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by stewx 4y ago
The "bad GPS reception" part doesn't reflect my experience. I have had a lot more "GPS signal lost" messages in Google Maps on various Android phones than I ever remember having with dedicated GPS units. I suspect t
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by stewx 4y ago
My employer chooses to staff our customer support lines with North American agents who know what they are doing.
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by stewx 4y ago
There's no good reason AirBnb could not offer proper support. Showing contempt for your customers like this is a choice.
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by stewx 4y ago
> the 16-core Neural Engine can process 15.8 trillion operations per second — 40 percent more than M1 — making iPad Pro even more powerful when handling machine learning tasks Do people actually use the iPad for machine learning?
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by stewx 4y ago
We have white traffic lights now in Canada for "transit advance", when buses are allowed to proceed before the rest of traffic.
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by stewx 4y ago
I remember seeing lots of jokes on the Internet about guys going to college "for the bandwidth"
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by stewx 4y ago
Your comment is the definition of an ad hominem argument: the author is a Bad Person so we should disregard anything he says. Why don't you respond to the actual claims?
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by stewx 4y ago
> Wikimedia makes the world a much better world place. They should have the funds to do whatever they want. No doubt the world is better off with Wikipedia and Wikimedia, but the attitude that "they can do no wrong" is extremel
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by stewx 4y ago
The issue isn't "Wikipedia" having lots of money and using it to run their site. It's Wikimedia having the money and using it for stuff that has no direct connection to Wikipedia. From a Twitter thread on a scientific re
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by stewx 4y ago
Perhaps coming to terms with emotional baggage or traumatic events from your past via counselling, reading, etc.
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by stewx 4y ago
One way to be fair to stores is to not require them to host the marketplace for buying and selling the used copies. People looking for "used" copies of movies and games would have to leave the official store and use third-party we
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by stewx 4y ago
Jumping through hoops doesn't work for most consumers. Nor should they have to do it.
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by stewx 4y ago
Ok, "digital movies as most consumers know them". People aren't buying DRM-free digital movies. (Technically, DVDs and Blu-rays are digital as well, but we don't call them that)
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by stewx 4y ago
One under-appreciated limitation on digital movies is geographic restrictions. You buy a bunch of iTunes movies in Canada, then move to the USA, and you no longer have the right to watch them anymore due to licensing. Another significant is
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by stewx 4y ago
The live anime avatar and high-pitched vocal conversion are... idiosyncratic, to say the least
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by stewx 4y ago
That agent is clearly ignorant. Also not serving their clients well because cosmetic stuff is easy to do, while below-the-surface repairs are often a lot more expensive.
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by stewx 4y ago
335k subscribers now, since this article was posted < 2mos. ago
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by stewx 4y ago
I think a lot about the guy in Jacksonville, Florida who owns gamil.com.
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by stewx 4y ago
I've been getting 2-3 spam emails/day and for many years received 0/day.
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by stewx 4y ago
This is known as rubber ducking
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by stewx 4y ago
For an example of this, see this story about Canadian professor and laser scientist Patanjali Kambhampati who was denied for grants because his avowed commitment to mere non-discrimination and merit-based hiring was deemed insufficient. ht
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by stewx 4y ago
I have a goal of taking a ~14-day transatlantic cruise with Royal Caribbean and working 4hrs a day from my laptop onboard. This news makes that much more of a feasible option!
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by stewx 4y ago
This is a concept car, not a production car, from what I can tell.
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by stewx 4y ago
> I wouldn't trust most sources of this kind of data you see online Same. But this is published by a large global financial institution, not a crowd-sourced low-quality web site.
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by stewx 4y ago
As of 2019, Tokyo was far cheaper in terms of monthly rent than some major American cities. Rent in Tokyo for a 2BR apartment: $1,903/mo Rent in NYC for a 2BR apartment: $2,909/mo Rent in San Francisco for a 2BR apartment: $3,631&
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by stewx 4y ago
I think a public policy solution to this could be to require a minimum warranty period for certain kinds of appliances, to force the manufacturers to increase the product quality.
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by stewx 4y ago
Find a way to challenge yourself. Maybe find some "off-the-shelf" projects to build that don't require creativity, but maybe do require some new skills or new technology you haven't used before.
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by stewx 4y ago
I love driving stick, except in congested traffic. If I have to be constantly on and off the brakes (and hence the clutch), it's not enjoyable. Best case scenario is cruising on empty roads late at night.
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by stewx 4y ago
Requiring more skill to drive is not necessarily a bad thing.
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by stewx 4y ago
The other day I found a decades-old Air Canada ticket in a thrift shop book.

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