Drew_

> Perhaps my friends and I are outliers, none of us inherited any wealth or were given trust funds or lump sums when hitting adulthood

> all of us are better off than our parents at the same age and their parents are better off than their parents

These are conflicting statements. Your group are all beneficiaries of generational wealth by this description. Maybe it isn’t as overt as a trust fund, but you definitely inherited wealth and opportunity from your parents.

Blocking social media on my networks has made this so evident. There's SO much news and information silo'd off on just a handful of platforms it's insane.

I haven't blocked Reddit yet, but I feel that would basically set me back to the stone ages.

Yeah I remember discovering the voice controls built into Windows Vista when I was a kid and being blown away by it.

Iirc, this is because the network access required to control the speakers could be used to determine your location. So it is really the OS that is letting you know what you’re risking, not the app requesting too much.

I'm certain patching a package is less work than rewriting a project. You should do whatever your heart wants though.

Forking JS packages is easy so I would say those engineers lack passion. Not uncommon unfortunately.

Achieving representation closer to that of the wider population is not racist.

You can always submit a PR upstream or just fork the dependency. Ignoring the problem or new feature works too.

Waiving penalties depending on the circumstance is interesting but not directly relevant to the question on hand. You would have already been found to have evaded taxes before the penalty could be assessed. So the circumstance/motivation/explanation is still not the differentiator between avoidance and evasion in this case - just the penalty.

> However, "my data is being sent off my device" is incorrect, as GP explained. Metadata, derived from your data, with noise added to make it irreversible, is being sent off your device.

Sounds like my data is being sent off my device.

> It's the equivalent of sending an MD5 of your password somewhere

Sounds even worse lol

I don't see how that's relevant. In what case is the difference between tax evasion and avoidance just the motive/explanation? I'm pretty sure the difference is purely technical.

Moreover, I don't think a lack of prosecution/enforcement makes something legal. At least, I don't think that defense would hold up very well in court.

Their comment is on a specific kind of person ("those that treat life as 'working and slacking'"), not all people.

C# has the same thing as Properties, but the backing value is set explicitly as a separate variable:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-...

Tech interview preparation mostly boils down to rote memorization not really what I would call “developing a skill”. You just cram enough until you can pattern match any kind of DSA or system design problem and apply the solution you memorized. Once you finally land the job, you’re free to forget everything. Then you begin to develop “real skill” on the job.

"I spent way, way too long" sounds like a lot more than "a couple minutes" to me.

My point is that there is no research cost for buying outright. You just buy the phone and then you pick whatever service and plan you want. If I have to spend significant amounts of time penny pinching on "deals" and contracts that probably means I'm trying to buy something I can't afford. Moreover, this tendency definitely leads to _more_ spending in the long, not less.

> I spent way, way too long working out the totals from the various methods of getting a new phone

Did you add this time you spent into those totals? I think if you did, your math would come out differently. Personally, if I even feel the need to do any math like this, the answer is already "no, I can't afford this".

Yup it's the same thing with ProMotion missing on the display even though it's identical to last year's Pro model.

They were probably subwoofers. The direction doesn’t make a difference for those.

Apple kind of does something like this with iCloud however their per user "databases" are only virtual:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39028672

Publications need to charge a-la-carte instead of force feeding subscriptions.

People say this a lot about Google, but I'm pretty sure this is true for every big company.

Not super surprising for single player games since they're usually much easier on the CPU than multiplayer. I was not getting minimum 60 FPS in Warzone for example.

3700X's 8-cores is a generational leap above the 7700k's quad core for modern games. They aren't comparable at all.

I ran a GTX 1080 and then an RTX 3080. The performance was not very good in modern games designed for current gen consoles like pretty much any BR game for example. Some games got high FPS at times but with low minimum FPS.

These are all old games so I wouldn't be surprised either

> i7-7700k from 2017 coupled with a modern GPU will comfortably output 60fps+ at 1440p

I can say by first hand this is not true for any modern MP game.

In general, I hate these "it does X FPS at Y resolution" claims. They're all so reductive and usually provably false with at least a few examples.

> This suggests the iterated optimum strategy is to just keep chasing new points trying to land that golden moment, though.

Yup exactly. We call that venture capital

Good point though I’m personally willing to pay more for articles. For example a big feature article from a reputable publication is easily worth $10+ to me. Smaller reports would be less but still at least $1.

Obviously that’s very expensive compared to a subscription but that’s kind of the point.

I've been thinking about this for a few years. It blows my mind that publications are not selling articles a la carte. Surely getting _some_ revenue from readers that don't want to subscribe is better than none at all? It feels like a great way to generate leads that might convert into subscriptions as well.

This is not some genius new idea so surely publications have thought about it and refused it, but for what reason?

> past that fps is sort of meaningless as the response time is slower than the refresh rate and you get artifacts.

Not quite accurate since OLED panels do just fine driving >240 Hz refresh rates. There are already 360 Hz OLED panels on the market.

I'm a recent convert to the iPhone and I'd say Google's apps are definitely worse on iOS. Many of them are missing features, buggy or plain weird. Big ones being Search, Home, Gmail, Calendar and Photos. Overall I get the sense that iOS apps are an after thought at Google.