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by gffrd 6mo ago
A pile of shit you have leverage over is better than a pile of diamonds you don’t.
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by gffrd 7mo ago
Join clubs / sign up for recurring things* that interest you and keep showing up. Odds are there are at least a handful of people like you in those groups … and odds are that the everyone else connections to people who could be your co
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by gffrd 7mo ago
They _are already_ PC replacements for many of the people who buy them.
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by gffrd 8mo ago
Wait … so you’re saying they want a small car but are in denial?
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by gffrd 8mo ago
Well, I am God, so yes. My original comment was just a counterpoint to the doom in parent: not all is lost, and in fact, quite a lot is not. The situation of “things we care about are far away and require intermediaries to connect with” and
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by gffrd 8mo ago
It’s a shame we don’t have physical bodies and a means to share the human experience with other humans without intermediaries.
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by gffrd 8mo ago
For some this is the case. For others, this is not the case.
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by gffrd 8mo ago
Yeah, nobody’s saying a 5k monitor has more pixels than a 6k. I think what people are trying to communicate, but struggling to, is that high pixel count on a huge display can be deceptive. I think grandparent was trying to say “comparing a
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by gffrd 8mo ago
6016 x 3384. Dell monitor is twice the surface area with 3/4 the pixels … or in reverse: Apple display is half the size with 30% more pixels. (edit: corrected dell pixel %)
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by gffrd 9mo ago
My gripe with Paw Patrol is that everything is met with a cheery "sir, yes sir!" and then the show stops short of ever showing real challenge, friction, risk, failure, or loss. It's a missed opportunity.
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by gffrd 10mo ago
It’s possible your social life would have exploded without Facebook. If you found a community on Facebook, you’d likely have found it regardless without it.
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by gffrd 10mo ago
Something I've found is quite common: musicians / poets / writers using voice memos to quickly capture "sketches" that pop into their heads before they lose them. Often to share with collaborators. This seems like a
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by gffrd 10mo ago
My guess: they send you a new one.
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by gffrd 10mo ago
I'm with you. This thing costs $75. Over 4 years, that's $0.05 a day. Let's say you're 40 and plan to buy these until you die at 80. We'll pretend inflation doesn't exist: $750 for 40 years of use. It feels lik
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by gffrd 10mo ago
> if the company ever goes under it's now worthless because I can't get a new one. I don't understand this logic. Do you not go to a restaurant because there's a chance they won't be around in 4 years when you m
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by gffrd 10mo ago
> and devoid of children YES! This is a big piece of it. Fewer kids + more of them wanting to be inside / parents wanting them to be inside = less kids to play with = even less likelihood of them wanting to play outside. This is lik
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by gffrd 11mo ago
I will say: a vibrating alarm is worth its weight in gold if you have a partner, child, early-morning wakeup … or all three.
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by gffrd 11mo ago
That's a good clarification. Trust implies shared values/worldview and past experiences where outcomes match expectations. Also respect. Trust is not possible when there are regularly incongruous outcomes, or where definition of r
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by gffrd 11mo ago
Vibrating alarms on watches aren't unique to the Apple Watch, fwiw.
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by gffrd 11mo ago
I believe Parent is talking about trust in the ability to deliver on promises, not in handling of IP.
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by gffrd 1y ago
My point was: we don’t need to list all the reasons we won’t buy apple products on any post about apple, even if it has nothing to do with the article. We’ve beaten the horse many times over.
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by gffrd 1y ago
It’s here now, and live, so … the good internet that is?
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by gffrd 1y ago
What a branding disaster. Disney+ is the name of the app, within which there is Disney+ the _subscription service_ and Hulu, the _former_ app and current content platform/subscription service?
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by gffrd 1y ago
No, parent is right: everybody "masks" at work. Call it putting on a persona, playing a role, whatever - but as you said, it's less effortful for some than others.
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by gffrd 1y ago
People tailgate because they're toddlers and locate their locus of control externally - if anything, they'll be very happy tailgating driverless cars because they can throw as big a fit as they want, there will be no consequences,
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by gffrd 1y ago
No way! Thanks for making me aware of this - first I've heard of it.
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by gffrd 1y ago
Are we talking about the same Garmin? I have an Instinct 2 that cost me under $200 new, goes 2+ weeks between charges, and handles all activities I throw at it quite well. I agree: their launching of a subscription service is disappointing,
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by gffrd 1y ago
1. Text is black on off-yellow for me, not sure why you’re getting white text 2. There’s literally an email link at the bottom of the page
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by gffrd 1y ago
possibilities: (1) they get lots of angry customers and bad press, and are tired of being made to look bad because of gov req's (2) it costs them more to manufacture all the fancy nanny tech, so their bottom line would be positively im
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by gffrd 1y ago
A lot of interviews are of the "is this a real person, and are they reasonably competent on their feet?" variety … which is hard to gauge through email. I'm guessing that's a big part of what the AI is assessing here. &g

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