jpetso

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by jpetso 8y ago
Well, they have the iPad Pro with keyboard cover already. Who's to say that they couldn't make that into an actual laptop product, replacing their lower-end macOS devices? Also, none of your quotes mention the impossibility of mak
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The key is putting tax money where your mouth is, prioritizing projects with high impact over projects that cater to the voter base that you need to get reelected, and using eminent domain to get the best route against the interest of some
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As someone who purchased a laptop with a valid Windows license, I would so appreciate if I were able to do run said Windows as an app under Linux without falling into despair.
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My reading of the GP's comment was that those were not suggestions, but a mere observation, where out of many possible and viable alternatives, one is utterly dominant to the point where the others aren't generally considered as a
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It kind of isn't up to the U.S. government. It's about how you structure your organization to have the right incentives to do the right thing. Apple and numerous other businesses are beholden to shareholders, whose #1 demand is pr
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Right, ska::bytell_hash_map is the most recent iteration and ska::flat_hash_map was the previous one.
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> Should it be necessary, this kind of feature is better implemented in the user agent. I'm fairly certain I saw link prefetch+preview extensions for Firefox ~10 years ago. I'd rather avoid that; sending fingerprintable informa
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Yeah, but aren't startups and other profit-driven entities more interested in catering to the mainstream than to a small set of users with specific needs? If companies will gleefully ignore Linux (and BSDs), browsers other than the one
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Does the US not have some kind of law that guarantees employees the opportunity to take at least a few hours off work for voting?
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Wayland to the rescue!
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In Germany, people respect traffic lights even when there's no one there to enforce your good behavior.
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Note that you're explicitly making an argument that a company being "too big to fail" should require us to continue supporting their monopoly and funneling money to them, all for the sake of "the small guy". You&#x2
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When interest rates rise, prices fall. New buyers have a certain amount of money they're willing to pay each month and the market adjusts to that, so it makes little difference there. Existing owners would be the ones getting hit by ri
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I read the title and was thinking someone want the original crypto ratchet back, before it got rebranded by Signal/Moxie and kept from mass adoption by means of a GPL lawsuit threat.
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I'd like to disprove that statement with myself as a counterexample. One laptop exactly, and also PS3+4 but I don't think that counts as "computer" in this context. Yes, sometimes it would be nice to have another machine
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by jpetso 8y ago
I have a Macbook Pro 15 with dedicated GPU at work and battery runtimes are abysmal, even after accounting for the bright HiDPI display. Great for gaming, but no thanks for a portable development laptop.
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To add another opinion, I'm really quite the fan of HiDPI displays but I found that 1080p is just about sufficient for my own 12"-13" ThinkPads. 96 dpi now feels limiting in terms of space and font fidelity, I would never con
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by jpetso 9y ago
Given that there is an entire continent whose people speak mostly Spanish (and with the remaining Portuguese speakers vastly outnumbering the ones in Portugal, too), I don't believe that providing a service in Spanish will go far as ev
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To be fair, Tesla's target audience is wealthy people, many of which are entrepreneurs or high-level managers and may feel the same as Elon Musk, even if a majority of regular people would shake their head about such comments. If/
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by jpetso 9y ago
Lesson from the downvotes: Silly Unix jokes are not necessarily welcome in discussions about national security. :P
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As a taxpayer, I'd like to see HUMINT continued and supported. However, SIGINT deserves nothing less than a full (and orderly) shutdown.
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Also mind that in many places in Europe, public transit is more heavily subsidized by taxes. If you consider how low taxes are in most states of the US, you probably have some extra money at hand to use for trains (or whatever else), partia
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I mean, I personally would never consider hanging any country's flag in a prominent spot. But for people who do, I'd wager it's likely that they it's to celebrate culture and memories, not necessarily to display allegian
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Pointing out that it makes sense to calculate the actual dollar amount of the per-mile cost. I haven't done 2-hour round trips, but I've done 1.5-hour and was surprised how inconsequential the markup turned out to be. This was sev
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Also considering the other sub-thread, it does appear that having kids will incentivize consuming more. There are gaping needs that are most easily solved with big cars, big houses, etc., and I don't think it's necessarily product
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An alternative point of view is that no society, tribe or nation is perfect, and on the other hand there are plenty of great things about the history and culture of either place that are worth preserving. As an immigrant, it's my privi
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Make changes over time. When other devices are due to be replaced, make sure they work with multiple vendors or ideally, using open standards. Then when your iPhone is up next for replacement, you won't be locked in. Consider lack of l
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Yes, that's true. What I wanted to point out is that a good idea in theory can quickly turn into an instrument that's being used for other purposes. China is a great example to be studied in this regard. Their changes do indeed en
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Yeah! For example, the government could become a stakeholder in all companies to ensure that the populace's interest is taken into account in addition to profit... wait a second, that's what China's doing
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The difference would be that if you sell your house for 100k now, you'll have 25k extra after "moving up" to the 75k (previously 150k) house, minus a few years of rent that you might have paid in the meantime. This is assumin

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