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by wharvle 3y ago
If it's like iOS devices, I'd assume less than a second to interactive, potentially so fast that most people don't notice it isn't instant. If it's like macOS, maybe 2-3 seconds to interactive.
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by wharvle 3y ago
There's either got to be a big generational gap on preference for this, or a lot of folks out there have developed mousing ambidexterity.
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by wharvle 3y ago
What's booting? Nothing I use with any frequency gets rebooted except for updates, more or less. Exception: non-Apple stuff. Because those things tend to die while "sleeping" and unplugged, very quickly (my secondary work Win
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by wharvle 3y ago
Like so many Apple things, I thought AirPods were dumb until I got some (as a gift). I'd tried some Logitech wireless earbuds just a couple months before first trying AirPods. Those were dumb. God they sucked. I've avoided the W
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by wharvle 3y ago
The good news is that addressing this kind of thing is the hot topic in gifted education, and has been for some time. The “I suddenly got very dumb” story’s nigh-universality has been noticed, and they’re working on fixing it. The bad new
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by wharvle 3y ago
I’m pretty sure the entire premise is more than a little facetious, and the author already knows this.
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by wharvle 3y ago
This is everywhere. We made everyone their own secretary but gave them crappy tools and no training. Also they’re never gonna be doing it more than very part-time, so will always tend to be bad at it and find it a distraction from the work
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by wharvle 3y ago
First Dorf on Golf, now Dorf on Dwarf Fortress. What’ll that little guy do next? For those who aren’t old enough to be familiar with Dorf: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorf_(character)
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by wharvle 3y ago
I could have this figured as more of an exponential curve when it’s really as S-curve with your E-8s and your mid-scale officers on roughly the same flattish (but fairly high!) part. Could be I’ve got that bit wrong. I do think the really h
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by wharvle 3y ago
At the time I used it, it was almost worth it just to use RN for Android even if you did iOS in Swift, just because styling on Android was so hellish ("There must be some non-crazy way to set a default typeface for my app. Right?&quo
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by wharvle 3y ago
I'd say $200k is about the floor, including enlisted, not just officers. Assuming they did 20 years in, they should be able to land at least that much for a boring office job in the US and if they didn't have something notable wor
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by wharvle 3y ago
Getting to watch things like Mormonism (and, to some extent, Scientology, though that's a bit of a different beast) develop under conditions that provide pretty good records and a variety of disinterested accounts, has definitely been
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by wharvle 3y ago
The real monsters, and with the most dangerous beliefs and mythology, which are just as much beliefs and mythology as the religious despite their protests that claiming they have beliefs or mythology or even are anything is nonsensical, a
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by wharvle 3y ago
Yeah, the "+" is doing some heavy lifting there :-) 3x is what you can basically just fall into after military retirement without trying very hard, with a bad network, and with poor luck. Another factor is that your expenses can b
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by wharvle 3y ago
20 years in + take retirement + also work for a government contractor at 3x+ your former pay rate (while collecting retirement!), can equal a lot of money in a hurry at a relatively young age (say, money to fund a real estate investment
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by wharvle 3y ago
We have three kids. When two are gone for some reason (sleepover, staying with family, whatever) we're always like "holy shit, one kid is barely harder than no kids!"
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by wharvle 3y ago
Maybe. Looks to be a bit (... by Pacific standards, so, hundreds of miles) off the Easternmost part of the Pacific that would have seen lots of air traffic in the war, which should leave it relatively clear, but I may be wrong. [EDIT] I sti
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by wharvle 3y ago
A lot of the truly-good actors get called character actors and are considered less important than less-versatile leads. And of course sometimes (often, perhaps) leads are good, versatile actors but every director keeps demanding the same,
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by wharvle 3y ago
You can expect whatever you want. Meanwhile, one policy may result in what you want actually happening, and another may not.
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by wharvle 3y ago
The collaborative-working-environment, potentially on the go (from your hotel room, not a dedicated space or something) stuff looks really cool, but also very niche (and is only cool if it actually works well, obviously). They may find enou
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by wharvle 3y ago
I love transcripts because I basically can’t both take notes and actively pay attention (this was a huge problem with my trig and calc teacher in high school who insisted everyone take notes the entire class period and would get mad at you
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by wharvle 3y ago
Comparing “up to” with median is setting off my bullshit alarm.
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by wharvle 3y ago
House roofs in the US are often quite steep, and typically asphalt shingles over plywood. Terra cotta exists but is rare outside certain regions (and not that common even in those). Wood shingles exist but most are terrible, most still ar
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by wharvle 3y ago
1) The time it takes for the panels to recoup their costs is already long. 2) Now the panels have to be removed and re-installed any time those parts of the roof are worked on. That's expensive. Roofing companies tend not to like solar
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by wharvle 3y ago
Future maintenance now has to involve removing the panels, then installing them again afterward. That's a lot of extra work (so, money). Lots of roofers hate solar and won't touch it (they've worked on many roofs solar inst
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by wharvle 3y ago
We got some. I'd been skeptical that screwing with your roof that much was a good idea, but so many people do it and seem happy about it... it must be OK? TL;DR never again. Way too expensive for what it gains you, way too much risk (t
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by wharvle 3y ago
Part of the shift to a large standing army is probably the MIC milking the taxpayer, as many suppose. Another part, however, is that the pace of war is so high and the minimum required level of training and military organizational capabil
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by wharvle 3y ago
Kind... of. Both won by having enormously higher stakes and will to fight. Plus a ton of foreign aid. And neighboring friendly or at least too-disorganized-to-resist countries the US was reluctant (but not always wholly unwilling) to engag
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by wharvle 3y ago
Folks also complain about modern movies being bad while only being aware of like 1% of fairly major ones that came out in the most recent year. There are so many likely-to-be-good movies every year that I can’t keep up, personally. Or the
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by wharvle 3y ago
I found the nonlinearity thing overhyped. It was fine, but on par with, like, Fallout 2. But not quite on that level, even. Not some revelation. Actually, kinda worse than that, because good and evil are more-explicit in BG3. It presents an

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