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by prewett 3y ago
The success of the iPhone was not due to a price anchoring effect. Sure, if you just wanted to make calls the iPhone was (is) rather expensive. But they were really selling a computer in your pocket, which among other things could browse th
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by prewett 3y ago
I've always heard "careened", is "careered" a British usage? Regarding fatalism/truth, my thinking was that if you're "filled with vast hope that truth is on the march" because youth have no hope
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by prewett 3y ago
I think it is always correct to run away from something 100 times bigger than you!
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by prewett 3y ago
> What is a "career" (other than path that is out of ones control)? Why would a career be out of your control? You control what skills you learn, what companies/projects you apply to. Sure, you're not in control of wh
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by prewett 3y ago
I’m really tired of “art” needing to have an edgy message. All this messagey art doesn’t have the one quality I want in art: beauty. Why can’t art celebrate the good and beautiful in the world? What value does focusing on all the ugly stuff
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by prewett 3y ago
Yes, sure this time it is different!
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by prewett 3y ago
Despite what EMT fundamentalists will tell you, the stock market is only loosely correlated with fundamentals and 100 pts is nothing. Besides, there's no reason a company's profit _must_ decline during a downturn: for example, if
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by prewett 3y ago
This isn't capitalism, it's human nature.
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by prewett 3y ago
This is pretty normal for the start of a downturn. There's probably a bunch of forced vacation going on (or will be), too. I remember a lot of that from the healthier companies in the 2002 time frame and a friend of mine at a more hard
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by prewett 3y ago
Apple's 22 hr rating for the 16" MBP is a maximum for a niche task, it's only (up to) 15 hrs of "wireless web", which is a more typical usage and would only be about 12 hrs worse. All that configurability of the Fra
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by prewett 3y ago
That sounds like saying that that Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel paintings are nothing special in terms of information science; they just unusually have an unusually high entropy content. Technically true in both cases, but if physics
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by prewett 3y ago
The article was interesting, but wow, reading that page used up 20% of my battery and required a reboot stop whatever it was causing excessive lag throughout the OS. I’ve noticed news sites are basically unusable on mobile. Sure I’m using a
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by prewett 3y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I am turned off by the grey. I've seen some apartments that I might have considered renting except that everything was grey. I wouldn't buy a house with a bunch of grey floorin
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by prewett 3y ago
I expect it's the same way civilization coped with all the housewifes that automated their job with household machines in the 1960s, and all the jobs for computers (the people) that got replaced by calculators and digital computers, an
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by prewett 3y ago
The problem with society is that people are willing to sacrifice the good of others in order to gain something for themselves. They also tend to lie to themselves and/or are oblivious to it. The problem is within us; better intelligenc
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by prewett 3y ago
Traditionally a company with too much money returns it to the shareholders as dividends, but that seems to be passé...
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by prewett 3y ago
Steve Jobs was a control freak, a narcissist (for at least his early years), colluded to drive software developer wages down, and treated his adopted(?) daughter poorly, yet we don't seem to need to talk about that every time his name
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by prewett 3y ago
I read "STEM shortage" as "shortage of excellent software developers". The STEM shortage was after my time in uni, but what jobs actually need physics? I studied physics, too, and as far as I could tell my options were g
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by prewett 3y ago
I talked to a guy in vaccine research after the pandemic and asked him why it went was produced so fast. He said that basically we'd already done years of RNA vaccine research but it hadn't been applied yet. We had the solution al
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by prewett 3y ago
That sounds like how Star Market does things: everything is overpriced by a dollar compared to normal grocery stores (which unfortunately are a thirty minute drive from me), but they have rotating “sales” that are $1.00 off. I absolutely ha
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by prewett 3y ago
I think the increase in depression is due more towards the increasing isolation in our (American) society, and not so much stress. I moved to a new city a few years ago, and between living alone, working remotely, the pandemic causing many
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by prewett 3y ago
> strange choice for the robot keyboard There's probably a lot more Christians talking about Calvary than there are military historians talking about an obsolete horse unit. Although it does seem like if it's uncapitalized it&#
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by prewett 3y ago
The 2.5% profit margin, 94% dividend payout ratio, and 125% debt-to-equity ratio really don't inspire confidence in me as a consumer, either. And a meaningless statement like that makes me think things are not going to turn around anyt
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by prewett 3y ago
If I recall correctly, NTFS updates a file's access time (or some such) every time anything happens to it, so by default Windows' file I/O is slow. (Antivirus, of course, will not be helping that.) Once upon a time you could
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by prewett 3y ago
I haven't used the full-time page, but I had a fantastic experience with a client that found me via the freelancer page a couple months after I posted.
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by prewett 3y ago
There's one north of Boston [1] that I accidentally found walking one time. Turns out I remembered it from a HN posting some years ago. I'd already walked some 3 mi or so by the time I walked across Neptune, so couldn't go al
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by prewett 3y ago
Dear ImGUI is just retained mode under the hood, with the name of the widget acting as the index. The API presents immediate mode, but it isn't really. If a "good" immediate mode API just hides all the state under the hood, t
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by prewett 3y ago
HTML was designed for documents, which it does adequately. But for an actual UI, you need to be able to position things easily. HTML/CSS just has all these gotchas all over the place because the defaults are just unsuitable for UI. If
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by prewett 3y ago
I'd think that a cola recipe ought to at least have cola-nut extract, which this recipe does not.
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by prewett 3y ago
Sadly, both have to be willing to forgive for option 3 to work, so even if one side would be willing to, they are stuck unless the other side is also willing.

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