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by gdulli 4y ago
https://nitter.net/dril/status/473265809079693312
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by gdulli 4y ago
It was profitable in the relatively recent past. I wonder if had it never been acquired, it could have easily gotten back to that with the same round of layoffs as the rest of the industry had and without all the chaos of added debt, lost a
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by gdulli 4y ago
2018/2019
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by gdulli 4y ago
Sure, but it used to be the go-to place for a bunch of more mainstream verticals. It's not a place to find jobs anymore, personals are gone, and for apartments it's become synonymous with scams.
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by gdulli 4y ago
I left the day my client stopped working. Broke a decade-long daily habit. Twitter had already become less enjoyable than it was back in the day, that started before Musk and isn't his fault. The underlying engagement was no longer the
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by gdulli 4y ago
I wouldn't be quick to trust it. https://formcake.com/blog/stripe-atlas-includes-five-thousan...
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by gdulli 4y ago
You're comparing the risks quantitatively when you should be comparing them qualitatively. We have a lot of decades of understanding of the extent and surface area of the risk around human drivers and non-autonomous car technology. The
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by gdulli 4y ago
The difference here is that Twitter had been going downhill for a while before the recent changes. In 2022 people were already using it grudgingly, out of inertia. Not addiction or excitement. Even before Musk, I consciously anticipated tha
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by gdulli 4y ago
Greg Dulli is the lead singer of the Afghan Whigs. I had been to an Afghan Whigs concert the night before.
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by gdulli 4y ago
If you asked me whether I've seen more net inefficiency in my life resulting from underengineering with Excel-like workflows vs. overengineering through the "best" software engineering practices at a given time I really don&#
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by gdulli 4y ago
They can't (or don't want to) iterate every possible premium domain in advance, so they run the algorithm on domains that get added to the cart. You're lucky you didn't register it at the regular price and start to build
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by gdulli 4y ago
What are your values?
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by gdulli 4y ago
There was an innocence that hadn't yet been lost then. We didn't have to worry about security, toxicity, and money in the early hobbyist/enthusiast internet of the 90s. We were able to let it be "built organically by peo
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by gdulli 4y ago
> I'd hoped the virtual world would start out and be built organically by people because it was fun, useful and anyone could make a little money, just like the early internet. The early internet having been so organically developed
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by gdulli 4y ago
If they have an audience already willing to give them money, why wouldn't they keep that going indefinitely? What changes if they release a game? The reviews will inevitably not live up to inflated expectations. And the other change wo
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by gdulli 4y ago
When Twitter forced the algorithmic timeline on people, someone tweeted: "Is the algorithm based what everyone else likes, or what I like? Because I hate what everyone else likes, and I don't know what I like."
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by gdulli 4y ago
It's hard to get used to a new situation, build relationships, etc. 2 days a week. Time tends to solve those things. I don't think I'd have connected well with all my favorite coworkers from the past if I'd been working
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by gdulli 4y ago
The job I have now and am happy with, I would not have applied for if the "official" salary range had been published. What ultimately sold me were intangible things that I only discovered after being in a conversation with them. A
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by gdulli 4y ago
The quote from Rounders about not realizing you're the sucker at the table, but it's about not realizing that you're the overhead.
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by gdulli 4y ago
For the record the fear is overblown, but to indulge you, you're using the least safe site you could possibly be using. Twitter, Reddit, Facebook will let you delete your old content. HN doesn't unless you make a request and get a
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by gdulli 4y ago
I opted out of those and they stopped coming. Mine came with opt out instructions I assume because of a law, so yours probably do too.
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by gdulli 4y ago
It's less nice and more that they're paying people to sign away their right to sue. Imagine you've left your job, you probably don't want to go back there. You have to start a new job search. You're likely out more
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by gdulli 4y ago
Here it is: https://ufile.io/7h9zq6ft
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by gdulli 4y ago
I ran yt-dlp to download the metadata for the entire SNL youtube channel, which is over 6,000 videos. I loaded the metadata into a database and built a Flask app so I could browse one episode or season at a time in a convenient interface to
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by gdulli 4y ago
Certain shops I go to consistently do it right. Chipotle does it consistently badly. They might have high turnover due to poor working conditions and can't keep up with training people to do it well. So they'd benefit from this ki
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by gdulli 4y ago
I wonder if the custom Windows image scene will get a revival when they start to force online accounts. I'm not looking for a way to avoid paying for Windows, but I'll do what it takes to keep a local account.
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by gdulli 4y ago
Time and self awareness.
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by gdulli 5y ago
As possible a reason for #2 going wrong as any other. But #2 thinking they know what's best for humanity is an established enough pattern that I imagine it happens organically as well.
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by gdulli 5y ago
Well, switching to a new word isn't going to make anyone happy if what they're really upset by is that the underlying concept exists.
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by gdulli 5y ago
I spent many years in the bluest corner of a very blue state. But still I can't imagine any objection to the word "landlord" outside of (1) a right wing attempt to satirize the left, (2) a Google product brainstorming meeting

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