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by sbf501 4y ago
For a month I traveled from Seville to Munich in 2019 and didn't need my phone at all. I bought food, tickets, took transit, etc. What I did NOT do was open a bank account. So do these banks issue you a phone if you don't have one
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by sbf501 4y ago
See my reply to a similar peer Q.
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by sbf501 4y ago
The "standards" are my favorites. There were a few outliers that I didn't expect. I'm predisposed to like anything "time travel": "Martian Time Slip" and it's analysis of autism (sci-fi autism) w
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by sbf501 4y ago
> I would characterise PKD's prose as workmanlike. That's a good way of putting it. I think a lot of his stuff was just published in a time when editors didn't do much, but also he was picked up by publishers who were push
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by sbf501 4y ago
I've read 45 of all 49 PKD novels on the Wikipedia page. It was a goal I set about 7 years ago. I tried to read the books in order, but had trouble finding some. His style goes from Twilight Zone / Amazing Stories, do thought-prov
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by sbf501 4y ago
What is the benefit of someone famous retweeting a nonfamous person? Bragging rights? Is that value? It seems to me more like a sign that someone needs to work on their internal self-validation mechanisms. Of course, most of the consumers o
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by sbf501 4y ago
2010's? Dude, I'm still in the 80's. I'm not some GenZ tiktok child who can't be with a screen for 10 seconds and thinks everything needs to be gamified. This dependency on phones is stupid. So I refuse to participa
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by sbf501 4y ago
+1 for hate it. I don't bring my phone with me everywhere I go. I don't want to. It's big, and awkward, and annoying. When it works, it is mediocre at best. When it doesn't work, it's a pain in the ass. Plus it mean
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by sbf501 4y ago
This is the true lifeblood of Twitter. I think if someone created Twitter for journalists, pundits, wonks, and politicians -ONLY- maybe it would be a place to go? Like something that requires a journalism credential, or a TV host, or an act
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by sbf501 4y ago
From the company that gave you "cars that crash themselves and hit kids on bikes" comes a review of software from a company that gave you "disinformation that can topple governments". What could possibly go wrong.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Thanks! I know a lot about a lot of things.
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by sbf501 4y ago
You didn't dispute my point that they still need another $1.2B/year. And even looking at their 10 past years (where 2020 was the highest income), it's still bleak. I don't know why you dissed my response, then gave an an
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by sbf501 4y ago
Super helpful response, random internet person!
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by sbf501 4y ago
What are you talking about? The MCU is the first thing to boot. Wait, do you not know what a bootloader is? It's not GRUB.
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by sbf501 4y ago
If they made $1B profit before counting the loan, they would spend that profit on the loan. Effectively the same concept: they need to revenue to clear operating expenses PLUS a $1B loan payment. In 2020 twitter had a net loss of $1.14B. Th
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by sbf501 4y ago
We know one thing: half of the $44B was loans that will cost Twitter around $1B per year, so it has to make some kind of profit. Otherwise who will pay?
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by sbf501 4y ago
When I used twitter a decade ago, I used TweetDeck, which used the API to post to twitter for me. So that would label me as a Bot just because I like a better UX/UI.
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by sbf501 4y ago
I'm gonna Karnak this and claim that nothing changes. He'll get bored and leave it to someone else, just like a lot of his abandoned projects, and in a year, we'll forget he owns it. Place yer bets.
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by sbf501 4y ago
That book is pretty amazing. I have it, and use it as a reference, but it is one of those things where you don't know if a trick exists until you've read about it, because many of the optimizations are completely non-intuitive. I&
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by sbf501 4y ago
Most of those aren't Cortex-A specific, you've just listed mostly peripherals that are typically initialized in the application space (except for a secure boot). E.g. you aren't going to go into power savings mode during boot
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by sbf501 4y ago
I'm still not over Wunderlist. How effing hard is it to make a shared to-do list that gets the basic UI features right? I'm looking at you, Apple.
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by sbf501 4y ago
iPhone user since 2009. I used Siri for about a month when it first came out because I really liked hearing a British man's voice said "SSSSHedule" to me instead of "skedule", but then I learned it was sending all a
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by sbf501 4y ago
How does it handle native libraries in non-main entry points?
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by sbf501 4y ago
Probably not. Lots of "critical" software is re-written frequently. I met the head of IT at Target during a presentation he gave on how they switched from PHP to NodeJS (~2012). I took a year to migrate the entire ERP solution to
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by sbf501 4y ago
For a lot of us, complaining is fun. It has a long tradition in human culture. A good kvetch lets off steam, especially when its a group kvetch.
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by sbf501 4y ago
I still use it as fast calculator. And sometimes it can convert units ... sometimes. That's it. I don't think it has EVERY found the file I'm looking for, but Windows search ain't much better. As someone who develops on
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by sbf501 4y ago
That's funny! I never really thought about WHEN it was adopted. I guess I just assumed every nerd sat around on Dec 31, 1969 and pressed a button 1 sec after 11:59 GMT. (Clearly I'm joking, please don't correct me, folks!)
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by sbf501 4y ago
Fun fact: Unix timestamp will eventually be every integer number from 1 to 4294967295
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by sbf501 4y ago
"Hey, did the front-end new-hire upgrade the Linux distro yet?"
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by sbf501 4y ago
I guess I could have reworded my rewording better. My multiple experiences with burnout were preceded by boredom, but I guess my burnout isn't the same as your burnout, or others' burnout. I define burnout as just not giving a f*c

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