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by coldpie 1y ago
Skip all the fluff and try being treated by a doctor instead! That's what they're there for.
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by coldpie 1y ago
The people in control of the economy are not affected by the state of the economy. There is no incentive for them not to gamble because there is no downside. If they win, they get even more money and power. If they lose, they'll still
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by coldpie 1y ago
How many golf balls can you fit into these 5 fish?
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Why do we assume that we know better and people with far more knowledge and insight would all be wrong? Because of historical precedent. Bitcoin was the future until it wasn't. NFTs and blockchain were the future until they weren&
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by coldpie 1y ago
Who said anything about being surprised?
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by coldpie 1y ago
Five hundred gajillion dollars spent so we can end up in the same place except with these five men making all the money instead of those five men. Whee.
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by coldpie 1y ago
China has not made my wife's healthcare illegal, my friends' healthcare illegal, spent my tax dollars on genocide, profited from anti-vaccine propaganda, or sponsored weekly mass shootings in my country. The people running this d
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by coldpie 1y ago
> letting china potentially use tiktok to spread anti western propoganda Lol if you bought into this. All the anti-Tiktok stuff & forced sale is just a gift to American businesses that were struggling to compete.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I'm skeptical that a significant number of people will be willing to pay cash money for these products when web search still exists for free, but we'll see!
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by coldpie 1y ago
Can you give some example queries where Kagi performs better than Google? I've tried it a few times and found it to be nothing special.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Is Perplexity, as a business, sustainable? I'm skeptical of these "AI search is better than web search" claims. Not because it's not true, but because of how wildly subsidized these AI things are. Web search doesn't
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by coldpie 1y ago
We really need to start considering these things in the same category as pop-up windows. Browsers need to start killing these things, just like they did pop-up windows in the 90s and early 2000s. Remember when pop-up blocking was a huge f
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by coldpie 1y ago
> The lack of any democratization of bulk storage is beginning to be a real problem on the internet. There are many thousands of paid hosting services, feel free to pick one. It turns out hosting TB of data for free is a pretty tricky bu
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by coldpie 1y ago
> disable animations, especially when swapping between desktops When I first started using a mac for dev at my current job, I tried their virtual desktops implementation as a workaround for macOS's lack of alt-tab support. That desk
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by coldpie 1y ago
> It brings up a list of applications "Applications" is the problem. I want to switch between windows.
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by coldpie 1y ago
That switches between apps, not windows. Open two browser windows and two terminals. Try to switch between one terminal and one browser without bringing all the other windows to the fore. You can't do it. Windows (and most Unix WMs, I
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by coldpie 1y ago
Yeah, I was waiting for "how are they going to shove AI into this?" and boom there it is halfway down the page. No content here (obvious problem: how does paying Reddit Inc to allow scraping result in money going to the person who
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by coldpie 1y ago
Sorry, I have no idea, it just worked this way out of the box so I never had to do any digging into it.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Man just give me a way to switch between only the two most recent windows using a keyboard shortcut (without requiring some janky 3rd party program). Windows-style alt-tab. It's not a big ask and would make the macOS experience go from
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by coldpie 1y ago
FWIW, I use Arch Linux with XFCE on my Intel Framework 13 and I only lose a few percent battery per day in sleep mode. I suspect you could find some software settings to make this better, maybe worth digging a bit further.
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by coldpie 1y ago
The good news is this AI stuff is not profitable. Big companies and VCs are subsidizing all this AI slop. If it had cost this moron $5 to generate the slop to file this bug they probably would not have bothered. Hopefully the bubble burst
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by coldpie 1y ago
According to the game's Steam store page, it uses Easy Anti-Cheat, which generally does not work in Proton. Pretty common problem for people who want to play modern online games. I'm surprised you say it works for you.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Is XFCE minimalistic? It feels to me like it's just a modern continuation of the desktops we had in the 90s and early 2000s. Instead of adding in a bunch of extra stuff and moving things around to keep people busy, they're just qu
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by coldpie 1y ago
Hahah, personally I can't wait to go back to Android :) I've found iOS to be a pretty miserable experience. I only got a Mini because it was the smallest phone on the market. IIRC Motorola's Razrs run like $700-1200 dependin
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by coldpie 1y ago
There are many ad block options on iPhone. I currently use Wipr 2, but in the past I've used both 1Blocker and AdBlock Pro with success.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Install an ad blocker.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I'm in the same boat. I've been looking at foldables, especially the latest Motorola Razr series. The outer screen is about 4" diagonal, which should serve most needs for one-handed use; and it expands into a modern phablet
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by coldpie 1y ago
> The new UI is so incredibly ugly I honestly cannot understand how they thought it was acceptable to even released as a beta let alone an RC and now release. I feel like if you replaced all of the paper in a company's printers wit
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by coldpie 1y ago
I don't know Go, but Rust absolutely has the same problem, yes. So does Python. NPM is being discussed here, because it is the topic of the article, but the issue is the ease with which you can pull in unvetted dependencies. Language
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by coldpie 1y ago
More tips to make the Internet suck less here: https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/08/01/tips-for-making-th...

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