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by n8cpdx 5y ago
The one area where it's still relevant is disaster response, but even that is questionable. Here in Portland, the city puts a lot of effort into emergency preparedness and getting people trained on radio, but the vast majority of peopl
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Specifically all the issues I raised apply in an American city that is relatively good for biking. The bike lanes are still on the road, and drivers still swerve into them, so I want heads up on that. Its also physically difficult to get co
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I had a brief stint as a bike owner and the whole culture around it is maddening. If I want a car, I go to a dealership and I can find a bunch of packages and customizations and there's a dealer to help. The cars have all sorts of tech
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
This doesn't make sense. There are loads of people (myself included) who are intrinsically motivated to do good work. And not just in the tech industry. Look at all the volunteer opportunities, unpajd city boards, etc that people get t
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Not completely true. Historically mass media was regulated. Lying also isn't legally protected if it causes injury (fire in a crowded theater being the canonical example, libel another). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I hope so. I got the 4 because I needed a cheap temporary replacement and only pixel is supported by graphene. I guess the risk is that google does something funky to prevent forks from working or taking advantage of the custom silicon. Com
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Came here to say this. Seeing the horrible toll that even a small amount of drinking does is a powerful motivator. Even with just Fitbit, RHR was a clear signal. WHOOP makes it clearer. Biofeedback is underrated. I have foregone many drinks
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
GrapheneOS. A degree of slowness might be the extra security hardening. Not an excuse, because, aside from the built-in spyware, iOS is just as locked down, if not more so.
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Ah that makes sense. I think I'm on a hairpin trigger about people saying Qualcomm chips are fast enough for consumers. Mostly because I'm frustrated and upset by their chips every single day. But I'm not a Qualcomm customer,
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
> Qualcomm dominates at radios, which matters far more than single-core CPU performance. that is nonsense. I switched from iPhone to a Pixel 4 post-CSAM scandal and the difference is night and day. My phone now makes me wait. Every singl
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
One aspect of C# async/await I don't ever see talked about is the ecosystem integration. Async/await was delivered after the popular .NET UI frameworks (WPF, UWP) were designed, and it shows. Trying to work with data bindings
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
> The intrinsic value of an artwork comes from human > human communication So you're saying art is a tool? Is art not shared not art?
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I pity your profound lack of self awareness. Take every criticism of MCU here (which I am not defending) and it applies just as well to one bit of art or another. The difference is the art house filmmaker either is lying to himself and the
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Maybe I'm too much of a nerd, but I think quality can, in general, be defined and measured. I get that you don't like the genera of action films, and that's fine. But there are moments of the film between the laser beams firi
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I think the stupidity lives in your point of view here. "Old x was better because it was sophisticated, new x is not because blah blah blah" is a story as old as time. The observable fact that you are either unaware of recent hist
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
> I’d much rather be an elitist than go through life thinking comic books are the height of human expression. Perhaps I'm too much of a child to understand your point, but this seems like a straw man. I think the original contention
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Do you have evidence that they have lowered tbe quality of cinema across the board? I see a studio that consistently produces content with excellent visual quality, excellent audio quality, consistently high quality acting, decent plot twis
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
This article doesn't cover _how_ marvel was able to be successful for so long. This article from HBR does, and I think is particularly insightful: https://hbr.org/2019/07/marvels-blockbuster-machine They hav
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Can you explain how wealth status of renters affects the competence of corporate landlords? FWIW, I've also had nothing but good experiences in corporate-owned/managed housing.
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Do you try giving more examples? I find it usually only takes a few corrections to get it right. You can turn it off if you don't like it. https://superuser.com/questions/766967/how-can-i-turn-off-fl...
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Imagine going so far out of your way to buy software from a vendor that clearly has so much disdain for it's users. Gross.
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I think there's a degree of denial. I remember walking up to an engineer on the WinUI team at Build (can't remember if 2018 or 2019) and they were _shocked_ that I had complaints about UWP. They seemed to think it was a revelation
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
There are many ways to solve any problem. If I reviewed every PR with the standard "is this exactly how I would have done it", I too would be destroying every PR I review. And I'm not even that good at coding - I'm the t
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
*all of the people who switched to Android _in protest of Apple's new CSAM system_
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
It just seems really weird to assume that switching to Android involves switching to Google services. There were weeks of threads with people discussing which version of Android (Calyx vs graphene, etc) they were going to switch to.
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
*unless one of the iOS updates surreptitiously re-enabled "upload to Apple servers" as they are notorious for doing...
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
How trustworthy are these VPN services? I use them because it's the best I can do, but I'm very suspicious. I would think the NSA is misappropriating my tax dollars if they hadn't compromised all of the VPN providers years ag
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
The existing GOES series of satellites produces amazing imagery. I'm not enough of a weather/climate nerd to appreciate all of it, but I am a bit of an imagery nerd and the geocolor images never stop being stunning. https:/&
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
primary source documents are one of the most powerful ways to understand an event and the impact it had. I'm almost in my 30s and I barely remember 9/11. Most kids today, live in a world (for Americans at least) that was profoundl
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Completely agree with everything you've said. I think I've divorced housing prices from the concept of inflation because I spend so much time thinking about the underlying causes (zoning, NIMBY's, environmental reviews, etc).

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