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31.
by pbreit 7mo ago
No. And multi-resident dorm rooms much less so.
32.
by pbreit 7mo ago
Very small percentage of students (the primary audience) are touch typists.
33.
by pbreit 7mo ago
It's a show-stopper for the main audience: students.
34.
by pbreit 7mo ago
I would say the vast, vast majority of people are completely unable to use a non-lit keyboard in the dark.
35.
by pbreit 7mo ago
Can't see the keys in a dark classroom or bedroom.
36.
by pbreit 7mo ago
I would say Malco is not Apple and I have no idea what a vice grip is.
37.
by pbreit 7mo ago
I'd go further and suggest that metal is a lousy substance for laptop enclosures.
38.
by pbreit 7mo ago
I would say "No keyboard backlighting" is a true show-stopper for a huge portion of the target audience (students).
39.
by pbreit 7mo ago
"No keyboard backlighting" is a show-stopper. Nuts.
40.
by pbreit 7mo ago
I think this could stick. The supply chain competence needs to get built in the USA.
41.
by pbreit 8mo ago
Why is this getting downvoted? It's good faith and probably more accurate than not.
42.
by pbreit 8mo ago
All of driving is designed for visual.
43.
by pbreit 8mo ago
How well does PG work with 10-20 million (financial) records per day? Basic stuff: a few writes per, some reads, generating some analytics, etc.
44.
by pbreit 8mo ago
Does that label have much impact on anything? Does it paralyze human nature?
45.
by pbreit 8mo ago
So it's mainly a nationalism thing? Is that enough to displace the superior option?
46.
by pbreit 8mo ago
The merchant/processor/issuer network with all the correct incentives is (nearly) impossible to replicate. Visa and Mastercard work more or less, perfectly. The only entities that need/want "instant, non-recourse payment
47.
by pbreit 8mo ago
How is that better than a card payment? Cards are accepted by far more merchants, have dispute rights, are inexpensive (in Europe) to process, supported by Apple & Google Pay, superior checkout experience, etc.
48.
by pbreit 8mo ago
Industry observer Dwayne Gefferie took a stab at it (although I'm still highly skeptical): https://dwaynegefferie.substack.com/p/epi-european-payments-...
49.
by pbreit 8mo ago
I always thought SMTP would make a good webhook delivery protocol.
50.
by pbreit 8mo ago
What was their original mission? My sense is that startup mission statements are ~meaningless. Builders try to build great things that lots of other people will find valuable.
51.
by pbreit 8mo ago
Smart, successful people offering products and services that lots of people want does not align with your politics? What are your politics?
52.
by pbreit 8mo ago
Why is that?
53.
by pbreit 8mo ago
The only reasonable argument I can think of is that the fantastic wealth accumulated at the top was substantially driven by the $37 trillion of debt the USA finds itself in. And it needs to be clawed back somehow.
54.
by pbreit 8mo ago
I much prefer Python but am not really seeing any point to doing anything other than JavaScript for web projects at this point. I also do not see much reason to do more than emit JSON on the server side.
55.
by pbreit 8mo ago
How long do they last?
56.
by pbreit 8mo ago
"Sign in to confirm your not a bot"...gone.
57.
by pbreit 8mo ago
Isn't it the opposite? Landing stress a sub-section of the runway while departures stress a larger portion? I'd be surprised that a heavier plane on takeoff exerts more force on the runway than a lighter plane landing. And as the
58.
by pbreit 9mo ago
Postgres is close.
59.
by pbreit 9mo ago
One good reason to avoid it is because you're probably wrong.
60.
by pbreit 9mo ago
Tour de force article...well done! (except the snow was highly distracting) Also absurd is that tabs and menus are not attached to their elements.

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