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Talked with Sales: - first salesperson said: "We are anticipating the Newer XPS 15 laptops to be launched by Dec last week or by Mid Jan that comes with 14th Gen Processors and pre…

Good point. I'm fine just doing with fingerprint reader, did you send it back because you wanted that feature, or was it causing some deeper issue? I was thinking to go for the XPS…

Hard to negotiate when Windows has monopoly pricing power and Dell doesn't.

When I first starting using Ubuntu 10+ years ago, getting a new laptop was like going to battle. My patience has gone down for this stuff as I've gotten older, but fortunately it's…

Just talked with a Sales person yesterday. Indeed, from the new models, only the XPS 13 runs Ubuntu, but the keyboard looks like a nightmare. The sales person did send a link to a …

Or "freedom of speech is not freedom of reach"

I'm curious why you decided to migrate from Vue to React.

A significant misconception is about who writes the codes. I haven't looked closely at NFPA's model, but many of the Law Publishers actually have outside volunteers write the codes…

UpCodes cofounder here, couldn't agree more. We're fighting the Law Publishers for free, ungated access to the law. They think they own the laws, it's insane. Previous Hacker News …

Right, my startup work on compliance tech for the construction industry. Pretty gritty work trying to simplify and automate regulations that are constantly changing. Can't imagine …

If you ask most people to just label their apples, they'd call the first one "1", and so on. Very few people would say, "please pass me apple #0".

I believe there's a powerful status quo bias. Doing the reversal test, if programming languages had all been 1-indexed, then I doubt we'd hear much from people, in 2022, saying "I …

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Yeah, the new tabs are a bit of a waste of real estate.