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by coldpie 4mo ago
This is what I use & like as well, but I definitely think there's space for a more GUI-focused option that isn't Quickbooks or Gnucash. It's not a good fit for me, though, I require my important tools to be open source.
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by coldpie 4mo ago
I always turned this off, and also, cursed myself when I forgot to turn it off.
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by coldpie 4mo ago
I made a very good living developing open source software for more than a decade. Nothing about open source software precludes one from making money, it's just a different business model from closed source.
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by coldpie 4mo ago
I know everyone's tired of hearing this, but this doesn't happen on Linux. I know I know, it's different and a little janky here and there and maybe you have to find a replacement for one or two pieces of software. But like,
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by coldpie 4mo ago
Video resolution: 128x72, hahah. Late 90s RealPlayer postage stamp video is back! To its credit, that whole movie is probably smaller than RealPlayer itself was.
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by coldpie 4mo ago
> I collect watches worth >$100k It's off topic for this thread, but I'd totally read a blog post about that hobby :)
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by coldpie 4mo ago
You're only getting one side of the story, here. I suspect the user called "anal_reactor" who is a fan of "edgy humor" and thinks "most people have very little depth" miiight have a hard time with in-pers
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by coldpie 4mo ago
There are still in-office jobs out there, where you can have lunch with humans, and maybe even make friends with your coworkers. I have one. It's not a popular opinion on this site, but it's OK to admit that being isolated home
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by coldpie 4mo ago
This gets tiresome. Github is a lot more than a host for Git repositories. If you want to suggest that people use something else, you need to suggest a replacement that has the features people use Github for.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
No one should have more than $140MM. That is a ludicrous amount of money.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I just went into the university bookstore & took photos of the question pages, lol. This was in the digital camera era, pre-smartphones, so it was hard to hide what I was doing and I got kicked out once or twice. Worth it to save hundre
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by coldpie 5mo ago
You're pretty much correct, yeah. If you want to know what the actual benefit to playing a more expensive and/or name-brand instrument is, it's because it's largely a signal to others about your self. Playing a recogni
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I feel your pain. Learning the basics of IP law is one of those "curses of knowledge"[1] because you can never not sound like a pedantic asshole whenever someone who doesn't know IP law tries to talk about IP law. "No,
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by coldpie 5mo ago
It's a pretty restrictive design space. The Stratocaster shape is based on the centuries-old shape of acoustic guitars. The lower dip of the "hip" of the guitar shape serves a practical purpose, in allowing it to rest on yo
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by coldpie 5mo ago
Sorry if I'm explaining the joke, but the term comes from Fender's guitars called Stratocasters. It's a popular guitar shape & configuration, so very many companies have made their own versions of it. However, Stratocas
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by coldpie 5mo ago
> I doubt they can show a properly registered copyright, which would have been required before 1978. I doubt the copyright laws back then would have even allowed copyrighting the shape like that (but I'm not a lawyer). None of that
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by coldpie 5mo ago
> The shape of the guitar is very old (75+ years) They are basing their claims on copyright[1], which is longer than 75+ years[2]. The first case they filed (in Germany, against a Chinese manufacturer) "validated" their copyr
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by coldpie 5mo ago
Passkeys are a big part of this future, too. The spec has device attestation built in, so if passkeys gain traction, they could lock it down so only approved software is allowed to log in to services. If that happens, it means your ability
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by coldpie 5mo ago
> allowing Googlebot to crawl my sites As far as I know, you don't have a choice. They have no obligation to respect your wishes, and LLMs are legally allowed to scrape & republish your content.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
Makes sense to me. A chat UI has more avenues for subtle advertising & sentiment manipulation than plain links do.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
Well, congrats, you have the power to go make 50 of those in 3 minutes. Enjoy...?
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by coldpie 5mo ago
> insane coming from an executive I guess you haven't heard much from executives before? They are absolutely coocoo-bananas people.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
It's on the same level as giving someone like, a box of chapsticks you picked up at Walgreens on the way over for Christmas dinner. No effort or thought, not really worth anyone's time, the giftee's or the gifter's.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
Oh excellent, my library has a copy available right now. I will go check this out :)
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I opened a grocery store where anyone can walk in, take whatever they want, and walk out without having to pay for it. No grocery store has ever seen the level of customer growth as mine! The reason for all the LLM spend & forced adopti
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I do, too, but a throwaway account busting into a conversation and screaming "everyone listen to me, me, me!" is a bit obnoxious, you know?
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by coldpie 5mo ago
Ahh, to be 15 again, when I knew everything and the world was so simple and obvious. Enjoy these days, friend.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
Advertising is necessary for many businesses. The way Meta & Google sell ads and show them to users by algorithmically monetizing human attention is incredibly harmful to society & humanity. Meta & Google have been so successful
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I understand what you're saying, but no, I don't agree. These companies have positioned themselves so that it is often unavoidable to do business with them. If you have a visual arts business you are more-or-less required to hav
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I think it's pretty different. As much as you might not want to and put effort into avoiding it, sometimes you must make a deal with the devil to live your life or operate your business, simply because the world is what it is. But wor

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