maxsilver

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by maxsilver 1y ago
> They don't have the competency to know what to reward. I'd even take this a bit further, and say this is basically an argument that the engineering manager, engineering/dept VP, and CTO all need to be engineers or past-e
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by maxsilver 1y ago
(as someone who was a WebOS fanatic back in the day, both as a day-one Palm Pre user, and as someone who bought a TouchPad) The launch was rough, but it wasn't as rough as it seemed. (Reviews were mostly promising, and positive leaning
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by maxsilver 1y ago
> The process is "cruel and unusual" when it's done to criminals but the same process is fine when you request it. Because consent matters. Many things work this way, they're wonderful or useful or helpful when you r
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by maxsilver 1y ago
I still use my old Kobo and love it. Works perfectly, despite being like 8 or 9 years old now. I've read dozens upon dozens of books on it, it still works like new, still syncs well, has multi-month-long battery life, is lightweight en
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by maxsilver 1y ago
Agreed. Stealing public WiFi spectrum for private LTE was always a terrible idea.
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by maxsilver 1y ago
> Stadiums are pretty much the only place where mmWave in phones makes sense. And Airports, and Parks, and Ampitheateaters, and Malls, and Theme Parks... mmWave isn't a general solution, sure. But mmWave is great for anywhere crowde
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by maxsilver 1y ago
"5G UW" is good service, but it's not usually mmWave. It's primarily mid-band stuff, usually Band n77 (3.7ghz C-Band) It's usually good, but that's primarily because Verizon is going a good-ish job (in Michigan
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by maxsilver 1y ago
> Games cost more to make but there is resistance from players to pay more It's a little bit more involved than that. Games don't have to cost much more to make, they just are due to declining quality of leadership and poor
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by maxsilver 1y ago
> So paying everyone living wages doesn’t really do anything to solve the problem because the products created by people who are paid living wages are by definition more expensive due to labor costs. They aren't though. In America,
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by maxsilver 1y ago
As someone who worked at a corporate-private-equity-owned Dollar store (but not DG, specifically), I highly doubt that's true. They "manage stock on demand" in that they count SKUs sold and replenish as needed / as the
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Are you sure? In the US, the Passport Card is pretty much exactly the same size as any US credit or debit card
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> Curious if any superfans think it would be better experienced as the original in an emulator or similar. (superfan checking in) -- I still believe the definitive release is the original `realMyst (2000)` (Sunsoft). https://a
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Not really (except hardcore fans, who already followed the 'after-trilogy' lore, and would have been happy with a continuation in a much cheaper format) But Warner Brothers itself wanted a big tentpole release, and insisted Matr
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> These services basically don't work with Western level wages. The economics are just not there. Only because the service is disrupting the business model for those wages. It worked well(ish) in 2019, it failed by 2022. It's n
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> I can't compare exactly but I feel like today the business pays more, the customer pays more, the drivers get paid less and it's all subsidized by investors to boot. Am I totally wrong on this? It is exactly that! Food delive
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> - if you are developer and don’t care about screen or battery differences - should you go for same spec macbook pro instead of same spec macbook air. If you are doing normal developer things, the MacBook Air is 100% fine. I use mine d
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> Nobody is erasing you Except they are. The US Federal Government is actively erasing this group of people from all official web presence. It's literally why this Chrome extension exists at all.
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> Transmitting high-end 4K video today requires 15 Mb/s, according to Netflix. It doesn't really change their argument, but to be fair, Netflix has some of the lowest picture quality of any major streaming service on the market
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by maxsilver 2y ago
My first thought was that it sounded kinda like "Structure gel" - https://soma.fandom.com/wiki/Structure_Gel
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Oh, I see. It seems they don't enforce this on tablets, which is what the kids are usually using.
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Is this true? We still use Disney+ on two (three) wifi networks across two households (same kid, just different wifi networks) and it still seems to work just fine.
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> but globally make up like 5% of PC sales. This may be true globally, but isn't necessarily reflective of actual market share for the markets targeted . If your startup is selling to people in say, United States, Canada, the Unit
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Yeah, this is also my experience. AT&T won't even build fiber home internet to urban/suburban residents that have existing fiber-to-the-node (original U-Verse) service -- places less than a mile away from functional resident
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by maxsilver 2y ago
It's weird how wildly different this statistic is, compared to real life observation. At least in the midwest, we have had a record-high number of kids for the last 10 years or so (so many more kids that new schools keep being built t
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by maxsilver 2y ago
"Introducing Windows 365 Universal Clipboard, ensure all of your random text/password/keys get uploaded to a cloud service, and your clipboard history preserved forever. Search your Windows clipboard history from your PC, pho
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> I don't like that Epic can one day announce the game just no longer works on that console, rendering your purchases null and void until you upgrade your hardware, but I can't expect them to update that version of the game fo
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> No one should be obligated to publish something they want to keep private, for whatever reason. That logic works fine for a single author. Totally agree. But it breaks down when a team of 200 people create a work, and 199 of them want
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by maxsilver 2y ago
It should be "20 years or whenever it's not commercially available, whichever comes first " Otherwise, we'll still see companies make stuff and kill it and sit on it for decades. (Often binning fully-finished releases w
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by maxsilver 2y ago
(we did a DIY addition build during COVID in the US in 2021) In Michigan, you are absolutely allowed to do your own build on your own land. It just has to pass code inspection, and it has to pass at every stage. (i.e., they want to inspect
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Part of the issue is that Minivans are really expensive , and parents with lots of kids tend to not have as much money as childless adults. for Cars and SUVs: - A Chevy Equinox starts at $28k MSRP. - A Toyota RAV4 starts at $29k MSRP. - A

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