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by zippergz 4y ago
Yeah, I mean, I think the "flight models are too accurate to be fun" thing is true in some cases, but it's a different issue than I'm complaining about. For me, I'd rather have super accurate flight models and reall
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by zippergz 4y ago
I've always enjoyed xplane but one thing I find annoying is that it seems like sometimes they emphasize visuals and cool effects (like 3d cockpits) at the expense of making the planes fun and practical to fly from a normal computer set
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by zippergz 4y ago
Dedicated admins make it even worse, because they have the bandwidth and inclination to do all kinds of crazy customization, which is what takes jira from merely bad to terrible. The worst jira instances I've ever seen are the ones tha
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by zippergz 4y ago
I did similar things for many years, but at the end of the day I found that I was just adding friction for myself and not getting any real benefit. Yeah, I can see who has sold (or inadvertently leaked) my information, but then what? Don&#x
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by zippergz 4y ago
Most home inspectors are beholden to real estate agents. While it may seem like you are the client because you are paying them, at the end of the day it's the real estate agent they want to make happy, so they keep sending them busines
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by zippergz 4y ago
Yeah, I think the sibling comment has a point that I hadn't thought of. It does seem to depend on what you support. I currently have about 10 Patreon subscriptions, and zero where I consume any content at all via the Patreon website or
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by zippergz 4y ago
What features should Patreon have? I'm not paying for website features. I am paying to support creators I like. I'd actually be happier if the platform did even less. Just get the money to the people I want to support in a low-fri
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by zippergz 4y ago
We have used house call vets for many years, and they are wonderful in terms of experience for the animals. However, in my experience they are universally far more expensive than clinics (which we still go to sometimes if it's semi-urg
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by zippergz 4y ago
The app developer has to specifically support Family Sharing if they want to allow people to share subscriptions.
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by zippergz 4y ago
DNS is not the hard part of DMARC. It’s identifying ALL of the legitimate sources of mail from your domain, and keeping up as they change. Easy enough for a hobbyist, but often challenging for even small business.
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by zippergz 4y ago
That was WELL under 20% of their workforce. I think it was 1 or 2%.
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by zippergz 4y ago
For many years post-smartphone I did still use the integrated GPS in our cars. Even though the data and UI was generally (not universally) worse, having it on the comparatively big screen in a central spot, controlling it with the steering
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by zippergz 4y ago
Amusing that people buy hammers when you can use a rock for free.
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by zippergz 4y ago
I worked in a university system for a while, and my observation is that the expectations have absolutely grown. Yes, someone has to be the first to think of some new thing to sell, but once they do, all of their competitors have to do the s
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by zippergz 4y ago
In my experience (in several US states) it has never been "offered to sell me." It has been "the seller is including a home warranty [whether you want it or not]." One time I tried turning it down, and was basically told
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by zippergz 4y ago
For me the biggest advantage is that it doesn’t make my mouse have to live so far off to the right like a keyboard with a numpad would.
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by zippergz 4y ago
It's much more strange to me that people WOULD let strangers use their cell phone. Back when it was just a phone, sure. But now it's my wallet with all of my credit cards and banking loaded on it, it has all of my passwords and al
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by zippergz 4y ago
I don't consider more frequent updates to be a good thing, either. Yes, of course, I want things to be fixed if they're broken. But when automakers take the route of smartphone apps, where they're updating once a month or mor
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by zippergz 4y ago
I have no vested interest in selling billing products, and my experience is that billing is somewhat unique in the delta between how hard people who have never done it THINK it is, and how hard it actually is. There are many hard things tha
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by zippergz 4y ago
I don't disagree with any of this, but really these are problems with every goal-setting framework I have experienced in my career. Similar to performance review frameworks. It isn't the framework that sucks; it is the exercise it
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by zippergz 4y ago
Indeed, I desperately want a smaller phone, but I heavily use the camera on my phone and in the end I decided I wasn't willing to give up camera quality for the iPhone Mini. So Apple's data may suggest that I don't want a sma
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by zippergz 4y ago
The emotion is the entirely predictable market overreaction to rate changes we all knew would eventually be coming. Market swings are drastically out of proportion to the actual impact these rate changes will have on the underlying business
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by zippergz 4y ago
It's another meeting on my calendar potentially interrupting whatever deep focus I was in. Alongside standup, sprint planning, demo, sprint review, backlog grooming, and whatever other non-agile meetings there are. It's an hour pl
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by zippergz 4y ago
Do you also not see the point of art?
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by zippergz 4y ago
No, this is not how these systems work. You're correct that they don't say "fraud/no fraud" but they generate a score (like a credit score) based on a massive number of inputs, and there are thresholds over which ac
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by zippergz 4y ago
That's awesome. Congrats!
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by zippergz 4y ago
Metrowerks doesn't even exist anymore does it?
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by zippergz 4y ago
Unlikely. I've been a regular user since 2006 and both on the web and the apps, the algo timeline has been there for a long time but I never use it.
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by zippergz 4y ago
Is this why audio playback glitches on my M1 Mac when I'm using it but not doing anything particularly heavy?
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by zippergz 4y ago
I don't know why I found this so funny, but it gave me a real laugh this evening.

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