ubermonkey

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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
This is going to get very entertainingly ugly, I suspect.
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
Hilariously, he already has -- but was downvoted to oblivion.
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
Look, a brand new account taking photomatt's side. Neat.
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
This is a completely reasonable take and I'm stunned you're getting downvoted for it.
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
A huge chunk of the web is WP.
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
Because of a very, very last minute AppleCare replacement (like, 35 months after purchase), I have a year-old iPhone 14 Pro. I figured there was nothing Apple could introduce yesterday that would turn my head, but the 40+ hour battery life
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
This is, in my experience, absolutely true.
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
"It is quite absurd (but categorically true) that the quality of audio that folks were generally listening to in 2005 was better than what we are doing today." I'm trying very hard to understand what you mean specifically her
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
Your average HN reader is very very bad at understanding that they are NOT the mass market.
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
Ha! I remember reading this in print. In other news, I am old.
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
You know why.
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
SMTP predates Notes by nearly a decade.
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
Correct. There is no such doctrine. I was raised in an SBC church, though I've long since come to my senses. I have plenty of issues with such places, but your average Baptist church -- even ones still proudly tied to the SBC -- does n
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
"Southern Baptists officially teach that eternal damnation is a literal, conscious, and everlasting punishment in Hell for anyone who dies without personal faith and salvation in Jesus Christ. If the threat of eternal torment is not co
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
Going Clear is probably one of my top ten books EVER. If you enjoyed it, please note that Lawrence Wright has written several other equally fantastic books. He also wrote The Looming Tower , on the runup to 9/11. It covers the geopo
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
DHH means this is, for me, a hard pass.
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
These aren't problems I face often. I especially don't get random push notifications about Apple (or any other) services, so I'm not sure what's going on for you. Maybe iOS just isn't for you.
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
>Why would one computing platform be different from the other? Are we really still having this discussion? I feel like you KNOW the answer, and why the market rewards Apple for its position here. The curated experience on iOS is a featu
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
I self-hosted for a while in the early 2000s. It was a hassle. My box got hacked -- I'm sure I missed a security update or something -- and while I didn't lose any data because of my obsessive backup paranoia, it was enough of a T
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
I am 56. I have been married for almost 21 years. I will not be reading this link, but I am glad it exists. Midlife brings many things, some good and some bad and some just part of life. One of these is the more visceral, serious understand
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
My own gripe is that, at least in a good-sized city, the late "physical rental" era provided a more complete menu of available films for the consumer. Now things flutter in and out of availability, and are fragmented between count
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
I'm still trying to figure out why you didn't see that coming.
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
The thing is: It's kind of irrelevant for most theatergoers, as there are only 24 IMAX 70mm venues in the whole country. And many of them don't even show theatrical releases. For example, I used to live in Houston, and we tried to
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
I want to be a civil as I can here, but you managed to post 3 sentences that are all completely wrong. 1. Seiko is huge. If you are snoozing on them, that's on you, not them. They have a HUGE presence in watches, from low-end affordabl
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
I'm a watch nerd, but generally I'm only interested in mechanicals. Spring drive is the first quartz-driven movement I'm actually interested in. If I won the lotto tomorrow, I'd buy a Grand Seiko with it.
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by ubermonkey 4mo ago
I'd love to read this. A shame it's on Substack.
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by ubermonkey 4mo ago
Counterpoint: No.
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by ubermonkey 4mo ago
I mean, be skeptical all you want, but at least TRY it. I know I retain more if I handwrite notes. It's my lived experience, so that's what I do in meetings, generally. These notes get transcribed back into some orderly data store
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by ubermonkey 4mo ago
I can try to answer for US. We're small (< 25 people). We maintained a single rack in a colo, and all the servers were showing their age. We weighed lease cost for replacement (along with hassle of actually doing it), and migrated i
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by ubermonkey 4mo ago
>If it drops, then I am not sure what the implication is exactly? Surely you understand it's inverse of an IPO that jumps after intro, right? SpaceX is not seen by investors as worth its price. This is because it is not.

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