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by koralatov 11y ago
Depending how long ago you started using a Mac, you may have started using them after the slide started. From my own experience, and the experience of other Mac users that I know, I think that the quality of their software has had a marke
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by koralatov 11y ago
I agree with your concerns about a Google or Amazon phone being a datamine in your pocket, but I think that, for most people, it's not an issue: they simply want a phone that works for them and don't give much thought to how much
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by koralatov 11y ago
It feels a little clichéd to say it, but I do feel that Snow Leopard, outdated now as it is, was some kind of fortuitous confluence of factors that resulted in OS X being as close to perfect as it's ever been. Even putting aside the iO
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ODroid C-2 Announced: $40, 2GHz 64-bit Quad-Core ARM Processor and 2GB of RAM(linuxgizmos.com)
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by koralatov 11y ago
Part of it, here in Aberdeen at least, is that rental prices are extortionate, and if you can scrape together the money to buy, it's often much cheaper; I'm paying a little over half the rental cost of my flat in mortgage payme
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by koralatov 11y ago
Unless I'm reading this wrong, the takeaway from this article is that Dropbox is a reasonably successful company, with enviable brand-recognition and reach, that's `suffering' from being overvalued early on and is simply no l
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by koralatov 11y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but what do you do with all of the stuff you already have? Almost nobody reading these books is starting from a position of zero stuff; they're starting from a position of X stuff, with X being an amount
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by koralatov 11y ago
I don't think anyone is suggesting that a home filling up with things `just happens' --- most people will readily admit that they have bought or received those things, and that those things are there because of their own action (a
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by koralatov 11y ago
That figure, thrown in without anything to back it up, seems truly insane. I'm British, but have an ongoing battle with keeping stuff I don't really need (and buying in bulk too), and I'm pretty sure even including all of my
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by koralatov 11y ago
I've come across the same sort of exaggeration on eBay when I was buying LED bulbs a year or two ago. An awful lot of bulbs claim to be much, much brighter than they can possibly be; it wasn't uncommon to see `3W' bulbs clai
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by koralatov 11y ago
It depends on your use-case. I very deliberately put myself in the position of checking my email, despite having all of the technical pieces in place to have email pushed to me. My work email polls every 30 minutes, with notifications disa
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by koralatov 11y ago
I don't have a Muji near me, but shop on their online store at least a couple of times a year. Some of their stuff is of average quality and not worth bothering with, but some is excellent. Some favourites: Their Hakuji porcelain[1] i
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by koralatov 11y ago
... If I had realised it was going away, I'd have gone round every branch in London and bought them all up. I feel exactly the same way about their now-discontinued passport notebook. If I'd realised it was in danger of extinct
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PINE A64: The First $15 64-Bit Single Board Super Computer(kickstarter.com)
13 points by koralatov 11y ago|0 comments
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by koralatov 11y ago
Perhaps even stranger: the HP-12c, a calculator that's effectively unchanged since the early 1980s, continues to sell well at a price higher than the new Amazon tablets. It's not new, doesn't trade on exclusivity, and is ea
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by koralatov 11y ago
The title of the article is misleading, as the participants were reading on a tablet, not an e-reader. ( "During the two-week inpatient study, twelve participants read digital books on an iPad for four hours before bedtime each night
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by koralatov 11y ago
There are two points that you've conflated and dismissed glibly with one statement: the slightly longer (+5%? +10%) lifespans of the rich today, and the hypothetical doubling+ of lifespans being directly discussed here. They're
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by koralatov 11y ago
I completely agree with your post, and your correction of the abnormal/pedantic neologism 'USian' (how would that even be pronounced? /juːʃaɪn/? /ju ɛs aɪn/?). It's not just English speakers who us
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by koralatov 11y ago
Which part of the UK are you in? I knew there was a growing housing problem nationwide, but it's always interesting/depressing to hear specifics. I'm in Aberdeen, and I've noticed the same kind of issue, except here ren
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by koralatov 12y ago
I nearly always just keep my mouth shut because I know that I can be shot down and 'discredited' purely because I'm white, male, and straight. Part of it is perhaps age (I'm 31 now, and less angry/opinionated than
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by koralatov 12y ago
> Yeah, there's a handful of misguided activists who read > malice into everything. But they're the minority > (albeit a loud one). And there's the problem. It's not that the represent them ma
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by koralatov 12y ago
I do very much like the idea, but how does it affect the health of the battery? Even with modern lithium whatever batteries, I still have the impression that charging too often is bad for their longevity.
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by koralatov 12y ago
That's one hell of a post. Thanks for sharing it.
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by koralatov 12y ago
The thing that springs immediately to my mind for me is the anti-vaccination movement. I really do think it'll be looked back on in a century as a monumentally stupid backlash based on poor 'science' and scaremongering. I th
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Mini-Review: Hisense’s ARM Chromebook Actually Isn’t Awful for $149(arstechnica.com)
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The 'X-Files' Revival Isn't About Fans or Closure, It's About Netflix(forbes.com)
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by koralatov 12y ago
Desk pads, when branded thoughtfully, can be a really nice freebie from suppliers, and is one of the few items for which I'd break my `no gifts' rule. The problem I find is that a lot of suppliers go completely overboard on the b
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by koralatov 12y ago
I used to do the same with a grease-pencil at my old job, and found it a pretty good method for very fleeting information. It did, however, draw appalled looks from my co-workers, and was ultimately stopped by a new manager who refused to
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by koralatov 12y ago
I'd agree with that. My desks tend to quickly end up buried under books, papers, desk tools, mail, and everything else that I lay there ``just until I put it away''. About half of the people I know do the same thing, especi
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by koralatov 12y ago
Same here. Some months I barely use it, but it's just so cheap and the performance is just so good that I can't let myself let it expire.

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