theodric

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by theodric 5y ago
Their logo is just the flag of Evil Switzerland, anyway
842.
by theodric 5y ago
Incredible amount of pissing and moaning over nothing except doing their required diligence to protect their trademark. Not news. Sage
843.
by theodric 5y ago
I wish git had a function to dump a checksum that I could call on with the command 'git sum' Please, devs
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by theodric 5y ago
Not if you bought an M96 before they released the M96C "The Onyx Boox M96 is an Android-powered ereader with a 9.7-inch E Ink screen. Up until recently it was only available with a touchscreen that requires using a stylus pen for input
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by theodric 5y ago
I had an Onyx Boox 1 and it was slower than my 5-year-old iPad, the touchscreen would only register touches from the stylus they didn't provide so much as a storage strap for, and the OS was Android 6 with a custom spin so you couldn&#
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by theodric 5y ago
I had an extremelysimilar upbringing, and I'm in senior tech management in a systemically-relevant bank now and will be retiring at 40 (in 1.5 years). I didn't need anyone's luck to learn and succeed. I had an end-goal, and I
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by theodric 5y ago
What!? Who spends $60 a DAY on food? I live in Zürich, a very expensive place to eat, and my weekly total food budget for my wife and me is like $170.
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by theodric 5y ago
The user base is sufficiently pretentious to bring the site up to the expected pretentiousness baseline for an SV product. Just needs a bit of quiet ukulele music in the background to really get it over the line consistently. /s
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by theodric 5y ago
Just because you live in a city, does not mean the city was "made for" you. Cities are a side effect of many people clustering around key resource points. Resources are almost always much more valuable in trade than they are remai
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by theodric 5y ago
This reminds me of Harry Mulisch congratulating authors for being very, very smart in _De ontdekking van de hemel_
851.
by theodric 5y ago
There are a lot of people alive now who were not caring-about-socketed-CPUs-in-laptops-years-old when that was a thing (and even then, I had at least three 386SX laptops with soldered-on CPUs)
852.
by theodric 6y ago
Have you priced these things, though? 2TB/5G iPad Pro 12.9 + keyboard + pen = 3000 Swiss Francs (over $3k) 2TB/16GB RAM MacBook Air = 2200 Swiss Francs For whom are these iPads made? I bought a 12.9 in 2015, and another in 2017, b
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by theodric 6y ago
I bought a 50*70cm "60"-watt unit online for about €2000 shipped. It is the size of a chest freezer. It works reliably, except that if you don't power it up with the laser armed, and instead flip the safety switch after power
854.
by theodric 6y ago
Zero power needed to retain image, not encumbered by e-ink patent and manufacturing monopoly, simple and repairable, and you can build it yourself at home
855.
by theodric 6y ago
1-2k/mo will get you a Dutch person, too. Those are not bad wages.
856.
by theodric 6y ago
Blackberry, Palm, and Windows Mobile phones were more widespread than you're giving them credit for, as were laptops considerably preceding Apple's PowerBook series.
857.
by theodric 6y ago
Google "fax machine history." This is incredibly trivial to verify.
858.
by theodric 6y ago
+1 My escape was doubling my pay, then paying off my debt, then refusing to take on any further debt, ever. Currently closing on a house, paid with cash. Never again debt.
859.
by theodric 6y ago
'Ordering information' Yeah, IBM is still IBM.
860.
by theodric 6y ago
My wife's parents raised 3 kids and paid a mortgage on two part-time salaries. Europe: it's where it's at for work-life balance.
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by theodric 6y ago
For me, it was a move into a (technical/site) management function in an international satellite office of an American company. I got paid handsomely (near top of achievable normal income in country and well above expectation for my age
862.
by theodric 6y ago
In 2001 I could go from LILO to idling WindowMaker in 12 seconds, far faster than Win2k or XP or any of the earlier DOS-based Windowses
863.
by theodric 6y ago
We don't need no people, we need fewer people. A lot of our problems would be less pronounced of we simply reduced their scale. https://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/
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by theodric 6y ago
I bought into the Planet Gemini on the promise of a Linux-multiboot Android phone with a physical keyboard. The keyboard is too small (and poor) to be usable, the Linux distributions never progressed beyond alpha quality (not graphics accel
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by theodric 6y ago
Unfortunately there is no money for Apple, or anyone, in putting your family safety and privacy first, since selling you out is far more profitable since most people don't care. By the time it gets bad enough for them to care, it will
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by theodric 6y ago
That's an excellent representation of a Dutch accent
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by theodric 6y ago
No, I am not bothered by someone having an accent when speaking a second language. It's just a thing, not a good or bad thing.
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by theodric 6y ago
Well let's just let everyone get sick. Mass death is known to be great for economies also, right? I feel like your statement is essentially "no disease and no lockdown is preferable to disease and lockdown"
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by theodric 6y ago
As a user I say "too bad, I paid for the app, I do what I want with it"
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by theodric 6y ago
I'm curious why a relationship with another person isn't something you'd want to prioritize. What fills your hours, and moreover, what fills your mental needs to such an extent that it can override biological imperatives?

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