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by WWLink 6y ago
PCs also make fantastic consumption devices! The games are usually cheaper, there's a much bigger variety, you can get all kinds of stuff from all sorts of countries, and even 30 year old stuff still runs on Windows lol.
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by WWLink 6y ago
I dunno if that means anything. Some of my software engineer friends have Tesla cars and love that kinda stuff. Others have old cars with very little in the way of electronics. Some have both! Gotta remember, that every day people entrust t
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by WWLink 6y ago
Plus as it's HN, there's a lot of people who want to have control over what their customers do with their products. lol. It's like those threads where some company is exposed for spying on their users, where a bunch of people
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by WWLink 6y ago
Oh I agree here. I think if you go into business to make cakes, you should vow to fulfill all your cake orders. Likewise, if you say you're a webhost, you host websites. If there's a legal issue, you report it. That's it.
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by WWLink 6y ago
I wish there was a law saying something like "If you sell a machine that claims to do X, it does X, no exceptions." This "We'll let you develop software for OUR X out of the goodness of our heart as long as you promise n
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by WWLink 6y ago
The funny thing is, up until around the time of the PS2, you could still buy unlicensed console games. For example: https://tcrf.net/Category:Unlicensed_Genesis_games https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/L
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by WWLink 6y ago
Naw bro, we should just give up on the whole thing and go back to beautiful clean coal! lol jk.
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by WWLink 6y ago
"We've ended the war on beautiful, clean coal. and it's just been announced that a second, brand new coal mine where they're going to take out clean coal — meaning they're taking out coal, they're going to cle
609.
by WWLink 6y ago
What's good for a consumer like me is installing whatever the fuck I want on my devices.
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by WWLink 6y ago
A lot of power poles have been replaced recently in my town and surrounding area. Most of the newer poles are a bit taller. Some of the A shaped towers were replaced with giant poles. Some giant wooden poles were replaced with towers. For t
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by WWLink 6y ago
I think that's transparent to a lot of people, because IIRC, charging price $x on your website, and then charging price $x+30% on apple's store is a breach of the app store contract and will get your app removed. Am I wrong though
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by WWLink 6y ago
Oooh thanks! That's super useful!
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by WWLink 6y ago
Man, I can't imagine anyone NIMBYing new power poles lol. Old poles get scary, especially when they start leaning over. And then when AT&T was mounting giant ass DSL VRADs on poles too lol. I'd be out there cheering on the lin
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by WWLink 6y ago
I agree with the sunk cost - besides, who is the customer and who is the product here? The customer is supposed to be the one who bought the phone and is using the OS in their best interest. Right? This whole thing feels all wrong. Both App
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by WWLink 6y ago
I wouldn't mind one of those. Especially if it helped me find games that don't have in-app purchases and don't have in-game advertising. I'd buy those. But it's fucking impossible to find them.
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by WWLink 6y ago
Yeah, totally agree with ya. Stay strong! The good thing is this won't be long term. Once stuff returns to normal I'm going to get a gym membership. lol.
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by WWLink 6y ago
> We're going out to eat in restaurants again, we're all still going grocery shopping (where I've never see anyone cleaning anything), malls are open, so what's the big deal with going back to work? You're exposi
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by WWLink 6y ago
The company can never force you into it. I'm guessing in most cases where the employer forces the issue they'll send an email telling you that "the offices are now open and you are expected to return to working at the office
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by WWLink 6y ago
Yeah, but they could do that any time of day! Especially when you close bars at 1am and send everyone drunk onto the street at the same time.
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by WWLink 6y ago
The pull of SF was never programming jobs lol.
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by WWLink 6y ago
I loved it until it got really hot. No air conditioning sucks. It does drain my desire to do anything, including work lol. I feel like just sitting in front of a fan with my mind totally blank. Or maybe going to the beach or something. Othe
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by WWLink 6y ago
I think it's silly that they even close. What's the point? Can someone enlighten me on why bars and stuff close at 1am? Thanks!
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by WWLink 6y ago
That you have an affluent area on one block and a poor area on the next is not new at all. it was like that back in the 80s. And it's probably a good thing, in terms of making it easy to climb the ladder. If you live in a wasteland of
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by WWLink 6y ago
Naw bro, they should put all the homeless people on a bus to Texas and then get rid of all forms of taxes. Make it so you don't even need a license to open a business. It'll be the greatest city in the world! /s
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by WWLink 6y ago
Yeah but this is as if you bought an AOL computer that did nothing but AOL. And AOL had absolute authority on what you could do on your computer. I know, I know, people who bought iPhones knew what they were buying into.
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by WWLink 6y ago
I feel the same way about being a dumbass for staying in los angeles lol. Here I am getting low 100k and some linkedin recruiter tells me about a 400k job. Wait WHAT?! Man I'd happily take up one of those Google jobs, but being an embe
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by WWLink 6y ago
35 years means they must be using 286s to run that stuff. On the plus side, nothing requires fans, the motherboards are extremely simple (albeit a mess of logic chips), and your biggest worry is probably the power supply. Right? I dunno. I
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by WWLink 6y ago
To me the worst part is you don't need to have constantly-connected-to-the-internet voice recognition. It certainly wasn't a thing until recently. That's why I tend to think of it as an act of malice.
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by WWLink 6y ago
It also means you can use the usual cmd+c in a terminal window. That alone makes Macs my favorite console machine lol. I mean at least Linux has ctrl+shift+c too. Windows: shift+insert? REALLY?! WTF? lol. :D
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by WWLink 6y ago
MacOS uses ctrl+a/ctrl+e EVERYWHERE (but it doesn't work well in Microsoft products, if it works at all). I like my emacs line editing mode :D

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