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They do require tire rotations.

Only in Common Law countries is this true. In Civil Law countries, you actually do need to account for all exceptions.

It’s a legitimate definition though. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. There are many fundamental things that can’t be defined, where we have to rely on social norms and common sense.

This is not a game.

15% waiting, haircuts

0% for non-services like taking my order at the counter and having to pick up a call-in

10% for everything else

I don’t care if you screw up or move the earth for me, that’s what you get. That’s what everyone gets. It’s made my life so much simpler.

I guess everyone has a different way of building things. I think I would just find an e-reader that has a healthy modding community and rely on that.

The price going up was something in the original comment. I guess that isn’t even true and this whole conversation is pointless.

Just because something goes out of stock doesn’t mean the price will shoot up. There has to be enough demand for it. If there are alternatives (which there are), then the demand won’t increase with shortened supply, it’ll actually decrease at the same rate (or more, if the reputation of ‘hard to acquire’ sticks).

You’re missing the forest for the trees.

Being able to switch from an optimized CPU-centric workload to an optimized GPU-centric workload without any hardware changes sounds useful to me.

You could even do unified memory with upgradeable separate CPU and GPU. You won’t get the benefits of having them on the same chip, but there’s nothing intrinsic about the separation requiring separate memory space.

Comic Sans is actually quite legible for its class and well-hinted. It works better with antialiasing off. The main criticism is in its overuse.

I’m interested in hearing more about your experience with VR, what shortcomings you discovered, and what you mean by ambient computing.

It didn’t flop. It just didn’t sell as much as later versions. Apple made the market for its own product. It’s like saying the Apple II flopped because it sold way less than the current Macintoshes. Of course it did: the market was way smaller.

To be fair, that might as well be ancient history. I imagine more than 99% of Apple’s value comes from post-iPod activity, and I can’t think of anything post–OS X that failed, let alone post iPod.

Home cinema implies (to me anyway) a true surround setup and not some crappy soundbar.

You can’t replicate true surround sound with stereo headphones. You can with binaural audio but that requires specialized recordings. I’m sure spatial audio sounds cool but it’s not true surround sound.

And then there’s the problem of low frequencies. You can’t beat a subwoofer.

I think criticizing Apple for not supporting Nvidia is a classic missing-the-forest-for-the-trees. Unifying memory is a next logical step in general purpose computing. The flexibility that comes from it has unseen potential.

Most people don’t move that far from where they grow up. City populations have more to do with a select few choosing where they want to live and either having lots of babies, or convincing other people to come to them. Once the city is established, most of its population growth is self-sustaining.

It’s weird because all these things can be done with other (better) hardware. The supply chain issues of high-performance semiconductors makes sense to me because there is no alternative. If the price is going up, it really demonstrates the sheer indifference to price people have when it comes to low-cost computing. That is, the value of an RP is in its package and not its price.

I really hope it’s not ignorance instead of indifference. Building a computer, even a tiny one, is not hard.

Yeah but is that really driving the price of them?

What are people using all these Raspberry Pis for? Is it really so needed that the price is becoming unaffordable? There are other components in stock, so I’m curious what’s demanding an RP4.

Is it really worth discussing subjective opinions with a stranger over the internet? I often find these threads to be so ridiculous, like a Metal head arguing with a Classical aficionado who doesn’t like his favorite music.

The problem is that Facebook appealed to basically everyone. You had young and old alike from various social circles all using the platform.

If Metaverse only appeals to a small group of people, it’s a failure. Because it’s supposed to push Facebook forward, and it’s hard for a company to limit its own market. It could be done successfully by spinning the company off, but for whatever reason they just do not want to do that.

And I think fundamentally VR and virtual worlds is just not going to appeal to a mass market of people. There are so many people who are just not interested in spending time in ‘Techno-world’. These people liked Facebook because (a) they talked to their real friends and (b) it was unobtrusive enough to not bother them. A lot of people quit Facebook as soon as they felt it was encroaching their lives too much.

This is at the top of HN because Cloudflare is not delivering a product people pay them for.

I have a several copies of Windows 98 running on emulators.

The quality of life is not that different from a modern OS. I wouldn’t call it dramatically improved. The paradigms have just changed, and not even that drastically. Business tasks are particularly similar. Certain tasks are actually easier on something like Excel 97 than they are on Excel 2021. Applications actually adhered to human interface guidelines.

Why waste time learning about some fad IDE that will get replaced by something ‘better’ in five years? Newer text editors don’t do anything better than Vim, and they are strictly worse when it comes to their primary function: editing text.

‘You can install a vi emulator.’ - Waste of time. I already have vim.

My vimrc file still works. New machine? Just install vim and copy my vimrc over.

Emacs is a totally different experience. Emacs is essentially the interface side of an operating system. There is really no replacement for it except a UNIX command-line with a bunch of CLI tools for things like news and email that people have forgotten about.

The only reason this is a problem is because different monitors have different display characteristics compounded by arbitrary viewing environments. A client-side function can measure neither the response of the monitor nor the ambient light of the room, so this problem can never be solved in this manner.

Sorry, I don’t really understand what you’re talking about.

My point is they are trying to sugarcoat this as focusing on specific charities, whereas I believe total donation dollars is going to drop. In addition, I think Amazon is hoping to save on costs having to manage AmazonSmile itself.

I sent an email to amazon-ir@amazon.com stating that I will cancel my Prime account, Business account, and credit card on February 20th. It’s annoying having to go to different sites for goods, but I think I can manage.

The charity I contributed to got the email and won’t be using Amazon as a vendor any longer.

Honest? Why should we believe all of the Amazon smile purchases will continue and contribute to charity? If the program is getting scrapped, are we to believe Amazon is going to send 0.5% of everyone’s purchases to charity?

This is an attempt to recover revenue, nothing more.

America has 110 V which is more of a nuisance than a threat when it’s dry. Our GFCIs are specifically for wet applications (like bathrooms) and so are much more sensitive than European GFCIs.

GFCIs also have a lifespan. Ideally they’ll be easily replaced at the breaker panel, but most of the time they are put on outlets. Those outlets could be in a difficult to reach location. They are about twice the cost of a regular outlet/breaker. AFCIs seem to be about three to four times.