jeffbax

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by jeffbax 1y ago
I would have bought the 13 mini except at the time the 13 Pro's 3x camera, 120hz and better battery was notable. Now I kind of dread what will be available when it's time to finally upgrade this year. Am sure they could make a new
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by jeffbax 1y ago
Walmart+ has the basic Paramount+ included fwiw
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by jeffbax 2y ago
There’s a pretty fundamental difference between consoles and smartphones. Including that most consoles are sold at a loss or close to it vs. allegedly being an open platform like iOS and android. Epic being such an important partner to all
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by jeffbax 2y ago
They kind of do with the GPT, but it’s not as simple as just opening a Windows exe. Need to go through the motions of configuring per game as it’s not meant to be end user software. And I don’t think you can publish games using it directly.
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by jeffbax 2y ago
I'll never forget the first time I booted up GLQuake. The mid/late 90s was a really special time in gaming getting to watch 3D games really get off the ground.
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by jeffbax 3y ago
As an Apple user and web dev, I like some of their restrictions because I prefer incentive to build native apps for things I do all the time. They’re usually showing a lot more polish and integration. Every time Twitter or Instagram bring u
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by jeffbax 5y ago
No, for decades DHH was almost obnoxiously pretty far left. That he is now being labeled a nazi for saying we went too far with masks and that crypto might have a use after all because the ability for government to cut off all your money wi
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by jeffbax 5y ago
Whether DHH is a dick (he is) or at times a diva, he’s literally none of the things this Twitter account is trying to label him as. To call him far right is ludicrous, and pretty much the exact absurdity he’s often writing about in regards
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by jeffbax 6y ago
CodeWeavers apparently has WINE running through Rosetta 2, which is wild from a technical standpoint and gives me hope for my older PC games. https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jwhite/2020/11/10/its-gr
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by jeffbax 7y ago
Same with Didi in China, not sure about the Russian ride shares though
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by jeffbax 7y ago
Charter cities are things that exist conceptually. Most famously Hong Kong and Singapore “special administrative zones”, but there are increasingly initiatives on the horizon trying to help fix institutions in countries lacking them around
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by jeffbax 7y ago
Yeah, comparing WeWork to FANG is pretty silly. The benefits that matter are the massive salary on top of max 401k matching and 3 gourmet meals a day. Free coffee and beer doesn't begin to compare (not that I don't think what WeWo
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by jeffbax 7y ago
Churches provide a lot of charity and communal support in most places where they are still relevant. Community masters, one of the reasons that SLC has the highest income mobility in the country
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by jeffbax 7y ago
Not to mention the pension bomb waiting to go off. That's one big thing that'll help reverse brain drain in most blue states at some point. Source: grew up in NJ and lives in MA
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by jeffbax 7y ago
I don't see how moving from Boston to NYC or SF solves anything you're referring to. Boston is younger than both and while expensive to live still cheaper. NYC is full of tinder box apartments. The dating pool in SF is way more lo
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by jeffbax 7y ago
The alleged "socialist" success stories tend to have strong labor laws, but also much less business regulation and be much more free market than the typical American has been led to believe. Sweden for example has no minimum wage
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by jeffbax 7y ago
I don't know if it's 5g or not but I have 300-500Mb wireless internet in Boston right now. There's at least two companies doing it.
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by jeffbax 7y ago
I can't say for sure, but I have a hard time believing a lot of our spend is less efficient than other nations (just like our spend on most sectors of the economy that are heavily government-involved, like healthcare and education wher
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by jeffbax 7y ago
Actually, taller is not necessarily more efficient… Consistent 6 stories may even be optimal: https://twitter.com/alfred_twu/status/1097802322627813376
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by jeffbax 7y ago
These kinds of articles are laughably tone deaf.
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by jeffbax 7y ago
"Economists are virtually unanimous in concluding that rent controls are destructive. In a 1990 poll of 464 economists published in the May 1992 issue of the American Economic Review, 93 percent of U.S. respondents agreed, either compl
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by jeffbax 7y ago
If you want an article that makes LA schools look bad, it would probably be this one: https://www.city-journal.org/html/worst-union-america-13470....
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by jeffbax 7y ago
Not sure about Mountain View but in SF its > 60% https://sf.curbed.com/2018/7/12/17565192/housing-needs-trend... It's a disastrous policy, and one of the main reasons SF housing is such a mess. T
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by jeffbax 7y ago
Fortunately modern Quake engines handle making it look closer to the software renderer in those regards...
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by jeffbax 7y ago
Same w/ my Voodoo2. I keep meaning to frame it.
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by jeffbax 7y ago
I think you're putting too much weight into Picketty's fairly contentious conclusions. https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/99455/... https://www.econlib.org&#x
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by jeffbax 7y ago
While not any HQs, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook and (pretty sure in some form) Apple are all in the greater Boston area and certainly have had an impact on salaries. As for funding: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08
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by jeffbax 7y ago
Related: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/la... https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/th...
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by jeffbax 7y ago
The tastiest burger
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by jeffbax 7y ago
Well, if the future moves on to streaming and they can't keep pace with Microsoft or Google's infrastructure advantages… I think there's a lot of uncertainty in the market as strong as they might be with the PS4. In a world w

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