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by slantyyz 6y ago
I don't think I've ever gotten close to the advertised battery life from any new laptop, Mac or Windows, but I probably use a lot of apps and settings that aren't battery friendly (e.g., I prefer a brighter than average displ
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by slantyyz 6y ago
From the perspective of a search engine's end user, Google should find those product pages and set them at the top of the results whether Panasonic's SEO is good or not, otherwise I'm going to switch to a search engine that c
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by slantyyz 6y ago
About a year ago, my Youtube front page feed was pretty good. Then it has slowly degraded since then. I went from Youtube being the service I used the most to watch stuff to becoming much less interested. Most of my recommendations don&#x27
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Youtube 12 months ago was less bad without me having to do anything. Youtube can make me do work to improve my experience, but I do have another option, stop using Youtube's front page and just discover stuff via Reddit or search engin
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Generally speaking, I treat coworkers "like a customer". I try to be respectful, polite and professional. My work can speak for itself. If that's not enough, then so be it, because I don't have time for other people&#x27
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I tend to think search results could benefit from a little bit of curation. For example, when I search anything HTML, CSS or Javascript related, W3Schools manages to be the top link in many of the cases. While W3Schools is fine, I guess...
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I don't know if it's a combination of overreliance on algorithmic rankings + seo or what, but if I search for something like "Panasonic GH5" (something I searched recently), I want to see the top two ranked items as the
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I don't know what one needs to be protected from. If your coworkers are harasssing you for not being political, that's usually the point where you escalate the issue. If that doesn't get you anywhere, that's a signal to
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> There is a popular myth among the lazy-minded about this, but the fact is that Apple's hardware lasts a lot longer, and is intentionally supported for a lot longer, than competing hardware. This is true for Macs as well as iOS dev
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Also, he's been pretty open about the fact that while he complains about Apple, he makes his money off people who own Apple products.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Man, this is triggering more memories of programming in Basic. I remember writing programs in BASIC (as a kid/teen, mind you) where I didn't plan enough for changes and had to renumber swaths of code to allow more functionality. I
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> limit conversations to work topics only. That's an awful work environment. Ok, maybe it's because I'm older (but not a boomer), but I don't think that's an awful work environment. I use dinner party rules on so
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by slantyyz 6y ago
If my memory of BASIC from the 80s is still accurate, Line 5 will never get executed, because of the GOTO 1 in line 4, so not even optional.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
After I read the article, I thought the article had less to do with the math involved than the way kids see things compared to adults. So I thought it was pretty interesting.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I find the "it's 2020" statement strange in more than one way. Yeah, ebooks are higher tech than paper, but I find the experience to be worse than paper. I have no problem reading long-form content on a screen, but I'd r
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by slantyyz 6y ago
That is, until there's a piece of content he wants that's not available from one of those vendors. The problem with those vendors really comes down to selection, and they have a smaller selection. Like it or not, if there&#x27
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by slantyyz 6y ago
For the fonts: I think the stroke of the font is just too thin, or maybe it's the font's letterspacing as well. As far as sites go in general, my eyes struggle with reading the text on Satchel in particular. It could also be Windo
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I think the idea for this is great, as it has the potential to save a lot of time and effort researching tools. Some minor quibbles though. I'm not getting any younger, and I find that the non-white background combined with the light w
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by slantyyz 6y ago
>> people are attracted to confidence and assertiveness Yes, but when it comes to having someone represent them (i.e., lawyers, agents, politicians, etc), I tend to think that people are attracted to bullies.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I think the tolerance of the a-hole also depends on whether that a-hole is a unicorn. MJ, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk etc. They're not everyday a-holes. These guys are/were arguably at the top of their game during the peak o
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by slantyyz 6y ago
If that's the case, shouldn't Youtube ban words like 'cuck', 'libtard' and 'snowflake'?
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by slantyyz 6y ago
You might be able to make the point that it's both a budget and a schedule problem, but that involves some reading between the lines. Different people are going to interpret "budget" and "schedule" differently. Also
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> Electron apps aren't made because the end result is superior but because of budgets and schedules. I'd add one thing, it's also used because it leverages existing web development skills. I've made a couple of Electr
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Since you have a signal processing background... what would be super cool is if there was a tool that could analyze all the chords in a song file (e.g., mp3) and magically create a Rocksmith/Guitar Hero style "racetrack" for
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Rocksmith pretty good and goes on sale on Steam regularly, if you end up finding that building something will take too much time.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I've been making a personal information/task management system that I can only describe as a weird cross between Things for Mac and Dropbox Paper. It's really an opinionated tool designed specifically for myself to be run on
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by slantyyz 6y ago
This will date me, but when I think of Suitcase for the Mac, I think of the font manager application that predated OSX... which surprisingly, still exists.[1] [1] https://www.extensis.com/suitcase-fusion
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Would this possibly explain some of the speed improvements? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/ubuntu-19-10-quite-s...
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by slantyyz 7y ago
For the Macbook Pros in question, they were using AMD Radeon GPUs.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
It is definitely GPU + heat related, but disabling the GPU is an unacceptable solution. People paid top dollar for a Macbook Pro with a fast GPU, you don't tell them to write off the premium they paid for that feature by disabling it.

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