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groffee
4y ago
I think there's a reasonable expectation that if you're buying a product, it actually works , enthusiast or not. It seems Pinebook are using that as an excuse to ship low quality untested bricks. Complaining about your dead pixel
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Don't neglect 'soft skills', interpersonal relationships with other shudder people, and networking. Long term that's probably more important than any code ability.
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"Single-handedly managed the successful upgrade and deployment of new environmental illumination system with zero cost overruns and zero safety incidents."
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Not only that but on IMDB people can post 'trivia' and 'goofs' about shows/movies and Amazon blindly pull it into their x-ray feature on prime video, and most of them are just flat out wrong and annoying.
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Even better is when they do show the 'cache' button but don't actually have anything cached, so if the site is down their 'cache' is broken. They think users are too stupid to notice.
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Sure you do. Remember tank man? [0] You don't index shit yourselves so when Bing censors something you do too. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925
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4y ago
More on Magma http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/
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I mean when people talk about 'human level intelligence' with machines, we're already there, 99% of people are dumb f*cks. We have stupid people building stupid machines (or not even that, just using 'pre-trained models&
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Basically the Fed (a privately owned institution) print money out of literal 'thin air', then lend it at interest to the US Government and banks etc. Which in practice means there's literally never enough money in circulation
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I get why you're both trying to obscure your email, but realistically it's pretty pointless. Literally everyone, their mom and the spammers can see it.
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With GDPR the 'world' went out of www, overnight global censorship and no-one even noticed.
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What happens when you don't play ball.
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It's literally the most basic shit imaginable, never trust user input.
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Being a 'solo indie dev' means you don't need to deal with people. Code is easy, even 'difficult' problems, people are what get in the way.
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Wim Hof is to breathing science as tic-tac-toe is to Go. It's for stupid westerners. Go to the source: http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1903sciencebreath....
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4y ago
Do what you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life!
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Instagram walks back its changes
(platformer.news)
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Florida man breaks into Space Force base to warn of alien-dragon space war
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On Firefox page is just going into an infinite loop.
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Adam Mosseri is 'head of Instagram' according to the article, in case you're wondering why some random nomarks opinion matters.
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This is something I've thought of before. I've done work for clients on 'celebrity' news sites and the amount of celebrity trivia I absorbed without conscious effort was terrifying. I knew who was who, who was banging wh
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Honestly that sounds more like a problem with your code base rather than any exceptional skill.
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> I know a lot of Facebook clones have come and gone. There's three problems with most of them 1, micro-management by the owners that destroys communities before they even form and 2, people want to be overnight Zuckerbergs and when
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> I personally have never read an archeologist state a conclusion they didn’t directly observe. Ritual. It's literally a running joke, and it's every. single. paper. https://animalarchaeology.com/2018/10&#x
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This is a mistake we see happening over and over. Most prominently with Facebook right now. Social networks should just stay in their lane, it's fine to steal (copy) features and ideas but changing your whole network to copy another si
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Facebook is dying, but not because of TikTok. Facebook is dying because they stopped being Facebook. If they gave what's left of their userbase what they actually wanted (chronological feed, seeing friends posts, not seeing spam, more
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Try freelancing or consulting? When you do your passion as an actual 'job' it'll kill you. But do it on your own terms and you can have your cake and eat it too.
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I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding of most of those concepts, like 'karma' and 'zen' etc. Westerners (especially Americans) tend to interpret them through a very narrow Abrahamic lens that severely impac
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An aggressive opening!
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Hey, there's no need to be so homophobic here /s
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