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by zippergz 11y ago
Probably because of memory limitations; I would be surprised to see it ever come to older devices because they were already pretty memory-constrained.
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by zippergz 11y ago
Yup. I use it everywhere I can, but it's still a very small percentage of the places I shop. And I live in a major U.S. Metro area, shopping at very normal places. I also run into stuff like Subway keeping the terminal behind the count
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by zippergz 11y ago
The worst part in my eyes is that at least with some registrars (I experienced this with Dotster), you have to disable whois privacy in order to transfer the domain away. They don't let you receive the authorization code at the anony
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by zippergz 11y ago
I live in a neighborhood where Teslas, BMW 7-Series, etc. are far more common than Hondas. Lots of money, and very status-conscious. And I can't imagine seeing this on any of the houses on my street. If you are the kind of person who h
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by zippergz 11y ago
Yes. When I lived in an apartment building, I wouldn't have cared if one of my neighbors occasionally rented out their spare bedroom to a friend of a friend. But when half of the units in the building are renting out rooms, and some of
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by zippergz 11y ago
> a licensed cab cannot refuse to take you to your destination! They "cannot" but they have done it to me many times in several cities. I also once had a cabbie try to strongarm me into giving a ridiculously huge tip (~100%) &q
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by zippergz 11y ago
I think this is something that's better on paper than in practice. I have apps for controlling almost everything that happens on my TV, and the only time I prefer it is when I need to type in some long string of text. Otherwise I'
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by zippergz 11y ago
I fear we are part of a small self-selecting group that has chosen the convenience to living in densely populated, well connected cities I think there's also the issue of differing definitions of "convenience." I used to li
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by zippergz 11y ago
Maybe it's gotten better in recent years, but last time I tried consumer hardware (Linksys), there were actual hardware problems like overheating that didn't get any better with alternative firmware. My Linksys routers (I went thr
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by zippergz 11y ago
The biggest problem I have with skiplagged is that I know the airlines WILL find a way to prevent this if people are doing it en masse. Make no mistake. And it's virtually guaranteed that whatever they do to stop it will not benefit pa
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by zippergz 12y ago
People bring this up as an objection all the time, and I think it always comes from people who have never actually had a car with this feature. First, as mentioned earlier, every car I've had with pushbutton start will not let you star
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by zippergz 12y ago
Eh, I spent a few months carefully experimenting with Aeropress methods, and while I got good results, I never got anything that I liked as much as what I get from my French press, which I also find less fiddly (e.g. with the French press,
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by zippergz 12y ago
I've had a few instances where my wife has the key in her purse, which allows the car to be started, and I don't even realize I don't have my key on me. I drop her off somewhere and then notice. But both of our cars sound a l
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by zippergz 12y ago
I'm not sure why you feel compelled to defend a company you don't know anything about, but suffice it to say that I've been in the workforce long enough to have plenty of perspective on this, and it was not paranoia.
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by zippergz 12y ago
This depends on the company, though. I worked from home for a while for a company that didn't have a culture of allowing it. I talked my way into it due to some unique circumstances. I found that I was actually chained to my desk more
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by zippergz 12y ago
We used to do it over 10Base-T, which is slower than a lot of residential connections now. Well, latency will be higher over the internet, but bandwidth will be ok.
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by zippergz 12y ago
You can mount the volume on more than one instance at the same time, which you can't do with EBS.
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by zippergz 12y ago
On the one hand, I've been wanting something like this for a while. On the other hand, I have so many bad memories of problems caused by NFS in production from the 90s that I'm leery.
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by zippergz 12y ago
Stating the stock in a dollar amount makes it harder to evaluate. I know that recruiters love to do that, but it obfuscates some important factors. That said, this doesn't seem out of line with the compensation I've seen for that
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by zippergz 12y ago
Maybe I'm just subscribed to the wrong ones, but the Spotify playlists I'm subscribed to don't update that often, and they aren't that long. If I listen for hours a day, there's no way the Spotify playlists will k
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by zippergz 12y ago
Many music artists don't want to give off the impression of being greedy. They know that selling tickets for $500 or $1000 will make them look bad, and piss off a lot of fans. Fans are still pissed off when scalpers buy up the tickets,
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by zippergz 12y ago
Fixed in what way? I prefer Apple's Mail app, but I use the Gmail app when I want to look at a label or something, and it seems to work fine.
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by zippergz 12y ago
Really? My experience in their bricks and mortar stores is that I can barely get someone to talk to me when I I want to buy something. Kind of the opposite problem, but almost as frustrating.
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by zippergz 12y ago
The problem I have with the cost of living argument is that, while housing tends to be cheaper, an iPad or a new car is not. That lower salary hurts everywhere except in mortgage or rent. And I say this as someone who has never lived in the
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by zippergz 12y ago
Clearly it depends on your business and how you measure the value. I've worked for companies that spent over $5k/mo on Mailchimp and thought it quite worth it.
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by zippergz 12y ago
What are the good irc networks and channels these days? I haven't been on in many, many years. I used to mostly hand out on undernet.
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by zippergz 12y ago
I live in the US and I don't think I've ever known anyone with a peanut allergy either...
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by zippergz 12y ago
There's a difference between "there's no benefit at all" and "the benefits don't outweigh the downsides." There are many benefits of the Nest smoke detector. Easier to test. Easier to silence a false alarm
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by zippergz 12y ago
Indeed, the only thing I use the third-party sites for is search. For example, to get a quick overview of which airlines have flights to the place I'm going to, or what the available hotels are and their relative prices. And then I go
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by zippergz 12y ago
You say "in the US." Does that mean you've found other countries to be significantly quieter? I don't think I have, but I'm genuinely curious about this. Have there been any studies on the average sound levels in pu

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