JohnFen

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by JohnFen 3mo ago
The ones in my part of the country demonstrably use an enormous amount of water.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I recommend that you just start trying out hobbies. Pick something. Anything (although at least initially, make it something that has a community that's local to you.) Commit to it for a set period of time (for me, one or two months wo
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
And you can easily remove the stickers.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Coming from Zuckerberg, this reads to me as equal parts sales pitch and threat.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Not as social media. I only use it to talk one-to-one with two friends who are not really contactable any other way.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I've successfully left all social media platforms (except HN, if you consider it a social media platform). I would be extremely hesitant to get involved with a new one. But to be tempting, the new platform would have to have no "a
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Why would anyone go to the time and trouble of implanting chips in people when most people already voluntarily carry their tracking chips in the form of their smartphones?
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Yeah, what people tend to forget is that a movie only has room to tell a short story. If you're adapting a novel to a movie, then most of the novel has to get cut, so the odds of the movie being true to the source material are very, ve
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I really hate how this is being reported. I agree with this guy's stance on this issue, but this is being reported as if the guy was arrested for taking a particular political viewpoint. He wasn't. He wasn't even arrested for
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
You may as well just ban new users altogether.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> At that point, many people, me included, believed that Nova Launcher was dead. That's when Nova became Dead To Me. > However, even with Nova Prime activated and the "Error & usage reporting" option disabled, the a
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> I find US forced company events like this way more unbearable than UK/European ones. I'm not familiar with European ones, but I agree that forced company events like this is the US are unbearable. I rejoiced once I hit a poin
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I find wearing sunblock to be so unpleasant that if I can't take other measures (such as dressing in sunblocking clothing), I would much rather avoid doing activities that require it. If I had to wear it indoors, I don't know what
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
CAPTCHAs increasingly prevent me from using websites that I've been using for years (none of them are in the top 10). I consider them that bad because they're locking me out of an ever-increasing portion of the web.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I agree. It's as if people have forgotten (or never learned) what the point of art is.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Yes, in a heartbeat. There are, of course, many strong advantages to smartphones. But, it turns out, many strong costs developed to match. The cost/benefit ratio is no longer favorable for me.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
We still can. At least in my part of the US, there are still plenty of stores that don't lock stuff up. My solution is to go to those stores instead. If I run out of such stores, then I guess I'll find an online solution that isn&
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
And it never actually made an argument to support the hypothesis that handing off execution is empowering. It simply restates the hypothesis as if it were an obvious fact.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I'm surprised that this functionality was implemented so poorly in Graphene. There should be no visible behavior that gives away the use of the duress password.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> Since on 1 hand you got an afterlife, eternity, and what-not. You asked about the existence of God, not the existence of an afterlife. In any case, if there is some sort of afterlife, then eternal material life would impede us as a spe
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
In my view, the existence of God doesn't enter into it. My opinion would be the same whether God exists or not.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I don't see it as a problem to be solved at all. I see it as an important and necessary feature that allows for growth and adaptation as a species. It's a good thing.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
IANAL, but just a web searcher. It appears that legally, in the US, public-facing private spaces are in a weird place. A lot depends on the specifics of the space. The closes analogy I can think of is shopping malls, which are privately own
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I don't watch anything. If I'm eating alone, I usually listen to music or read.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
A developer develops. I think "develops" is a decent verb for the activity and it doesn't imply any particular development method.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
People seem stuck in thinking that the Republican party is still conservative. It's not. It's become extremist and radical -- the opposite of conservative.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> When you see an unlabelled AI video, Maddox says it feels like a set up. "The joy feels manufactured. It can be hollow in a way that's almost fraudulent. Ultimately I think it's going to make us a lot more cynical about
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Well, then I wouldn't buy a MacBook. Regardless, if you're concerned about the logging of beta software prematurely wearing out your SSD, then don't use beta software. It's not ready for release anyway, by definition. It
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Really?? I would consider such laptops not fit for purpose and wouldn't buy one in the first place. Of course, that doesn't help if that's the sort you have. Sorry.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I do own my media, not rent. That's because if I can't get it in a form that I have total control over, I don't get it at all. The cost/benefit of doing otherwise is too unfavorable for me.

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