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by prewett 5y ago
In my mind, "decent screen" is retina-quality display, which limits things. I doubt a cheap Chromebook will have one. The Chromebook Pixel has a 13" retina display option, but why not get an M1 Air and get all the functionali
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by prewett 5y ago
Historically network and graphics drivers (and maybe sound?), and sleep mode were the things to check for Linux support. These days, all three major graphics manufacturers have Linux drivers, and I haven't heard any problems with netwo
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by prewett 5y ago
I'm not the parent, but I've traveled around with an Intel NUC, which is only a little bigger than the RPi. I got a portable 15" 4k "gaming" screen for $300, and I have a half-width keyboard. I bought a photo box fr
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by prewett 5y ago
Buying a house is tying up money in an asset with a negative dividend (that is, you pay to own it): taxes + repairs. You don't really have any access to that money, unless you sell and move to a cheaper location. In expensive locations
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by prewett 5y ago
Delete forward is Fn + delete, Home is Fn + up. It's not a specific key, obviously, but all those keys don't fit on a laptop. However, if you plug in your own keyboard I'm sure they'll be recognized. My experience is tha
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by prewett 5y ago
/dev/full is brilliant, I need to remember that! On the other hand, it's kind of depressing that I can't even write to stdout without needing to check for errors. And what are you going to do if that fails? Write to stde
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by prewett 5y ago
According to LG's website, the only 27" 5k display actually on sale is $1300 (and it is out of stock), and it is not adjustable, does not have a 12 Mpx camera, and does not have fancy speakers. Given how impressive the 2018 MBP sp
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by prewett 5y ago
And it’s not even expensive, just $800k and they get a headline on Reuters.
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by prewett 5y ago
How are you going to do diplomacy when we know what Putin wants and it is unacceptable to all other parties? People keep lamenting why we have wars, well, this is why. Sometimes people are dead-set on taking your stuff by force. If you aren
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by prewett 5y ago
I've never been able to understand how matrices like 3D transformations relate back to the idea that a matrix represents a set of linear equations. What set of 4 equations are 3D matrices representing?
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by prewett 5y ago
Dear ImGUI keeps a bunch of state under the hood, based on the name of the object. It's not object-oriented, per se, but each object has its set of functions that operate on it, except that the object reference is not a pointer but a s
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by prewett 5y ago
gasoline -> gas at least has a certain logic to it, even though "gas" is unfortunately already a word that means something rather opposite. "Petrol" has always seemed strange to me, too, though, since nobody pumps bla
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by prewett 5y ago
It's not MacPaint without Fat Bits! And all those fill patterns... I remember using the brick pattern to make a wall and then spray-painting on it with the spray paint can. After that I kind of ran out of ideas on what to do.
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by prewett 5y ago
We're currently regretting that we've managed to increase the CO2 levels in our atmosphere to levels that may have substantial effects on climate. Some yokel-head environmentalist got linked to yesterday that we can get geothermal
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by prewett 5y ago
The chance of a nuclear encounter is always non-zero. There could always be someone who instead of shooting up a school or church decides to shoot up the world. Or someone sell a nuke to terrorist. If you want to talk probabilities, well,
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by prewett 5y ago
I think people paper over the dark side of human nature. Sometimes people do bad things not out of ignorance, but out of a desire to do bad things. It seemed pretty obvious to me that Putin was going to invade: you don't mass 200,000 t
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by prewett 5y ago
One of the subtle ways he didn't mention is that the words seem to use medium-frequency letters, so they aren't an obvious guess, but it isn't some word with no vowels or a bunch of z's, either. I did notice that after t
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by prewett 5y ago
Texas is 100+ for three months of the year, and Minneapolis had an average of about 10 degrees this January, with lows in the -10s, I believe. And I think Mississippi in the summer is probably pretty miserable, it's probably as close t
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by prewett 5y ago
A surprise massive bill can be worse than no solution at all, in my opinion. And if the easy path leads to massive-bill lock-in, that's also not very helpful. It's not like people didn't know how to run servers and remote sto
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by prewett 5y ago
I think the usual argument for expanding the money supply is that you want to target for a small amount of inflation (I think the Fed targets 2%) to avoid deflation, since the deflationary spiral is a huge problem. Also, historically popula
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by prewett 5y ago
People who have debt is the canonical set for whom deflation would be bad Including everyone who has a mortgage: your payments stay the same, but you earn less, so they take up a larger portion of your income. Naturally this can lead people
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by prewett 5y ago
> How far can a boring person with diversified interest go? Diversified interests sounds like the opposite of boring to me. > If one doesn't aim for excellence, is it a bad thing? It probably indicates that your actual interests
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by prewett 5y ago
Have you been to Hong Kong? (Not trying to be snarky) It's a got a great transportation system, very walkable, and you're never more than 30 minutes (by public transport) from over 100 miles of lush mountain hiking through the int
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by prewett 5y ago
I remember VMS on the VAX did this, it was a major pain in the neck, it was really easy to run out of disk space (although the quota on my account was 1 MB, which was somewhat small even in those days). But consider if this is really what y
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by prewett 5y ago
Is the Ridiculous Wash where you put in regular dish soap instead of dishwasher soap and the suds go all over the floor?
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by prewett 5y ago
Those old TVs had some serious usability issues, though. There were 10 (?) channels selectable by one knob, and then additional channels selected if the main knob was turned to the correct setting ("UHF", if I recall correctly). T
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by prewett 5y ago
I expect they at least heard stories from the good ol' days from their grandparents. Every so often you'd probably hear a reminiscence about some aspect of life that was easier, or some piece of technology that is no longer availa
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by prewett 5y ago
I found it tiring that she consistently dismisses the ancient sources as wrong without giving an reason why. Academics have been saying "well this <commonly believed thing from antiquity> can't possibly be true", and it
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by prewett 5y ago
I think the difference is what the effect is. If China or the US or whoever subsidizes its own industry, people complain but it's not a big deal. I've never really heard any complaints about any of China's state-owned enterpr
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by prewett 5y ago
It seems like the site has changed since 2001 or whenever I first saw it. My memory of it was that it was a lot more subtle: just a white screen with lavendar circles that faded in and out on the screen. I also don't remember the audio

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