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by offices 3y ago
In addition to the sibling comments, posts with external links get lower priority in your feed and posts with images get more interactions.
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by offices 3y ago
Sometimes I find my brain doing something similar as I fall asleep after reading a book. Feeding me a stream of words that feel like they're continuing the style and plot of the book but are actually nonsense.
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by offices 3y ago
No, they don't solve the problem
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by offices 3y ago
'Can’t deal with these headaches after 10 minutes of use though.' VR/AR shows just how flimsy DEI at large companies is. When it's a tool for gaining customers or retaining employees, they go all-in. Conversely, when you
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by offices 3y ago
>going by my experience from Windows gaming. Could you elaborate? Steam is a negative and Microsoft Store is a positive experience?
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by offices 3y ago
What an enormous margin - presumably left intentionally, for later notes
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by offices 3y ago
The 14th word in TFA is 'worldwide'
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by offices 3y ago
Beyond the Dril-candles-tweet economics already discussed: I already own a PC that could transcode if that was something I actually wanted to do.
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by offices 3y ago
But how we lived like kings during those few years of the venture-capital, antitrust, low-interest rate phenomena.
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by offices 3y ago
By not hiring junior devs, they're missing out on a large chunk of those of us who spend their workday raging at technology on HN.
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by offices 3y ago
>I also remember watching some shows like the first two seasons but then only to find out the third season was licensed by another streaming service lol. Fun! https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-
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by offices 3y ago
If the DRM means you need a workaround, it's a DRM issue.
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by offices 3y ago
My memory of old what.cd's and today's Red snatch counters disagrees with you. FLAC ~ V0 > 320
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by offices 3y ago
So for 75%, including Youtube, it is meaningful?
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by offices 3y ago
>Why do you single out 2k? Read the second clause!
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by offices 3y ago
Your second paragraph is why BBC radio is unlistenable to me. The source of the advertising is only a minor piece of the irritation - it's still painful to listen to the same ads and jingles multiple times in an hour.
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by offices 3y ago
>Spotify is also a great example of how to beat piracy By being able to compete with it on the price they pay artists. It's a uniquely powerful negotiating position for the publishers that a) won't last b) won't extend to
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by offices 3y ago
>In some ways it was way more successful than any modern fashion trend could ever hope to be... The business suit?
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by offices 3y ago
The thought-terminating cliche you've used for this comment has quickly become one of the worst things about internet debates.
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by offices 3y ago
I grew up being accustomed to having the TV as background noise but stopped watching it when I moved out. Now, when I visit my parents, it's honestly quite difficult for me to focus on conversation - there's a machine in the corne
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by offices 3y ago
The name they chose to try and make it not sound like anti-competitive practices just makes it sound like Iran-Contra
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by offices 3y ago
No, because all of Kafka's books were written in German.
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by offices 3y ago
That's why they said 'many'.
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by offices 3y ago
>Language is all about the right intuition in the right context Huh? How about the tens of thousands of words you need to be able to recall and recognise in both directions in text and speech? You can't reason past irregular verbs a
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by offices 3y ago
>So maybe that's the solution? Convince billionaires that open source software is a philanthropic endeavor? Is it, though? This isn't the attitude we have towards things like USB-IF or the Unicode Consortium, both of which are
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by offices 3y ago
Imagination error. My phone has hundreds of downloaded PDFs from emails containing things such as tickets, job specs, pseudo-letters, bills, etc. Anything where one might wish to read a Document in a Portable Format.
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by offices 3y ago
I don't see how this relates to the link.
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by offices 3y ago
The development time is almost inconsequential. Software is written once-ish, read a few times, and run many, many times.
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by offices 3y ago
This happens to a human in Dune.
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by offices 3y ago
For comparison, The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls did this and successfully remained hidden for half a century, only failing because it was published somewhere else.

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