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by zippergz 4y ago
I have to pay for electricity and water, both of which are vastly more important than internet.
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by zippergz 5y ago
I agree that this is a problem, but I don't think it is that simple in practice. My personal observation moving from a blue state to a red state a few years ago is that the quality of the service I get from the state and local governme
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by zippergz 5y ago
TikTok’s super power is tailoring the feed to the user, so this uncanny valley stuff is what your wife likes.
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by zippergz 5y ago
As a Mac user, I can tell you that people on this side of the fence have been complaining about how Apple is changing the UI to make it “fresh” for the past few years too. Maybe the changes aren’t as drastic as they are in windows, but the
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by zippergz 5y ago
Most people who buy iPhones already have multiple working chargers.
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by zippergz 5y ago
One problem I've observed first hand is that the head of customer service is measured on (among other things) the amount of money being spent on customer service (and other closely-related metrics like average contacts per order, agent
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by zippergz 5y ago
This was not my experience. I put a reservation down on a F150 Lightning, and a few hours later I got a phone call on my cell phone from a pushy sales person at the dealership, trying to convince me to choose something that's available
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by zippergz 5y ago
Instagram and Google would not even have their SSN or credit card number (if OP is being honest about how little they used those accounts), so I don't see how you can conclude that one of those is the factor...
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by zippergz 5y ago
Seems like people are eager to frame this as "see?! I told you remote would never last!" But when you look at the details, it's actually the opposite. Every Googler I know who wanted to go full-time remote was allowed to do s
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by zippergz 5y ago
I'm living proof that it is possible to simultaneously hate SPAs and understand why they are popular. I've built and worked on a number of them, I don't have a better alternative to recommend, and yet I still hate them becaus
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by zippergz 5y ago
"Nothing will change in the short term" is the story of every acquisition, almost all of which end up with major changes for the worse at some point. (So yes, I agree with you.)
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by zippergz 5y ago
Reminds me of my favorite sign that the site has been developed by people who know nothing about the web: you aren't allowed to have more than one window or tab open to the same site (looking at you, ADP).
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by zippergz 5y ago
This is currently challenging because the 5K iMac is still on Intel which I’d be hesitant to buy into at this point. Hopefully resolved soon but we don’t know exactly when or what form it will take (e.g. will the 5K iMac be an “iMac Pro” an
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by zippergz 5y ago
I actually _would_ find it useful to know if I have 50 or 10 labels left. I usually print in pretty big batches (anywhere from 20 to 200 labels at once), and it would be really nice to know if the current roll has enough to do the current b
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by zippergz 5y ago
I sold a house with a bunch of smart home stuff last year, but it was all commercial stuff, nothing like a HomeAssistant system. The buyer wanted it and I didn't (and it would have been a hassle to remove), so it was a win/win for
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by zippergz 5y ago
I mentioned it in another comment, but inhaled insulin does act much faster than injected insulin. Of course, one downside is that it requires manual dosing; it can't be managed by a pump. But it's extremely fast (and finishes qui
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by zippergz 5y ago
It's not relevant for a toddler, but for future reference, another thing to look into is inhaled insulin (brand name in the US is Afrezza, not sure if it's available elsewhere or under what names). The big benefit is that its onse
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by zippergz 5y ago
For a brief period of time, Amazon had restaurant menus too.
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by zippergz 5y ago
I went from a 13 to the new 14. For the most part it feels like the same size as the old 13, but the screen is noticeably bigger. Other than price, it's hard for me to imagine anything that is better in the 13 than the 14...
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by zippergz 5y ago
And sadly most of this is not unique to Amazon. Almost every company I have worked at over the past 15 years or so claims "we don't do stack ranking" but they do calibration and then effectively force managers to change ratin
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by zippergz 5y ago
There is no app to uninstall.
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by zippergz 5y ago
You can't debate the value of the term without considering the conditions that led to it. Why would someone call a postmortem "blameless"? Because (in some companies) there absolutely was a culture of blame, which made people
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by zippergz 5y ago
I think they have always replied to me (as a paying customer). Now, whether their reply has any relevance to the question I asked, let alone solves my problem, is another issue entirely. I have at times wondered if they just have a random r
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by zippergz 5y ago
Honest question: why? If the things that need to be done in society are getting done, why does it matter what other people spend their time on?
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by zippergz 5y ago
I did learn from the Hillegass book -- the first edition released in I believe 2002. I also had a couple of old NeXT programming manuals, and had done a tiny bit of NeXT work in the past. And I agree with the others who said Apple's de
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by zippergz 5y ago
FastAPI's docs tell you to use "def," yet the most basic Hello World example in the tutorial uses "async def." In fact most, if not all, of the examples in the tutorial use "async def." So I don't thi
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by zippergz 5y ago
I think there's a lot of "grass is greener" moves happening. Unless you have trusted friends working in a company, it is very hard to tell if it actually is better than your current situation until you've tried it. None
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by zippergz 5y ago
Yes, this is the thing that gets me. I'm paying a lot, for a bunch of separate services that have some but not complete overlap, because it's the only way to get all the stuff people in the family want. If it all worked well and w
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by zippergz 5y ago
I love how they say they are "contacting websites" as if websites are sentient beings that can respond to questions, rather than operations run by human beings who will receive and respond to the communication.
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by zippergz 5y ago
I do think that's where you're hurting yourself. I've been using Macs since before OS X came out, and in the OS X era I have never had long downtime when switching to a new machine. In the old days before Migration Assistant,

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