nerflad

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   by nerflad 10y ago

   A friend of mine is a Brand Ambassador for AARP and they are working to reverse this exact perception. She teaches "technology" classes -- basically, how to use a tablet/smartphone -- to seniors.
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   by nerflad 10y ago

   I agree. I interpreted GTA V as a bitter satire of American society and culture, set in a technologically marvelous video game (which is pretty 'meta').
3. 183.▲
   by nerflad 10y ago

   Wow, that's almost exactly what I'm looking for! A bit spendy, but seems worth it.
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   by nerflad 10y ago

   Look, I'm sure the macOS implementation of ACPI is great. I said "I GUESS ACPI is a mess", because most implementations I've used (and I've only used it; I know nothing low-level about it at all) have had some probl
5. 185.▲
   by nerflad 10y ago

   Congrats! Cool bag -- GoRuck is based in my hometown. Honestly had no idea they were shipping bags all over the world.
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   Ask HN: Do you carry a backpack? Which one?

   69 points by nerflad 10y ago|135 comments
7. 187.▲
   by nerflad 10y ago

   Good for you. I've never owned a MBP, and this thread is about switching from Debian to FreeBSD.
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   by nerflad 10y ago

   Yeah there's a massive difference between the Haswell i7 (2015) in my workstation at home and the Sandy Bridge i7 (2011) in my workstation at the office. The old CPU's sharing a name with the new CPU's makes them sound like t
9. 189.▲
   by nerflad 10y ago

   > Based on just "3GHz core i7", a chip could either be painfully out of date or current top of the line. This has always bothered me too. I suspect that the ambiguity is intentional on the part of Intel and/or Apple marke
10. 190.▲
    by nerflad 10y ago

    Does this count as Full Disclosure?
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    by nerflad 10y ago

    In my experience, you're also rolling the dice when you suspend Linux. My x99 workstation, z77 workstation, and XPS 13 have all failed to resume before. But Windows has done the same. I guess ACPI is a mess.
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    by nerflad 10y ago

    For those commenting about open-source: check out the zip archive[0] provided by the author. This project appears to be about a decade old; those files have modified dates of 2007/2008 (& perhaps the post title should reflect this
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    by nerflad 10y ago

    That is the norm in the Southern cities I've been to -- especially Jacksonville (my home). Hell, even in Atlanta, a relatively well-integrated city, the backronym meaning for MARTA[0] has existed practically since it began. [0]: http
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    by nerflad 10y ago

    Cool -- I didn't even consider the shape of the waveforms (sine-like for flute, saw/square-like for anything distorted) having an effect on the data, but now that you tell me... duh!
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    by nerflad 10y ago

    I'm assuming this is due to the lower average signal level of symphonic recordings? Rock music is mastered closer to 0db due to the well-publicized loudness war. Obviously, this doesn't affect bandwidth in uncompressed audio, whe
16. 196.▲
    by nerflad 10y ago

    > I am not a gazillionaire; Haha, I couldn't have been the only one thinking the majority stake probably cost less than one of the cameras.
17. 197.▲
    by nerflad 10y ago

    Good lord.
18. 198.▲
    by nerflad 10y ago

    Agree -- people are missing the point that this stuff would easily take over an hour to do manually in the GUI.
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    by nerflad 10y ago

    It isn't perfect by any stretch, but I've been liking my XPS 13. The battery is especially noteworthy.