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by sjwright 7y ago
There aren’t any in theory, but there absolutely is a limit in practice. Beyond a certain point if you’re caught you will be arrested and surely convicted for reckless endangerment. And how do you plan to get up to that speed? If you’re goi
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by sjwright 7y ago
Have you looked at how much stuff is packed in those AirPods? There’s certainly not enough room for a screwable cap and a consumer-safe lithium battery, while retaining rigidity and weatherproofing. Bedsides, how many AirPods are likely to
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by sjwright 7y ago
A self-evidently false assertion.
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by sjwright 7y ago
The USA: home of the “free” where you can rot in jail because you’re poor.
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by sjwright 7y ago
If you’re sending 1500 watts directly into a motherboard, something is probably wrong. Massive power draws (CPU, GPU) would always get their own direct connection, just as they do today. Apply this simple rule of thumb: watts become heat. T
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by sjwright 7y ago
If the web kept going down that path, we’d end up with a dozen equivalents of Flash and Silverlight, dooming the web to become a closed hellscape.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Opacity and user hostility tends to exist to substantially inflate prices or thwart discounting. Lower prices are sufficient for a DTC entrant to grab share.
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by sjwright 7y ago
You’re still placing a shitload of trust into Google if you’re relying on their binaries to keep your data private.
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by sjwright 7y ago
I agree, there's a lot of unknowns.
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by sjwright 7y ago
However it resolves, COVID-19 should not be expected to have significant lasting effects on long distance travel. Worst case scenario is a slight sustained drop due to the global population being cut by as much as two percent. And at the ri
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by sjwright 7y ago
Your logic defeats your own argument. If we shouldn't trust billion dollar companies it stands to reason that the fewer few billion dollar companies we trust, the better. If you're already in the iPhone ecosystem, you're alre
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by sjwright 7y ago
Medicare isn’t going anywhere. Once people get the taste for single payer healthcare, they don't give it up. Social security should be replaced with privately held accounts, just like superannuation in Australia. But in the transitio
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by sjwright 7y ago
Those challenges could be overcome with special protocols. The real problem would be the decimation of the tourism industries.
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by sjwright 7y ago
DRY is a good principle, but sometimes I’d rather repeat myself a little bit than build more bug-prone scaffolding to avoid repetition—especially when the repetition isn’t line-for-line identical. Just remember to always cite the repetition
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by sjwright 7y ago
"Small and lightweight" is just a euphemism for can't tow for shit. I'm sorry, but I don't think you understand how capitalism works. Apple isn't forcing anyone to buy an iPhone, other brands are available. A
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by sjwright 7y ago
I reject the distinction as entirely semantics. It's equally true to say that a car maker "purposely restricts" towing capacity in its small, lightweight models by making them small and lightweight. Apple designs its iOS prod
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by sjwright 7y ago
You seem to be assuming that the differences don't have a rational basis. Cars are generally homologated for a large geographic area, which might include Arizona even if the car is sold in Canada. Towing limit standards may also be def
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by sjwright 7y ago
Not irony at all, the analogy still fits. I can defy vehicle towing restrictions, I can weld extra metal to the sub-frame, I can fit a larger radiator to the engine and stiffer springs to the rear axle. I can do many things to make my subco
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by sjwright 7y ago
I am aware of the origins of the term. The term certainly had relevance 30–90 years ago. What I reject is that the term has any meaning when attempting to form a distinction between an iPad and a MacBook.
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by sjwright 7y ago
I would go further and reject the phrase “general purpose computer” as overly vague to the point of being meaningless. Is a bicycle a general purpose vehicle? Who decides what qualifies as a general purpose?
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by sjwright 7y ago
I simply don’t agree. It’s not Apple’s responsibility to make products that compensate for bad national governments. And I reject the claim that the scale of the issue is different between a phone and a games console. Who are you to say tha
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by sjwright 7y ago
“I don’t like it when car companies don’t allow subcompact crossovers to do heavy towing. Such cars are increasingly people’s primary vehicle for everything. And many times their only vehicle!” Seriously, most people don’t need their phon
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by sjwright 7y ago
It seems to me like the only point of difference between you and the zealots is the definition of success.
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by sjwright 7y ago
I seriously thought Dart was abandoned. Is it actually being used outside of Google?
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by sjwright 7y ago
Generally when you can’t discern the rational for a preference, it often means the underlying basis is associative rather than objective. That’s how most of us discern most things most of the time—a particular appearance tends to correlate
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by sjwright 7y ago
If there's going to be a new product category, I imagine it would be an iPad Pro that runs iPadOS but can also run unmodified ARM-compiled Mac apps when attached to a keyboard and trackpad. (And the "files" app would look mor
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by sjwright 7y ago
> I feel I was being quite concise. And so does the OP, I'd wager. Personally I found the basis of the OP's criticism sufficiently self-evident to not require dissertation. If you didn't, that's fine too—but it's
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by sjwright 7y ago
At this risk of being accused of snark, tu quoque. If you don’t understand the basis of the OP’s opinion, you’re welcome to ask. There’s no need to assume bad faith.
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by sjwright 7y ago
A single gigabit link can sends something in the order of 80,000 packets per second. If packets had a 9000 byte MTU, that would still be 12,000 packets per second. Having your smaller packets wait a at most an extra 0.02 milliseconds to b
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by sjwright 7y ago
> they officially say it is Postgres-Q-L. I always interpreted it as Post-gr-S-Q-L. Which is basically the same thing but makes more sense to me because it’s as if the name had a silent “e”.

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