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by rootusrootus 7d ago
> making a clicking noise with your tongue or something I still do that today, and it works better than pspspspsps. When I was young, if my cat was outside on the porch I could click my tongue and he'd come running from a half bloc
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
Many years ago I met someone who had trained his two housecats to guard the house (I am not sure what that entails). He also had two great big dogs similarly trained. For my safety he would not let any of the animals near me when I visite
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by rootusrootus 7d ago
> It just seems like US citizens think those charades are normal and don't question them. In my home country I can just deny getting my devices searched What home country is that? Some places (UK I think is one) have less protectio
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by rootusrootus 10d ago
I think the future of gas prices looks ... interesting. In the short term we have the war jacking the price up, but in the medium term the increasing popularity of EVs pushes down demand and along with it prices. For a time. Until we sta
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by rootusrootus 11d ago
> Adams is no longer Indeed.
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by rootusrootus 11d ago
Just tried this on iOS 27 and both blu and blue showed me bluetooth settings. I saw someone in a different thread of this discussion mention resetting dictionaries helping with autocorrect, I wonder if there is something that would apply t
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by rootusrootus 12d ago
And expletives. If I want to say fuck, that's my business, I don't need my phone refusing to allow it. If not for how embedded I am right now in the ecosystem, this keyboard & vocabulary behavior they force on me might be en
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by rootusrootus 12d ago
I agree. The sales pitch on metal roofs is that they last twice as long as shingles, but the reality has not matched that promise. If I were replacing a leaking metal roof that cost me twice what a shingle roof would have cost, and it has
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by rootusrootus 12d ago
> Stop using bricks is an idea I would guess that happened a long time ago and the vast, vast majority of what looks like brick houses today are facades. Does anyone want a real brick house these days?
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by rootusrootus 12d ago
Are there really many parallels between a car and a house? The car is considerably more complex with dramatically less variation between builds. It is not like homes are constructed from raw materials, either, lots of the pieces are built
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by rootusrootus 12d ago
IIRC the cost of a stick built home is only ~15% higher than an equivalent manufactured home, but by building on site you have more flexibility for custom layouts and other choices which fit the local environment better. A modern home buil
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by rootusrootus 12d ago
> The only reason I can think of that houses don’t usually have metal roofs is because they cost at least double, if not triple Also noise, if you live somewhere with a lot of rain. I wonder if the longevity argument really holds, too.
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by rootusrootus 14d ago
An alternative example would be Apple & the Mini 12 & 13. They made money on those, too, but here we are.
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
Some cars have gone so far on the isolation and sound damping front that they pipe back in a little bit of engine noise (but only the part that sounds sporty) via the speakers.
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
There's only so much you can do. A car is filled with funny angles, plastics, and a lot of glass. It's never going to be a particularly good acoustic environment even if you manage to shield 100% of the road noise.
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
Whenever I think about light speed being fast, I imagine myself standing at the edge of the solar system and watching a hypothetical photon travel from the Sun to the Earth and taking 8 minutes. Suddenly it doesn't feel like light is
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
> They're bouncing off the interior walls of it at like a 45 degree angle billions/trillions of times before it reaches the other end of the cable At the risk of exposing how little I remember from physics, doesn't light i
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
> I don't know that the Ghibli makes the point you want to make. What point do you think I was trying to make? ivraatiems compared what he paid for a used iPhone on eBay to a new iPhone four years newer, and then said this was an a
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
> Even Iran has a better payment infra than the US. That is a big claim. What would prevent someone from setting up something equally as good in the US, aside from the network effect and users unwilling to try something new for uncertai
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
This is where you find out which banks suck, and which do not. I will say that while USAA is a long ways from perfect, when someone swiped my wife's debit card and took $5000 from our checking account, they put that money back within
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
It is interesting the breadth of experiences in this regard. I pay basically everything on my card, to the tune of 5-6 grand a month, including utilities. The only time I have ever seen a surcharge is for things like contractors doing wor
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
There is some nuance there. Cash is hardly free to process, and I have seen arguments that it is not far from the same overhead as credit card fees. So people who pay in cash are not subsidizing credit card users. Maybe it could be argue
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
Many of us use it exactly that way, though the rewards (in my personal experience) are immediate as soon as a transaction clears and not yearly. Carrying a revolving balance is a quick way to spiral into bankruptcy because the rates are so
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
> has the purpose of taking money from the poor and giving them to the rich Are you saying it is intentional ? Is it not more simply explained as simple greed by two companies colluding to keep competitors out of their market?
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
I hope they're wrong, I need to squeeze out 6 years for this career. Fortunately I work for a big stodgy old company whose idea of fast tech adoption is measured in years anyway.
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
I use it informally as a metric for whether there is anything meaningfully bad that I should be aware of. If this is what people bitch about, then probably the product is mostly pretty good.
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
> This $2,000 phone does not seem 8 times better than my $250 phone. Well lets adjust the comparison you just made, then. > A $10,000 car and a $80,000 car are going to be markedly different. I can buy a Maserati Ghibli for under $10K
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
People like to complain about the GPS but I use it when running and it'll easily show me what side of the path I was on at any given point. And the path distance matches precisely with other sources of truth. Maybe there was a time w
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
First the complaint is that steps are not on the watch face. Then the complaint moves to it not being part of Apple's built-in complications. It seems more like nitpicking just to be contrary. The data is there and easily accessed f
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by rootusrootus 16d ago
> do you know want to argue that united states of america takes good care of its people I'm not downvoting you, but perhaps the people who are are taking issue with cherrypicking examples, which are well known for a reason -- they a

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