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by lunchables 7y ago
It was a joke, do you really think he believed this? He graduated from Lipscomb. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/10/tennes...
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by lunchables 7y ago
> I only know the 150 range to be for deep sea oil guys. I've read about these "saturation divers". Guys that go down inside a diving bell for weeks at a time and breath a mix of helium. Only highly skilled divers can do
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by lunchables 7y ago
On my wall the numbers only go up to the actual values bitcoin has traded at. And $10k today is only half the peak. Anyway, the point is, it is a coincidence, nothing more.
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by lunchables 7y ago
I assume this would be awful for retail. They want you looking around forever and hopefully buying some other things you didn't come in for specifically. Same reason (I've heard) that milk is in the back of the grocery store. The
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by lunchables 7y ago
It's also been at $20k. You could basically throw a dart at a wall and hit a price that bitcoin has been at some point. Just a coincidence you read this today.
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by lunchables 7y ago
>meaning that which is free to consume is not free to make. I guess it depends on what cost you want to include? I create content "for free" using my free time. Would you consider my mortgage, the cost of my computer, etc, to
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by lunchables 7y ago
Of course, and I agree, as I said in my original post: >I certainly support Tony's decision to shut this down - it is his decision to make, and no one should feel FORCED to create content for free.
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by lunchables 7y ago
This is the important question. How well does it compare to the ARM based alternatives?
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by lunchables 7y ago
>some places work great with infinite scrolling (twitter [...] First time I've ever heard someone refer to infinite scrolling on Twitter as great. I can't tell you how many times I accidentally scrolled to the top of twitter b
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by lunchables 7y ago
>There is no such thing as free content on the Internet [...] >Everything costs something to make. If a person is putting out content for free, that means they’re not getting paid for their time. First of all, remember when people pos
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by lunchables 7y ago
>There's a psychological pressure to have the latest tech You mean marketing? What company isn't doing that?
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by lunchables 7y ago
Wouldn't it be the opposite? They overpaid because these people were working all of this overtime?
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by lunchables 7y ago
I had to Google it because I couldn't find any definition anywhere. A "CL" is a change list - maybe, that's what I found from my Google search. It is a term used dozens of times on that site but never defined, as far a
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by lunchables 7y ago
> I don’t know a single developer that thinks “googling stuff means you’re not a proper engineer.” I see it at least a couple times a week on sub-reddits related to software development. Junior devs who are convinced more senior develop
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by lunchables 7y ago
There was a time when open source software wasn't so intermingled with commercial interests and people's professional lives that it was ok to make jokes. Also, people didn't get offended so easily, which seems like a sport th
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by lunchables 7y ago
>the fact that malls are (justifiably) regarded as a treasured social institution Wait, people think malls are "treasured social institutions" ? I think it's just neat to look at creepy old malls that used to be full of p
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by lunchables 7y ago
Why did the shell scripts in my init system "suck balls" ? Init scripts worked wonderfully for me, systemd solved no problems that I had. What it did was add a lot of complexity to my world for no perceptible benefit. Maybe my
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by lunchables 7y ago
If you are trying to use docker to build lightweight VMs you are really swimming upstream. In the (docker, etc) container world they use the phrase "pets not cattle". Containers are designed to be stateless (nothing is stored in
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by lunchables 7y ago
I was thinking more, rebounded to 2008 levels + inflation?
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by lunchables 7y ago
Even if you hate AMD you have to be very thankful they are putting the screws to Intel. We need competition to drive innovation. And I'm just sitting here waiting for the 3950X announcement so I can upgrade. Which, by the way, will d
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by lunchables 7y ago
Aren't most of those double digit gains just from the market rebounding from the 2008 recession?
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by lunchables 7y ago
I think 2012 was around the time when smartphone cameras got really, really good. There was a tipping point where people stopped needing point and shoots and it looks like further down the line that might even have impacted DSLR sales, may
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by lunchables 7y ago
Thank you, this clarified so many things.
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by lunchables 7y ago
Thanks for sharing, I really love it.
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by lunchables 7y ago
According to the first graph they appear to have peaked in 2012 and dropping ever since: 2011: 16 2012: 20 <--- peak 2013: 17 2014: 14 2015: 13 2016: 12 2017: 12 2018: 4 (annualized rate of 8)
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by lunchables 7y ago
I love this site - would you share the details about the technology behind it? What's it written in, database, etc?
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by lunchables 7y ago
I haven't had any real driver issues in years and I run linux on all my machines. The closest is installing (via package manager) nvidia drivers for some machines, which takes all of about 30 seconds and a reboot. It's really luc
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by lunchables 7y ago
Anytime I hear about Forth I will forever be reminded of this: http://www.atarimania.com/documents/FORTH-on-the-Atari-Learn...
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by lunchables 7y ago
I don't think most of the comments are directed at the 2019 model. Most even specify an earlier (2018) model. These have known issues. So I think that is "approaching absolute truth".
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by lunchables 7y ago
That's exactly the conclusion I've come to as well. My current car has CarPlay and there's no way I'll go back. And trying to charge me a monthly fee to use it is just insulting.

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