but my understanding is its not at all clear enough to make such a strong, simplistic statement. For example: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
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by jessewmc 7y ago
Except now we have only one MacBook Pro choice: one with a more expensive part that uses more battery and is another possible failure point. It’s a net negative for anyone who is even neutral to it, never mind someone who uses say the physi
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by jessewmc 7y ago
But it is decidedly legal to publish materials that explain how to do so.
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by jessewmc 7y ago
I cannot imagine defending the move to 100% usb-c ports. An iphone out of the box cannot be connected to a new mac laptop. It's complete insanity. The rest of the world isn't there yet. Every single person I know who owns a usb-c
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by jessewmc 7y ago
This is where the blame really lies: "European nations — including Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Austria — had been cutting taxes on diesel car purchases and diesel fuel to promote sales". The big lesson here is regu
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by jessewmc 7y ago
They almost made the same mistake with XBox, but Allard, Fries & company managed to convince Gates not to brand things as Windows.
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by jessewmc 7y ago
Even if it does, we know full well from decades of medical and aerospace disaster research that these problems can only be treated if they are handled as systemic and non-malicious. Punishing these people will make it harder to learn from w
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by jessewmc 7y ago
The ad phrasing isn't meant to do much more than give you a reason to go to the website, which answers your question and goes into far more detail. It's effective, and no different than any other advertising. I am disappointed the
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by jessewmc 7y ago
I really hope someone else eats their lunch soon. There are some genuine improvements to the status quo in their cars, but the unbelievably poor quality control and silicon valley user hostility (near impossibility of DIY repairs & part
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by jessewmc 7y ago
I think Linux and Postgres are much more exception than norm programming. They’re both relatively low level, critical infrastructure code worked on by domain experts with low level expertise —- not at all what most software looks like, and
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by jessewmc 8y ago
Why not use this money to pay public servants more?
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by jessewmc 8y ago
Why would Sony withdraw from the console market? They are far and away the dominant player.
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by jessewmc 8y ago
For me the win would be being able to charge my phone, watch, and airpods all at once. This is way, way better than 3 cables (one of which is different).
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by jessewmc 8y ago
This jumped out at me too. To a non-American, it seems like everything that is wrong with American politics: being so unable to empathize with your fellow Americans that one would treat them as an enemy and refuse to help them in any way.
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by jessewmc 8y ago
I think they were referring to internal research that says 'if we do X we can sell more' which has naturally aligned incentives. This as opposed to releasing research along the lines of 'cigarettes are fine for you! smoke mor
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by jessewmc 8y ago
Even if you're pro gun control, it doesn't mean gun control reduces suicides. You'd have to look at the numbers -- are suicide rates lower in places with less access to guns? Or do people just commit suicide differently? I st
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by jessewmc 8y ago
For those of us who think that 'get used to it' is not an acceptable answer for Facebook, Gmail or anything else, a little heat on any one of them is a good way to bring the problem to more public light.
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by jessewmc 8y ago
This is one of the least wasteful things they do. The cuttings are recycled, and aluminum is one of the few materials that is more energy efficient to recycle than to mine/manufacture from scratch.
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by jessewmc 8y ago
This is pretty backwards. If you want fewer people to visit, charge more. Charge extra to non locals if you’re so inclined. Don’t allow advertising, sure. But making parks free doesn’t make the problem better.
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by jessewmc 8y ago
You missed it, all answered in the article
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by jessewmc 8y ago
This is classic anecdotal thinking. Your statement is equivalent to someone who has smoked a pack a day for 40 years saying they don't think cigarettes cause lung cancer because they don't have lung cancer. Not that this particula
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by jessewmc 8y ago
Ignorant question: if operational costs trump all, especially fuel (Maersk says in the article 60% of operational cost) why not pure sail power? Is there some other maintenance cost or infeasability there? Or is there another hidden variabl
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by jessewmc 8y ago
Are you sure? Not a production expert, but it sounds to me like this is a confusion of 'complete a car every 1-3 minutes' and 'complete a car in 1-3 minutes' They are two very different things, and I'm quite sure th
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by jessewmc 8y ago
I'm a supporter of extremely strong free speech protection, but this doesn't seem entirely black and white to me. AWS is a private hosting company, and they may be exposed to legal or authority action based on what their clients h
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by jessewmc 8y ago
The last line of the article is "We'll be keeping an eye on weasyprint." I'm pretty sure that means they don't think it's ready yet, and aren't using it yet. It looks promising but they don't directly
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by jessewmc 8y ago
The conclusion is telling: They switched from Prawn to wkhtmltopdf, have all these issues with it, but have found nothing better. Wkhtmltopdf is far and away the best solution (at least in Ruby land) even if it is often painful to work with
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by jessewmc 8y ago
Recording verbatim conversation is a pretty rare typing use case I would say. Court reporters use steno machines for that, no non-chorded layout is fast enough. The vast majority of people are typing up some sort of copy or code, both of wh
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by jessewmc 8y ago
In my mind occam's razor applies to the 'culture' of money over everything in China, if there is such a thing. I think theres a pretty simple explanation: Most Chinese people have parents or grandparents who remember Mao and
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by jessewmc 8y ago
The History of Rome is another history podcast among the all time greats of the medium I think, worth checking out.
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by jessewmc 8y ago
It's a fair bit easier to switch away from Google, as most of their services have much weaker network effects. For example searching, I can only resort to Google if everything else fails, and easily switch back and forth. (This is not

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