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by vehemenz 4y ago
This sounds like a nightmare. Following this reasoning, all children would be subject the whims of their backwards city or rural enclave. Parents will have more of an ability to brainwash their kids, I suppose, but that's not what we u
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Can you though? I am trying to build a custom keyboard. It's exhausting to sort through the bad layouts, tacky RGB cases, and ugly keycaps. Custom keycap sets rarely have legends for function/media keys. If I find something I like
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by vehemenz 4y ago
It's not a matter of bad faith or bad manners. There are numerous ways to solve the problems you are interested in that don't involve wasting so much energy or enriching rent-seeking grifters.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
From my experience and from the comments here, frisson seems to be highly personal—what works for you won't work for me. And we can all agree that there is more going on than subverted expectations. My two cents: context often plays a
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I agree, but why present the facade of collecting bug reports via a community forum? Years ago Spotify implemented gapless playback because people asked for it. Then they got rid of mail because it wasn’t popular enough. I think they have t
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by vehemenz 4y ago
It seems like Spotify’s developers are cut off from public input. For example, when the Electron client was released, they removed the standard back/forward keyboard shortcuts native to macOS (cmd+[ and cmd+]). Clearly, this was a regr
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I think the post is more about what Oak can do as a proof language. Obviously, anyone can pick apart the argument.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Just because the author used only confirmatory evidence doesn't mean that there isn't a correlation or a causal factor at play. The author didn't posit a theory; he merely pointed out that the maps are interesting. Which they
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Thank you. The overlays are enlightening, and I was confused by the title and the lack of negative commentary accompanying these maps.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Knowing what we know now, wouldn't follow-up services leave a paper trail for the civil suits?
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Is it a failure of capitalism if semi-rich people can't afford to live among rich people on the coasts?
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by vehemenz 5y ago
My back-of-the-napkin math suggests you are in a high COL area. It's not an indictment of capitalism if you choose to live in a desirable area, have a generous salary, and just can't make it work. That or you are mishandling your
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Anyone making six figures can live like a king almost anywhere in the US. Capitalism.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
What's the alternative? This is true of many historical facts we take for granted. The earliest accounts of Jesus were written only one generation after Jesus's death. Plenty of first-hand accounts were still available. There are
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Electric cars for rich people is innovation?
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Probably more due to Half-Life, TFC, and CS. The enormous player bases were forced to adopt Steam. And then Valve continued to put a few more good games. Honestly CS:S was a bit of a miss—largely considered a failure by the 1.6 community—bu
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Invisible walls and automatic aiming. It ruins the experience for anyone trying to get better at it. Especially now, with automatic matchmaking. You have to climb the ranks and beat the cheaters, whereas before you just had to know which se
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Funny, I think Quake 2 or Unreal Tournament were both better, respectively. Most likely an age thing. To be fair they were all pretty good.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
> What I think of as the golden age of FPS games happened shortly after, in 98, with the release of Half-Life and Unreal. I think there are two components to this: the quality of the games and the community. Modern shooters like Overwatc
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by vehemenz 5y ago
You're implying Twitter is worth using at *this* point. Removing the irredeemable 20% from our collective feeds might actually make a Twitter a more positive place and worth using again.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
The claim here is that people are priced out of Macs, not that they aren't more expensive. If a Mac is $2100 instead of $700, that's only a few hundred dollars more per year, or $20-30 a month. In the US, $20 or $30 is negligible
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I forgot about that—an even better value. Thanks for the correction.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
About the final point—are Macs really "high cost"? Looking at their current lineup, configured with a minimum of 16GB and 512GB: M1 Mac Mini .......... $1099 M1 MacBook Air ....... $1399 M1 iMac ......,....... $1699 M1 P
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I'm not sure I buy the premise of the question. Professional web developers don't have time to create elaborate abstractions for the sake of making their code "semantic" and easily understood by visitors reading their we
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by vehemenz 5y ago
The framing of this issue by party, political candidate, or support for recent political movements—as media narratives are wont to do—obscures the fact that red states are poorer, less educated, and score lower on most quality of life measu
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Politicians have to be wealthy and connected, so it's not too surprising that they attend elite institutions. I see it as more of a correlation than a requirement.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Berkeley/Cal system/California are outliers, but they could be a sign of what's to come for medium-to-large sized public systems, such as those in the Big Ten. There are some good ideas here. - Quarterly semesters would reduc
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Anecdotally, I've seen that TP-Link routers are ubiquitous in Chinese households. I don't draw any conclusions from that, but I did stop buying TP-Link devices. It would be nice if the US took import controls as seriously as expor
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Compared to what though? Reading some of the responses here, virtually no one has mentioned the fact that Israel's middle eastern neighbors, and more broadly, most of the Muslim world, are also oppressive ethnostates that treat Jews si
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I find this ironic too. I get NYT via my institution, and on the actual app there are ads, but when I browse on the website, logged in with uBO, there is nothing.

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