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by new_guy 5y ago
We're already there, people only use Google now because of habit. They don't provide relevant search results (look at the cancer image search with pinterest) they give you a list of what they have for sale containing the most keyw
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Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones (2020)(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by new_guy 5y ago|0 comments
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by new_guy 5y ago
Apple deliberately slowed down old models to force you to upgrade. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51413724
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by new_guy 5y ago
> the phrase that gives you superpowers "I understand" "and how does that make you feel?" Honestly I was using the 2nd one as a joke for the longest while but people take it so seriously and will really open up to you
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by new_guy 5y ago
If they did tell you to 'suck it', then take ALL your business elsewhere. You can set up ongoing replication to another region so if there is a failure you don't actually lose anything. With AWS just be mindful of cost, they
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by new_guy 5y ago
1, It's extraordinarily American-centric. Most everything the author wrote doesn't apply to the hundreds of other countries or non-American social sites in the world 2, before people criticise social media™ they should come from a
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by new_guy 5y ago
I would have expected better especially from Harvard, it's already known why. Subjective time is measured in terms of biological impact events. Basically the more novel experiences you have the slower time seems to pass for you, the le
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by new_guy 5y ago
I'm in no way condoning this guys actions, but the articles bias is a joke. > unemployed > university drop-out > White paid £10,700 up front to rent his plush apartment on Liverpool’s city water front. ..that's cheap. And
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by new_guy 5y ago
It's like those bullshit "studies" that claim you can't "dream in color", "can't read in dreams", "can't see new faces" etc etc and you're just left wondering if that person h
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by new_guy 5y ago
The seminal work on this is "The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind - Julian Jaynes" People used to think this voice was "God" Personally I don't have this "inner voice", it&#x2
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by new_guy 5y ago
> And I think the best evidence we have that we are overrating the quality of pre-industrial leisure time is that people developed almost no leisure activities Dude, what? This is quite possibly the dumbest most ignorant ill-informed tak
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by new_guy 5y ago
Without question. America gets their ass kicked every single time.
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by new_guy 5y ago
A fool and their money are soon parted.
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by new_guy 5y ago
Even better, just don't send nudes to someone if you don't trust they're not gonna forward it.
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by new_guy 5y ago
I wear ear plugs basically turning my ears 'off', that's the only thing that makes me productive.
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by new_guy 5y ago
Planet 9 is Pluto. What they're talking about is 'Planet X', which the Sumerians among others knew about over 3,600 years ago. So instead of losing face, they claim Pluto isn't a planet, so now they can waffle on about &
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by new_guy 5y ago
Ideally we need a new search engine that just automatically disregards the 'top' 10,000 Alexa sites, all the spam, paywalls, content farms etc, indexes the Show HNs and the subreddits where people post their own stuff.
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by new_guy 5y ago
I understood every word of that! What even makes a word 'real'? I think is the bigger question, if you can say something that everyone implicitly understands, is that not real?
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by new_guy 5y ago
todo apps are the 'hello world' of the app world, just have a Google for a 'todo app tutorial' in whatever language/framework you prefer and roll your own. Although that said I just put everything in gedit and then
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by new_guy 5y ago
What a colossal waste of time.
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by new_guy 5y ago
The Government should only have a say in what someone studies if they're paying for it, and even then it's debatable. They need to address tuition fees before anything else.
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by new_guy 5y ago
If someone is too stupid to understand how voting works, they probably shouldn't be allowed to vote in the first place.
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by new_guy 5y ago
I can't speak for anyone else but I wrote a chess engine by myself without using all the tutorials/guides out there. Because it's the challenge, just having something handed to you or Googling it just takes all the fun away,
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by new_guy 5y ago
So identical to https://linktr.ee and https://beacons.page and the hundreds of others doing the same thing. What sets your offering apart?
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by new_guy 5y ago
Don't share your code, someone will just copy it and you won't get a penny. Try https://flippa.com it's like ebay for websites.
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by new_guy 5y ago
Looks like they just ripped off Mastodon, which is exactly what Gab did as well. https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1451017501026885632
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by new_guy 5y ago
Sounds more like they're using mysql default settings, search is 3 characters minimum, below that it fails.
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by new_guy 5y ago
Another example of Google showing you not what you searched for but what they think you should see.
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by new_guy 5y ago
The 'authentication' they've demonstrated there is completely broken, I hope this isn't in production anywhere.
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Newfoundland couple gets their dream home – by moving it on the water(cbc.ca)
1 points by new_guy 5y ago|0 comments

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