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by starky 4y ago
For me it is a convenience factor. Even when I have subscriptions with what I want to watch, I eventually found myself often just downloading it because it is easier than thinking about what service a show will be found on. Spotify has this
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by starky 4y ago
The problem with standardized tests as they are implemented in nearly every case is that they only test how well the students have been taught the test, not the topic the test is on. This makes them just as pointless as GPA at being an indi
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by starky 4y ago
It is a real shame that Ubisoft Nadeo hasn't really marketed Trackmania outside of Europe (they mostly focus on just France). Streamers have been driving a ton of growth in the game (particularly in the US) because it is so intuitive a
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by starky 4y ago
You should be pissed off that your OS doesn't give you the freedom to choose which browser you use as a default. While you may think Edge is good, I use a different browser and my OS shouldn't be allowed to override the preference
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by starky 4y ago
I've used Concur and Certify and they are oodles better than the crappy one that my company now uses that probably hasn't changed since the early 2000's and doesn't have any sort of mobile support for uploading receipts.
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by starky 4y ago
>All the interviews I’ve taken in the last 10 years have been with passing interest on my part. And I go into it more as an interview of the company, and much less care about if they think I’m hitting some arbitrary bar. This is honestly
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by starky 4y ago
Jonathan Tippett has been working on this for well over a decade at this point. They had a prototype leg when I met him in like 2011 and he was talking about this becoming a sport even then.
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by starky 4y ago
You have to keep in mind that any of these "review" websites are in it to maximize their revenue with referrals. They will spout whatever it takes to get you to click on the links that get them the largest kickbacks. They certainl
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by starky 4y ago
I honestly can't think of many times where I actually told my name to the front desk anyway. Usually I have a printout of the reservation or hand them my passport since they need it anyway. It is easier for the front desk to type what
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by starky 4y ago
I just replaced my E550 Samsung plasma from 2012 with a QD-OLED precisely because LCD tech just wasn't better. Even on the QD-OLED, the extra brightness and 120Hz is nice, but it isn't as massive of a leap as I expected it to be (
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by starky 4y ago
>Is it asking too much to have a service that's transparent, functions well and have the end product taste good? In my city (Vancouver), a restaurant owner actually setup a local only food delivery service during the pandemic with t
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by starky 4y ago
Fair enough, I'm definitely coming at it from having a technical background on cameras and optics and to me the article is halfway between one explaining why apertures as so weird (and not even doing that), and how the exposure triangl
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by starky 4y ago
One point here, when talking about the N = f/D formula to calculate the f-number, D is entrance pupil diameter. That is, it is the apparent diameter of the image of the aperture when viewed from the front of the lens, not the actual ap
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by starky 4y ago
I don't find the explanation here to be clear. This suffers from the classic issue where they explain the basics and then proceed to give practically no details on how to start applying the knowledge. For anyone wanting to learn this m
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by starky 4y ago
Other than getting a knockoff sheet pan once (which was still great quality, but missing the vendor's stamp on the bottom), everything I've gotten has been more or less what I expected. I don't know if it is because I deal wi
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by starky 4y ago
I don't even do any coding and have gotten contacted by their recruiter for a SWE position in the past month. Seems like their recruiters are resorting to spray and pray when it comes to finding new hires.
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by starky 4y ago
>Also Amazon will let you do planned deliveries with fewer boxes if you pick a day a few days out. For a while I was selecting this option, as far as I can tell they just completely ignore it since items still come in individual shipment
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by starky 4y ago
This is what got me through my university math courses. Unfortunately the notes for his Linear Algebra course were taken down at some point.
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by starky 4y ago
I had a prof during university that had a really good method to get people to engage. You would be assigned a reading, and then complete the quiz as an individual for a small portion of your grade, and then do the exact quiz again in a team
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by starky 4y ago
Exactly, "Luxury" really just means high-end looking finishes built at the lowest possible quality they can get away with. At least in my city all the new builds are absolute shit quality.
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by starky 4y ago
I believe that Lightspeed's Fiber is only backbone and still uses Shaw for last mile. Only Telus provides Fiber to the Home in BC at least. The pricing is ridiculous, Fiber is almost twice as much as cable internet from Lightspeed for
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by starky 4y ago
I couldn't get Wifi working reliably when trying to use my Framework on Linux, even trying multiple distros, it would just disappear and not come back. Eventually I gave up and switched to Windows which has worked perfectly. My main co
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by starky 4y ago
The reality is that with the way devices are designed to be IP rated and as compact as possible, your only option is these fancy PSA adhesives. There is a direct disagreement between what a consumer wants in their device and making it easy
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by starky 4y ago
Qualitywise you can argue that (I have a Denon AVR from 2013 and even then the Marantz brand was just an expensive looking case around the same electronics), but branding wise Marantz is the high end and Denon is the lower end.
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by starky 4y ago
>Reality aside, there are millions of people in China who are alive today who would not be if they had followed the US' policy. That is a bad argument with no bearing on the current situation. As the virus has mutated the strategy t
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by starky 4y ago
The reality at the moment is that practically everyone is going to get Covid at some point, Delta and now Omicron are just too transmissible. The only practical way for their zero Covid policy to work was to shut down all people coming into
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by starky 4y ago
Denon is already the downmarket brand for D&M though (Marantz being the high end), there wasn't much difference in cost between Denon and Onkyo.
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by starky 4y ago
I think the biggest mistake that people make when getting into 3D printers is buying a cheap Chinese printer. In most cases it seems to be that you are buying into the hobby of fixing a 3D printer rather than actually printing things. Some
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by starky 4y ago
This is where most companies are trying to go if they can though. Unfortunately it has been proven that people will willingly pay for a service every month above purchasing it outright and shareholders love it because it means that revenue
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by starky 5y ago
As someone that has tried to remove VHB with just about every trick in the book. I call bullshit on iso-propyl helping that much. It is pretty expensive, but Uline sells it by the roll.

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