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by city41 3y ago
That was the first one I saw and it immediately killed the site for me. Real rejection letters would be interesting to see.
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by city41 3y ago
The ads are nowhere near as bad as cable TV. Even after the recent change where ads are now much longer.
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by city41 3y ago
Ugh, that sucks. But I'd still take that over the experience I've had, which is usually trying over and over and over again to get a device to connect at all. Like listening to music in the car, pull over to get gas, and then spen
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by city41 3y ago
People in the Apple ecosystem usually report Bluetooth works great. I'm not in that ecosystem but I've heard this many times. I always assumed Apple works hard to make sure all their devices interop over Bluetooth well. For me, I
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by city41 3y ago
Weird, it's never crashed on me and I use it extensively.
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by city41 3y ago
> But not only has my professional life become monotonous and unchallenging In my 20 years as a developer, I think I can count actually fulfilling moments on one hand. Maybe I'm just really unlucky, but I suspect that professional d
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by city41 3y ago
I made a web based level editor that I was hoping would fill in gaps I perceived in Mario Maker: https://smaghetti.com/ I no longer work on it and never really filled those gaps, but it was a fun time nonetheless.
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by city41 3y ago
I find it wild they've been mainstream now for 16 years and I still just absolutely hate them. I would gladly sacrifice screen for a good physical keyboard.
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by city41 3y ago
> Software simply does a lot more than it used to To me, this is the main problem. Most software now has so many features that the owning company can't possibly keep eyes on it all anymore, or just chooses not to as a cost cutting m
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by city41 3y ago
Yes, I know my opinion will be unpopular. Terry's popularity confounds me.
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by city41 3y ago
Terry Gross is the worst interviewer I've ever heard. She seems to make a lot of the people she interviews uncomfortable, and not in a good way. Trent Reznor in particular seemed especially annoyed.
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by city41 3y ago
The era between tables and flexbox/grid was a difficult one. Floats were finicky and hard to get right. A lot of people just went back to tables, and I honestly didn't blame them.
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by city41 3y ago
One small reason is they use ads as "payment" for things. Scrubbing through a video looking for a certain spot will require you to watch an ad almost every time you stop scrubbing. They also make you watch an ad if you pause the v
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by city41 3y ago
It can be much worse. The NHL used to play the same ad, many many times throughout a game, often multiple times in a row. They would also play that same ad for the entire season. We used to watch with remote in hand at all times, ready to m
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by city41 3y ago
On the flip side they are largely set and forget for all your devices. They also do things like blocking a Roku device from phoning home. Oh it also does dns over https which is a nice bonus.
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by city41 3y ago
I'm also reminded of Steve Jobs's Interface Builder demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0CbKYUFTY&t=70s I still think it's impressive that AI can just look at 2 rectangles and discern slider though.
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by city41 3y ago
I'm a developer but also have an art degree and an art background. I'm very mediocre at art and design. But lately I've been using AI to help plug that gap a bit. I really think it will be possible for me to make an entire ga
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by city41 3y ago
I got off this rollercoaster by using Linux. My 10 year old Thinkpad works just fine today, and probably will for another 10 years. Linux isn't for everyone, of course. But avoiding this charade is a nice bonus.
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by city41 3y ago
Apple computers have a time limit if you want to keep using MacOS. My 2012 MacBook Retina still works great ... if I put Linux on it. Logic Pro is a great example. It requires MacOS 12 or greater. MacOS 12 will only run on 2015 or newer Mac
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by city41 3y ago
Every time I log into experian.com, I am greeted with an offer to "upgrade" my account for $0.00. At the top is small text that says "Try Experian CreditWorks℠ Premium for 7 days for free, then pay just $24.99 each month†. Yo
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by city41 3y ago
I was going to post this. Many times I've sat there trying to guess what the developer was thinking "maybe this will enable it? no... how about this?..." I can't even imagine what non-techy people do in these situations.
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by city41 3y ago
Since it's a JSON tool, I wish it leaned more on JavaScript syntax. In this case I wish it was || or even better, ??
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by city41 3y ago
My Pixel warns me when it is "charging slowly".
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by city41 3y ago
I might agree with you in theory. In reality the American culture spreading across the globe is just sad to me. I don't want to get a Subway sandwich in the US, let alone Germany or Signapore...
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by city41 3y ago
Several times throughout my career I've been hit with something erroring and it just being silent and completely stumping us. No error output, nothing. In a lot of these situations, we were able to track it down to some low level third
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by city41 3y ago
This is starting to feel like another topic altogether. My original point is the Niro is not a luxury vehicle. It's really just a very average/typical vehicle they slapped an electric motor into. And roughly costing us about the s
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by city41 3y ago
I did a 6 month stint with 4 day work days and I noticed the same thing. I think I was more productive when I had that added day of rest and yeah they paid me 1/5 less. I didn't mind the pay cut because I was much happier. It&#x27
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by city41 3y ago
That was 13 years ago. A basic inflation calculator says $100 in 2010 would be $142 today. Not sure about Europe but after the US tax credit on EVs our Niro cost about the same as say an Accord.
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by city41 3y ago
Money is a huge motivator. People will absolutely change their behavior to save money. It's also largely politically agnostic. Unless you're very wealthy, money impacts your life no matter how you feel about climate change or the
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by city41 3y ago
I still marvel that my pretty basic Kia Niro EV provides the quiet, smoothness and smooth power delivery that Rolls Royce has been trying to get out of their v12s for decades. And it gets it without even trying, it's just how electric

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