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by 98codes 3y ago
https://98.codes Content going back ages, mostly died out when blogging did -- with social media slowly dying, I'm hoping the overall tread will reverse.
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Leaked messages show employees roasting Satya Nadella after cheery fiscal post(businessinsider.com)
3 points by 98codes 3y ago|1 comments
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by 98codes 3y ago
The only thing they care about is bottom line, and this, "Huffman says the blackout hasn’t had “significant revenue impact”," is key. To lose 95.8% of your site (judged by the 8467 out of 8838 subreddits gone dark) and not have a
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by 98codes 3y ago
100% -- I'm not creating an account if I can't use the app, demo the app, or otherwise get a proper idea of what I'm signing up for, in order to see if it'll be worth my time to begin with.
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by 98codes 3y ago
> Finally, and I think this is a really important thing to do, I try to organize events This is generally the thing Seattle is missing -- people that organize and then tell people to show up at X place on Y date. Most of the time, it&#x2
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by 98codes 3y ago
> educating ourselves about common mistakes folks make when designing UI The main issue I see is that most devs simply do not care, and/or dev management not prioritizing it unless required by regulations. The biggest problem I see
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by 98codes 3y ago
Same for Xbox & Windows -- the app is barely serviceable, and I figure that's by design from Apple.
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by 98codes 3y ago
And as someone that's recently left Twitter behind where that would've been unthinkable a year ago -- it's clearer than ever to me now that none of it matters. If I were to lose everything on Mastodon tomorrow, oh well.
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by 98codes 3y ago
If it's unused generally but also kept up, sure. That's generally not the case for empty houses.
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by 98codes 3y ago
24 ads and other trackers from The Verge attempted to load on that page alone; usually much more if those are allowed to succeed. That said, I disabled that creator follow nonsense the moment it landed. Not because of the URL tracking, but
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After demolishing swaths of San Jose, Google puts campus project on hold(arstechnica.com)
34 points by 98codes 3y ago|1 comments
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by 98codes 3y ago
GM isn't nearly immune to this BS: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/31/23664814/gm-ev-restrict-a...
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by 98codes 3y ago
For example?
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by 98codes 4y ago
This is just a straight clickbait version of the article* posted yesterday. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35276024
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by 98codes 4y ago
If you have a history of non-payment they may require a security deposit, but with the exception of cable/internet most residential utility bills are sent (and paid) post-usage.
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by 98codes 4y ago
Am I reading this right? Those in the dental profession commit suicide at 2x the rate of the general population?
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by 98codes 4y ago
Looking like AWS is having issues: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
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by 98codes 4y ago
It was the moment "embrace, extend, extinguish" was no longer the purview of only Microsoft.
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by 98codes 4y ago
One Medical is basically a conglomeration of doctor's offices with an app that allows for easy scheduling, remote visits, chat, and other stuff.
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by 98codes 4y ago
45 checking in -- essentially, preventative maintenance. Increasingly, a focus on joints and the muscle groups that support them, particularly towards range of movement/flexibility. Annual physicals to catch problems early, ask your pa
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by 98codes 4y ago
It depends on the individual; your college degree gets you your first job after college. After that, it's experience and relationships/contacts. I know of English and Liberal Arts majors that are doing very well in tech fields doi
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by 98codes 4y ago
We can thank iOS and Android for the death of desktop/filesystem knowledge for people at large. Universities will need to start requiring a General Computing course to close that gap, if they aren't already.
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by 98codes 4y ago
I actually had a _lot_ more trouble with the first sentence oddly enough; the proliferation of commas where (in modern syntax at least) there should be no commas kept placing unnecessary and unwanted breaks in the language flow. It's e
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by 98codes 4y ago
The strobing seems to defeat the effect -- you only need one good frame with a face showing to defeat the hoodie, and this seemed slow enough that I could pick up the face of the demo guy with my own eyes in realtime.
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by 98codes 4y ago
> to buy things Exactly. That's not renting, and co-op owners aren't landlords unless they turn around and rent the unit out.
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by 98codes 4y ago
As someone who uses an email address in the form of <word>@<numeral>.<word>, I can tell you from lots of experience that entirely too many devs in the world thought "can't we just" and got it horribly wrong.
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by 98codes 4y ago
> are high due to a major outbreak of bird flu Maybe at first, but now that providers are following the same path as oil companies and reporting record profits, I'm not buying it.
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by 98codes 4y ago
> That's a LONG time to do anything I can't help but think that in a meeting somewhere someone mentioned that the coding competitions have run forever in response to people complaining how quickly everything dies -- and someone
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by 98codes 4y ago
OneMedical was running for years without Amazon -- let's not start giving them credit for revolutionizing anything but their telemetry just yet.
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by 98codes 4y ago
A good app where you can schedule appointments sometimes within the same day or often a day or two, a dedication to on-time appointments in the office (I've yet to wait for than a minute or two beyond my appointment time in 5+ years of

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