criley2

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by criley2 4y ago
Does anyone still use notepad++? I agree with the user and left it a long time ago. The settings are truly arcane and whenever I end up using notepad++ randomly I just use google "notepad++ <setting> <change>" and rote
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by criley2 4y ago
Imagine if Apple laptops could only boot OSX by default
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by criley2 4y ago
It's considered luxury in the united states to have the toilet enclosed in a smaller room inside the bathroom. Most American cities are expensive enough per sqft that it's certainly not standard to have a larger bathroom capable o
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by criley2 4y ago
>That's seems like a very negative take in my opinion. This 'simpler operational tech' would still need to be able to scale, correct? Premature optimization is a top problem in startup engineering. You have no idea what yo
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by criley2 4y ago
You assert that it doesn't work however we are in a thread where a major company like Uber has switched to it making your assertion ring hollow. I do not understand your point about conflicts as 3 commits across 3 projects with 3 diffe
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by criley2 4y ago
Or you have a monorepo and you make the change in your backend, then you make the change in your dependencies, then you have one commit, one PR, one test run, and one release. The solutions to monorepo taking 10x longer to build seem to be
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by criley2 4y ago
Linus did a video on how much money they make from youtube premium/ads and the numbers can get as high as $50k-$100k/video for their most popular streams. It's not nothing. Floatplane is profitable because it's a subscri
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by criley2 4y ago
Salacious is an eminently accurate word for your string of source-less comments describing your feelings about their advertisements under the guise of actual accusations of wrongdoing. I don't "disagree with you", I dismiss y
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by criley2 4y ago
LTT makes almost all of it's money from floatplane, youtube premium, and youtube advertisements. The "deals" they work with companies are almost entirely outside of the product space they review. This mud-slinging idea you co
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by criley2 4y ago
It's all fun and games until someone discovers ore deposits that would double world supply https://www.mining.com/web/uganda-says-exploration-results-s...
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by criley2 4y ago
I don't think the average sims users played the game to burn houses down. It's among the most popular game in history not because people wanted to kill their sims, but because it was the first game to appeal to traditionally femin
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by criley2 4y ago
it is literally true https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/what-if-more-people-bought... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-05/americans... I'm sure you can find a thousand
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by criley2 4y ago
Is the fleet of polluting vans worse than every single delivery target hopping in their polluting cars and driving to the store (the model that amazon displaced?) I don't think so. I think delivery has been demonstrated to be significa
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by criley2 4y ago
Honestly, I don't know if I buy it. Even today, when I buy online from a small business, it's normal to wait 3-5 business days for the order to be processed and a shipping label to be created, 1-2 days for the product to enter shi
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by criley2 4y ago
I'm basing that on global numbers, not national numbers. Sure, I don't doubt that in developed economies inequality is getting worse. But in the past 4 decades, I'll remind you that around 800,000,000 Chinese (that's eig
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by criley2 4y ago
The subsistence farm does not wait for your days off. You will live your life according to its schedule, and it does not care about sick days or vacation. To claim that an impoverished serf working land "had 4 days off a week" is
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by criley2 4y ago
Historically it was much, much worse. The only way you can make an argument for saying inequality is greater now (when global poverty/subsistence farming is at the lowest % since human settlement 12000 years ago) is to point to the she
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by criley2 4y ago
The problem isn't the 91% to the 99% in my opinion. In the United States, the 99th percentile for income is ~$300,000, which is a ton of money in a low cost of living (rural) area and a decent amount of money in a high cost of living (
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by criley2 4y ago
It included glutamic acid so all we need to do is refine it to the salt version and bam, space msg
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by criley2 4y ago
In any sane system, technical debt isn't backlogged and prioritized by project managers, it's simply a tax on all work. The point of "just doing" your technical debt isn't that you're stealing time from the PM,
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by criley2 4y ago
Solar is a perfect solution for like 1/3 of the world for like 1/3 of the day. Batteries though, current batteries are a horrible solution. It's funny that this threads main objection to nuclear is waste/mining/etc
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by criley2 4y ago
More competition in this space is good and for certain drugs may be a huge boon but for the average prescription, consumers should probably stick to goodrx to find the best deal. In my case, Cuban offers a very reasonable $7.50 for a 90 ct
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by criley2 4y ago
Audio quality was garbage then too. We have rose-tinted memories of people with hundreds-then thousands-now worth of audio equipment. The average tin can radio in a car or in your house in the 80s was so comically bad compared to now that y
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by criley2 4y ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but when someone says investors in regards to ycombinator/entrepreneurship/software they are referring to early stage startup investors, angel investors and investors in series A, or later rounds.
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by criley2 4y ago
While the many types of forests (deciduous, coniferous, rain, etc) dominate a lot of land on earth, there is still many types of plains, chaparral/savannah, deserts, mountain, tundras, etc.
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by criley2 4y ago
This is actually a really classic use of the 'ad hominem' to try and reject the argument by attacking the source. I do agree that Metro is a bad source, however if you read the article, you'd find it's not actually that
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by criley2 4y ago
I have been thinking about this concept / similar concept for a long time. My chief complaint with Civilization games is that they've become a history-themed board game. A fun board game, but less and less it doesn't feel lik
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by criley2 4y ago
I find that mocking is best done by product/designers and not engineers, and that the skills to make a wonderful user experience are about as opposite from the skills of being a talented js/typescript/react/redux/de
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by criley2 4y ago
The 6 second limitation was holding them back and their competitors knew that longer formats would be more successful. The vine 6 second format was interesting and kind of "created" the format that turned into tik tok, but there i
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by criley2 4y ago
Firing someone for being on paternity leave is definitely illegal in most places, but laying off executives and high level business folks before a transition at the top isn't illegal. I wonder if being on paternity leave is a "get

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