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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> It’s an app for running VMs, not a piece of consumer software On Macs, Fusion and Parallels are arguably consumer software. In the early days of x86 on Mac, they were the carrot to lure a lot of non-technical people who used Window
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by slantyyz 8y ago
IIRC, they've transitioned (or are in the middle of transitioning) to recyclable cups. I believe you can green bin the contents (if you have that service where you live), and recycle the plastic container, with the foil seal being the
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by slantyyz 8y ago
While I get that those groups exist, the sellers didn't have to do any new work to "convert" their existing reviewers. Most if not all of the top-ranked incentivized reviewers already had longstanding communications with sell
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> Only allow reviews from people who have actually bought the product, and had time to receive it in the mail. I know, what a mind boggling concept. Sorry, but that's not going to help at all. After Amazon banned incentivized re
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> If I have 20 minutes to kill, I'll follow some food vlogger on YouTube. There's a lot of time waster content on Netflix now compared to before. They have a bunch of 20-30m reality TV shows (some of which are pretty good),
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by slantyyz 8y ago
When I subscribed in Canada a couple of years ago, I was struggling to find good content. Today, I find it more annoying that I can't keep up with what's coming out. The user interface makes it hard to discover and track stuff tha
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I worked on a team that built a SAAS around 1998 on Notes/Domino. IIRC, we had a Notes database template and created replicas of it for every tenant. I believe we accomplished all of this using some crazy LotusScript. We pushed really
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I worked at a Lotus Notes shop that actually made a SaaS project management/collaboration tool in the late 90s that we hosted at USWest[1][2]. We spun off every tenant as a replica of a Lotus Notes database template (my lingo might be
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by slantyyz 8y ago
After switching from Mac to Windows 95 in the mid 90s, I always felt like the Notes desktop interface was a bad rip-off of Apple's At Ease interface. [1] Having said that, I was always a big fan of Notes/Domino even though the UI
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Seems like it would be easier to just go back to traditional cut metal keys.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
As far as I can tell, the doctored image is used only on images for a handful of Asian countries - Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. I don't think US laws would apply in those places.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> The partial counter argument to that is $10000 is nothing compared to a promotion campaign for a product which usually costs millions. From the looks of it, it's not a promotion campaign that cost millions. It's just a bu
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I'm not saying that use case doesn't matter, but one could make the argument that the deep integration between Apple Music/iTunes into the Music app combined with a 30% premium on competitors selling music subscriptions in an
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I think what you're saying is true for probably 99% of apps on the App Store. In Spotify's particular case, however, Apple owns the marketplace (App Store) as well as a giant competitor in iTunes/Apple Music (and if I'm
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> Everyone "needs" a phone, not everyone "needs" an xbox. I would add "not everyone 'needs' an iPhone" to this. iOS is not the only major OS in the phone market. And like Macs, a significant ch
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by slantyyz 8y ago
While Toyota and Honda are paying those same high rates as GM they haven't had nearly as many problems as GM staying afloat.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Tangentially related: Netflix's Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj had an interesting episode about Amazon.[1] It's a little oversimplified, but it does a good job of explaining how large Amazon is to the layperson. [1] https:/&#
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> There is zero justification for the pricing. There is a justification for the pricing, but you probably won't like it: More than enough people will buy the product at a high margin price to make up for the price-sensitive peop
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I bought a 1TB Samsung 840 Evo in September 2013, and it just died last month. So it was in operation for around 5 years. I used it for development type stuff. It outlasted the 2011 MBP I bought it for. In fact, I ran it on 3 different comp
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> It's getting better every year, as peripherals and other devices switch over to USB-C. Speaking for normal people, though, how often do they turn over their devices and peripherals? When I bought my laptop over a year ago, I m
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I don't know that they're whisper quiet though. You'll probably hear the clicking of the mechanical hard drives when they're doing I/O. I'm not sure you can avoid size when you're dealing with multiple NAS
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> It will last a decade. As long as you're not adding any unnecessary additional load to it, I don't see why it wouldn't last even longer than a decade.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Compared to a Pi, it looks bad, but it's probably getting more work/operations done under stress than that Pi too.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> "I've been meaning to do it" for like 2 years now. If this is the case, I'd suggest you get an appliance instead. ASUSTOR (and others) make NASes with Intel processors and upgradeable RAM. In addition to having
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by slantyyz 8y ago
If this isn't powerful enough, there's LattePanda model (I think it's the Alpha model) that runs a Core m3. It's significantly more expensive at around $300 though. https://www.lattepanda.com/
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Mine used the word "cured", after the chemo and surgery to remove all remaining tissue. Mind you, it was in the 80s, and in Canada. So use of the word could be related to time period and geography.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I recently installed a Ubiquiti Unifi Video system and am happy with the product so far. It is a walled garden, but it was easy to set up and the NVR software is better than most of the others I've tried.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I had one of those early 2011 Macbook Pros that had the overheating GPU problem. That overheating problem was well known, and it took a long time for Apple to recognize the problem and issue a repair order. It was long enough that the Apple
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by slantyyz 8y ago
You should check out Linus Sebastian's experience with his broken iMac Pro screen. He wanted to pay for the repairs, and Apple refused. He then tried to buy the parts separately, and apparently if you got them from Apple, it would co
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I wonder if Windows File History (provided it was enabled before the update) could have helped with this problem. These days, it's one of the first things I install on Windows machines. I had been very dependent on Time Machine before

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