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by n_ary 3y ago
Book! I spend around ~€300 per year on books. Not only do I get lots of interesting ideas, concepts, perspective and cool history, I also get a good night’s sleep on days that I substitute infinite-scrolling-of-doom with books. Also, I read
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by n_ary 3y ago
Well, the description often doesn’t entirely include the dimensions but you can figure it out on the “shipment details” An personal anecdote. I was looking through Amazon for some sculptures and there were many mythic figurines. While most
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by n_ary 3y ago
Disclaimer: Individual EU opinion not reflective of whole continent. I am very very happy to look at all the ads and even personalised ones, as long as those are not overly obnoxious and mostly (obviously-)scammy. If I have to scroll throug
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by n_ary 3y ago
This is an excellent step towards more control for consumers/users. Next step should be DNT disable all cookie popups and assume that only essential cookies are acceptable. Speaking of, I am expecting DNT to reset to disabled silently
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by n_ary 3y ago
Surprisingly Amazon gave me the best customer support on every instances. Most issues are just no questions asked refunds. It almost felt like they were expecting things to mess up. Another is QuickBook(Intuit) when I wasn't even their
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by n_ary 3y ago
Something indeed is mysterious. Previously, I could generate a virtual CreditCard on the fly for random* online purchases but today while checking for some things, I can suddenly no longer generate any new ones anymore. Also, here in EU the
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by n_ary 3y ago
Discalimer: Didn't read TFA. Is there any legit data about how much revenue loss is resulted from adblocking users? From my years of experience commutiny and knowning non-tech savvy users(majority of my circle and beyond), most people
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by n_ary 3y ago
So, a hardware I've paid an arm and a leg for can be shutdown by the manufacturer. I think, we've give up too much power and become too tolerant of excessive overreach of these giants. I no longer look into future with optimism.
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by n_ary 3y ago
> a retired 73-year-old grandmother among the 232,000 investors who were victims of the alleged fraud. Why/how did she come to that decision is my only question from this whole article. Perhaps I am too dumb to understand why peopl
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by n_ary 3y ago
Been using DDG since the early release, but recently results started to get strange. A lot of relevant results are suddenly on bottom or second page while the top ones are usually content farms. I am not sure what kind of algorithm they use
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by n_ary 3y ago
> I see people talking about using big chat or even duckduckgo instead everyday off-topic rant begin —> We have to come out of our nerd bubble and look at ordinary people(yes they are the majority) who are muscle trained to use a hand
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by n_ary 3y ago
> I'm an average software engineer in Western Europe. When I was junior (around 2010-2015) I usually got a job after submitting ~3 job applications Your situation is actually very rare unless you are accepting bottom of the barrel o
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by n_ary 3y ago
Edit: I was wrong the example is fine. I find it actually useful, sometimes I may want to try something temporarily for intermediate result now and then and having it installed doesn’t yield benefits. Good example: I generate asyncapi docs
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by n_ary 3y ago
> we ask all users where they heard about PostHog whenever they sign up or book a demo – it's a simple (optional) free text field. Enough of our users say 'ad on Google' or similar that we know paid ads do actually reach a
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by n_ary 3y ago
> but they really are terrible computers except for bottom-of-the-barrel androids, most drcent smartphones cost equivalent to a decent computer. I refuse to accept the garbage UX on an equivalent device which charges me such money and th
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by n_ary 3y ago
Off-topic: I want to murder the person who removed the beautiful magnifying glass in iOS when manually dragging a text and replaced it with some garbage mini reticle that often bugs out and disappears if I am dragging on multi-line text &gt
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by n_ary 3y ago
Very inspiring story and well written, heartfelt kudos. For all the negativity comments here, I feel like these commenters read the intro paragraph and started complaining. Unlike most of the similar indieHacker stories, this one has most d
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by n_ary 3y ago
> Reminder that Google is utterly a joke IMHO, misplaced blame. Rather let us think as _Amazon_ is utterly a joke, because they sprayed infinite(in terms of plebs like me) cash into drone delivery and still didn't make much progress
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by n_ary 3y ago
There is a likely chance that you didn’t buy it, so bombarding you with other toaster ads(preferably much cheaper) raises the chance of you actually buying it. There might be other cases where you bought one and is really happy about the be
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by n_ary 3y ago
In other words, google knows so much about the visitor to be screwed by regulation, hence they want to wrap the coarse-grained moat as helpful topics for advertisers. Meanwhile not exactly share that info with anyone to not lose their moat
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by n_ary 3y ago
> Let me guess... you're using SonarQube too? You are an oracle. That thing is such a super pain in the a##, it has so many false positivies all over flagged that, I have to spend immense hours reviewing garbage failures on daily ba
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by n_ary 3y ago
Not sure about US, here in Germany, I really love the tap-pay(NFC based) usually everywhere(except some random kebab shops). It simply works regardless of me having an Android/iPhone or simply just a the nfc enabled card. I don’t need
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by n_ary 3y ago
Subscription is a psychology hack. As an average Joe, if I see a one-off fee of $60, it seems like a lot of money upfront and makes the decision hard and may be if I stall a but, I will forget about the whole thing by next weekend. Compare
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by n_ary 3y ago
Not only math/academia, but nearly everywhere. As python started coming pre-installed on MacOS and was a lot easier than fumbling with shell scripts, a lot of scripts were being written to automate boring stuff. Also, the hidden beast
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by n_ary 3y ago
> I’m in my first month on the standard plan, 20 days in, and I’m at 287 searches. The 300 searches/month is typical for the general populace, who mostly stay in mobile mode(fb/tiktok/youtube/tumblr etc.) and occasion
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by n_ary 3y ago
> I considered widespread and universal about Software Engineering and Computer Science Could be relative, depending on level of experience, opportunity of hands-on implementation and retention of knowledge. When I was at an interview fr
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by n_ary 3y ago
> edit: In Germany. I‘m German and I have studied there. I should know. I am also there and I didn't pay any monies anywhere for university(unless you mean fancy private university?). All state universities are free and we only paid
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by n_ary 3y ago
> Here in Germany, I get 30 vacation days per calendar year, plus any sick days, and thats fairly normal. Sick days are fairly normal, but "30 vacation days" is not. Only bigCo/large places offer 30(some offered 35 days to
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by n_ary 3y ago
Disclaimer: Own observation, sample size of one opinion. In this day and age, you don’t innovate, you mostly sell crap online and build an empire by living in some low cost country. Innovation only happens at work these days behind heavy IP
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> It feels like almost everyone in every position has this vague fog of do-nothing about them. This is in every part of society. Almost every post. I just find it baffling. The amount of getting things done is very low. Working hard is n

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