coldpie

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by coldpie 5mo ago
I decided very early in my career that I would never work for a place that sells ads. Don't think I could sleep at night if I worked at a place like Meta or Google.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
"Many" is definitely more in line with what I'd expect, yeah :) Sounds like most of your issues are multi-monitor & windowing related, which isn't surprising. Games make a lot of assumptions based on how Windows&#x27
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by coldpie 5mo ago
> Most run considerably worse often while suffering various glitches (sometimes game-breaking). That's an interesting experience, I'd be interested to hear more. There certainly are games that do not work well, no question, bu
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by coldpie 5mo ago
> But calling out CEOs isn't going to change it - the only thing that will help is the force of law - higher taxes on executives and profits and stronger worker protections might make a dent. The CEOs are the ones who are preventing
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I've had the same experience. I used to enjoy doing software dev, I was good at my job and liked it and did good work. Then the AI push happened and now whenever I'm typing code I think "I wonder if AI could do this for me&
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by coldpie 5mo ago
If I spend more than a couple minutes in an arrow-keys-and-mouse text editor, I often find myself unconsciously reverting to vi-language and getting confused. " Oh, I want to go change that sentence up the page that starts with '
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by coldpie 5mo ago
> The complete disinterest in international allies from the American public is troublesome. I don't think that's a fair characterization of the American public. I am interested in America's standing in the world. More th
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I chose Digital Ocean. I just need a tiny Debian server I can run a couple self-managed services on and DO gave me exactly that for $4/mo. I was with Azure before that and good lord was that a mistake. Miserable experience if all you
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by coldpie 5mo ago
The user you're replying to seems to be a legit unwell person who is having an episode. Probably don't need to spend much time reasoning with them.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
The objection is that releasing blurry pictures of airplanes, birds, and lens artifacts is not newsworthy, but it's getting coverage anyway instead of the things that are newsworthy.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I mean yeah, but the spam filter takes care of it.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I want to use a browser engine that is not developed/owned by Google, so I use Firefox. I also don't want to support Brave's CEO's politics, so I would not use Brave regardless.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I don't think a form of RCV would have a terribly significant impact on name recognition and incumbent advantage, which I think the are the main drivers of why we keep reelecting people who are obviously no longer competent. Feinstein
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by coldpie 5mo ago
You're not powerless here. Install uBlock Origin and enable its Annoyances filters. It gets rid of a lot of this crap. The Kill Sticky bookmarklet can also help snag ones that uBlock Origin misses. https://www.smokingonabi
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I got so much spam on my blog, I turned comments off. There's an email in the footer if readers want to contact me.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
FWIW I did not see a cookie modal. Most likely it was blocked by uBlock Origin's Annoyances filters. You should give it a try, it fixes a lot of this crap.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I completely agree. With so many high profile cases of people suffering from some form of dementia being elected to important offices (McConnell and Feinstein; Biden and Trump), it's clear that the intended electoral mechanism isn&#x2
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by coldpie 5mo ago
Check this out :) https://github.com/madewokherd/xalia#default-gamepad-control... (It's intended to allow video games that use standard OS controls to be controlled sanely with a gamepad.)
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I have to admit I'm always baffled by these "you could sue over this trivial matter" replies. Do you think lawsuits cost no time or money? Obviously I'm not going to do that.
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by coldpie 5mo ago
Very early in the first Bitcoin boom cycle I had a friend who was into it, so I opened a Coinbase account because I thought it'd be funny to pay him the $15 I owed him for lunch or whatever in Bitcoin. I bought the $15 on a credit car
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by coldpie 5mo ago
> Can Spotify actually become human- and artist-first? No, it can't. Its founder Daniel Ek is a war profiteer. He is by definition anti-human. Spotify itself is actively anti-artist. It has the lowest pay rates in the industry and i
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I dunno, it's tough. I hesitate to say HN is "getting worse," even if I agree with that in my gut. I think that gives rose-tinted glasses and nostalgia-bait. Rather, I think the community is refocusing around something that
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by coldpie 5mo ago
It's trending in that direction. If you want genuine conversation with humans, it's best to start looking for small, private communities that have and enforce LLM policies that align with your desires. Public social media is unive
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by coldpie 5mo ago
I don't think it's exclusive to young people, no. I'm a couple years older than you. All of my friends also hate it and make fun of it. Like some of the people in the article, I'm also looking to get out of the tech indu
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by coldpie 5mo ago
> I use Fossil for all my freelance work and it so easily allows me to get right back into the context of a project, niche details and agreements had with a client, etc. No need to pollute the codebase or gather together a million emails
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by coldpie 5mo ago
Computers are useful tools that do useful things for people. It is reasonable for people to want to use them to do things they find useful. They don't have to function like spy devices, but we've chosen to highly reward the pe
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by coldpie 6mo ago
Yeah same. I got to like the 3rd puzzle, got stuck, and never went back. I respect it, but just not for me.
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by coldpie 6mo ago
The Witness is one of my favorite games of all time, but yeah the first thing I say to anyone thinking of playing it is to skip all the audio logs. Those things are straight up embarrassing trash and I can understand anyone unfortunate eno
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by coldpie 6mo ago
> Do other (tech-literate) people do this?! I'm sure it's very common, yes. Permissions & popup fatigue is very real. Today, every application and website throws 6 dozen popups at you that you have to get through to get to
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by coldpie 6mo ago
> cmd+` gets me there, no problem at all No, this cycles between all 3 of them. As I said, I want to swap back & forth between just two of them. Extrapolate this behavior from 3 windows to 15 and you start to see the problem.

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