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by samtheprogram 4y ago
What have you used since then? One mistake can really turn someone away for good, but also wondering if you have had another poor experience with whatever you (initially) replaced Debian with?
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by samtheprogram 4y ago
A MacBook Pro starts at $1299 with a significantly faster processor. You can’t upgrade a MacBook Pro, but if your laptop is getting stolen half way through it’s lifetime, you’re probably not upgrading it. So not really.
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by samtheprogram 4y ago
> $1032 > It's cheap enough that I don't worry about it getting lost or stolen. Not sure if this is impressive or reckless, but either way it doesn’t apply to most people.
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by samtheprogram 4y ago
Seems like the article has been fixed already. That was fast.
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by samtheprogram 4y ago
These are just different ways to handle the same problem, and the fact that git provides different methods is a good thing. You can choose which one to use in your project, and someone could enforce or write a wrapper if they wanted to to e
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by samtheprogram 4y ago
"Much higher (100x) for a strategic acquisition from a company like Microsoft" is grossly exaggerated. There were only 171 companies worth more than $88.3bn (<100x a billion) as of December [1], a number that may have even drop
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by samtheprogram 4y ago
Since High Sierra (released 2017), their documentation points to the App Store installer links instead of to DMGs [1]. It’s still possible to create a DMG installer for newer versions using createinstallmedia on the command line after downl
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by samtheprogram 4y ago
On a tangential note, I’m a fan of the support cycle of macOS. I consistently stay a major version or so behind to avoid the various issues of the major upgrades while getting security updates, but I’m also happy they are able to put out ma
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by samtheprogram 4y ago
Even before the M1, you paid a small (IMO) premium for better build quality, a great trackpad and (before the butterfly) keyboard, a solid Unix with really great tailored applications, etc… With the M1 dominance (and inflation) there’s basi
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by samtheprogram 4y ago
My brother says the same thing, I thought it was absurd when I first heard it but they are out there.
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by samtheprogram 4y ago
Osborne Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
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by samtheprogram 4y ago
If you're going to be paid in equity and not asking those questions, unless it's a publicly traded company (where you have these answers ahead of time) or you are getting compensated well above average in cash equivalents, it woul
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by samtheprogram 4y ago
Mirrors how I felt about iOS development through the 2010s for the same reasons, with the exception that the language, Objective-C, was likely holding it back in a way Visual Basic did not. I’ll always have an affinity for Objective-C but o
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
I personally use ProtonMail but have been looking at FastMail or Hey.com because the encryption on ProtonMail can be cumbersome for setting up external email clients.
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
Why is it unfortunate that DDG is bigger and bigger every year?
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
Exactly; the Hackintosh community explicitly provides instructions on how to ensure the serial number you generate is not another real Mac’s serial number, but is “valid” for the model you need to emulate for your hardware. Otherwise this c
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
> As a matter of principle… It’s not really a matter of principal though! > [the competing platforms] have zero repeat zero positively zero benefit to myself as a consumer. The reason Steam and Netflix are so good and continue to exis
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
Hard to tell; the security updates for Big Sur and Catalina that came out today in tandem with this Monterrey release do not mention it. Apple security updates: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
Status quo ~2 years ago before FreeBSD 13 was that many 802.11ac cards worked but the ac features did not yet (and/or you’d have to install wpa_supplicant through ports to enable certain compilation flags), so you’d get a fraction of p
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
This is why I’m eyeing a Framework laptop. I have a not-so-old ThinkPad E480 that I avoid using because of this issue. On top of that, I didn’t know what the issue was and it drove me nuts until I figured it out. Left a very bad taste in my
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
I’m confused by their obsession with youtube-dl. I don’t really know anyone that pirates music, seems like streaming has really solved that with ad-supported listening. The common cases for using youtube-dl, as I understand, is for archival
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
Haven’t used PortableApps in at least a decade, but wanted to say thank you. It was immensely useful at school, work and with multiple machines.
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
“Fire me. I have 3 other jobs.”
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
We need competition. A new web would be a temporary benefit exactly because it would have competition, until it doesn’t.
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
Do you think there are more GPUs running Ethereum than the total addressable market of gamers multiplied by hours played? There are thousands of Ethereum nodes. It was as high as 12.5k earlier this year estimated [1]. Meanwhile, on November
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
Same here. I didn’t even realize that was an option. As a relative beginner to SQL, is there a real reason the JOIN syntax was needed at all beyond special inner/outer joins?
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
Yes. Watch that become centralized. If it goes mainstream, it will happen.
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
> Donald Trump? Jan 6? Julian Assange? Chelsea Manning? While I don’t agree with the prosecution of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning was pardoned and censorship of Donald Trump was done by the businesses themselves due to cultural reasons
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
In the original comment you responded to, the CCP put a party member in the ByteDance board of directors. The CCP is also known to enforce censoring government critical speech on their platforms including TikTok. https://www.theg
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by samtheprogram 5y ago
Moving goal posts would be more like claiming that, because we have evidence Google cooperates with the US Government for some investigations, the US Government has similar influence and control over Google as China does over ByteDance, wit

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