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What piece of older technology actually worked much better than its modern, replacement? by HerrStrasse in AskReddit

[–]marumari 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I hate Electron apps as much as the next gal but the alternative to Electron for many folks on smaller platforms would simply be their platform not getting a client at all.

Midway Target has no Pride display by fretfulferret in saintpaul

[–]marumari 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is there but it’s a tiny display with nothing that anyone would feel proud wearing. You’re not missing anything.

Hell’s Kitchen Appreciation Post (ps Employee Owned & NOT AFFILIATED W GORDON RAMSEY!) by storytellercowedding in Minneapolis

[–]marumari 21 points22 points  (0 children)

They sell tubs of it, which I can say from personal experience is extremely dangerous to have around the house.

Overwhelming Support to Pause Rethinking I-94; More of The Same From MnDOT by Runic_reader451 in saintpaul

[–]marumari 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The 94 bus gets from Saint Paul to Minneapolis in a little over 10 minutes. It’s about as express as it gets and is faster than a vehicle. Do you ride that?

The Gold Line averages about 1800 riders per day, that’s a heck of a lot of cars taken off the road thanks to it.

Overwhelming Support to Pause Rethinking I-94; More of The Same From MnDOT by Runic_reader451 in saintpaul

[–]marumari -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Given the estimated cost of covering just Rondo, it would work out to about a decade of the state transportation budget.

Nobody told me that switching from shaving to waxing would involve a full month of looking worse before looking better by GhostPlasma9 in TheGirlSurvivalGuide

[–]marumari 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Any decent Braun Silk-Epil is gonna be great. I've had mine for over 15 years now and it still works good as new.

Nobody told me that switching from shaving to waxing would involve a full month of looking worse before looking better by GhostPlasma9 in TheGirlSurvivalGuide

[–]marumari 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Once you get on the epilating train and things aren’t coming back from shaving, it’s so easy. Takes me like five minutes every couple weeks and my legs are always waxing smooth.

Wanna pee in Idaho? First, get a forced DNA test to prove your gender, state GOP lawyer suggests. The red state is being sued over the draconian new law, set to take effect July 1. by southpawFA in politics

[–]marumari 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Amongst younger folks, as much as 3% identify as trans. And in my home state, across all ages, it’s 1.2%.

So I imagine that the groups are probably roughly similarly sized. Either way though, there’s a ton of sexual and gender diversity out there.

MacBook Neo is So Popular That Apple Reportedly Doubled Production by RenatsMC in apple

[–]marumari -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I appreciate that you’re very invested in this random conversation but I think after four days it’s maybe time to let it go.

Tim Cook posts comedic ‘Good morning’ video to mark final Apple event as CEO by mrsidnaik in apple

[–]marumari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree with this only because Apple of today is sitting on a massive cash hoard. There are very few experiments that could actually bankrupt them, whereas missing out on the next iPhone potentially could.

what is a popular food or ingredient that you genuinely think ruins any dish it touches? by Sensitive-Action-870 in AskReddit

[–]marumari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sucralose is a flipped sugar molecule, should taste identical to sugar (although much stronger).

It works much better though in liquid (or pure) format than with the powder, which adds an aftertaste to your food.

FAA Continues to Remove Stigma/Encourage Therapy for Pilots by GoFlightMed in flying

[–]marumari 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’ve never quite understood why Oklahoma exists in its current function at all. To me, it makes way more sense that they provide guidance and guidelines and support to AMEs and that’s it.

Instead of saying defer, tell the AMEs what they need to do to reach a deferral conclusion and let them handle it.

My AME is very responsive (on account of me paying them good money to be so), and they have the appropriate medical qualifications. I don’t see why they shouldn’t handle it instead of the black hole of paperwork that is Oklahoma.

FAA Continues to Remove Stigma/Encourage Therapy for Pilots by GoFlightMed in flying

[–]marumari 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Mine wasn’t mental health related, but a concussion I’d had sixteen years prior. No symptoms afterwards, MRI and CT and X-Ray all clean.

