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by mikestew 7mo ago
That being said, AirPods use a steel frame construction to get the weight up for the same reason. Noting that you have no way of knowing that. Not that you’re necessarily wrong. I just read some reviews on the Beats Studio Pros and…the re
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by mikestew 7mo ago
You’re thinking of Beats. And you’re still wrong because the Beats were knock-offs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403183
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by mikestew 7mo ago
Had you linked to the original source, you’d know that the headphones were counterfeits. https://beneinstein.com/how-it-s-made-series-beats-by-dre-15...
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by mikestew 7mo ago
I wish I could report success, but I can’t find it streaming. Amazon will sell me the DVD for $6, but I don’t know if I wanted to get that invested. I may have to hoist the sails…
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by mikestew 7mo ago
I read the plot and noped out on that one, until I read the cast list. Paul Giamatti? Fine, it goes on the list for tonight. If for no other reason than to find out what the hell he’s doing in something like that.
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by mikestew 8mo ago
https://archive.is/iVoy4
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by mikestew 8mo ago
Because it's a spam account, go look at comment history.
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by mikestew 8mo ago
Well I could say that it isn't enough for vscode alone. And I'd be right. It all depends on how and what you use vscode for. Fair enough; though experience says 8Gb will run VScode, it would very much depend on the use case, I a
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by mikestew 8mo ago
It really isn't. …in reply to someone who just said their experience is fine, and included details. If you just want to rant about Apple, have at it, but you’re going to have to do better than “nuh, uh” if you want to be convincing.
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by mikestew 8mo ago
If you are implying that the two are contradictory, allow me to introduce you to annuities.
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by mikestew 8mo ago
Everyone I knew working as a bank teller quit because the actual job is screwing over old people with bad performing and long lasting investments. That’s not a bank teller’s job, at least not in the U. S. You’re confusing that job with so
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by mikestew 8mo ago
Obligatory: “but they can run Ethernet over HDMI!” Ignoring, of course, that no implementation has ever been observed in the wild, for purposes malicious or otherwise.
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by mikestew 8mo ago
Please don't call people chuckleheads while licking a boot of a single corporation. C'mon, you can make a better counter-argument than that. People can prefer what they like as far as I'm concerned, but poorly-thought argum
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by mikestew 8mo ago
You can buy a Magic Trackpad and pair it with your Thinkpad no problem. Yeah, that works great on the bus. It's one more thing to tote around to meetings, but hey, at least I didn't have to buy a MacBook! Or I could just buy a M
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by mikestew 8mo ago
You can spend $400 on a laptop and have a perfectly fine experience. Again, the trackpad will suck and the screen will be a dim, binned display panel, etc. If that works for you, fine, but that's not the conversation. The conversatio
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by mikestew 8mo ago
And unless you looked it up, you'd never noticed the difference (save comparing the two side-by-side). Whereas the cheap laptop requires one to know the difference so you can get the right driver, or other jackery because your WiFi car
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by mikestew 8mo ago
Then the OS is full of ads and pre-installed garbage “gaming-optimization-tool” or driver tools taking up 99% of a single core while being riddled with security holes. But inevitably, some chucklehead comes along "wut? I can get <
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by mikestew 8mo ago
The part you came for: “The loans that have been devalued are to software companies, which are seen as particularly vulnerable to the onset of AI.”
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by mikestew 8mo ago
And then finally…GNU 720 AssistantDriver. (Tip of the hat to Microsoft’s marketing teams.)
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by mikestew 8mo ago
What's your counterargument to this statement? Don’t need one, it’s an opinion piece, with plenty of facts to back it up. You’ve proposed solutions that don’t yet exist. When those solutions are viable, maybe it’s not such a bad idea
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by mikestew 8mo ago
…even though hijackings regularly happened Maybe in the 70s, but that pretty much stopped with advent of metal detectors. And the hijackers had guns , not knives. Before 9/11 I carried a pocket knife on every flight I took. Regardle
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by mikestew 8mo ago
I dunno, look at the numbers in TFA. TFA is a bit lengthy, but worth the read. I think Compaq bought Digital in good faith, even if it went poorly. Whereas even an idiot like me can look at those numbers (in summary, you could buy Disney fo
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by mikestew 8mo ago
So just get rid of TSA and have no security? No one suggested that. What do you think we did 30 years ago (look it up if you have to)? That, and locked cockpit doors: what value-add is TSA over procedures from 30 years ago?
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by mikestew 8mo ago
TFA concluded no such thing from my reading: “As far as human space travel goes, it’s probably best that it stays in the realm of science fiction, at least for the foreseeable future.” And no arguments for that conclusion? C’mon: radiation,
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by mikestew 8mo ago
Could be, the company behind the website would like to sell you an industrial CT scanner.
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by mikestew 8mo ago
Would a battery heating up just a bit help make that comfortable for me? In something ring-sized? Maybe for about five minutes, and then the battery dies. (I assume you mean using resistive elements to create heat; heating the actual batt
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by mikestew 8mo ago
Some mistakenly documented it as an application, and not a game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC-20#Applications (First sentence.)
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by mikestew 8mo ago
I’m sure there’s the small issue of radiological safety as well. Obviously one can be trained to not fry yourself with x-rays, but I wouldn’t, say, pick one up off Aliexpress and have at it.
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by mikestew 8mo ago
TFA made some good arguments to support their case, including observations from the space travel we have “tried”. I’m interested to hear your counter-arguments that are more detailed than “nuh, uh!”
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by mikestew 8mo ago
The very same people who would be flagging that comment wouldn't bat an eye at saying they won't read or support anything by folks like… First off, you might be right for some small number of cases, but I’d flag any and all rant

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