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by vehemenz 3y ago
Ironically, it's exactly because a generation grew up with the MCU films—and very little else—during Hollywood's "down" period that they're unable to contextualize and evaluate those films on their lack of critica
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A more compelling thesis would be that the MCU films presided over a vacuum of good blockbusters during a period of decline in American cinema, brought about by risk-averse studios during the mortgage crisis. The legacy of the films—technic
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Trains are better than self-driving cars. China's electric cars don't need self-driving because they have developed world train infrastructure, while the US doesn't.
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I do recall the win2k-specific compatibility issues with games. However, everyone I knew was still using it. In reality I think it might have become more popular just before XP, as compatibility issues were worked out. XP adoption was very
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Public-facing tweets are a huge part of Twitter's value proposition. Between this, removal of verification, and publish.twitter.com being broken, I wonder how many of the biggest outlets and organizations will continue to abide Twitter
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by vehemenz 3y ago
From Microsoft's perspective, you're right, but for all intents and purposes, Windows 2000 Professional was a consumer operating system. It was better than 98 as a consumer OS and more functional than NT for everything else. Libra
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This is something I noticed in China. I lived in a 3-bed, 1450 sqft apartment in Xicheng, Beijing that had a great layout. It went up six stories and had a single staircase, four apartments per story. Having light on both sides of an apartm
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by vehemenz 3y ago
How about a hard mode that doesn't tell you what the answer is until you're done? Process of elimination makes the last 50 pretty easy if you look through the dropdown.
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I never looked into the release history, but I ran a server with 4.10 for 8 or 9 years and never felt the need to upgrade it.
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Safetyism is a contributing cause, but children have far fewer siblings than they used to. This means it's harder to go outside semi-supervised, and parents are more protective of their kids because there are fewer of them. Differences
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I don't really disagree with your points, but I would still advocate for steel over carbon because the extra cost of good carbon isn't worth it. You're saving a few seconds on a climb. Recreational cycling has normalized spen
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Yeah, that's kind of the flaw in this argument. The main conclusion is basically correct, but steel rusts and aluminum doesn't. Plus aluminum is light enough to warrant upgrading over steel, and it barely costs anything more.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Why is car-only infrastructure required? In my comment I point out structural problems with American infrastructure, but your comment seems to ignore that.
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I like the form factor of a laptop though, plus the touchpad. The only superfluous part is the built-in keyboard. I already have a keyboard (an HHKB).
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I agree that people buy way more car than they need. However, should poor people and teenagers have to own cars, considering they wouldn't be expected to anywhere else in the world? It's a big expense and part of the underlying pr
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Even if you pay for all the services, it can be annoying to find where the game is, assuming it's not blacked out. The pirate streams are great because you can just click on the game you want and watch it. You don't have to flip b
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by vehemenz 3y ago
It would never happen, but I'd like to have a no-keyboard option. I never use my laptop keyboard because I have an HHKB, rendering it unnecessary. Instead of a keyboard, I'd like a flat surface where I can rest my HHKB and maybe a
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by vehemenz 3y ago
It’s as conplex as you want it to be. My household has a high savings rate, around 50-60%, so I don’t actively monitor anything monthly. A few times a year I will dump excess savings into retirement, college funds, etc.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
That’s quite a lot of metaphysical speculation for a conclusion that is all but clear.
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Every modern password manager has this capability built in.
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> Especially since they're the only non-Chromium and v8 engine out there aside from Safari, which is also owned by a massive for profit company. You know, it's not necessarily a bad thing that another enormous company is compet
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by vehemenz 3y ago
About as good as Chrome in most areas, but the performance is poorer. They're serviceable.
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At the end of the day, Arc is a Chromium browser with a novel UI paradigm. I used it as my daily driver for six months, but I concluded that whatever problem it solves isn't really worth solving. Rather, it doesn't offer enough of
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Only if the new terminology is better and actually adds something. Does adopting half-baked concepts from TikTokers really add anything here?
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I think the parent is wondering why consumers care about novelty ("varied taste") instead of quality. Of course, you can have both or neither. I don't know, but the epics of Homer lasted thousands of years because, presumably
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by vehemenz 3y ago
If you want to go back further, Netflix's streaming service was worse than the DVD mail service (during its life span, of course) in terms of selection and cost. A good business finds ways to extract more value out of less capital over
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by vehemenz 3y ago
"Gaslighting" has an old etymology, but its usage as a pop psychology term is recent and mostly a Zoomer phenomenon. Applying it to the history of television strikes me as presentism.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
These are reasonable caveats, but I don’t think this disqualifies Safari as not worth writing about if you’re a so-called tech journalist. There are way more Apple-only users than Firefox users.
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I'm surprised one can write an entire article on browser sync and not mention Safari, Chrome's main competitor.
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VSCode and JetBrains are better overall, but many of the good editing features of Vim are available via their respective Vim emulation plugins. It is still worth it to learn and use Vim mode for efficiency (in my opinion).

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