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by jmb99 1y ago
> Banks don't know who gets what serial number when you withdraw cash. Do you have evidence to back this up? In Canada, many bank branches don't carry cash except at ATMs, which means 100% of the cash transactions at those bran
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by jmb99 1y ago
You're welcome to be surprised then. Only cases I've heard of Interac blocking accounts is KYC/AML and actual fraud. E-transfer (the Interac's name for bank-to-bank online transfers between different people) is about as
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by jmb99 1y ago
I have a residential fibre connection that’s 3Gbps symmetrical, unmetered. If there was something in it for me (and I was legally shielded) I would consider renting some of that out. And there’s definitely other people out there who would c
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by jmb99 1y ago
> Could we engineer a more efficient photosynthesis? Yes! They’re called solar panels, and our best ones are about 4x more efficient than the most efficient photosynthesis processes in nature, afaik.
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by jmb99 1y ago
Hardware cost & weight, fine. Glass doesn't need to be thicker than it currently is (I can press on my 13 Pro's screen about twice as hard as was needed for 3D Touch's max depth, and no issues with the screen), and the la
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by jmb99 1y ago
Yep, ~1kW as mentioned. Depending on your electrical rate, break even might be years down the line. And obviously the Mac Studios would perform substantially better. Edit: And also, to get even half as much memory, you need to spend $10k. I
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by jmb99 1y ago
...why would I keep a container of filtered water in my fridge? My water comes out of the tap already filtered at my municipal water supplier? Maybe if I was on a well I would need to filter my own water, but then I definitely wouldn’t trus
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by jmb99 1y ago
The single most irritating killed feature from Apple. Redesign half of their UI to rely on 3D Touch to make sense, then get rid of 3D Touch without redesigning the UI. Previewing links, moving the cursor, interacting with items, they’re all
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by jmb99 1y ago
> Which seems insane; it cannot add that much to the price. Be careful what you wish for. When buying my current fridge, I specifically tried to go out of my way to avoid complexity, but the opening for my fridge is an odd size so my cho
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by jmb99 1y ago
What’s your budget and speed requirement? A quad-CPU Xeon E7 v4 server (Supermicro X10QBI, for example) with 1TB of RAM gives you ~340GB/s memory bandwidth and enough actual memory to host a full DeepSeek instance, but it will be relat
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by jmb99 1y ago
Generally speaking, no. Most major hotel chains require a credit card.
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by jmb99 1y ago
I find for physical objects, I’m much more likely to actually use them. I have read 95+% of the physical books in my house, wear 90+% of my clothes in any given year, 95+% of the food I buy. Mainly because I’m physically limited to buying&#
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by jmb99 1y ago
> since children don't have developed critical thinking skills. So should everyone under the age of 25 (roughly when your brain becomes fully developed) be prohibited from talking about any kind of medical treatment? Also, how do yo
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by jmb99 1y ago
Why not only use features that are compatible with all browsers? You don’t need to use every bleeding edge feature to make a website.
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by jmb99 1y ago
Performance was very, very good in my experience. Benchmarks normally took a 10% hit vs their equivalents on windows, but being able to run macOS on arbitrary consumer hard made performance incredibly cheap. My first proper bang-for-buck ma
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by jmb99 1y ago
In this case, there is more than enough information given to make an exploit trivial for anyone actually investigating the issue. I don’t see a reason to distribute PoC exploit code here, it’s fairly clear what the problem is as well as at
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by jmb99 1y ago
GoT still blows me away. You had about as close to an infinite budget as you can get in television, access to some of the best writers on the planet, as well as general guidance from Martin, and yet somehow you end up with season 8 (and 7,
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by jmb99 1y ago
The benefit of local-first means you’re not incentivized to sell your cloud offering, so you can just give options. Sync with iCloud, Google drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Mega, SMB, SFTP, FTP, whatever you feel like adding support for. And sinc
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by jmb99 1y ago
Search only works if you know what you're looking for and what it's called. Horrible for discoverability.
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by jmb99 1y ago
> Apple had a good run, I've genuinely enjoyed using their platforms daily, but I'm afraid they're dropping the ball now. I haven't owned a (personal) Mac since High Sierra. The UI had been going downhill since Yosemi
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by jmb99 1y ago
> They certainly tried. Cook led the charge on the Apple Watch, which fell short of a tentpole offering but still found an audience. That's an interesting way to say "is the best selling watch model of all time, and outsells no
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by jmb99 1y ago
The oxygen is not contained in the 150kg of plastic, it’s pulled out of the atmosphere. You’re actually “burning” substantially more than 150kg if you include all the reactants.
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by jmb99 1y ago
The difference is, in theory if DJI were discovered to be doing something malicious, it could be taken down from the Play Store. If 0% of its current users were side loading the application, that means 100% of their users would be unable to
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by jmb99 1y ago
Worth mentioning that 0.5TB is tiny compared to Anna’s, which currently sits around 1.1PB.
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by jmb99 1y ago
If I die without a pacemaker, or maybe have an increased risk of certain cancers with a pacemaker but get to live, I’d choose the pacemaker.
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by jmb99 1y ago
I haven’t checked, but my assumption is that the output of each compilation unit will be different. The one definition rule doesn’t apply here (there’s still one definition), and there shouldn’t be a conflict if the functions are inlined in
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by jmb99 1y ago
It requires some effort. You have to actually sign up and attend trades school (which requires a non-zero amount of money up front and you’ll go 6-12 weeks without pay - which also can be a problem for some people), then spend some effort f
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by jmb99 1y ago
The Amazon warehouse across the street from me pays ~$19/h (CAD). Minimum wage is $17.20. Electrician apprentices make $20-28/h. Once you’re licensed you’re pretty much guaranteed $30+/h, most break $40/h pretty quick if
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by jmb99 1y ago
I recently switched jobs, and this time I decided that during the first phase of any interview cycle I would ask if there were going to be leetcode-style questions at any point in the cycle. If yes, I ended the interviews there. If no, cont
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by jmb99 1y ago
Being an electrician or plumber is substantially less soul-crushing than an Amazon warehouse, and if you’re good, pays a hell of a lot better.

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