one good thing that I heard about McIntosh, is that even after 10-20 years of owning it, you can contact their support to buy some spare parts for fixing, and they will sell and even would be helpful to figure out what exactly needed (even in case if you are not original buyer). Unlikely that Bose would be interesting continue doing that kind of level of support.
I had several Tumi items. When I got them, I was told they had a "lifetime warranty," and I actually exercised it, a couple of times (broken zipper, one time).
Isn't the point of buying brands like that that you shouldn't need to fix after only 10-20 years? I have a denon receiver from the late 90's that I upgraded from and has been my garage/shop amp for the last 15 or so years. It is covered in dust and dirt and still cranks like the day I got it.
I also bought a 10+ year old Denon amplifier and overall it's great, but over time it developed some minor issues with components like Alps potentiometers and switches. Unfortunately, Alps doesn't produce some of those parts anymore (like the ones discussed here: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/source-for-alps-a...), so it's really not easy to source parts for repairs. It would be nice if you could simply ask the manufacturer to sell these components to you directly.
Well, yeah. I know I have a lot of 20+ year old audio stuff still going strong.
Some things like capacitors have a lifespan just due to their nature.
A McIntosh owner might also enjoy knowing that accidental "user error" type stuff can be repaired. It's pretty difficult to actually blow out an amplifier unless you're doing some real torture test type stuff; the fuses should blow before you can do any real damage. But still, after having plunked down megabucks on an amp, it's probably nice to know that your $10K or $20K investment can be repaired if you really manage to screw something up.
Not that I personally would ever consider owning McIntosh gear. I'm sure it's nice, but at the prices they're asking... I'm good.
sure that the case in lot of countries but is something really wrong with idea to have 2+ clients as minimum because reason why work done in that way is because person doing it don't wanna agree on terms that 'employment' contract is required and if that 'single' client is gone he always can get another one in few months. Sometimes you work with few clients in single year but sometimes it just one for 2-3y. And worth part that in some places taxes on self-employment might be higher.
noise actually not that bad with some bios configuration tricks - I used to run dell r720 and r420 together with ~20 HDDs near my desk table and most of the day noise was close to some non-silent gaming PC/workstation. Only problem was if is some need to reboot it, in that case it just blow fans to full power and it's loud like vacum cleaner that you for sure don't wanna to use at middle of the night.
almost at any place that rate is not really stable over time and overall if you have something close to 65-70% then it's probably just average situation.
From my experience places where more programing happening are:
- mid-big companies where you role could be very specialized
- small companies with focus on creating tech products or where tech has lot of impact on end customers (like if fixing few bugs could instantly lead to making additional money for a company)
Companies from non-tech word usually value non-coding stuff much more.
(I currently have about 50/50 rate and sometimes even less)
mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1 responses - which seems much better:
>>There are 31 books in my house. I read 2 books over the weekend. How many books are still in my house?
You still have 31 books in your house. The number of books doesn't change because you finished reading two of them; they're just no longer unread.
>>Julia has three brothers, each of them has two sisters. How many sisters does Julia have?
Julia has one sister.
Here's the logic behind this:
1. We know that Julia has three brothers.
2. Then we are told that each of her brothers has two sisters.
3. Since all four children (Julia and her brothers) share the same parents, they also share the same siblings.
4. Therefore, if each of Julia's brothers has two sisters, then there must be only one other sister besides Julia herself.
>> If you place an orange below a plate in the living room, and then move the plate to the kitchen, where is the orange now?
The orange is still in the living room, as moving the plate does not affect the location of the orange.
it's monopoly, in professional setting in most cases is no possibility to use something else even if alternative tools is better for your specific task. It really similar to case of MS Word decades ago, now we have choose but not in the past.
Figma had chance to grow later to level where it could become Adobe competitor, now it's no hope that would be any competition any time soon.
Just to illustrate why I think that. Usually Adobe software used for everything so is no escape in most cases, but Figma became so widespread in popular specific case so it could really transform situation in way: use Adobe for everything but for UI/Web use only Figma. In that way everybody become committed enough to Figma ecosystem and they as company can start offering new tools which will able to capture Adobe businesses bit by bit.
view point in article mostly from an user perspective, but if same stuff would be reviewed from companies perspectives most of that negatives has positive effects for marketing/sales needs which probably a reason why is so widespread.
It's like: our visitor can't just see our half page table with tech spec to know everything, he should go trough 20 images on 2 long pages and during that we will show him all our 'important' messages that he won't be interested otherwise.
