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- Comment on Anychance all the inflation were are seeing is foreign entities ditching the dollar after seeing the state of things? 1 month ago:
Inflation has been falling for a couple years and is fairly low right now, though not as low as it was back when interest rates were zero.
statista.com/…/unadjusted-monthly-inflation-rate-…
The dollar has been fairly strong in recent years.
www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy/charts
Inflation in 2022 was likely due to price gouging with companies like Exxon Mobil reporting record or near-record profits at that time.
www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/…/gross-profit
By late 2022, companies had jacked up prices high enough that the demand curve had likely reached the “crossover” point. Since then prices and inflation have been falling back to normal.
- Comment on YSK that some Lemmy apps and web interfaces allow you to filter keywords 3 months ago:
Arctic has keyword filtering.
- Comment on If you watch Point Break backwards it's a movie about Tennis 3 months ago:
It’s about guys who deliver money to banks.
- Comment on Why are fuel perks at grocery stores so ubiquitous? 5 months ago:
You live in a city, but most of the store chain’s customers live in the suburbs where gas is a major expense and fuel perks are a big incentive to shop at a particular store.
The store isn’t trying to promote fossil fuels. They only care about customer loyalty. Besides (they might rationalize), their customers have to buy gas somewhere so why not from us?
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 6 months ago:
All Mac laptops do. And my work Windows PC looks like it has one but the company was too cheap to pay for it, so all it has is a spot that looks like a fingerprint sensor.
- Comment on why don't people say mega meters 8 months ago:
On Earth it’s just not needed. In nearby space it could make sense — distance to the Moon is 369 Mm. Distance to the Sun 149 Gm. But people aren’t good at visualizing the difference between kilo-, mega-, and giga-. It isn’t obvious from those numbers just how much further away the Sun is.
- Comment on How much 1 TB of egress costs by cloud provider 9 months ago:
This makes a lot of sense if you’re delivering static content. Cloudflare even has the Super Slurper which serves your S3 content and migrates it seamlessly to Cloudflare’s competitor R2 service, after which your egress is free.
- Comment on The New Code Editor Zed has a Strong Start, and is now Open Source 9 months ago:
Is it a blunder? Tell that to Apple, Jetbrains, or Microsoft, each of whom have proprietary code editors that net billions of dollars of revenue.
It’s true, VS Code is open source, but it is developed almost entirely by Microsoft, by a large team of paid full-time programmers, designers, and PMs. It may be the most-used text editor in the world, but it isn’t developed by a team of volunteers who materialized around it because it was open source.
Instead, consider that making something open source is often just a marketing strategy — or a soft way to sunset a project.
- Comment on The New Code Editor Zed has a Strong Start, and is now Open Source 9 months ago:
This is a nice editor. I don’t like the comparisons to Atom since some of us remember that as “the really bloated and slow predecessor to VS Code”. Whereas Zed is quite small and fast. Opening a shell panel is instant and makes VS Code feel slow.
Its strength is multi-user (their term: multiplayer) shared editing spaces. It also has quite good AI integration and supports Github Copilot too.
I am a little concerned that they started off commercial and then went open source. Open source is great! But this path sometimes means that the original developers no longer have the time/money/interest to keep developing it. I hope that’s not the case here because they’ve got the start of something good.
- Comment on What’s Usenet and how can I access it with modern hardware (phones/laptops)? 9 months ago:
It’s an old federated message board system. Message boards are called “newsgroups “. It predates the web so it’s usually accessed via a special client app. To use it you’d need:
- A Usenet client app, called a newsreader. See Wikipedia. Many are probably abandoned by now.
- An account with a Usenet provider. A search engine will point you to several options. There used to be some free ones. If there still are, it would be a good way to try it out. But note that the free ones often don’t carry all of the newsgroups — they omit the binary groups, which are known to carry pirated software and, let’s say, diverse video content.
