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by slantyyz 9y ago
Add me to that list too. I hate the ribbons, they just eat so much real estate and as I age, it's slower for me to scan, differentiate and spot the icons for the commands I want to perform.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Didn't Intel start passively aggressively signalling that they'd start enforcing their patents with lawsuits if companies do that?
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I guess it depends on what you do. For example, if you're deploying to x86 servers and you're testing on local VMs using Vagrant or whatnot, it helps to be able to be using the exact same platform and not worry about unexpected b
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> I'm not sure there's much reason to be that tied to the chip anymore... How about virtualization? Desktop virtual machine software seems to be a pretty healthy industry on Mac.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> Most hype artists are full of shit and never deliver anything. Elon is full of shit but then ends up actually delivering something rather amazing-- >> Ergo, by your own logic, Elon is not full of shit. The way I read what he
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> even before jQuery If you're getting old then I must be ancient! I remember when all the software documentation had to be printed on this white stuff made out of dead trees.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Well it's a chicken and egg thing. If rules are never enforced at concerts, people will continue to break the rules thinking nothing will happen to them. If rules tend to be consistently enforced and people know they run the risk of be
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> but we do need to come to terms with what the appropriate etiquette for the usage of personal electronics is. Isn't it actually simpler than this? To me, it's just about being aware of your surroundings, and acting approp
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Why does it have to be either/or? Why not ask people not to talk disruptively and disallow people from sitting on someone's shoulders in addition to the phone ban?
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> Word of caution 4K@27" is still pretty terrible in Windows. Well, YMMV. I have been running 2 x 4K@27 with 100% scaling for a couple of years now, and I am very happy. I don't adjust the default font sizes in my apps eith
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> Can't get a perceived color cast if there's no color. But you can still have other problems depending on the dynamic range of your photos. I often edit my photos so that stuff in shadows are not perceptible. The problem i
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> the JPEG produced by the Pentax cameras we own are 90% of the time better than what we achieve with hours of raw conversion tweaking Canon, Fuji and Olympus OOC JPEGs also have great reputations. >> Given that I'm not do
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I think your problem is more related to the fact that your MBP is using a U-class CPU than not having dedicated graphics. I used the built-in GPU on my desktop with a 4K monitor and outside of gaming, it did not affect the UI snappiness at
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Serious question: If you're not selling work to be printed or resold as stock, how important is calibration these days? Given the proliferation of the screen as a photo consumption device, and considering how just about every screen ou
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> Pick the one that works for you, but don’t become a fucking missionary or tie your personality to your brand of choice. I find that people naturally tend to want others to be like them. It doesn't matter whether its politics,
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by slantyyz 9y ago
A lot of professional photographers don't know much about computers and CPUs. Remember that "professional photographer" crosses a very broad spectrum of photographers, since the bar is basically "I charge for my work&quo
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by slantyyz 9y ago
1) Don't know. But not all of Apple's other markets are as huge as iPhone/iPad/Mac Laptops (i.e., Apple TV, Mac Pro). 2) In fairness, Amazon Echo did not do multi-room at launch either. I tend to think Apple fans won&#x2
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Does Chromecast Audio do what you need?
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I find the Routines feature can be quite useful, especially if they are performing multiple tasks. I just added "start work" and "quitting time" to toggle my office lights. I wanted to use "work time" in place
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>> But this thing is expensive. I don't necessarily agree. I was shopping around for multi-room audio solutions, namely Sonos. I don't think the Homepod price is that out of whack compared to Sonos or Google Home Max. And th
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by slantyyz 9y ago
If I were to look at the type of activities we use Alexa for in our household, most of our commands revolve around smart home, weather and lists/reminders. Once in a while we'll ask it to do a unit conversion or some search engine
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Putting aside the privacy concerns, the home automation + home assistant combo is actually pretty useful. It definitely beats fumbling through apps to do smart home stuff. Since getting an Echo, I notice my wife constantly changing the temp
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I don't know whether they are embargoed or not, but on Amazon.ca and Amazon.uk it's very easy to find Android Kodi boxes pre-loaded with sketchy apps and Kodi plug-ins that are also fulfilled by Amazon. I'm pretty sure in Can
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by slantyyz 9y ago
On the Amazon product page, you'll usually see a "Ships from and sold by" line for products not fulfilled by Amazon. If it's fulfilled by Amazon, the line is usually "Sold by [seller name] and Fulfilled By Amazon&qu
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by slantyyz 9y ago
What you're saying is only true for items fulfilled by Amazon . Not all Marketplace items sold on Amazon are fulfilled by Amazon. On those items, especially on items sold by Chinese sellers, you won't be charged taxes, and the it
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Isn't the 10K hours thing based the research of Anders Ericsson? I thought Gladwell just came up with a catchy encapsulation for it.
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>> Journalism went out of business a long time ago because no one will buy it. And the unfortunate outcome of that is infotainment and advertorials pretending to be news. Even worse is that more and more people take that stuff at face
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>> An MBA largely has value because it acts like a cult promoting the networking between MBA's. It's arguably a great hack to extract value from organizations as opposed to customers. I don't think this applies to the a
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>> They can afford to have more moral fiber, Your assumption ignores the fact that morals are relative and can be built around individual life experiences. There are plenty of segments of the population who don't trust the govern
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> That said, i think i have seen a few "distraction free" writing devices pop up on kickstarter. Not sure if any of them reached mass market though. Aren't those basically rehashed Tandy TRS-80 Model 100's? Those

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