tinotopia

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by tinotopia 2y ago
I asked him for my full archive download in October 2022, and having heard nothing back I wound up paying him another $39 to keep my archive from being deleted while I tried to get his attention. I didn't get any response until late Fe
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by tinotopia 5y ago
It used to seem to me that there was a strong libertarian tendency among computer people, at least relative to the rest of society. I always attributed this to the fact that anyone who has ever tried to tell a computer what to do has a diff
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by tinotopia 5y ago
In the past few years, McDonald's (and some, but not all, other fast food restaurants) really seems to have gone all-in on the price-discrimination approach of setting list prices high and offering all kinds of discounts if you know wh
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by tinotopia 10y ago
In Chapter Five, he writes: >“The most cruel and evil effect of the Means Test is the way in which it breaks up families. Old people, sometimes bedridden, are driven out of their homes by it. An old age pensioner, for instance, if a wido
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by tinotopia 16y ago
It's not that I see the greater flexibility of, well, nearly all non-Apple product as being a bug , exactly. There are certainly tremendous advantages to being flexible, adaptable, and extensible. It's just that there are also some advan
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by tinotopia 16y ago
Alternately, it can be explained by the fact that a lot of happy Apple customers — 'fans', I suppose — are fine with farming out some of their technological decision-making to Apple. Seriously: if Apple isn't putting some seeming obvious f
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by tinotopia 16y ago
I'm also skeptical of the idea of an iPad with a 7" screen, mainly because typing on such a screen would be far worse than on the current one. However, such a thing would probably be a lot more pocketable than you'd think. My Kindle 2 (9" d
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by tinotopia 16y ago
> Would you apply the same logic to oxygen instead of water? Markets are a means of managing scarcity. Oxygen is not scarce, at least not if you're at sea level and you don't mind it mixed about 5:1 with nitrogen and a bunch of other g
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by tinotopia 16y ago
You have a decimal-point problem. $150/30 is $5 a day; it's entirely possible to eat quite well on that.
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by tinotopia 16y ago
I thought I was future-proofing myself a bit by buying a Griffin AirCurve. The AirCurve is an ear-trumpet kind of thing that acoustically amplifies the output from the iPhone's speaker. You wouldn't call it hi-fi, but it works surprisingly
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by tinotopia 16y ago
I wonder how much of the speed differences are due to the time spent turning pages? The iPad generally turns pages faster than the Kindle (no matter what app you're using on the iPad), and most books present more text at once, so you have
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by tinotopia 16y ago
A large part of AT&T's perception problem seems to have to do with their congestion, not their RF performance, in a few places. This might be one of those situations where more information would be useful. The ideal solution would be t
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by tinotopia 16y ago
By observing the fluidity of Long Island Sound, though, you can be sure that no one has dumped ice-nine into the Gulf of Mexico. Similarly the existence of a single functioning production iPhone 4 proves that there's no fundamental design
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by tinotopia 16y ago
Amazon handles my apostrophe without drama. One advantage to having an apostrophe in your name is that you can spot when people migrate their databases without paying attention, because the apostrophes tend to double each time. DirecTV is
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by tinotopia 17y ago
Netflix used to make it very difficult to find any of their customer service contact addresses or phone numbers. I have an old blog post with a title that includes the word 'Netflix' and the phrase 'Customer Service', where I ramble on abou
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by tinotopia 17y ago
I'd agree with you if you said that they deserved an outage of a few hours; that's the risk you run when someone else controls your data. Once in a while, things fail; when it happens to you and you control the data, you spend those few ho