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ledauphin
7y ago
I appreciate the anecdata, but do you have an actual cycle count on the batteries? It's not clear to a non-expert (me) how you've disproven the GP.
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ledauphin
7y ago
probably because they ultimately make their money off people who go over the free storage limit. storage hardware is incredibly cheap, relatively speaking, so for Dropbox the main thing is not reducing costs, it's convincing people to
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ledauphin
7y ago
the fact that they've not fixed it for literally years, despite having hundreds or thousands of reports? I'll believe they have a fix when I see it with my own eyes, which probably won't be for another 6 months because switch
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ledauphin
7y ago
Firefox got most of its early momentum from tech-savvy users recommending it to their friends and family. Many of us use retina MacBooks, and none of us can honestly recommend it since we can't use it ourselves. I understand from the b
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ledauphin
7y ago
I've switched to Firefox 3 times in the last 2 years, and each time I've been forced back to Chrome by horrendously (2-3x worse) bad battery life on my MacBook, caused by some variant of this bug which Mozilla seems determined not
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ledauphin
7y ago
oh wait, two of those already are last mile providers in many parts of the country... I'm not sure who exactly they're going to end up completing with.
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ledauphin
7y ago
For what it's worth, I am generally in agreement with you, so you're not alone. I do think it would've been better to have 0, specifically, not be falsy - unlike the other cases, 0 is not 'the absence of any actual data&
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ledauphin
7y ago
All of the comments here seem to be addressing the issue of 0 being falsy, and I agree with them - 0 is a perfect 'useful' value that is no different from 1 in many use cases. But no one seems to be addressing the advantage of the