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by slantyyz 8y ago
Pro is way better for updates. I'd upgrade my Home edition PC's to Pro, but for the features that I would benefit from (better update behaviour, remote desktop), it's not worth the expense to me. To upgrade an existing licens
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by slantyyz 8y ago
It's especially annoying if you have any long running tasks that you've left unattended only to return to find that your machine rebooted and the tasks didn't complete.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Are you on Pro or Home? On my Home edition machines, it's easily more than 3 times a year. Windows is my daily driver too, and while I generally like Windows, the two things I hate the most are the updates and how bad the search is for
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Can't you have both? To me, the thing that makes playability and enjoyability worse on games like this is the grinding they make you go through before you can even do anything.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> There are so many fake reviews on Amazon that the "average" stars for a product are no longer reliable indicators of quality. There are two universes in Amazon. Recognized name brands, and unrecognized name brands. In the
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by slantyyz 8y ago
> I wish Amazon would separate verified reviews (actually shipped item from Amazon Warehouse to this Amazon account who is writing a review) from unverified reviews. Honestly, that's a useless metric. Since banning incentivized revi
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by slantyyz 8y ago
When I click through, the actual article title is "Is Japan losing its umami?" I think that's probably the better title to use. When I clicked through to the posted title "Showing the world how real soy sauce is supposed
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> Articles like this are intended to convince people that the current system is unfair and to write their representatives and senators, even if they don't state that specifically. The problem is that if you don't state it c
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> Java runs everywhere and is at least an order of magnitude more efficient than Electron. I don't think people are choosing Electron for efficiency. They're choosing it for getting results sooner. Electron lets you pump ou
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by slantyyz 8y ago
As someone who lives in Ontario, Canada, I merge early as a defensive/safety measure. People here will follow each other incredibly closely, even at high speeds, and quite often they won't slow down to let you in if you're tr
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I think the problem with adoption has less to do with the theory of zipper merging working than local culture and traffic enforcement. I live in Ontario, Canada, and despite of our reputation for politeness, we have some of the worst/m
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Those work for goods, but what about services like outsourcing IT and call centers to India?
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3) it will increase the incentive to send work offshore to poorer countries
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> It makes givers and takers, and there will be resentment on both sides. This is oversimplified. There are already takers across both groups, except that the taking is pretty much always looked at more negatively when done by the po
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by slantyyz 8y ago
> This assumes that poor people don't put in time, have valuable skills, make smart choices, or do complex work. This work can also be physically hard, and be dangerous.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> I have literally never seen spreadsheet abbreviated as SS. I thought it was pretty common. I guess it depends on the environment you work in.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I've had a CO2Meter monitor for about a year now, and I have mine connected to a Raspberry Pi. I use a node script to push readings to a database on my NAS, and to fire an IFTTT webhook to my Nest to turn on the fan when CO2 levels hit
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by slantyyz 8y ago
In some organizations, replacing top of the line notebooks frequently is less about productivity than employee morale. Sometimes that cost is worth it, sometimes it is not.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I would think that the performance difference between a 2013 and 2018 MBP would be significantly larger than the performance difference between a 2013 and 2015 MBP. Having said that, MBP to MBP comparisons are not always apples to apples (s
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Do you feel like you have enough real estate? I have a pair of the Dell P series 27/4k screens, and the moment I installed the second one, I wanted more real estate (I run them without scaling). I have since added a pair of 23" ul
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I have a pair of 27" 4K monitors and a pair of 2560x1080 monitors below them (ran out of budget and didn't want to buy a new multimonitor stand). My monitors run at 100% scaling, and while I still wish I had a grid of 4x4k monitor
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> Has anyone felt that Netflix’s UI has deteriorated massively? I feel like this is related to the amount of content they have now. When I signed up, I was hunting for stuff to watch, and today, I can't keep up with all the stuf
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by slantyyz 8y ago
> His link describes why they are worthless. His link only describes why they are worthless to the author of that article. It hardly means that they are worthless to the market at large.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
> "Su’s CES keynote had the feel of a tipping point. A star was born. She even impressed people who have known her for many years." That's ridiculous. It's as though EETimes is pretending there have been no Ryzen keyn
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Fogbugz, now known as Manuscript, is pretty good. It is somewhere between overly simple (Github Issues) and overly complicated (JIRA). I like it way better than JIRA (having said that, I haven't used JIRA in years). If you're a st
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I miss the old model for games where you simply pay one (albeit higher) price and get everything.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
> Why did they do it? My guess - their brand name seems to be always mentioned when people ask for donations. I notice people don't just say "go to my donation page to give me money", they say "Give me money through P
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by slantyyz 8y ago
> I propose that using web components for desktop/mobile applications is not a good thing. It may not be, but it can be the difference between a developer releasing something that has real value to end users versus not releasing any
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by slantyyz 8y ago
For the most part, Corel seems to acquire software that are near their end of life and/or relevance. IIRC, they kept Kai's Power Tools alive well past its usefulness.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
These days it seems like basically acquire software companies. They own Winzip, Paintshop and Painter, for example.

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