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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I first learned about this through Twenty Thousand Hertz, a great podcast about sound that I highly recommend. I don’t think about sound very often, so I find I learn a lot from every episode. https://www.20k.org/
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
If a bank gets hacked, they can work out an arrangement with their partners to undo it, because the T-word is involved. If someone steals from my credit account, I Trust my financial institution to undo it. Trustless systems are overrated w
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
As someone dating in their 20s, it is getting hard to find people who aren’t having SSRI-related dysfunction. Recently met an older (early 30s guy) and it was seriously cool having a sexual experience that didn’t end with “don’t bother I’m
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
It doesn’t cause permanent long term sexual dysfunction, and all the 2nd order effects that entails.
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Do people still use wired headphones on the go? It’s been a while since I’ve seen any. You can get decent Bluetooth wireless headphones for ~$20 now. I remember spending $10 every few months when I was using wired headphones back in the day
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
See, this is _exactly_ why the government doesn’t need to step in to break the market. Running a large online store is hard! Harder than running a small local business. Amazon.com has a giant fraud target painted on its back. Local stores c
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
It’s nothing about American pride. Did any of those advantages exist before Amazon was massive? Or did Amazon become massive because it was providing better service? Online ordering is complicated for Amazon because Amazon is massive. It is
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
> Amazon is using its economies of scale to drive out smaller businesses. It is not unique in that. But the industries that Amazon affects may be unique to the nations that wish to preserve them. Another way of phrasing that: France’s lo
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I disagree with some of that. Amazon pays very well. I hear good things from workers through the grapevine, it’s just that doesn’t make a good tech story. They let me live car free and they make a whole world of options available to consume
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Specifically Facebook comes to mind. They claim they need to use algorithms for maximum engagement, which is probably true. I still think they would be fine if they just made the news feed chronological (I remember when it more or less work
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I just had an old acquaintance on the Azure team try to get me to apply at Microsoft. I told him I can’t, because all the teams at Microsoft I’d want to work (particularly Windows) are suffering from poor management with user- and human-ho
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
My experience is that people (including myself) are much more analytical about video and photo than they are when seeing in person. I notice every wrinkle and blemish in video, but do not perceive them IRL. In this way, I think the touch up
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
There are a few scenarios where it breaks. UWP and Xamarin is dicey. Ironically, it hasn’t been able to edit android layouts involving ConstraintLayout and a few other common layouts/views for a few releases now (ironic because they al
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
If a cop beats the shit out of you for no reason, on camera, against policy and in violation of constitutional rights and doesn’t get fired; you can thank the union. When the city bureaucracy cant’t process your permit application without a
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I see how poorly public sector works with public sector unions (especially police, but also city government generally) and I wonder if private unions won’t be just as bad for organizations. Private companies do a lot of the work to enable m
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
That’s certainly part of the advantage, but I always wonder about the geography here. Amazon and Microsoft are both headquartered in Seattle (technically Redmond for MS, but it’s only a short drive). I imagine there’s a lot of cross pollina
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Test was closed all apps, launched Firefox, and waited for it to complete loading news.ycombinator.com. iPhone and pixel were on the same network. Just showing the app filling the viewport isn’t fair because iOS and android handle splash sc
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Students and kids with chrome books - a huge amount of middle and high school students in the US. Students who Microsoft would like to grow up thinking software development = Visual Studio.
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Very cool stuff. I remember being at Build 2018 and asking the PM on the Live Share team if they had any plans to bring VS Code to the browser. Maybe do managed environments for labs and companies (what GitHub code spaces now is), would be
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Quality of the basics matters. Folks like to say they don’t need a fast processor, because all they do is browse the web. If you open the messages app and browser 50x per day (which seems like a conservative estimate) and load the maps app
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
If they go plastic back, it looks and feels cheap. If they go metal, wireless charging breaks. I guess they could do alcantara or something. Tough spot to be in. FWIW, the iPhone mini at least fits in my hand, so they get bonus points regar
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
That sounds somewhat unusual, but side effects are a very individual thing. It might be you can't get a low enougb dose for your child. I'm a full, rather large adult, and I only need abouy 5-10mg of ritalin, and going above that
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Can't edit my comment but thanks for pointing this out. For anyone not wanting to watch the video, apparently this release includes trackpad multitouch support comparable to elementary. It looks like Ubuntu is now comparable to Element
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
If you want to use a multitouch trackpad fluently, Elementary is is the only game in town. It has macOS-level support which is pretty cool.
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I'm with you. It is really hard. First big wake up call was Brexit and the election of DJT. Are my countrymen really willing to shit on dedicated public servants and throw away the foundation of our remarkably safe and prosperous world
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Pixel 4 running graphene. I'm sure it's fine by android standards, but if you're used to iOS, it is unbearable. Going back to iPhone as soon as I've got some free time to get everything set up again. Unrelated, but I&#x2
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
They fired all their SDETs ~2014, and the decline in quality since then has been very noticeable. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-layoffs-operating-sy... There's lots of criticism about how that role was s
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Both ArcGIS Platform and Mapbox make this quite easy. Not fully open, but you get what you pay for. ArcGIS at least makes data import and export easy, and comes with a generous free tier
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Are programs to organize volunteers to help with radio communications a bad idea? We have AROs and ARES and it seemed reasonable. https://www.portlandoregon.gov/pbem/article/563294 https://www.multnomah
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Economies of scale like the dozens of radios that are within feet of my body right now. Economies of scale like smartphones so cheap that almost every single person over the age of 10 has one, including homeless people. Economies of scale l

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