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by applecore 3y ago
Before you take Sasha Chapin's advice to blow up your life seriously, ask yourself whether you envy the life he's living. > My existence really started getting good when I started blowing up my life more regularly, with a su
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by applecore 4y ago
What does China know about COVID-19 that the rest of us do not? Why put in place such a severe policy of forced internment, in response to very few cases, when cheap and plentiful vaccines are available? (Never mind that mRNA vaccines have
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by applecore 4y ago
They're too slippery to go without a case.
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by applecore 5y ago
> And my money is that they'll use whatever volume they free up to mindlessly make the phone thinner. Thinner is absolutely better. The ergonomics and lightness of the iPhones 6 through 8 are far superior to the thick and heavy iP
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by applecore 5y ago
Wow. How has the battery in your MacBook Pro not died after 12 years?
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Renting Is Cheaper Than Buying in All 50 Major Metro Areas in the United States(nytimes.com)
37 points by applecore 5y ago|51 comments
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by applecore 5y ago
> Life is short (or so I’m told) :(
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by applecore 6y ago
1) This looks like a ripoff of https://wiki.tripsit.me/wiki/Main_Page 2) Whatever happened to taking a bunch of hard drugs with your friends and seeing what happens? Kids these days with their "trip sitters"
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by applecore 6y ago
A lot of Berkshire Hathaway's businesses sell overpriced sugar or cheap junk.
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by applecore 6y ago
I'm surprised that AirPods didn't support automatic device switching until now. I assumed a lot of people with AirPods would want to switch the audio seamlessly between their iPhone and an iPad or Mac. Any idea why it took so long
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by applecore 6y ago
Great to finally see some competition in this space. Like a lot of other lesser-known industries, private equity has consolidated all the top self-storage software management solutions. SpareFoot acquired SiteLink[1]. The combined SpareFoot
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by applecore 8y ago
Likely, a smaller phone in the form factor of the (now discontinued) iPhone SE.
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by applecore 8y ago
Do browsers not have the concept of Background App Refresh when the tab is not active or visible? Do popular apps like Gmail or Slack not support this?
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by applecore 8y ago
Are you sure it wasn't the apps you were running?
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by applecore 8y ago
Can I limit resources per tab? I'd like to give Slack 1GB of memory and one processor core so I don't have it maxing out my CPU and cache every day.
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by applecore 8y ago
Plus, iOS 12 is going to significantly improve performance on all devices as far back as the iPhone 5S. When was the last time a major Android update made five-year-old devices faster? https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-12-p
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by applecore 8y ago
Does this fix the plethora of UI bugs introduced by iOS 11? By comparison, the final release of iOS 10 was very stable.
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by applecore 9y ago
Are their growth rates comparable?
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by applecore 9y ago
You don't need more than 8GB of memory. I doubt anyone could notice a difference in real world performance between 8GB and 16GB. The PCIe-based SSD in the Macbook Pro is so fast that virtual memory is equivalent to RAM for all practica
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by applecore 10y ago
Elon Musk's businesses have benefited from billions in federal and state government subsidies and low-interest loan programs over the years. He's taking huge risks because other people are footing the bill.
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by applecore 10y ago
Minor nitpick: n^2 isn't the correct factor to describe hyperscale networks. It's much slower, probably n x log n .
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by applecore 10y ago
Classic papers can be worth reading but it's still useful to know what's trending. Even a simple algorithm would be effective: the number of citations for each paper decayed by the age of the paper in years.
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by applecore 10y ago
What else is new? Elon Musk's businesses have benefited from billions in federal and state government subsidies and low-interest loan programs over the years. The American taxpayer has been backing Musk since long before the current pr
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The Happy City: A $20 Trillion Opportunity(mrmoneymustache.com)
4 points by applecore 10y ago|0 comments
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Mark Cuban on Why You Need to Study Artificial Intelligence(bothsidesofthetable.com)
191 points by applecore 10y ago|130 comments
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by applecore 10y ago
Tesla batteries only show very little degradation because their capacity is limited by software[1]. You can "increase" your battery capacity by ordering a $9,000 software update. [1]: https://electrek.co/2016/
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by applecore 10y ago
That's $10 million per employee (at a $20B valuation). That's not a lot of when you consider they're building a product that will book billions of dollars in advertising revenue.
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by applecore 10y ago
You want to grow your startup? It's much easier when you Make Something People Want.
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by applecore 10y ago
>A collectivist state has not become the dominating power, but wealthy individuals and corporations have, although with similar results... Seriously? The current state of affairs is nothing compared to the socialist/communist nigh
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A Carbon Tax: The Climate Deal Everyone Really Wants(bloomberg.com)
2 points by applecore 10y ago|0 comments

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