You should make sure the TV area can fit the biggest model commonly on the market which I think is 85”. This sort of built in furniture can last for decades and todays luxury electronics are tomorrow’s commodity. edit: I would make sure the TV space it at least 205cm internally to accommodate todays large TVs.
TIL about the region-beta paradox, the psychological phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing ones
The article keeps falling back to the bike example, which totally ignores the time required to equip the bike and lock it up at the destination. Their other example of a bad romantic relationship is also hung up on switching costs. I prefer the version “broken gets fixed, shoddy gets ignored”.
Arstechnica.com used to do system build guides and would sometimes do a “God Box” with over the top everything. I think they discontinued it when dual socket motherboards, SLI GPUs, and consumer SCSI went away.
If you’re spending a billion dollars to go to the moon, why are you trying to save $1 with a cheap camera?
I keep my phone on the opposite side of the room so I can’t turn off the alarm without getting out of bed.
It’s easier to pass a half assed alcohol prohibition than to solve the root problems of violence against women. Sounds like the USA back in the 1910s. The anti-saloon league promoted prohibition to solve domestic violence, but it’s replaced with organized crime.
Why is Kit on instance X gatekeeping a user in instance Y from accessing a community on instance Z?Gives me vibes of old man yelling at kids to stop having fun.
It’s pretty much the main theme of the Dune series.