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by maeil 5y ago
Cconsider that some people don't have that kind of luxury; their living room and bedroom are one and the same. Mine are.
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by maeil 5y ago
Buying Skype for billions and then killing MSN to force people on to it is easily the worst decision I can think of by consumer-oriented big tech company after 2005. If anyone involved in the decision still works at Microsoft they're d
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by maeil 5y ago
I'd argue that while their current offering might be better (and I don't think it is), Microsoft has historically definitely done an even worse job than Google. And that's pretty difficult. Around 2008, Microsoft had a huge a
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by maeil 5y ago
The end goal of any measure, including vaccine passes, has always been the same: preventing a large number of deaths. Vacccines still prevent a large number of deaths, both directly (strongly reduced risk of death from Covid) and indirectly
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by maeil 5y ago
Agreed that GUI is a huge part of it, but I'd say for a different reason. There are almost no UI/UX designers contributing to open source projects. At the very least the ratio of them to programmers is incredibly low, far lower th
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by maeil 5y ago
It is worse than that. We are in a pandemic that has already caused millions of deaths, billions of hours of manpower spent, trillions of dollars wasted and an immeasureable amount of mental anguish. It's negative effects can be said t
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by maeil 5y ago
Clearly nature. No reason to keep this as an elephant in the room.
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by maeil 5y ago
There would be a lot more empathy if they would be voluntarily offering any kind of compensation, which really is the least you could ask for.
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by maeil 5y ago
How so? It provides us with no new information whatsoever. "The CCP does everything in its power to block any kind of substantive outside research on the origins of Covid-19" has been known for over a year now.
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by maeil 5y ago
There is hardly a significant website out there with a higher concentration of Google and Microsoft employees than Hackernews, in light of which that's quite the baffling comment to make.
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by maeil 5y ago
Don't think intro/extroversion plays much of a role here, I'm probably an extroverted autodidact and that's still my ideal model for learning. What I enjoy doing in my free time is completely separate from that. Sure, in
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by maeil 5y ago
I'm a non-native speaker and have been succesfully using Talon in an open-office environment with a $20 mic - just to offer a different point of view. I've been using it for coding, not so much dictation so YMMV, but expensive mic
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by maeil 5y ago
And when you say "for years", it's really decades that this has been the norm for. In my experience it is the same in the more developed Asian countries, or really any high HDI country that is not the US.
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by maeil 6y ago
It is surprising that their lack of professionalism has not improved over 11 years. The employees around a decade ago would make up a tiny fraction of those today, if that, yet things do not seem to have gotten any better; at this point it&
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by maeil 6y ago
> First of all, I think that ads in the Internet are important, it's a driving force. Without ads there will be no Internet with lots of "free" resources, everything valuable will be paywalled which is a problem for poor p
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by maeil 6y ago
I sometimes use Talon, a voice control app mostly used by developers. Iirc the developer incorporated Flashlight but encountered sigificant bugs and slow response times to issues and ended up switching to a different framework. At the very
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by maeil 6y ago
Even worse, one of the most common sacrifices that a small number of people do make is going vegetarian or vegan, yet those sacrifices often invite derision, even in online spaces that generally are thought of to be progressive. "A soc
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by maeil 6y ago
This isn't an opinion, this is a proven fact given that Reddit blocks many subreddits from being accessed from the browser when using the default UI, redirecting to their app, for no reason other than moving users to the app. They do n
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by maeil 6y ago
I've known about this for awhile now but having only lived in countries where absolutely everyone uses a messaging app (particular app differing per country) it still baffles me every single time I hear about it. How do you handle grou