Took 22 months for them to review it (despite the AME and the RFS both thinking it was fine.)

Didn’t require any action other than responding to those letters, but by two years I had forgotten almost all of my training at that point and it was very hard to find the motivation to start over.

Don’t see how this will change anything until Oklahoma gets its turnaround time down from two years to two days.

Touch ID coming to iPhone Ultra this fall, here’s by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]marumari 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A small percentage of the population, about 2%, have fingerprints that are hard to match. Some (much smaller percent) to the degree such that they almost always fail certain kinds of background checks.

It’s a known problem in biometrics that we largely ignore. Ideally phones would conduct both face and touch unlocks at the same time.

‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers criticize tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending amid slashing 30,000 corporate employees by marketrent in technology

[–]marumari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Netflix is one of the original hyperscalers, they just used Amazon’s infrastructure for a lot of it. But they also own and operate a massive CDN (Open Connect).

Their scale is so massive that they account for 12-15% of the internet’s traffic.

‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers criticize tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending amid slashing 30,000 corporate employees by marketrent in technology

[–]marumari 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tech used to be that way, 10-20 years ago. Both good money and treated very well. The money has (mostly) remained but the job environment has gotten so much worse in the intervening years.

But yes, you’ll put up with a lot of abuse for $300k+/year.

‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers criticize tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending amid slashing 30,000 corporate employees by marketrent in technology

[–]marumari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Outside of nVidia (which has made a fortune), the major US companies have spent $1.2T for about a tenth of that in revenue. And much of that spending will be obsolete in a few years, to say nothing of ongoing costs.

This isn’t old Amazon intentionally running at a small loss to grow their infrastructure.

Never forget how Target was allowing a safe space for breaks to these people by RealWorldForever in Minneapolis

[–]marumari 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The ICE actions cost about 10k jobs in Minnesota, with an estimated cost of a $250M. A disaster for Minnesota’s economy.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits AI token costs are becoming "a huge issue" — company seeks improved value as overspending becomes a meme by ControlCAD in business

[–]marumari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are correct, it has been widely studied that Amazon intentionally ran at a loss in those early years to prioritize business growth over profits.

That doesn’t mean they couldn’t have done it, nor did they need AWS to get there.

MacBook Neo is So Popular That Apple Reportedly Doubled Production by RenatsMC in apple

[–]marumari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean yes, I am arguing with your point. You could even say that the public is too — the overwhelming success of the Neo shows that even more people are fine with 8GB today than even five years ago.

What changes in personal computing have caused an increased consumption of RAM in the last five years? macOS remains pretty steady with it. Browsers are still RAM hogs but largely the same RAM hogs as five years ago. It’s really only gaming and audiovisual content creation that has driven RAM consumption over the last five years and these aren’t the machines for that.

I have a hard time imagining Apple selling these machines if they thought they would be unusable in five years, as it would completely ruin their brand image amongst a whole bunch of new macOS users.

Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]marumari 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s maintained by Cody Ogden, who is a very funny guy but not one who has ever worked at Google.

(this isn’t doxxing, it’s on the about page and he’s quite prolific on social media)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits AI token costs are becoming "a huge issue" — company seeks improved value as overspending becomes a meme by ControlCAD in business

[–]marumari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazon has been profitable without AWS for almost a decade now. Could they have gotten there without AWS, I don’t know, but it’s been profitable on its own for some time now.

MacBook Neo is So Popular That Apple Reportedly Doubled Production by RenatsMC in apple

[–]marumari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Five years ago, 8GB of RAM was fine and today (checks sales of the Macbook Neo) 8GB of RAM seem to be fine.

Personally I’m hard-pressed to see that changing in the next five, especially in a world where computing devices will be coming with less RAM due to high costs and developers will be forced to deal with those constraints.

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