lambda_lover

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by lambda_lover 8y ago
It's great that you're willing to die for Tesla's profit, but you realize that autonomous vehicle-induced crashes affect everyone on the road? Even someone who doesn't consent to Tesla's TOS is still sharing the ro
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
The QC35s also only need the battery for wireless use/active noise cancelling, so even if your battery dies on you you can still use them with a wire and a standard 3.5 mm jack. That is, assuming you still have a 3.5mm port to plug tha
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
It's not the battery life per charge, it's the battery life span . Similar to iPhones (which are rated for only 500 charge cycles because gotta pad those profit margins... so good luck using one battery for even 2 years), AirPods
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
So if I go to my local library and check out a copy of the book (that my taxes paid for, presumably) I'm stealing from the author? I pirate most of my ebooks because they're typically poorly made ports of the physical books. When
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
If I recall correctly one was created by a non-Telegram dev as a bit of a fanproject, and eventually adopted by the company as a pseudo-official app. At some point actual Telegram devs decided to create (I think ) Telegram for Desktop base
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
Your discussion of "real time video chat clients" has me cracking up; it seemed that a myriad of pieces of software had this figured out in the 2000s, but today I can't think of a single piece of software that I'd actual
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
As an aside, I could save $XXXX a year by having a roommate/living in a worse house/having a crappier car/never going out for drinks/etc. The list goes on. There is an incredible number of things your average first world
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
Their share structure prevents them from ending up in ETFs, so one of the largest segments of investors literally won't be able to invest in them. Seems more like VC wanting to cash out and leave employees who can't sell their sh
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
I'm curious to hear more from you on this, because I've always felt like Facebook-imposed censorship would be far worse than open dialogue on the site. People already wall themselves off inside of echo chambers that only reinforce
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
I felt the same. I wonder if some of these issues stem from the fact that the book was originally written in Chinese (iirc)... maybe some of the infodump sections seem more natural in the original tongue?
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
If Spectrum spent half the money they spend on leaflets and promotional offers (that aren't really promotions and invariably force one to purchase Spectrum TV) on actually growing and upgrading their fiber network, my internet at home
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
$200 credit if you bring your own device today? That's it, I guess I'll try a 6-month free trial of Fi...
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
For friends who don't care about how pretty or color accurate their display is, the old Air can't be beat.
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
One can only hope that those software devs who create applications for both ecosystems don't leave for greener pastures, taking their software with them...
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
There are far, far, too many ads. But the ads are at least more tasteful than on most platforms. If you keep your list of follows < 100 or so (and take care to cull any accounts that get too spammy -- limiting yourself to people you know
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
While I'm sure FB's algos are somewhat to blame for this, it's hard to estimate just how much content has been driven away by the site since the halcyon days of 2007-2012. Most of the reason I left was because none of my frie
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
Don't worry: they've been slowly hobbling the mobile site to make the application more and more attractive. iirc you can't even message on the normal (non-basic) mobile site any more: it just shows a splash screen requesting
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
Absolutely agreed. However, I don't think spending 15 years in China is a particularly rare trait in tech work -- a very good chunk of the people I work with in tech on a day-to-day basis were born and raised in a foreign country (typi
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
Couldn't agree more. It's also silly that there's a federal poverty level at all -- I see a poverty level as only useful on a scale as granular as county/parish, even state level is probably too large to give any useful
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
Lexington, Kentucky is the 60th-largest city in the United States. That is not the "small town Kentucky" that the grandparent is talking about. (S)he is talking about small businesses (or business franchises, like Dollar General)
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
Actually, Toys R Us went bankrupt through a buyout: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-27/toys-r-us... Basically, they were forced to take on a lot of debt to go private at a critical inflection
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
I know of some towns in upstate NY that employ "crow hazing" techniques to harass and eventually drive away large flocks. Typically these groups tend to use nonlethal (and as non physically damaging as possible) methods like air r
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
My personal bias tells me that it won't effect much: I think a lot of current city dwellers live in cities not only for jobs, but also because they like the easy access to amenities, culture, and walkability. There's also the fact
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
Interesting thought. I've been very anti Spotify-as-a-label, but this is a really neat way of looking at it that I hadn't considered before. What if Spotify becomes a (small) label that's very artist-friendly? Then they can o
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
I don't understand the appeal of this model. Do you really want to have to subscribe to 5 different streaming music services, one per label, just to listen to all your favorite artists?
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
I know that rents in those places has plateaued, but there's so much demand that even a steady outstream of new parents might not make a dent in housing prices. NYC rents dipped recently for the first time in years, but as somebody who
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
Absolutely true-- Apple is, after all, one of the most valuable companies in the world. But I think recent issues in iOS and macOS hint that they might not be one of the most talented software companies in the world. If regular maintenance
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
Good point on 1) -- basically, Intel has produced enough problems for a high enough cost that there's reason enough to try alternatives. On 2)... I hate web apps. Probably much more than your average layperson. Electron is miserable in
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
I believe it's a T series, though your point still stands. I think I'd personally far prefer a display under the trackpad (though I don't think it's necessary at all) to a TouchBar or a touchscreen laptop. But I think I&
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by lambda_lover 8y ago
> "A decision to go with ARM technology in computers might lend it credibility where it has failed to gain a foothold so far." > "Apple is working on a new software platform, internally dubbed Marzipan, for release as e

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