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by jzb 3y ago
Musk-owned company has terrible policies. Film at 11.
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by jzb 3y ago
I would be annoyed at losing a day or so of work, if the outage was all at once - but nine hours a year is tolerable. I wish my ISP was that reliable. Hell, I wish my power company was that reliable. Where I live it's common to have a
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by jzb 3y ago
This is garbage. I have several Roku devices and it’s ridiculous they can change the ToS years later on something I already own. Not to mention, how can it this be enforceable? Roku has no way to prove who clicked the acceptance - could be
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by jzb 3y ago
They weren't deceased when they expressed the desire. You usually don't know when, exactly, you're going to die. Nobody would argue, I hope, with "I'm going on a trip, don't publish anything I'm not done w
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by jzb 3y ago
"Are tech job interviews really such a nightmare?" Yes. It's not just about the leetcode questions - the entire process of interviewing in tech these days is Kafkaesque. Interviews with half a dozen people or more, take-home
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by jzb 3y ago
I’m still waiting for quicksand to be a problem.
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by jzb 3y ago
Totally fair. I think it has enough fans that it's safe. (I hope!)
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by jzb 3y ago
Heh. Yes. They definitely seem to have internalized that particular experience.
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by jzb 3y ago
(Author here): Users new to KDE don't know what's up with the feature. They miss a window and suddenly they're on a different virtual desktop. If they connect the behavior they may feel like "ooh, I've discovered
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by jzb 3y ago
"The default DE on SUSE was KDE. If you wanted GNOME you had to request it explicitly at install time." Depends on the time frame and which SUSE you refer to, to be clear. When Novell bought Ximian it made GNOME the default for SL
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by jzb 3y ago
"I tried to be professional and impersonal about this, and such scorn is hurtful." You've asserted that "everyone seems to forget" why something happened when a whole bunch of people who were there while it happene
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by jzb 3y ago
Procrastination may be a symptom of a lot of things - anxiety, ADHD, etc. Nobody on HN is going to be able to diagnose you, though - you should probably talk to someone who can actually diagnose you and possibly prescribe treatment if your
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by jzb 3y ago
We got some during the pandemic. My wife went through the “make your own bread” phase with great enthusiasm. (And results!) We’d tend to Carl, our container of starter, and talk about how well it was doing. Then it trailed off and it’s gone
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by jzb 3y ago
A lot of people could do with learning more empathy. People shouldn’t have to be hard. People, especially over-privileged people like this, should learn how to behave like decent humans.
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by jzb 3y ago
How many people are actually going to switch, though? I’ve primarily used Linux for 25 years. Used to try to get people to switch. Microsoft would do something user hostile and people would complain, and then just go back to using Windows.
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by jzb 3y ago
Yes. All by himself. So many all nighters building cars, alone. “Just one more car, so I can, alone, provide value.”
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by jzb 3y ago
In college I had a friend whose father was an OTR trucker. Absolutely destroyed his back. He had back problems when I first met the family and a few years later he was on medical leave and unable to work, and he was maybe in his late 50s.
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by jzb 3y ago
As someone else noted, I doubt there's a lot of exploits lurking in hopes that they'll be able to own a Windows 3.11/MS-DOS 6.22 system. I'd be much more concerned about hooking up, say, Windows 7 than Windows 3.11.
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by jzb 3y ago
Kinda? Looks like I can buy albums there. Check. Can I listen to a full album? It seems like you only get samples. It also is very sparse and doesn't really give a great band presence. I'm guessing the selections are populated by
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by jzb 3y ago
Yep. Just as anybody can stand up a social media platform clone - the value is in the network effect and content on the platform. Because of the content and discovery features on Bandcamp, I've discovered several bands I'd never h
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by jzb 3y ago
I'm always down for learning more about Fred Rogers and his show. Such an amazing individual. Doesn't look like he recorded much (outside the show), but definitely will be looking into what he has recorded.
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by jzb 3y ago
At this point HN should prompt people when submitting links. "Are there screenshots at the link? No? Go back and add them, then submit."
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by jzb 3y ago
I didn’t say anything about not paying labels. My point was you should buy music rather than counting on it to trickle down from Spotify. Note that many of the artists I’ve been buying from aren’t on major labels, though.
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"buy music directly if you don't want to subscribe! A lot of smaller artists provide ways to purchase their music that give them a large percentage of the proceeds, and you can get the music DRM-free if that's something you c
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by jzb 3y ago
Wouldn't a VPN solve this for you?
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by jzb 3y ago
I tell anybody who asks, if you need a printer, then 1) avoid inkjet printers and 2) I recommend Brother laser printers. I've owned 4 Brother printers since the 90s. The first one lasted more than a decade, and I put it through the wri
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by jzb 3y ago
The exception that proves the rule. It would have been more accurate for OP to have said we haven't tried prosecuting and imprisoning CEOs, etc, with the same vigor we apply to street crime. Every great once in a while, yes, we actuall
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by jzb 3y ago
Some users say those things, but they may be different users than the ones saying CEOs (etc.) should go to jail when they commit crimes. And/or it could be that, despite the idea that prisons don't work, if you're going to pu
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by jzb 3y ago
Wow, really? That's amazing. I wonder if Foglio was ever actually a BSD user. I have a soft spot in my heart for Foglio's early work, like "What's New with Phil & Dixie" from Dragon magazine and his adaptation
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by jzb 3y ago
This is a defense of the current system? That a paywall is what stands between our precious research and our “sworn enemies”? So, other countries and entities can fund weapons, armies, spies, but a paywall is a bridge too far to cross? That

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