dorkwood

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by dorkwood 6y ago
I've found that music can have a profound effect on my productivity. If I'm trying to get 'into the zone', the best music to listen to is music that I'm already highly familiar with -- ideally, music that I've
902.
by dorkwood 6y ago
That's weird, I thought Hangouts became Google Meet.
903.
by dorkwood 6y ago
Just speculating, but it looks a bit like a mix between Slack and Twitter. A social network made up of company employees only.
904.
by dorkwood 6y ago
I thought it was funny. I'm not in a relationship, though. Maybe that's the difference.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I don't think it's fair to lump Twitter in with Facebook. Sure, if your feed isn't curated or you're looking at the replies to a Trump tweet, it's going to be a dumpster fire. But otherwise it can be a tool for keep
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Are you saving up to do it again? I want to do something similar but I find it hard to justify the cost. I also feel like my family would constantly hassle me about it, which seems like it would offset any sort of relaxation or enjoyment I
907.
by dorkwood 6y ago
That seems like a dangerous strategy, since you're also promoting the idea or person you seek to destroy.
908.
by dorkwood 6y ago
I think there's a sci-fi story buried in here. In the future, when humans die out, online conversation somehow continues at the usual pace.
909.
by dorkwood 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the people that chose to follow you based purely on receiving a like were also bots.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
This sounds like an interesting theory. I'm not really sure where my tongue could rest that wasn't on the roof of my mouth. The vacuum kind of naturally sticks it up there. I'd have to force it down otherwise.
911.
by dorkwood 6y ago
This can be a good thing, too. If you're prone to anxiety, you might find that people you once had a tense relationship with are now much easier to get along with. Since their presence is not persistent, their ability to cause you anxi
912.
by dorkwood 6y ago
I'm not sure it makes a great deal of sense to plot everything on that sort of scale. That would mean we'd have to call earthquakes or hurricanes 'very small' disasters, and that doesn't seem right.
913.
by dorkwood 6y ago
You might be coming at it from a purely technical angle, rather than thinking about the story. "Humans build giant machine to uncover the secrets of the universe" is an interesting story with mass appeal. The physics are irrelevan
914.
by dorkwood 6y ago
The full text of the tweet: > There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed.
915.
by dorkwood 6y ago
Their promo video makes it look like a TV with a touch screen.
916.
by dorkwood 6y ago
I know the Futurama episode "The Sting" explores this idea.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
It's the men's bathroom.
918.
by dorkwood 6y ago
I believe it's the view you'd see under a toilet stall.
919.
by dorkwood 6y ago
What do the other 180k do now?
920.
by dorkwood 6y ago
Someone needs to make a Hacker News bingo card. "Doesn't work with JS disabled" would definitely be on there.
921.
by dorkwood 6y ago
I've always felt like a bit of an outsider. The idea that my disposition may be a result of mother nature hedging her bets, in case the rest of the swarm is taken down, is oddly comforting.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Someone should build an ad blocker that still registers that you've watched the ad, so that content creators get paid (someone correct me if this is what's already happening).
923.
by dorkwood 6y ago
Always a red flag when an article doesn't put a date of publication anywhere on the page.
924.
by dorkwood 6y ago
I've been browsing the likes of people on Twitter. It works like this: find one person you think is interesting or does interesting work, and go to the 'likes' section of their profile. Scroll through their likes until you fi
925.
by dorkwood 6y ago
I think it depends how you use it. One of the things I enjoy doing on Twitter is posting up something I'm working on, and then clicking through to all the profiles of the people who like, comment, or retweet my work. I stumble across a
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by dorkwood 6y ago
The University of Newcastle.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
The fact that news websites happily adopted those is disgusting. They're literally tricking people into thinking it's news content.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
My bachelor's degree was basically a scam. It was from a well-known university in Australia, too. Teachers who barely knew anything about what they were teaching, outdated course material, the lowest bar imaginable to get a passing gra
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by dorkwood 6y ago
For years, my trick for finding interesting content was to go to, say, the 7th page of Google results, and start there. This doesn't work anymore -- it's SEO-optimised listicle blog posts all the way down. My trick now is to use T
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Couldn't you apply this same argument to almost anything, though? It seems if you take things seriously enough, fun as a concept ceases to exist.

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