- Comment on What are some essential browser extensions for "quieting down" the internet? 11 months ago:
Although Firefox on iOS doesn’t support extensions, other browsers do.
Orion supports both Firefox and Chrome extensions.
Safari also has tons of extensions available, such as: StopTheMadness (annoyance blocker, highly configurable), AdGuard (ad blocker), Vinegar (blocks YouTube ads on the web), and many others.
- Comment on YSK that chiropractors are not medical doctors and "Systematic reviews... have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective" 11 months ago:
I think you’re exaggerating. Quite a few of them are from the field of functional medicine, which is certainly totally legitimate.
- Comment on Implementing Tic Tac Toe with 170mb of HTML - no JS or CSS 1 year ago:
“I implemented the FizzBuzz algorithm in only 10 million lines of code!”
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 1 year ago:
The Tesla chargers – do they live up to their reputation for being reliable? Or are they also unreliable, but Tesla puts so many chargers at each location that you can always find a working one?
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 1 year ago:
From what I’ve heard that’s not true of Tesla though. My car will be able to use their superchargers starting next year. I hope they remain reliable.
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- Comment on US judge rules: if you can't prove damages, car-makers can continue to intercept and record customers' mobile phone activity. 1 year ago:
There’s no way Apple lets the automaker access app data from your phone. Apps on the phone can’t even see data from other apps on the phone.
There are two ways I can think of for the infotainment to get the messages. The first is by OCR-ing the CarPlay screen, which is shady as hell. The second is a feature like this one where the car has Bluetooth notification integration.
- Comment on 8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple 1 year ago:
I have not. As someone in the Mac community I can tell you that Apple enthusiasts are Apple’s harshest critics. They are the type of people who care a lot about details like this, and have been criticizing Apple for years on the amount of RAM in entry level systems, as well as the absolute rip-off prices they charge for RAM upgrades.
- Comment on Is there any free to use AI that accepts images and can talk about them? 1 year ago:
Google Bard can do this. I showed it a picture of my garage and asked for suggestions on how to organize it better.
Note that it will not work with images that contain people.
- Comment on Weezer straight up writing ads for audible.com 1 year ago:
How would this even work? Would the crowd not be booing the ad-song? I can’t imagine a sponsor would want that.
- Comment on Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor 1 year ago:
And of course there have been forges launched, including SourceHut, Gitea, Gogs, Forgejo…
- Comment on Why is there always that one part of an urban neighborhood where the 5G cell coverage suddenly ceases to exist, even though you can clearly see a tower nearby? 1 year ago:
He was using mmWave. When 5G first came out, most news stories talked about it being “10 times faster” and that it had a short range, so phone companies would have to put transmitters on every light pole. All of which is true for ultra-wideband/mmWave.
What those stories missed was that UWB/mmWave isn’t the common 5G. Most 5G is mid-band or low-band, which uses regular towers and has a range of miles. As of 2021, latest data I could find, less than 1% of users were on mmWave.
- Comment on Why is there always that one part of an urban neighborhood where the 5G cell coverage suddenly ceases to exist, even though you can clearly see a tower nearby? 1 year ago:
You may be thinking of ultra-wideband, a very fast but extremely rare variant of 5G that only works over short ranges and requires you to be in sight of the transmitter. This is available in some parts of some stadiums, although Verizon tries hard to make it seem like it’s everywhere.
Normal 5G, such as the midband frequencies that T-Mobile often uses, covers a several-mile radius.
- Comment on Mullvad and Tailscale Announce Partnership 1 year ago:
Not Plex, but yes. I use it with Microsoft Remote Desktop if I need to access a work-related computer that I keep at home while traveling.
I also use it for the more typical use case of a cloud server that I can ssh into even though it exposes zero ports publicly.
- Comment on lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse 1 year ago:
There is a privacy and tracking concern with loading images from 3rd-party hosts vs lemm.ee hosting or re-hosting them.