BluePen8

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by BluePen8 3y ago
I feel like that’s more the nature of luxury-priced products than reflection of their actual capabilities. Out of the box a Range Rover is a better off roader than a Jeep, more locking differentials, and more ground clearance, but simply th
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by BluePen8 3y ago
By the time you’re a young professional your credit is honestly pretty decently established, hell I tried to buy a house on an internship and they qualified me for a 250k mortgage with a 48k salary. Hell I know guys that went straight into
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by BluePen8 3y ago
For the ability to comfortably use my phone one handed, I found the battery trade-off worth it. But I don’t really travel far enough with just what’s on my person for it to be noticeable. At the very least I have a small bag, and some form
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by BluePen8 3y ago
I agree, and don’t really get it either. Some stores it’s even advertised that their goods are appraised at more than their price. Maybe it’s a marketing thing, but to me it just feels like fraud against whoever has to insure it (if I list
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by BluePen8 3y ago
That’s how I got a lavish engagement ring for my wife, I simply bought it used from a guy who’d bought it a year ago for a relationship that fell apart. Met him at a jewelry store and had it verified and appraised, he had the receipt for th
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by BluePen8 3y ago
Maybe I’m projecting my own personal experience, but I doubt public chargers are a significant percentage of most people’s charging. Before buying an EV, I was super concerned with public charging infrastructure. Now as an owner, I’ve only
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by BluePen8 3y ago
As someone recovering from a back injury, I was excited as hell to work from home. 6-8 weeks later, I wondered why my back hurt so damn much. I had no idea how much my office’s slow elevators and 5 flights of stairs had been helping, had to
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by BluePen8 3y ago
Do you just use virtual box for something like this? I split my time between two places, and game infrequently which means my SFF gaming PC is often still in the box until I need it, at which point Windows updates can waste the time I had f
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by BluePen8 5y ago
Unless you go through the bother of paying cash every time, it's probably pretty safe to assume VISA is selling the same data. Most gas stations are owned by large chains, I assume they're doing it too. Some stores I visit literal
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by BluePen8 5y ago
I'll be frank, the MacBooks are overpriced, and do have some of their own issues, but they're actually still the best choice. At the very least based on my own experience you should avoid HP Elitebooks, and Microsoft Surfaces, als
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by BluePen8 5y ago
Same, I was in university and kept showing up to class with my Dell Inspiron having killed it's own battery in my bag regardless how carefully I put it into sleep/hibernate. Or I'd find it nearly dead and burning hot, fans sp
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by BluePen8 5y ago
Sure but in this scenario it's a high earning google employee. I'm sure there's something they can cut back on. For anyone average or lower earning, a 2 hour commute would cost you at least 10% of your income anyways (after t
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by BluePen8 5y ago
On the flip side, I wish EV makers would advertise range at higher speeds. Hell, I wish ICE car makers would advertise MPG at higher speeds. Every weekend I head up around 200 miles away, and it's on an empty mountain pass with a 80MPH
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by BluePen8 5y ago
What about frequency of charging? I once commuted on a motorcycle with the range of my daily commute (about 120 miles). Despite how ubiquitous gas stations are, and how fast I could swipe by VISA and pump 2 gallons, it was still incredibly
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by BluePen8 5y ago
I'm excited for this, my wife is an accountant and often asks me to help her with VBA macros. Which means that for this reason alone I have to dedicate 40GB of my laptop's hard drive to a Windows partition with office, adobe, and
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by BluePen8 5y ago
Not really, ever since phones got so big, they're hard to use one handed. Thickness just exacerbates the issue. When I accidentally broke my original iPhone SE, I switched to an X and ended up having to use it caseless just to make it
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by BluePen8 5y ago
I guess the weird part is as he mentioned the enthusiastic following. That makes them actually in a higher price class of their own for what you get. As a Toyota enthusiast, even I couldn't stomach the prices being asked, and I actuall
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by BluePen8 5y ago
The missing spare tire was really just a gimmick to game some EPA mileage metric. Many cars missing them still have the spot for them, and it can even be purchased from the dealership (marked up as usual). Thankfully the oil sensor was one
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by BluePen8 5y ago
Based on what I've heard and my own experience, raises are a pittance anyways. You have to change jobs. My manager did the opposite, praised me for being the top dev, gave me a 7% raise, said that's the max they could give anyone,
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by BluePen8 5y ago
I don't actually have that much overlap with my friends in the first place. We just have a select few common interests and enjoy each other's company. I have a different circle of friends for most interests, there's not even
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by BluePen8 5y ago
There's also material differences, there's a reason the Nissan CEO from that era is currently a fugitive and on trial for financial misconduct. And not by some technicality either, he literally hired a paramilitary group to disgui
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by BluePen8 6y ago
Sadly, everything that wastefully consumes too much of my CPU cycles is usually some bloated graphical app. At my last job simply watching the logs in TravisCI via Google Chrome would slow my MacBook to a crawl. At my new job my MacBook is
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by BluePen8 6y ago
DynDNS is down.
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by BluePen8 6y ago
DynDNS is down, I assume it's because of that?
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by BluePen8 6y ago
And support for when it doesn't go to plan. An entrepreneur parent will empathize, as odds are they've experienced setbacks themselves. Most ideas and first attempts fail, I'd imagine people are more likely to try again if th
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by BluePen8 6y ago
With the caveat that as long as it doesn't require physical space. With the cost of space in any major city, anything that requires a workshop, working space, or significant storage space is out of the window nowadays for anyone in a m
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by BluePen8 6y ago
I have, they literally just don't reply. Although losing some of your Hz sucks, the one that's driving me insane is the bug when you have an external both vertical and scaled. The cursor position seems to display relative to the n
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by BluePen8 6y ago
The code and compilation for me is the light part, and for the most part an hour's worth of essentially text editing for about a moment of compilation anyways. My resource hogs are slack, mainly the browser, and Zoom calls are apparent
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by BluePen8 6y ago
The MBP16 actually can do 4 displays if they're only 4k displays. It's why I bought one over a MBP13 which can only do 2. The two limit seems to be for 6016x3384 which I assume is 5k.
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by BluePen8 6y ago
I think his words are being mischaracterized here a bit, he admitted they are having success, but is simply taking issue with their absurd valuation relative to their actual success. That being said, given Toyota's tendency to shy away

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