I’ve been riding one pretty hard for my job for half a decade. It’s pretty nice actually, I like the 2-axis touch scrolling. I wish it had a middle click, it’s way too expensive, and last time I tried to get it working with Linux it was a fucking nightmare.
BetterTouchToolUI and set a middle click gesture. I consider that software mandatory for Max OS, and it’s ridiculous that the features aren’t built into the OS.
I kept the wedding invitation card from my step brother and my now step sister in law for several years.
It was just a folded piece of regular cardboard with a picture of them and a standard invitation message and I see them once a year, if even that often 😄
Also with an analogue, cabled headset, it can pick up radio stations.
Headset cost $20 bucks. Not amazing, but shockingly good bass compared to a $20 dollar headset from when the first iPhone came out.
Nope, the phone is not made out of titanium.
I have dropped it plenty of times and its fine, no screen cracks or broken buttons, hell, I even accidentally dropped it fully into a bath tub once.
Turned it off, popped the back cover and the battery out, left it alone for 2 hours to dry out.
Its fine, no damage whatsoever.
I entirely fail to see why absurd processing power is necessary for anything beyond some mobile games, which are crap.
I have some ok free games 2D games, but theres only so much you can do with a touch screen.
This $200 piece of crap can run 99% of what 99% of people use their phones for 99% of the time.
Only downsides are no games, no stupidly high resolution cameras.
EDIT: I have been a software developer, database admin/dev, data analyst. Stereotypical tech worker in many ways. Never fucking understood why getting a 1000+ phone every year or two made any sense to anyone.
No games and no good camera aren’t small issues. I suppose the no games part can be minor, but not having a good camera means you have to carry an actual camera around if you want good pictures, and that’s quite inconvenient unless you’re a photographer.
Well the camera on this thing works fine for anything you would post and or view on social media resolutions, as well as basically any computer monitor under 4k.
If I was really interested in taking high resolution photos at 4k or higher, I actually just would get a proper camera with better ergonomics, ability to use a tripod, etc.
Cant really see why the vast majority of people would need that kind of resolution anyway unless theyre doing professional work.
I’ve got an older iphone which ticks all the same boxes minus the stupid port it has. Only reason I would have to upgrade would be for a better camera. I’ve started painting 3D models recently and this thing takes shit ass pictures
I have had this easy with one simple trick: be naturally worse than literally any other person out there and you’ll never need to worry about someone trading up because they won’t take you to begin with!
I don’t think so. Because in a world of greater ELIGIBILITY, (a world of greater amounts of dateable fuckable people), everyone would be constantly “trading up” on relationships. But the world is NOT full of ELIGIBLE (dateable fuckable) people. Most people are happy if they can find ONE eligible (dateable fuckable) person, so they stick with them.
I know for a fact he meant "legible". I've read a lot of his work and talked a great deal with people in the rationality community, and legible makes perfect sense there.
Tell me you’re a 44 year old man with a Messiah complex who spends his Friday nights trolling college bars for girls his estranged daughter’s age without telling me.
The Fed printed at most 200bil in 2023, down from 330bil in 2022. There’s about 2.25 trillion in circulation and about 15% of the notes are destroyed every year, which is loosely equivalent to the cash order the Fed created, give or take a couple of percent. Inflation for 2023 using the Consumer Price Index was about 3%. That means net cash supply didn’t really change much and prices went up.
If you think that ~200bil in cash has any effect on inflation I’ve got an amazing investment opportunity for you: it’s called crypto and it’s totally legit.
You raise a really interesting question there. I always ignore Tether as a joke because it’s just a crock of shit. But what happens if someone makes a run on Tether? They publish accountability reporting which, crucially, tells consumers to inform themselves of the general risks and potential legal issues. It would appear that Tether does have ~80bil in USD assets of various maturity. Only ~400mil of that is cash. There’s another ~20bil in other assets. If there is a run on Tether, it collapses at under 1% of its balance, ie of the ~100bil in Tether only ~400mil/0.4bil of it could be converted to USD today (well, 2023-12-31 per the last report). Since it’s not insured, there’s nothing to prevent a run on it. Its value is supposed to be its ability to be converted to USD, so if a run occurs and people are not able to make the conversion, its value plummets and can only be rescued by the fire sale of assets well below market value. Tether, more so than fiat currency, has completely made up value.
I’m not a finance person so I bet someone that knows more than me has already done a better job of explaining how Tether is a scam.
Sometimes they were. And cables weren’t, so if you didn’t know any better you’d be plugging your headphones into Line Out. And good luck telling blue and green apart in low light while wedged between the desk and the wall.
Yeah. Haha! To be more fair, the top character in this chart should be trying to figure it out by feel, while crunched under a desk, and getting blasted by line noise.
My corporate overlords would happily pay this middleman 9k USD/mo per intern just to avoid adding anyone to our dental plan.
Yes, my company does remain profitable despite the best efforts of upper management to force out the good developers and replace everyone with contractors.
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