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by macNchz 2y ago
I don’t see where that comment was giving Apple a pass. They are indeed really egregious in upselling iCloud, in my opinion. The fact they sell devices with undersized, non-user-upgradable base model storage and default to storing lots of s
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by macNchz 2y ago
There’s a good Darknet Diaries podcast episode that interviews someone with hands on experience with this, and the efforts he went through to conceal his identity while shipping large volumes of illicit USPS packages: https://da
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by macNchz 2y ago
I have a high-end DIY Linux desktop and a base model M1 Air that I got for $750. I think it’s a good pairing. The laptop works well as sort of a thin client to the desktop for real work. If I didn’t have the desktop I’d definitely want more
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by macNchz 2y ago
I like to work similarly to how I'd work with a small team: Github issues, many of which contain a checklist of items, loosely organized into milestones. I like this because: - It's close to the code, so I can easily make notes to
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by macNchz 2y ago
I really don't see this as a debunking of the idea that the cartel was set up primarily to increase profits among its members. The engineering tradeoffs make sense, but it doesn't follow that because of these tradeoffs, the comp
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by macNchz 2y ago
Well, without the cartel there could have presumably been bright white, 1000 hour bulbs on the shelf next to dim yellow 2500 hour bulbs, and people could have chosen accordingly. Additionally, the companies set up a whole compliance regime
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by macNchz 2y ago
I’m not convinced that the TVOC sensor included on consumer air quality monitors does much beyond give people anxiety. Maybe it’s useful if it prompts people to open their windows more often, but mine is so impacted by daily activity and su
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by macNchz 2y ago
In the same vein, I was thinking recently about how this ever increasing number of “abstraction layers” in the economy impacts day to day life and community–I think it’s much more likely someone would feel connected to their community and a
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by macNchz 2y ago
Right out of the gate the phrasing “pushed a routine re-acceptance of those terms” reads with a hint of user contempt, like “just click Accept damnit, it’s normal that there are updates, you’re not supposed to read them”. Ultimately what I’
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by macNchz 2y ago
It seems like this is in service of promoting some new competing methodology. I also can’t find any details on the research methods, but it seems like it may be relying on software engineers’ judgment of the success/failure of projects
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by macNchz 2y ago
These "Essential" tiers are bare bones instances for toys/mvps, they're much different than the bigger ones. No replication, 99.5% uptime target, no maintenance windows etc.
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by macNchz 2y ago
It has seemed strange to me that some nicer restaurants that seem to care for every other detail of the experience have held onto this as long as they have. Many QR menus are pretty terrible from a UX point of view regardless of whether it
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by macNchz 2y ago
Presumably it gives them a lot more flexibility in deciding who has to pay more. With published thresholds they’re less able to upsell someone just shy of the limit without publicly changing the tiers. Doing that has the potential to upset
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by macNchz 2y ago
I was very much this way in school, it worked out okay, but after graduation I did learn from experience that there is a big transition into the workplace around this: as a student deadlines are basically immutable, and your professor doesn
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by macNchz 2y ago
Two thirds of those recipients are not actually expected to work at all, being too old/young or otherwise excused: https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/snap-provides-... .
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by macNchz 2y ago
The used car market has been pretty strange for the past few years. I’ve been considering replacing my car recently and finding the discount for buying used is way less than it was before the pandemic. I’m seeing some five year old models l
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by macNchz 2y ago
> Have a steak once a month vs once a week (etc). I went this direction slowly over time, originally because I didn’t want to support what I see as being an incredibly inhumane animal agriculture system, but now I’ve found I get a lot mo
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by macNchz 2y ago
There’s some overlap as well–I recently had an extended visit in my rural hometown, working by a window overlooking the main street. Something I noticed quickly was that a huge proportion of passing vehicles that happened to be loud enough
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by macNchz 2y ago
I built a service using LISTEN/NOTIFY a while ago, but the fact that Postgres will instantly drop all messages to a given channel if there are no registered listeners made me nervous. This felt like a big caveat to me, taking what coul
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by macNchz 2y ago
In my experience having worked in coffee shops, restaurants and bars, there is a considerable overlap between the people asking for something off-menu that nobody has ever asked for, and the people who will never be satisfied with their ord
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by macNchz 2y ago
I listened to this episode when it first came out, and what stuck with me was the discussion with a doctor who contrasts a weekend warrior who runs a ton, has a high stress job, little kids, and gets very little sleep with an Olympic athlet
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by macNchz 3y ago
I’ve owned a car in Brooklyn for more than 10 years and find it basically nonfunctional to drive in a lot of Manhattan and surroundings. The idea of driving in for dinner from NJ makes my skin crawl. I have family in NJ and Manhattan, and g
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by macNchz 3y ago
In NYC, the overwhelming majority of low-income workers commute by public transit.
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by macNchz 3y ago
> Sure, but is a low quality life worse than oblivion? In my opinion having had a firsthand view of what life with major illness, disability, and suffering can be like, absolutely yes. For an excellent dive into this topic, I highly reco
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by macNchz 3y ago
Such a huge percentage of people these days live in urban sprawl with so much light pollution they can barely see any stars at all, so it makes sense there isn’t much backlash. Taking people who’ve spent their entire lives in populated area
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by macNchz 3y ago
I think there is a gap in awareness of this depending on where people live. My rural hometown has frequent power outages, so many people have backup generators to at least keep the furnace running. The town got popular with city people goin
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by macNchz 3y ago
I think it varies manufacturer to manufacturer, but even those that make it possible seemingly make you jump through hoops. I was researching potential replacements for my 16 year old car and found a lot of discussion about this re Mazda mo
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by macNchz 3y ago
Reminds me of this tool I used 20 years ago to generate giant halftone posters for my dorm room walls: https://rasterbator.net/
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by macNchz 3y ago
The throttling can be problematic when you’re doing all of those things plus attempting to screen share on a video call, in my experience.
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by macNchz 3y ago
A component of this is fear of liability in a highly-litigious environment. Nobody wants to be the one who told someone to wait and see instead of going to the ER, only to have the person wind up dying or suffering serious harm. This is fur

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