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by pdntspa 3y ago
Agreed. I do not engage with groups all that much and the snippets/suggestions it shows me for some are just downright nauseating. On that note it has been useful for figuring out which of my friends are secretly assholes and which of
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by pdntspa 3y ago
You have to keep the poeple happy enough, not even China could withstand the full force of their own people rising up against them. So, on the surface, you appear aligned with growth and advancement and all that. But under the surface, the
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Wait, the police held your passport? Why?
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by pdntspa 3y ago
I feel like this is overly cynical. Facebook is still the best social network for certain age groups. Instagram (and Facebook) engagement is dropping but it's (they're) still one of the best mediums for getting the word out about
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by pdntspa 3y ago
There's a South Park episode about this
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by pdntspa 3y ago
It would be nice if the technology people would stop expecting everyone to cater to them.
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by pdntspa 3y ago
You can mount Drive to a drive or mountpoint and edit it with a local tool. You can style the document in some other form of markup. You can use the tools given to produce the result you want. It strikes me as modern cargo-culting to expect
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by pdntspa 3y ago
You have a whole-ass computer that can run software made to read Markdown, what do you need Google Drive for? Adjust your workflow, the tools exist.
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by pdntspa 3y ago
It seemed pretty niche back then. I was drawn to it because it could be played in a web browser on my highschool's locked down computers and wasn't well-known enough to be blocked. Plus it looked very spreadsheety
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Oh the good old days of Planetarion and Hyperiums (I think both are still running, too?)
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Are you sure?
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by pdntspa 3y ago
It's SSO, which communicates via tons and tons of redirects
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Does it though? With the sheer volume of creatives nowadays, combined with industry that seems to love nothing more than whoring itself out for maximum accessibility/customer base/sales, we live in a world where creative people cr
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by pdntspa 3y ago
You can CGI ruby and run it just like PHP cant you? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2245634/setting-up-ruby-...
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by pdntspa 3y ago
And, once again, people seek to add additional, unnecessary steps and abstractions to perfectly fine processes, because of contrived bullshit ("copyright!") Stop abstracting input away from output. Attribution here is a fools erra
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by pdntspa 3y ago
That sounds like paradise compared to the last couple of companies I worked for.
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Is there a software methodology that does away with all the ceremony and standups and meetings and trusts me to receive a task and see it to completion without management interference? I am still very pissed that the job of an SWE has becom
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by pdntspa 3y ago
I've lost two 360 controllers, one started freaking out on the inputs and the other one's right analog stick just chipped off one day
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by pdntspa 3y ago
There was never a substantial amount of informational content on AOL proper, it was all advertising or mass media-generated stuff. User-generated content in the discussion boards that I remember was insubstantial and in any case there weren
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by pdntspa 3y ago
It was a beautiful mess!
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Why didnt this person include Stable Diffusion?
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by pdntspa 3y ago
There was some semblance of openness and creativity in most of the previous walled gardens. Myspace let you style your profile with CSS and embed stuff. Facebook used to let you run your own chat client. AIM/ICQ/MSN/Yahoo all
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by pdntspa 3y ago
> Unlike Reddit Discord has a good client. Absolutely untrue. The number of things you can't do with Discord vastly exceeds nearly every chat client out there that precedes it. Want to watch multiple chats? Fuck you. Want to filte
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by pdntspa 3y ago
What's a tankie? These people? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
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by pdntspa 3y ago
You know that Stripe isn't the only payment game in town right?
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by pdntspa 3y ago
> Discord has lower API limits and zero "3rd party apps" so the fact that it's the recommended darling child of people fleeing reddit because of "low API limits" and "them taking away 3rd party apps" ma
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by pdntspa 3y ago
> I mean come on, this is the golden age of indie development for games, where literally anyone can make a game in like a days effort following a YouTube tutorial. Yeah but will it be good? I'm betting on no.
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by pdntspa 3y ago
I'm not talking about SWEs. Who cares about them. I am talking about Apple Store employees, or the dudes behind the 'genius' bar, or Jill from marketing
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by pdntspa 3y ago
But Calibre is a fantastic piece of software whos innovation would be smothered by a proactive feedback process
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by pdntspa 3y ago
Are rank-and-file (not engineering) employees of Apple compensated in enough stock that buybacks are really worth that much? I highly doubt it. And even then, until those shares are sold they are subject to the whims of the market. Paper mi

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