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by larrik 8y ago
> Reading from RAM is certainly faster than disk, but reading less is faster than reading either from RAM or from disk. This is just not true in a lot of ways. For example, you can use memory to store the same data in multiple ways, and
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by larrik 8y ago
It's funny, Adobe's Suite is so bad for your computer. Every time I build a computer for my wife, it runs amazing until I install that shit on there. Then, nothing ever works quite right on it again.
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by larrik 8y ago
Being the "IT guy" of the family has shown me that it happens even without looking for crazy. My wife's grandparents bought a nice Dell all-in-one desktop, running Windows 7, despite 8 being out. Then Win 10 came out just a f
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by larrik 8y ago
Windows 10 updates are SUPER fun when you are running the N version and have the media pack installed. Usually the updates fail, so you get 6 reboots every few nights until you uninstall the media packs. Finding the new media pack that&#x27
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by larrik 8y ago
Ah yes, the "randomly click on the screen while typing G or H" device. I always pulled that off mine. Didn't love that tapping it produced a mouseclick.
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by larrik 8y ago
I'm genuinely surprised it doesn't have a touchpad. I don't think I've ever seen a laptop without one, and I used laptops back in the early/mid 90's.
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by larrik 8y ago
Jeez, maybe I'M on the spectrum. That describes me a lot.
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by larrik 8y ago
I feel like dropping the "How" from the title makes it sound far less interesting than it is.
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by larrik 8y ago
Why? It was published yesterday, and mentions previous events having occurred in 2017...
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by larrik 8y ago
He's frontloading his time and attention, using time that isn't going to produce productive writing, and investing it so that his productive time doesn't deal with any of this crap.
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by larrik 8y ago
To counter this, I got an email from Spotify a few days ago telling me about their terms of use update, and they were very upfront about the ad-blocker crackdown right in the email. I don't think they were hiding anything behind their
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by larrik 8y ago
Article: Women should get paid as much to surf as men do. Me: People get paid to surf??
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by larrik 8y ago
"The ban would go into effect progressively, starting next year, by raising the minimum age for buying cigarettes from 21 to 30. Two years later, no one under 100 would be allowed to buy cigarettes. " This is the most wacky way to
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by larrik 8y ago
When everyone moves their manufacturing to China, you can't be surprised that the industry here doesn't stay open in case they come back.
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by larrik 8y ago
That usually means the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of your email. Clicking that is usually quite permanent.
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by larrik 8y ago
I agree, "withheld" is a specific term with a specific meaning when it comes to employee payments. The headline does NOT match reality at all.
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by larrik 8y ago
Not sure why you are getting downvotes, like half of the map doesn't ever appear on any of the lists, implying that half of NY state, for example, simply don't work.
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by larrik 8y ago
My Dyson "stick vacuum" was the only Dyson I've ever owned, and it was total crap. I actually called them on the phone and asked why it turned off on me constantly (not overheating), and they said it was a design flaw with th
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by larrik 8y ago
"Why not move the weather station to the bedroom for a couple of nights?" which he did, not too far further into the article?
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by larrik 8y ago
Costco's rotisseries chickens are MUCH better than the grocery stores', as well.
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by larrik 8y ago
Funny, I switched and barely noticed the difference. The biggest issue I had was the lack of a quick button to jump into google maps.
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by larrik 8y ago
I would also say that Apple has plenty of rough spots that Linux doesn't as well. Font rendering the Apple way is a style choice at best. What does "display/compositor fragmentation" mean to end-user?
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by larrik 8y ago
That's not what this is. This requires leaning your head all the way over and THEN only barely seeing the car. Then, when you sit straight up, you aren't even close to seeing the side of your own car.
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by larrik 8y ago
> In fact, in Connecticut, a city is located within a town and is subordinate to it! Towns may set their own general method of local governance but are subordinate to their counties and then to their state. Connecticut doesn't actua
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by larrik 8y ago
"One Friday" has never been the start of a good work story ;)
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by larrik 8y ago
AS I remember it, the mindshare of the PS2 even so long before launch was immense. Sony's marketing killed the Dreamcast with ridiculous promises that really didn't pan out. You can't just look back and compare the systems,
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by larrik 8y ago
And yet, transferring files between my windows 10 computers feels like I need a network engineering degree. Half the time I need to fire up a Win7 VM and transfer from one to the other that way. Mac isn't better in that department, tho
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by larrik 8y ago
Video, although I don't have a camera (the host does, though).
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by larrik 8y ago
How long ago was that? Valve spurred along a lot of progress in that area.
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by larrik 8y ago
Seriously, I spend WAY more time fussing with Windows than Linux on my dual boot machines. Windows has also destroyed the usability of their settings screens to the point that I find configuring Linux far far easier than Windows.

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