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It's frustrating sending fixes to Spotify when you come across something incorrect. It takes so long for any action to be taken that I've given up.

That was a graphics driver IIRC

I am in Europe, and bought mine from a European Amazon, but no SD-card. I still use it, and yeah the camera is definitely quite far behind. I'll probably go for a Xiaomi soon.

Non-expandable storage is the big miss for the 1st gen Moto G.

There could be some lag involved. The children of 3 decades ago are now having their own children and are deciding their freedoms. I think crime was lower in the US 6 decades ago t…

>Can you trust any of the advice from her book? This is pretty much the norm for business books. This time it just isn't backed by survivorship bias.

The support contracts on these tools runs into huge figures, there can be 100s of engineers keeping a small number in production. Each sale is essentially a huge contract, not a on…

> Its all just different levels of discrimination. Aren't some of those levels enforced legally?

Modern BGAs will often need that many layers just to break out all the signals.

That's not quite the same usage as Reagan though.

You also need to allow for failure conditions. If a power tube fails as a short or low impedance, which will vaporise first: your thin tracks, or your fuse?

>algorithms were invented on paper first This I can see, but the parent seems to be talking about commercially viable software. I think people should be careful when discussing imp…

Has anyone ever done this? There have been successful books written in prison but not many, and that translates much better to pen and paper than software does. It sounds like some…

>Forget finding a new set of DTL transistors for a PDP-1 Is this true? I would've thought we have millions of equivalent devices available

Anything with critical timing that runs over a parallel port can be very tricky to get working in a VM. It means running a realtime OS on top of a non-realtime OS, with some abstra…

>You'd have to imagine that actual graphics artists during the 8-bit era viewed low resolution as a limitation to overcome, not a purposeful feature of their artwork. Well yeah, bu…

The homeless are likely to be reliant on support systems in cities beyond just housing. Moving them further out means they have to travel further.

It's the largest Spanish-speaking population, maybe that's why?

>1. Buy a $5000 car up-front, which is an expensive up-front cost for me (and more than most people my age have in savings). If I've been careful in investigating the car, it will …

There's also the problem of working within technical limitations. Even with standard file formats there can be much more involved than just dumping files into a project. I would im…

With hardware you don't always have a reproducible known good state. Many changes aren't reversible. Certain tests can irreparably damage things.

>I'd say a vast majority would take their phone to Apple, who say it can't be fixed and to buy a new phone. How many would then try a 3rd party repair place?

It's very common in Ireland.

Anything manufactured with some process control should follow a bathtub curve for failures. It's the width of the tub that matters. I don't know if LCDs have been on the market lon…

>If you were OK with a TV for 18 years you would be OK with another TV for 18 years. A TV manufactured today is very unlikely to last 18 years without some kind of hardware failure…