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by WWLink 3y ago
I think Elon was always what I'd call "silicon valley libertarian" at best. Nothing he's said or done is really all that surprising, if you go back and look at the things he said and did 10 years ago.
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by WWLink 3y ago
> His decent into outrage-bait, alt-right friendly nonsense struck me as abrupt. One minute his channel was reasonable enough, the next it was totally nuts. An observation of mine going back to the 90s when I was a kid and liked listeni
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by WWLink 3y ago
I disagree. Not once has "sponsored result" ever helped me in my shopping process. If anything, algorithm steering and "sponsored results" hurt because I'm searching for product X while you're pushing (sometime
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by WWLink 3y ago
Keep in mind that if you kill social security and medicare (I know you'd LOVE to) then you don't get that money coming in anymore, either. How do you propose we keep taking the money out of people's paychecks while not giving
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by WWLink 3y ago
Word. I'm just pointing out that they like to blame the price hikes on increased wages when there's no way the wages are causing costs to go up that much.
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by WWLink 3y ago
Yea but milking the customers and blaming the employees is a great way to make profit!
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by WWLink 3y ago
As someone who took the school bus as a kid? Who gives a shit. I think it's an improvement worth having. Also: School buses generally run on CNG, not diesel. They usually have special filling stations for that. They can toss all of tha
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by WWLink 3y ago
I'm doing CICO and I have been since February, but the thing I found helped make it a lot more livable was to do a small deficit (200-300 calories) instead of a big one (500-600 calories). Ultimately, the most important thing? Just log
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by WWLink 3y ago
Yea they do that in the US as well. But not very often.
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by WWLink 3y ago
Here I was doing barre chords on the 2nd fret, 5th fret, and 1st fret on my guitar and wondering why it didn't sound good. ;)
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by WWLink 3y ago
I think you would have to be an incompetent principle investigator if you sent people to space and couldn't figure out a way to maximize scientific knowledge from it. We've been doing that for decades with the ISS and the moon tri
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by WWLink 3y ago
Because windows sysadmins are way more common, I feel like it's impossible to avoid being in the disaster path of an inexperienced windows sysadmin (or security person or IT person) -- even if the mean well! And stuff! ... one day you
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by WWLink 3y ago
The way MacOS throws notifications for shit like app store software updates at the top right of the screen (by default) drives me up a wall lol. It feels like there's always something wanting to float around up there on one of my compu
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by WWLink 3y ago
"NCTA's letter made the issue clear: retail stores have items pre-labeled, and, under this new rule, they'd need to create thousands of variations of those labels." That's a bunch of bullshit though. The cable compa
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by WWLink 3y ago
-gets on soapbox- I think giving kids locked down appliances is a terrible idea and a great way to limit the number of people who become software engineers in the future. -gets off soapbox-
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by WWLink 3y ago
Before I begin: I own a first gen Surface Pro and have never purchased an iPad lol. Now then, I think the problem with the Surface Pro was that it was perfect for that transitional period of time where the iPad made for a very awkward compu
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by WWLink 3y ago
Have you considered getting a virtual private server from someplace like digital ocean or MS Azure or whatever? You might find that preferable for something to RDP into.
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by WWLink 3y ago
the M1/M2 macs should be able to just run the iOS app. Not sure if it allows storing stuff. Or if netflix lets you run the ios app on a mac (probably not lol)
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by WWLink 3y ago
That's alright. When you wear chinos, an argyle vest, and those hideous warby parker glasses, I think you look like a 20 year old waiter desperate to be thought of as some wealthy stock investor. Don't even get me started about th
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by WWLink 3y ago
In a way, that's a good way to gatekeep the humanities majors, isn't it? I noticed the same thing when I was in college though. Those of us trying to climb the ladder mostly took engineering or science things lol.
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by WWLink 3y ago
You can buy a travel/laptop mouse and those can get pretty tiny, but they still have 2 buttons and a scroll wheel. I find using a single button mouse an interesting exercise - both windows and MacOS are usable without it, MacOS in part
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by WWLink 3y ago
Usb ports existed on a few high end PCs but before 1999 or so they were super uncommon and nobody used them.
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by WWLink 3y ago
Get an iMac mouse off eBay then. They’re usb and still work fine with any computer. Edit: but there is one concern - they are not optical mice and use a ball. So if they’re really young you might want something more like an apple pro mouse
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by WWLink 3y ago
To be fair, I find using docker on anything but Linux to be an awful experience lol
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by WWLink 3y ago
> This is going to be bad for SF real estate I suspect. People will leave to adjust to their new salaries. Everyone disagrees with me, but I believe we're already seeing it. I moved down to the Los Angeles area after college, as I t
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by WWLink 3y ago
I had two problems with mine: First off, it used the same crappy "vacuum sealed" cartridge with the built-in print head that cost like $60 when Canon and Epson were selling separate ink tank vs print head units. I replaced it with
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by WWLink 3y ago
Word. Where I work that's 15-20+ years experience and often means "would become a director if there was an opening and they wanted the job"
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by WWLink 3y ago
lol imagine if someone had copyright over 2-5-1 chord progressions lmao.
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by WWLink 3y ago
Apple only had copy protection (m4p files) if you bought music from the itunes store during the time period where their contract with the music companies demanded they do that. When that clause ended, they stopped doing it, and IIRC when yo
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by WWLink 3y ago
I've owned 2 shitty HP inkjets and used countless more.. going all the way back to the deskjet 500... enough to know I'd never buy anything with an HP logo ever again. I don't care how good their laser printers are. They can

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