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by mikestew 1y ago
You’re going to base an opinion on a third-hand story? That might not even be true just to illustrate a point? I know a guy that passed BillG in a hallway and said, “hey, Bill, how’s it hangin’?” (Saw him do it; I was mortified.) Just a bot
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by mikestew 1y ago
If I interrupt the CEOs speech at a public conference, yeah, I fully expect to get canned. It’s not like this was an internal all-hands or summat.
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by mikestew 1y ago
Doesn't part of your soul die when you start working for big tech? I learned more at Microsoft than any of the startups I worked at. I shipped product to more users than at any startup I worked at. I understand its provocative state
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by mikestew 1y ago
He has previously suggested that Greta Thunberg could be the Antichrist… “Devout Christian faith” I have no problem with. “Whack-a-doodle religious nut with access to levers of government”, eh, I’m not entirely comfortable with.
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by mikestew 1y ago
Browser loads publisher’s HTML containing ad slots with JavaScript tags And now my privacy-respecting browser knows where the ads live and blocks them? I’m just not seeing how this isn’t round 428 of Ad Blockers: Cat-and-Mouse Boogaloo .
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by mikestew 1y ago
Let’s assume a frog has wings…now he doesn’t bump his ass when he hops!
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by mikestew 1y ago
...for when they come crawling back I'm not the one that needs to do any crawling. Guess what I discovered these past couple of days? I get along fine without Hulu. And JFC, $20/month and I still get ads? Yeah, piss off with tha
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by mikestew 1y ago
Lower prices all you want, Disney, I'm still not resubscribing after the Kimmel incident. Wait, they're doing what ?
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by mikestew 1y ago
I hate that this website doesn’t let you select text from within the document. Eh? Works for me on an old 2012 MBP and Safari 15.6. As for the "looping in legal..." one weird trick that judges hate, eh, the discussions I've
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by mikestew 1y ago
I feel bad for the people who worked on teams where Younger Self was the senior engineer. I was full of ideals and convictions back then. “No, we’re not doing that. We’re going to Do It Right instead.” I was full of piss and vinegar. “Here
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by mikestew 1y ago
The old ones are rock-solid. I use one to control an attic fan, which isn’t easy to get to, but it has never failed in three or four years of use. Another sits outside under the eaves, to control the hummingbird feeder heaters. Again, sever
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by mikestew 1y ago
Voting districts: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039643346/redistricting-pris...
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by mikestew 1y ago
On the one hand, yeah, grow a spine but on the other hand I picture Cook thinking, “that’s it? A gold statue placates this buffoon? Assistant, call the trophy shop, we are apparently being let off cheap!”
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by mikestew 1y ago
How many subs did Disney just lose? Beats me, you got any idea? I know how many I’d like them to lose, but for all I know I was the single household that cancelled Hulu, and wrote a strongly-worded letter (yes, as in I had to go find a
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by mikestew 1y ago
If your 100W light bulb is a USB bulb running at 5V (to make the math a bit easier), with 20 Ah you’ll get 100Wh, ergo it’ll run your bulb for a hour. You just need to specify the voltage. There are numerous online calculators to do this ma
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by mikestew 1y ago
The point is to have a party for a team of 12 Nobody said that but you. Everyone else reads “12 pizzas”, not people. rkomorn even quoted it for you, and you apparently read right past it…again.
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by mikestew 1y ago
Read the original comment slowly this time, and notice what the “12” refers to. There’s only one “12”, should be easy.
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by mikestew 1y ago
And MacBook Pros. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_Motion_Sensor Though I don't recall iPods having that feature, nor can I find anything online supporting that claim.
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by mikestew 1y ago
Perhaps a sideways reference to old movies? “Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.”[0] Or maybe just a direct reference to Strauss, I dunno. [0] https:&#x2F
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by mikestew 1y ago
My guess is because the sun fixes a lot of problems, and problems mean profit. And there ya go, the rallying cry of every conspiracy theorist: "They don't want you to know, because money!" Seriously, take a step back. Yea
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by mikestew 1y ago
(2017)
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by mikestew 1y ago
Are you volunteering yourself and your children for 30 years hooked up to tubes with partially effective pain medication? No one spends 30 years hooked to tubes. Ask better questions, or at least dial back on the hyperbole if you'd l
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by mikestew 1y ago
Placemats have been covered in ads for local businesses since I was a kid. I’m retirement age now, it’s hardly new.
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by mikestew 1y ago
Top-trim Ioniq 5 has flush door handles for aerodynamic efficiency. Which is more than cancelled out by the stupid 20-inch wheels. Flush door handles are the pop-up headlights of this decade: questionable aerodynamic benefit, reliability is
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by mikestew 1y ago
The peak of tech jackassery: "We can fix it in software."
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by mikestew 1y ago
My car maintenance costs since 2018 has been a gallon of windshield wiper fluid and new tires. If you're buying a new car every two years, you could get the same low level of maintenance with an ICE Toyota. Or, you know, you can buy
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by mikestew 1y ago
I say "shit" all the time, and I'm one of the lamest motherfuckers out there.
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by mikestew 1y ago
See? This is why I'm not ridiculously rich. I never ask, "how can I make lemonade (or limeade, as the case may be) out of this lemon?" "Missed out on the misery of the OG Fyre Fest? C'mon out for Fyre 2.0! Blazing
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by mikestew 1y ago
“Fyre Fest” quickly became a shorthand for scams and disasters. Two questions: why on earth would anyone want to associate (let alone buy ) a brand synonymous with "scam"? And where in the hell did LimeWire get a quarter millio
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by mikestew 1y ago
https://archive.ph/xeD4a

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