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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Don’t forget fake news and talk show hosts willing to say anything that gets people talking all for the purpose of selling crap products at exorbitant markups. Democracy be damned, there’s money to be made on dietary supplements!
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Ooh lord, this reminds me of Mint and their useless email alerts. Every alert is along the lines of “You’ve been charged a foreign transaction fee! Log in to see what / who / when / how much!”. This is obviously to drive eng
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
>the complaining of billionaire's having low income tax...when they have low incomes Just because they take a $1 salary and get paid in stock or have tons of stock holdings that increase in value instead doesn’t mean they don’t have
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
We're going to need stuff like processors with built-in microfluidic cooling layers. Why not have club sandwich construction with every other layer working on heat extraction, power, or both? I see a future with cube-shaped processors
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I'm still bullish on $AMD to break much further into the enterprise space. So many AWS instances still run on Xeons. That's slowly changing, especially now with stuff like Graviton , but I think AMD can go much higher just on ente
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
>No way the powers that be would let Intel's manufacturing plants go under. Perhaps that's part of the calculus too; if they know that Uncle Sam will backstop any failures, are they not also making the same play as their compet
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Stuff like this is why I find fears about robots taking over any time in the next few decades just hilarious. I don't know of many machines not made by Honda that can work reliably for a decade or more with zero maintenance.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
The M1 MBPs are the best products Apple have released in a long time. They could have replaceable anything and be better, but they're very very good for being pro-level disposable laptops.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
If all the brands are bad, you will have no choice but to accept their awfulness. This is known as the "car dealership", "ISP", or "wireless ISP" model.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Had a Samsung fridge of ~2016 vintage for about 4 years until it failed. Basically, the defrost cycle relies on a tiny aluminum "finger" that dips into the ~1/2" hole at the back of the fridge where the cooling coils are
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
If you want a really nice version of this, companies like Heckler Design, Manfrotto, Triad Orbit, and König & Meyer make excellent stands with tons of adapters for lights, cameras, mics, speakers, phones, ipads... My current WFH setup i
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
IANAL, but are there any actual cases where someone or a class successfully sued a company for using their product off-label in such a way? This kind of stuff seems to me like how schools no longer permit students to go out for lunch, citin
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
"Luckily" in the US, the carrier oligopoly here won't sell you a cheap IoT plan for cell connectivity, and the "lifetime" plans sold to manufacturers are probably at least $50-100 in volume.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
The remedy for that will be wrapping the internal antenna in foil or cell tower emulation.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Dell has always had good support, especially for business. I once bought a laptop second-hand that still had a few months of their highest support plan on it. Needed a screen first because of a few dead pixels. They had a tech come out to m
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Current gen chatbots for support for companies are infuriating and only helpful for the most clueless of users, which I suppose is probably a decent chunk. It’s like when you call a company because you need help that you can’t resolve yours
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Crazy idea that I'm sure isn't an original thought: instead of adapting the languages to deal with abstracting the idiosyncrasies of each OS, change the OSes to expose a universal API to make everything else lighter. I guess that&
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Spotify Desktop is kinda different from the website because of how it uses APIs locally to control things https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/04/07/building-the-fu... VSCode is also appreciably different b
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Hey, look, it's simple: just spend $5k on a new top-of-the-line M1 Max MacBook, then it'll be as fast as IRC was on a 133Mhz MMX Pentium 1. Slack is great; it's like "hey, we took IRC and added inline images, now it&#x27
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
The Noco ones are decent, but the Clore Automotive Jump-N-Carry is the only thing approaching a BIFL (buy it for life) quality jump starter that I’m aware of. User-replaceable sealed lead acid battery like a quality UPS (which if you’re loo
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
With all this lamentation about electronics stores of years past, nothing will compare to the malicious incompetence of car dealerships and service departments. Their business model these days is “if we all keep behaving badly together, con
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
At least that was better than Fry’s or Home Depot, where salespeople actively walk away when they see you approaching, and have zero knowledge of what is even carried by the place they work. After a while I figured out that it’s better to j
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I’ve written extensively about this recently, but these days with $300+ “gaming” routers using crappy sweatshop software on whatever Atheros router SoC, many users would be much better served with legit SMB routing / switching / w
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Yep; a huge portion of Google results, especially for spicy searches like “best ______ 2021” are just lists of affiliate links to top 10 selling items on Amazon from made-up brand names that are rotated once a product receives a few bad rev
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Or in pop culture, all the Marvel movies.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Really wish CQB paintball was more popular in the US. I’d love to play the equivalent of SWAT or Rainbow Six with paintball, but most of it these days seems to be “spray thousands of balls at large inflatable barriers on a tennis court hopi
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Try rock climbing, snowboarding, kite surfing, mountain biking, etc…all quite popular among my friends and colleagues in the tech industry and all quite thrilling. Luckily, there are still tons of accessible activities with choose-your-own
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
It’s great that they still don’t get how pointless it is to memorize things like protocol numbers for esoteric stuff that is trivial to google and find in a few seconds if the need should ever arise, which it rarely would. IIRC they asked m
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Google has been trying to diversify outside of search + Google Apps but everything they try just feels janky and doomed for the graveyard in a couple of years anyway. Stadia, Chromebooks, Google Home, Wifi, Fiber, all of the Nest stuff post
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Some UniFi APs used to come with PoE injectors. I’m not sure if they still do, but it looks like they still sell them for $8: https://store.ui.com/products/u-poe-af If someone is willing to spend a bit more, the 8 port

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