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gootdude··on U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
There were reports that pipe bombs were found at both the RNC and DNC headquarters today.
gootdude··on Can developer productivity be measured?
Well said, this point can not be stated enough!
gootdude··on Tony Hsieh’s Nitrous Oxide Use, Love of Candles May Have Contributed to Death
Money can’t buy happiness, I guess I’ll have to rent it
gootdude··on Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review
The results are excellent and give me hope they will be able to keep the chips from throttling with active cooling under the most stressful loads.

My current work laptop is a the 16 inch 2019 Macbook Pro with 8-Core Intel Core i9 at 2.3 GHz, and using the Intel Power Gadget, the form factor can not achieve the max frequency of 3.6ghz on a single core. I have the machine elevated on a stand with the maximum air flow, even with no external monitors connected, it still throttles.

gootdude··on Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review
The air is missing the active cooling.

The next upgrade that puts apple chip in the 4 port pro would be the ideal version to purchase without a Touch Bar impacting usability and battery life.

gootdude··on Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
Agreed, changing up my habits to wearing a mask in public was definitely a much bigger hardship compared to the lucky few that met their maker.
gootdude··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
Indeed, how does one have a serious discussion with someone that refuses to acknowledge 2+2=4 because they "believe" the answer is 5.
gootdude··on Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims
Really hard to discuss the integrity of our elected officials given the current President's penchant to lie like a marketer.
gootdude··on Trump says he is considering pardon for Edward Snowden
Proven wrong so you just adjust the goalposts?
gootdude··on One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail elections in New Jersey
Incorrect, I vote by mail from Illinois and they send you confirmation of both your ballot being received and that it was properly counted.

Illinois 10 ILCS 5/19-8 Voters are notified by mail of rejected ballot within two days of rejection. Voters have until 14 days after election to resolve issue with county election authority.

Why are you making up reasons to question the accuracy of voting by mail if you haven’t read the basics or even tried it?

gootdude··on Glucosamine Supplementation Reduces All-Cause Mortality: Study
What dosage do you take and how long does the pain relief last?
gootdude··on Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory
Cleaning out the dust makes a massive difference. The PS4 actually allows easy access to the fans and vents by popping off the top plastic without voiding the warranty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I7zu4PbqNY

gootdude··on If you see the cops, start recording
They only resigned from the task force, because their union would no longer pay the legal fees related to the protests.

"The union representing Buffalo police officers told its rank and file members Friday that the union would no longer pay for legal fees to defend police officers related to the protests which began Saturday in downtown Buffalo and have continued on and off, according to one source. The union is upset with the treatment of the two officers who were suspended Thursday."

https://buffalonews.com/2020/06/05/57-members-of-buffalo-pol...

gootdude··on Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit
Interesting, instead of providing an example you just confirm your own bias.
gootdude··on Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than Ever
Even before Covid-19, our health care system doesn't really provide much for these folks. Additionally, seeing all the failures of getting money to small businesses during this crisis and all the deaths in nursing homes, I find it hard to believe we'd effectively care for these people as they are isolated at home.
gootdude··on The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering
Any particular books you’d recommend?
gootdude··on "Google Stadia is not a product that exists because people want it"
I also tested Project Stream, and the vision then made a lot more sense, that you were playing a game with cloud saves that could then be continued on your own hardware. This is the model Microsoft is creating with their xCloud while Stadia is forcing you to pay full price for a game for a diminished experience.
gootdude··on Recession Already Grips Corners of U.S., Menacing Trump’s 2020 Bid
The farmers actually have doubled down on Trump and believe conspiracies that the USDA is just out to get him. [1]

Never thought I’d actually witness the emperor has no clothes.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/10/reuters-america-many-u-s-far...

gootdude··on MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
You’re not missing out on anything. I have the latest revision of the butterfly design and already had to send in for replacement. The design is useless and none of their bandaid fixes make it reliable.
gootdude··on James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from final thermal vacuum test
The mission is minimum of 5 years with maximum 10 years based on the fuel.

https://jwst.nasa.gov/faq.html#howlong

gootdude··on Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
What did you replace it with?

Would love to upgrade with something as reliable as this 2013 Air I've been abusing everyday for years.

I'd give anything for a windows laptop with the trackpad and reliable sleep/hibernate you get from osx/apple laptops.

gootdude··on Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA
Microsoft created the feature so you'd actually have driver support when doing the reset. I'm sure we all love resetting a touch screen only machine to find out it has no touch support for the install.
gootdude··on Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA
Lenovo uses Microsoft Windows Platform Binary Table to install bloatware, which gets around any kind of clean install/reset.

Clean install for Windows means nothing when you have shady vendors utilizing this mechanism.

gootdude··on The Microsoft Surface Book Review
The function lock is actually "smart" even though they don't document it properly, it is actually a toggle and hotkey in one.

Whenever you hold the function key and hit another key while holding function, then release function it will stay in the mode you started in.

gootdude··on Star Citizen has raised $94M – where is it?
Blizzard makes the game on their dime, and then charges us to actually play it. CIG is not making the game unless you pay for it, so it really is a fair comparison.
gootdude··on Facebook Announces Video Monetization
Flash is a plugin.
gootdude··on A man who was accidentally released from prison 88 years early
"... Two clerks were in the store, not just one. Lima-Marin and Clifton brought them both into a back room, forcing one onto the floor and the other to open the safe. “They put a gun to the back of my head and said, ‘This is where you’re going to die,’” one of the employees, Shane Ashurst, later recalled."

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/07/unfreed

A bit more than simply asking them to move to another room.

gootdude··on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed
If he's partnered, he could get around $2 CPM, so around $800 if the videos at 400,000 views.
gootdude··on An iPhone Engineer-Turned-Game Maker Shares His Apple Story
Just open an incognito window.
gootdude··on The Criminal Charges Against Aaron Swartz (Part 1: The Law)
He changed his MAC address, which is impersonating another device, so in this case it is exactly like the use of 'another employee's credentials'.
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