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by zerohm 1mo ago
I mean, LVP is very popular today and is really not much different from Linoleum.
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by zerohm 1mo ago
For most modern software, you are not buying a product, you are buying a window of service. You are entering into an agreement that the software will be supported for a reasonable amount of time. Bugs will be fixed, you might get some addit
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by zerohm 2y ago
I will never pass up an opportunity to use this joke: Everything is a hammer, unless it's a screwdriver. Then, it's a chisel.
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by zerohm 2y ago
I had a co-worker at the Navy Yard that said he was an Anti-Aircraft tech during the Korean War. When he said they used 'mechanical computers' I had to stair up into space for a minute to figure out what that meant.
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by zerohm 3y ago
His IG is a pretty interesting follow (@atlantamagnetman) as he has briefly explained the various iterations and improvements to his magnet cart.
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by zerohm 7y ago
Agreed. The Titanium G4 to the Unibody pretty much laid the foundation of what the next 20 years of good laptops would be.
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by zerohm 7y ago
I was in Taco Bell the other day and noticed, a dollar menu burrito has 400+ calories. Sure enough it made this list.
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by zerohm 9y ago
You are sort of getting into "we would be better off without the internet" territory, which is a very difficult argument to make for either side. Tesla and Space X engineers would not have been able to achieve what they have witho
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by zerohm 9y ago
I know my post was very cynical. I agree open and free markets are very valuable and need to be protected. But in this case, anti-NN policies are so hugely unpopular, I can't see how anyone would think that they will be good for busin
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by zerohm 9y ago
The US at least, has been in an economic boom since the Subprime Mortgage Crisis in 2010, which was partly caused by deregulation of banks and lenders. Can you provide some examples of why this world wide boom is credited to deregulation?
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by zerohm 9y ago
Republicans aren't pushing deregulation of the internet to make swing states happy. They are pushing for deregulation because that's what several billionaire campaign contributors want them to do.
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by zerohm 9y ago
I once had a business trip (TDY) to Aviano Air Base, Italy. The office building we were in had an Espresso vending machine that for 0.5 Euro made a legit Espresso or Americana. We need these in the US and I can't help but think they
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by zerohm 9y ago
Also, all the operational overhead in that US dentist office will cost more than the Indian side. The secretary, the assistant, the building lease, etc. (I'm not saying that we can't fix the problem of overpriced healthcare, I&#x2
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by zerohm 9y ago
Yeah, but like in the case of online multiplayer, I believe they had every intention of making that a release day feature, but it just wasn't ready. I just think calling the guy a liar is a bit harsh. All marketing is lying in some for
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by zerohm 9y ago
In the lead up, when they were touting 6.84 * 10^23 planets or whatever, my thought was, how is that fun? If it will take all of humanity 10,000 years to see your entire game, what good does that do players now?
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by zerohm 9y ago
I don't envy software developers under immense pressure to deliver a AAA title on time. Having to predict whether or not you can get that feature working flawlessly in 30 days isn't easy in a vacuum. Much less with your Marketing
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by zerohm 9y ago
I remember a demonstration from my childhood where water is released into 2 similar models. One model is dry, one model is wet. The water quickly overtakes the dry model and splashes on the other side (as in a flash flood). On the wet mod
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by zerohm 9y ago
Actually the Intercept should have known. Margaret Thatcher used water marking to find which Ministry was leaking stories in the 80s. It's standard practice to retype documents before sharing, set up well thought out, secure amnesty bo
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by zerohm 9y ago
Seems like -400 ft was the number they picked to account for all the airports that are slightly below Sea Level (Amsterdam, etc), not taking into account this one geographical anomaly of a landing strip 1200 ft below sea level.
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by zerohm 9y ago
If I remember correctly, the hospital did not bill for him, he billed us separately, but the Hospital condoned this. I'm sure we agreed to it somewhere in the fine print. I'm not trying to vilify student doctors here, I understand
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by zerohm 9y ago
It wasn't just his doctor it is the whole system which is somewhat unavoidable. We are lucky to have good health insurance, and a simple ER visit to get stitches or an X-Ray will invoke 5 pieces of mail from 3 different entities. You h
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by zerohm 9y ago
There's only so much of the hardware rat race worth keeping up with anymore My personal data point of Moore's Law slowing down: my 8 year old Core 2 Quad is still half as fast as a modern i5. For it to still be usable would have
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by zerohm 10y ago
The size of the glass panels struck me as amazing. Then I read, "clad entirely in the world’s largest panels of curved glass." 0.0
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by zerohm 10y ago
This app is just a fine publicity gimmick on the part of the developers. This happens a lot! Will get loads of news stories, Facebook shares and likes but make not a joy of difference to anything.
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by zerohm 10y ago
This is my thought as well. Don't think of Nintendo as a technology company, think of them as an Intellectual Property company. With Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Pokemon, Metroid, etc, as their commodities. These will be money makers f
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by zerohm 10y ago
Let's say you are a desktop admin updating 500 Windows 10 machines. Maybe some of these machines are terminals for customers. This bug is a significant attack vector to gain admin on those machines being updated.
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by zerohm 10y ago
Yeah, but we were a bit spoiled for the past 6 years where Apple was actually very competitive on price in the $1k - $1500 range. Apple was no longer behind in CPU / RAM generosity, and when other vendors tried to match them on build
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by zerohm 10y ago
Not sure if this is a reliable Apple perk, but I recently took a failing power supply into the store, expecting to pay $50-75 for a new one (because I did not trust the shady looking wares Amazon had to offer), and they replaced my 6 year o
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by zerohm 10y ago
This comment deserves more attention.
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by zerohm 10y ago
Yeah, call when you have a really cool application / problem solved. Also the Astrodome is probably 99% air.

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