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by jjcob 1y ago
How people justify paying $1000 for probably less than 15 minutes of work is beyond me.
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by jjcob 1y ago
I doubt there is a single explanation. I think it's multiple factors. Unleaded gasoline could also be a factor. Every country has shown drops in crime rates when leaded gasoline was phased out. If I recall, leaded gasoline was phased o
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by jjcob 1y ago
I think point based systems are the most fair and not arbitrary, since points are usually awarded for things like age, degree, language proficiency. That's the least discriminating way to steer immigration.
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by jjcob 1y ago
I don't understand what these things are good for. If you want to enter the country illegally, overstay your visa, or perform some sort of attack, then it's trivial to lie on the forms. It's just making it inconvenient for ho
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by jjcob 1y ago
Here's what the "stunning visualisation" looks like (screenshot from app preview): https://postimg.cc/FktkRMX8 Erm.... Yeah. I wish people would spend two hours creating an honest webpage for their project in
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by jjcob 1y ago
I read a lot of Apple blogs and they all complain about Apple all the time. They like Apple products, but they aren't stupid. For example, nobody thinks that Siri is a 4D chess move, everyone knows that Siri sucks.
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by jjcob 1y ago
If you start writing an app now, by the time it's polished enough to release it, the iPhone 16 will already be a year old phone, and there will be plenty potential customers. If your app is worthwhile, and gets popular in a few years,
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by jjcob 1y ago
We kind of had that for a time with FileMaker and MS Access. People could build pretty amazing stuff with those apps, even without being a programmer. I think the reason those apps never became mainstream is that they didn't have a goo
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by jjcob 1y ago
JavaScript felt like it took the best parts of C (concise expressiveness) and the ease of use of HyperTalk (event handlers, easy hierarchical access to objects, etc). It was pretty sweet.
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by jjcob 1y ago
The iPhone camera app does a lot of those things. The blur is definitely not a Gaussian blur, you can clearly see a circular aperture. The blurring is also a function of the distance, it's not constant. And blowouts are pretty convinci
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by jjcob 1y ago
That's what FaceID does.
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by jjcob 1y ago
Most people will realise that taking 4 pills is probably too much, but people will take two without thinking much.
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by jjcob 1y ago
Yeah, typically groups pay more per ticket than individuals. This is probably only on unpopular routes where they know they aren't going to fill the plane.
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by jjcob 1y ago
It probably just depends on how full the flight is. If the plane is empty, there will be discounts for families, because they want to sell tickets, and families are price concious. Solo travellers usually are not. If the plane is on a popul
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by jjcob 1y ago
I think you are right. The graph at the bottom of the article shows that temperatures dropped around 2020 (presumably less traffic due to the pandemic). So the ground can take up more heat, but it can't do it quickly enough.
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by jjcob 1y ago
That article would be just as relevant if it was posted in 1995, 2005, 2015, or 2025. This is a never ending debate and I don't see how adding a date would make it better.
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by jjcob 1y ago
That's the current status quo, isn't it? There's yachts and fancy houses and supercars to buy for the rich. They make their lives better, in some way. A lot of people are employed to make those things. I don't see how th
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by jjcob 1y ago
It's not a slippery slope. Fixing defects is rather straightforward, since it's usually a single gene that needs to be edited. If you want make your baby smarter, taller, or more handsome, it's not so easy because these trait
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by jjcob 1y ago
Hiring someone who wants detailed requirements is not a good idea when you don't have a structure in place that can provide these detailed requirements. If you rely on people to work independently, you just can't hire someone who
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by jjcob 1y ago
The delivery documentation is often a lie. Like, there might be a "signature", but it was just the delivery guy scribbling something. Very hard to prove that wasn't you. The delivery workers just don't get paid enough mo
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by jjcob 1y ago
I'm not sure how different devices implement it, but the security chip can simply count the time it was powered on, it doesn't have to rely on wall clock time. (Relying on wall clock time caused a bug in an early iOS version of th
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by jjcob 1y ago
The waiting time increases after failed attempts.
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by jjcob 1y ago
Security concerns are one thing that hold Shortcuts back, but a lot of the stuff just doesn't work. It's pretty half assed. For example, sending messages is broken and according to forum posts has been for a few years. It's p
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by jjcob 1y ago
WD Red drives. They released a new version of their WD Red drive, and the only difference they stated in the specs was that it had more cache. So I thought, great, this is their updated model with more cache, it's going to be faster. A
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by jjcob 1y ago
There is one argument for Synology doing this: There have been cases where hard drive companies mislead their customers. I personally fell victim to this when Western Digital started selling SMR drives as WD Red, without labelling them as S
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by jjcob 2y ago
> ordering a 75-cents part from the other side of the planet is a massive waste of resources Is it really that bad? Is it better to package the part in retail packaging, ship them in bulk to international warehouses, ahead of time, store
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by jjcob 2y ago
Coquinas are clams that bury themselves in the sand very close to the surface [1]. The author worries that while they are playing with the sand, they might accidentally bury coquina clams too deep and kill them because they can no longer re
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by jjcob 2y ago
That was my strategy and I now own about a dozen domains for side projects that never got past the rough concept stage :)
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by jjcob 2y ago
We got a really nice Bosch induction hob for 700€. I installed it myself in less than an hour (the hardest part was cutting the appropriate hole in the worktop). All of our pots except one was compatible. You will only have problems with ve
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by jjcob 2y ago
(Answering my own question) - Installing a battery powered stove is probably less than 30 minutes of work, and the electrician selling it makes a lot of money from the sale of the expensive stove. - Running a new cable from the kitchen to t

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