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by lebrad 8y ago
A withering takedown, presented dispassionately
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by lebrad 8y ago
15 World Cups to not watch
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by lebrad 8y ago
Mouse/trackpad cursor support, keyboard shortcuts, and robust filesystem access are required to intelligently use Photoshop. Does Adobe expect that iOS will eventually get there?
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by lebrad 8y ago
The issue of Sony disallowing cross-play is not the reason for controversy in this case. It's actually because logging in to a Fortnite account on PS4 irreversibly locks that account to Sony's walled garden. I created my Fortnite
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by lebrad 8y ago
Of course critics of GitHub's acquisition have indeed offered a better solution in the form of Microsoft not buying GitHub. Beyond that though, the article encourages and exemplifies the most blatant form of armchair CEO-ing. The tech
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by lebrad 8y ago
The Catholic church is basically a corporation, where the cardinals (the board) elect a non-hereditary emperor (the CEO). Theories of the firm have modeled ideas about corporate governance on the success of this structure. In the past this
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by lebrad 8y ago
The Founder's homeworld on Deep Space Nine was a rogue planet
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by lebrad 9y ago
>Decades ago everyone _knew_ smoking caused cigarettes. Surrealists, dadaists and fans of retrocausality tried in vain to warn us that smoking caused cigarettes
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by lebrad 9y ago
A law forcing support for electronic devices until a certain amount of them fall out of use would discourage companies from making durable products. Companies would use even more brittle, low-endurance parts.
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by lebrad 9y ago
They say you can estimate the maturity of a group's culture by how easy it is to commit heresy. Less Wrong fans seem fairly mature by that metric, since they don't blacklist their apostates. The Yudkowskites actually seem one step
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by lebrad 9y ago
Everything works with Debian 9 on my Macbook Pro 11,1 and it's noticeably faster than macOS Sierra and High Sierra.
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by lebrad 9y ago
Qualcomm doesn't build faster chips because their customers have thin margins and want SoCs optimized for cost rather than speed.
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by lebrad 9y ago
Microsoft gave up on Windows RT to go back to the drawing board and build Windows on ARM. It's the same with phones: they gave up on Windows Phone so that they can have a "Surface Phone" do-over in the future. This allows the
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by lebrad 9y ago
In their original letter, Zillow's first demand was that Kate Wagner confirm that she has "stopped, and will not in the future, access or otherwise use the Zillow Site or Images," which she has now done. Even in the worst cas
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by lebrad 9y ago
Except they achieved the outcome that they stated they wanted. EFF says McMansion Hell won’t use photos from Zillow moving forward.
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by lebrad 9y ago
I've been running Debian on a MacBook Pro 11,1 for a couple of years and everything works great. The 7,2 Air has similar hardware and I would expect that you'll have a good Debian experience. Battery life is slightly worse than ru
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by lebrad 9y ago
When my sister started grad school at Harvard she bought a brand new 64-bit Dell laptop from the school store that came preinstalled with 32-bit Windows. I was amazed. I wiped the computer and installed a 64-bit OS, but there are definitely
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by lebrad 9y ago
I second syncthing. It's been gloriously reliable on Linux, macOS, and Windows, even while pumping terabytes through it.
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by lebrad 9y ago
I'm constantly amazed that so many British people believe the fiction that BBC detector vans are able to detect license violations.
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by lebrad 9y ago
Actually one of the amazing things about Planet Earth 1 and 2 is that they don't use the best cameras. The BBC is a super cheap institution, and so their cameras are often super bulky and limited compared to state of the art options. W
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by lebrad 9y ago
https://sandstorm.io/
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by lebrad 9y ago
Now you've got me imagining a David Lynch film about a space marine fighting robot demons on Mars.
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by lebrad 9y ago
While I don't disagree with the point of the article, it seems that shooting down a bunch of undergrad student newspaper columns is needlessly punching down. When I was an undergrad, reading the daily student paper was a way to enjoy a
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by lebrad 10y ago
I use a similar mu4e setup and it's great. Instead of offlineimap however I use mbsync (née isync) because it's faster when chugging through thousands of emails.
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by lebrad 10y ago
I have a 2011 Mac Mini and the fan gets annoyingly loud when under load. I was also annoyed by the fan in my NUC so I put it in a fanless case. It's dead quiet, and stays cool enough to run under load without throttling.
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by lebrad 11y ago
This is a really useful breakdown of Let's Encrypt and its scripted process for procuring certificates. It's ironic though that cryptologie.net is not run over https! They should use Let's Encrypt.
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by lebrad 11y ago
Yes, the MacBook was released April 10, but the Chromebook Pixel was already shipping USB type-C in March. Someone in the other Thunderbolt type-C thread also mistakenly claimed that Apple was the first company to use type-C.