WilTimSon

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by WilTimSon 4y ago
Now I can screenshot this and make a post "Why Are Answers That Aren't On HN So Long-Winded?", because you recapped the whole thing in 3 sentences.
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
That is an oddly depressing thing to me. Creating noise out of nothing with the sole intent to achieve popularity and gain. When so many others try hard to create a meaningful thing or improve an existing one, the easier choice seems to be
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
It's so baffling to me, is there any research on whether a short name benefits marketing outreach or anything like that? I'd think a 4 letter gibberish name would put me off, if anything. I get if it's, like, "Mark"
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
The owner must not have thought it through then, because most tourists will chug on straight through their field. Having a marked path is to their own benefit if they have the (mis?)fortune of living on the way to a landmark. I remember a s
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
From a consumer's standpoint, is that bad? I'd rather wait longer and know for a fact that the product is 100% safe and tested. This isn't something I would be willing to take a risk on, getting into a car crash because I was
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
YouTube may be a business but, if you take away online advertising there, it wouldn't be a successful one. In fact, one of the first things people bring up when discussing YouTube from that standpoint is how much money it loses. If Goo
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
First thing I thought of was how much of a nightmare this would be for food delivery and general navigation for anyone, who isn't familiar with the building. Otherwise, kind of a curious idea, though I don't think I'd want to
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
The one thing I dislike about TikTok's influence, and I'm saying this as a very casual modern music listener, is that pop songs seem to be becoming extremely short sicne only a snippet is needed to blow up. Now I don't mind a
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
> Oh, and good luck. Despite the bullying and other inconveniences, Twitter remains an intriguing world for the social explorer. 11 years later and that message might finally lose its relevance. Despite Twitter's numerous faults, in
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
Ehh, I assume he does when it comes to money. I might have a very low opinion of him but I'm holding out a tiny shred of good faith in him not being an actual lunatic. However unlikely that seems as time goes on.
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
He doesn't have to know them, he probably has enough management and lawyers on retainer to warn him about stuff like that. It's highly unlikely they haven't warned him about this.
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
Then my advice about sticking to a dignified tone and knowing the rules still applies. Happy to have more people sharing but there's a reason HN isn't the same vibe as Reddit.
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
Those people should at least bother to learn HN rules then, because some of these comments are... yeesh. That said, how mad can you be about some username that you'd sign up for an extra account just to complain?
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
> if this is how the official Telegram app works Doesn’t look like it. Both Telegram android and desktop are resolving the username links (in any format) using in-app logic for me.
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
The details still escape me as I feel like I read the words but didn't get the meaning, which is by no means a knock on the write-up, I'm just a complete fool when it comes to musical technology and recording. However, it is a del
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
Hey wait a second, that's not fun at all, that's incredibly depressing! On a serious note, it does remind me of that time police arrested a man on suspicion of a break-in, because he was riding his bike in the neighborhood at the
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
The first part certainly raises the question of why ads are so poorly monitored. Having deepfaked celebrities promoting any product, even a legitimate one, should not be legal. It's misleading at the very least.
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
A) It taints the perception of the game beforehand. People look at an incredibly raw bit of gameplay footage and go "wow, this looks like trash!" B) The guy who did the leaking apparently tried to sell the source code, which is ju
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
Yeah, people seem to forget that a ton of their favorite celebs didn't start out the way they are today. Most people in the spotlight get distilled into a singular image - the weed-loving country singer, the "hated by many" f
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
I think this might have brought on more by the multiple submissions but I do agree that it's in HN's spirit to support ambitious endeavors.
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
Yeah, if tech is developed with the explicit purpose of surveillance on workers, it's definitely not some dubious case where "well maybe it's done with good intentions". Nothing good comes from putting extra mental strai
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
That's not what I said. The overstepping should be dealt with, decisively. But that doesn't excuse the fact that The Mirror is a deplorable rag and absolutely does not belong on HN, considering how paltry their journalistic standa
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
I'm more worried about how easily media spins stories that have a smidge of sense into a scandal by cutting out details and making the headline sensational. While the police overstepped in this case, the article clearly wanted this spe
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
> Every single product I've bought from them (router, motherboard, monitor, etc) has broken Has broken in what time frame? Because if it breaks within the first year or so, I'd understand it, but tech breaking/malfunctioni
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
Yep, I don't keep up with new music that much anymore but when I saw the title of this post, my mind immediately went to these lads. Perhaps they thought that naming themselves after the genre would prompt more people to discover it bu
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
Yeah, that's like saying YouTube's recommended videos are ads. Sure, they promote stuff, but they're a completely different category to the drivel they run before videos, where I have to watch commercials for products I'
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
There's always a respite, except people are not morally comfortable with pirating or using extensive ad blocking, it seems, though the latter is far more common, of course. Honestly, I see no issue in making it so that I don't eve
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
Good lord, this is by far the toughest of these Wordle variations that I've seen. Doesn't help that I'm rubbish at chess, of course, but still. Creative, though, never would have thought of something like this.
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
That rarely is a solution, though. Most work in this world feels unpleasant, just by virtue of the environment and many factors ruining the experience. It's like that twist on the old adage: "Do what you love and you'll ruin
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by WilTimSon 4y ago
If size is the only thing that matters to you in a building or structure, I guess you'd admire the Burj Khalifa. Although, incidentally, that's also a bit of an engineering marvel. Perhaps start with something simpler, the Pentago

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