ZanyProgrammer

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by ZanyProgrammer 3y ago
I've been itching for months for a Twitter alternate, and I'm not placing much hope in the members only waitlist. Whoever is funding them needs to open the wallets to get them to scale up asap, it's like they can't take
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by ZanyProgrammer 3y ago
Well they paid the price for that bit of efficient thinking, didn’t they?
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by ZanyProgrammer 3y ago
I guess I’m horribly out of date, but why not go to the actual Reddit website or just use the official Reddit app? I don’t know why you’d be forced into a third party tool for something that doesn’t require it. I’d never even heard of Apoll
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by ZanyProgrammer 3y ago
IIRC basically a Pentagon funded think tank in Silicon Valley, though their best days were really the 1970s and 1980s.
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by ZanyProgrammer 3y ago
Which all has jack and shit to do with this case.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
I had the same experience in spring 2021. Totally obnoxious customer service.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
If you have to carry your passport around for things other than foreign travel there’s a greater risk of losing it.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
Ok but the UK is also an outlier.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
Why would private security be more accountable (you say it as if it’s self evident)? ELI5 and despise libertarianism.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
Yet it is being anti helmet by trying to cite sketch studies and be too clever by half.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
Being more mindful won't protect your brain if you do get in an accident without a helmet. If the effect as permanent, why wear helmets at all? This is all galaxy freakonomics brain shit.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
Similarly I saw a lot of activity there in the spring when Musk made his first attempt, and it didn't last.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
> then the should just stay on twitter. The entire differentiator between Mastodon and Twitter is choice There's that OSS elitism we all know and love so much.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
> but the protocol they use to communicate (ActivityPub) I stopped reading here. Most people who aren't tech savvy (much less professionally famous engineers) aren't going to want to learn this nonsense, much less see cased
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
> is a sort of idea -> project -> mass colaberation, society sized incubator, were news and policy discussions are just a byproduct. This is VC speak that is gibberish and means nothing.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
Scandiknavery. They aren’t legit.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
*citation needed. You’re gonna have to be a lot more specific
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
2014.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
I don't quite get this mania to get rid of personal pronouns when talking online. How hard would it be to add an "I'm" in front of "switching every"? It sounds pretentious as hell when they are missing.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
Slightly different circumstances back then.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
I'm pretty sure at least some were made into video games back in the day-I could've sworn I played the Escape series as a game on a Commodore 64 back in the 80s.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
or not gotten. You can have the primary series and no booster and get the updated shot, as long as it's more than two months since.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
Or we could just go back to electrification, like much of the Milwaukee Road had prior to the 1970s, instead of feeling the perpetual techie desire for new vaporware tech.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
I had to look this up to verify, but the actual population of the city is about a quarter of a million, the 50k refers to the historic part of it.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
Yes, since US states are much, much smaller than BC, that's not surprising.
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Ask HN: How many of you delibrately wear a watch that isn't a smart watch?
11 points by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago|26 comments
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
When James VI/I wanted to call himself King of Great Britain, he was basically by himself in wanting to do that.
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
I'm not sure the people who might've crossed over to Britain almost a million years ago were literally the same people who migrated over the Bering Strait land bridge (physically, that is). Were they even anatomically modern human
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
So I guess the answer is to be selfish and unapologetic about being selfish? Or is this another screed against a certain kind of affluent liberal/progressive person?
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by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
If you're not genuinely interested in chess or DnD, it'll be harder to learn. You don't need to be interested in either, no one will think less of your intelligence or geekiness if you aren't! It's just that there&#

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