I have a hard time relating to this. My mom never had any pressure to do have me do any extracurriculars, and I didn't really do any. It was enough to just pass my classes and graduate. My local community college certainly didn't care.
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kingrazor commented on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay theturnsignalblog.com/app... · Posted by u/vsdlrd
Phone navigation apps are surprisingly bad in Japan (Google ones in particular). Not unusable, but the in-car GPS is more competitive than in other markets IMHO.
Also with an aging population a phone screen is just too small for many.
BTW, to parent's point VW has been trying different approaches with a top mounted GPS/infotainment unit that can be omitted on cheaper trims.
That definitely does not match my experience. I was in Japan in December of 2022 and used my phone to get everywhere, the directions were extremely accurate, more-so than in my home town in the US.
kingrazor commented on Anatomy of a credit card rewards program bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/disgruntledphd2
> I don't understand what the big deal is. It takes 5 seconds to slide the card into the machine
For most people, there's the time to get their wallet or equivalent out of pockets or purses, fiddle to get the card, put it the correct way and swipe (but not too fast or too slow!). Vs a phone/watch tap which is usually much more convenient.
It would take me just as long to get my phone out of my pocket as it would to get my wallet out. Plus a lot of machines have tap pay now if your card supports it.
yes lets leave our 9-5 to walk instead
I actually get about 13,000 steps a day with a 9-5 job. I get two 15 minute breaks and an hour lunch, so I take three 15 minute walks per day. I work at a large campus, so it's not hard to get steps in.
This doesn't surprise me. A personal anecdote: a couple of years ago I traveled to Japan for the first time. During my time there, I walked much, much more than I usually do. As a result, I was physically exhausted at the end of each day, and had some of the best sleep I've had in years.
kingrazor commented on Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children? · Posted by u/eimrine
I don't have kids, but I do want kids some day, and I think about this kind of thing a lot.
I didn't have a phone of any kind until I was 18, and I didn't have a smartphone until I was 23. I had restricted internet access up until I was 16.
Personally, I want to wait as long as possible before giving my kids smart devices. I see little kids with smart phones and it just rubs me the wrong way. But I'm totally willing to admit I might be in the one in the wrong here, and maybe I'm being too cautious. I don't know. The internet is a very different place than when I was a kid.
kingrazor commented on Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s modern foundation chipsandcheese.com/2023/0... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I still run an i7-3770k in my homelab (Ivy Bridge, the successor to Sandy Bridge, but still a relatively shared platform with backwards compat) and despite the fact that it's older than dirt it is still a pretty great processor to this day. Not too long ago it was powering my gaming rig and it held up really well to modern titles at 1080p.
The best part is that I got it at a university surplus sale for $60, complete w/ a decent antec case, corsair psu, 16gb of ram and a decent Asus motherboard.
I have a Nehalem/Lynnfield i5 750 that still runs like a champ. Won't play modern games without a good GPU but otherwise does everything I ask it to, and is still pretty snappy for its age. The biggest reason it's not my main rig anymore is because of a lack of USB 3 ports.
kingrazor commented on The entrance fee to America’s museums keeps rising nytimes.com/2023/08/01/ar... · Posted by u/lxm
I remember the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry being an incredible place in the 1970s. I think it was in the 1990s I was there for some reason and it was pretty much gutted. Maybe the decline in American museums has been going on quite a while.
Most of my best field trips as a kid involved OMSI.
kingrazor commented on A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team mastodon.social/@nekohayo... · Posted by u/luu
If your point is that you can run a Webkit-based browser branded as Firefox, you are correct.
However, it's not using Gecko, so it's not actually Firefox. It's a browser whose web capabilities are controlled by Apple rather than Mozilla.
Interesting! I was not aware of this.
kingrazor commented on A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team mastodon.social/@nekohayo... · Posted by u/luu
>you couldn't just download Firefox ... Apple hasn't done that
Apple has banned any browser engine except Safari from iOS.
Would that not mean you can't install any browser other than Safari? Because I'm running Firefox right now on iOS. Or does "ban" mean something else in this context?