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aaronarduinoon We're bringing Pebble back

This is amazing news!I’m glad I’ve kept my all my pebbles. The pebbles were my first smartwatches and still my favorite. Thanks for bringing them back. I wish you all the best!

aaronarduinoon Perfectionism – one of the biggest productivity killers in the eng industry

In my experience that saying usually is said to mean something that is “good enough” but that’s not the same as quality work.

aaronarduinoon What's Happening to Visual Studio for Mac?

This news is really disappointing to me because as a C# dev I am losing a quality native editor. Guess I’m either fully moving to vim or begrudgingly dealing with VSCode.

aaronarduinoon AutoCAD is f-ing terrible. Let's talk about it

Best tip I have is to change the settings to have right mouse button enter/repeat last command. Saves so much time when drafting pipe isos.

But really why is 3D in AutoCAD so slow even on a very fast computer with a top of the line graphics card?

aaronarduinoon Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights

> To see your trips and travel research, turn on these settings: Private results, Web & app activity

This is the main reason why I will never be able to use www.google.com/travel. I used to use the Trips app with no search history, but Google is shutting down Trips in favor of forcing people to loosen privacy settings. It is very disappointing because Trips worked very well.

aaronarduinoon Katy Perry's Dark Horse Lawsuit Makes Waves in Music Industry

This sort of feels like the start of the music business's version of patent trolls. I think this verdict devalues music and hampers creativity.

aaronarduinoon Ask HN: The most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts?

Cmd + right or left arrow for home and end keys. I miss it so much on windows.

aaronarduinoon Facebook's fake account problem

> Aaron Greenspan is short Facebook stock.

The author seems to be talking up his portfolio. Although there may be truth to this article, it seems the author is attempting to move the stock price with negitive press.

aaronarduinoon Show HN: Audio Repeater Pro – Low latency audio streaming tool

So, in other words, you have no idea what the end to end latency is. That is a non-starter for pro audio professionals who need to compensate for latency to keep things in phase.

aaronarduinoon Show HN: Audio Repeater Pro – Low latency audio streaming tool

This product loses all credibility for audio professionals because the site claims low latency but provides no specs to back up that claim.

aaronarduinoon Ford knew Focus, Fiesta models had flawed transmission, sold them anyway

I owned a 2013 Ford Focus as well. In the nine months of ownership, the transmission was replaced twice. Every transmission worked fairly well and then after about a month would start to stutter on acceleration and acceleration would lag then accelerate quickly startling me.

I was so glad to get rid of that car.

aaronarduinoon Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?

  Rick Beato
  3blue1brown
  Smarter Every Day
  Bon Appetit
  Monty McKinnon
  Strange Parts
  Half as Interesting
  Produce Like A Pro
  Cinematography Database
  J M Archer
  Mix With The Masters
  Nerdwriter1
  Pensado's Place
  Peter Hurley
  Robert Scovill
  This Guy Edits

aaronarduinoon Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

If others are looking to move away from Spotify, here is a comparison of what streaming services pay artists per stream.

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/12/25/streaming-music-...

aaronarduinoon The Day the Music Burned

This worries me greatly. I have worked in the music industry and most studios in my area only keep DAW sessions for about a year.

Sadly a lot of music is going to be lost in the next 50 years.

aaronarduinoon Apple’s reinvented Mac Pro will shred your workflow

In industries where latency matters, there absolutely is a market.

aaronarduinoon The richest 10% of households now represent 70% of all U.S. wealth

I wonder how many of those kids rent cars, clothes, etc. to look rich. I mean it is Instagram after all.

aaronarduinoon Show HN: Roc – Real-Time streaming over the network

What is the latency? I don't see any latency numbers listed on the linked site. Latency would be my number one concern when using software like this.

aaronarduinoon Show HN: Roc – Real-Time streaming over the network

Or Dante for that matter.

aaronarduinoon Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

This is a cool idea. One suggestion though, it would be nice when viewing a setup to be able to use arrow keys to advance to the next setup.

aaronarduinoon U.S.-Thai pair facing death for 'sea home' should fight charge, Thailand says

A seastead it probably a lot cheaper than a 30' sailboat.

aaronarduinoon People Wearing AirPods Are Making Things Awkward for Everyone Else

Are AirPods the new Bluetooth headset? It was always awkward to walk by someone in a store thinking they were talking to themselves, just to learn that they were talking on a Bluetooth headset.

aaronarduinoon New human species found in Philippines

> it's not faith to believe that it did so.

Doesn't believing require faith? Extrapolating requires belief that the correct conclusion is being reached.

aaronarduinoon New human species found in Philippines

> we can estimate how long ago the last common ancestors lived.

That is an estimate. That is not concrete evidence. Since humans don't live long enough to observe major evolution then it takes just as much faith to believe in evolution as to believe in other theories.

aaronarduinoon New human species found in Philippines

Is there no doubt because that is what is taught, or because there is evidence that one species has been concretely observed as it evolves into another completely different species?

aaronarduinoon Man behind fatal Call of Duty ‘swatting’ gets 20-year prison sentence

Do you have a source to support that claim?

aaronarduinoon An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy

More likely for showing "good" numbers to their investors.

aaronarduinoon The New ‘Dream Home’ Should Be a Condo

This. Home separation is important for quality of life.

aaronarduinoon 2FA on the command line

Looks like the comments on that site need 2FA.

aaronarduinoon Investing Prophet Jeremy Grantham Takes Aim at Climate Change

It's not new, however, it is an investment strategy. Investors at this level are very good at "talking their book." Because doing so helps their investment. I am not suggesting that giving away $1 billion won't help climate change. I'm merely suggesting that Grantham may have other motives for giving money away.

aaronarduinoon Investing Prophet Jeremy Grantham Takes Aim at Climate Change

Not sure why this is getting downvoted. That quote does come from the article and it's is a very real concern. This article seems to be about Grantham's new investment strategy disguised as philanthropy.