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by qwerpy 4mo ago
If I had taken a Reddit/HN approved job instead of working at FAANGs for 20 years, I’d be looking at another 20 years of soul crushing work. Instead, I’m retired. Sure you have to roll your eyes at the corporate nonsense sometimes but
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by qwerpy 4mo ago
Funny, I moved to SoCal (Orange County) from the Seattle area and have also found it to be a huge improvement in everything except air and water quality. Can’t have everything I suppose. But the politics are much more sane, crime is low, an
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by qwerpy 4mo ago
Every forum with overly online people goes this way. I’ve stopped visiting Reddit, and let Google summarize their content for me so I don’t have to wade into the sewage. HN isn’t as bad yet but it has noticeably gotten worse since the 2024
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by qwerpy 4mo ago
I can confirm this. Fairly conservative family guy, love it here in OC. Not sure if due to balanced politics or apathy to politics but it’s awesome. After leaving the Seattle area where I was getting hostility from randoms on the street jus
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by qwerpy 4mo ago
I just discovered it a couple of months ago when I spitefully unsubscribed from Apple Music. It’s exactly what I’ve wanted. Offline music that I can FTP files to from my file server.
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by qwerpy 4mo ago
Where I live (Orange County, California) they are selling decently well. There’s one parked in every street. I guess when you have a high Asian immigrant population, they ignore the politics and just buy what makes sense for them.
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by qwerpy 4mo ago
Minneapolis does seem to have a penchant for attracting property damage and economic fallout. Last time it was $500 million: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arson_damage_during_the_George... After inflation maybe that o
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by qwerpy 4mo ago
Of all of the sites/apps that are immune to DNS adblocking, I thought YouTube was at the top of the list. Not that DNS adblocking isn’t a good thing, but I’d think Google & meta would make sure they couldn’t be defeated so easily.
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by qwerpy 4mo ago
Yeah but that was Waymo. This time it’s Tesla.
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
At least you get that benefit. Most cars spy on you and can’t drive themselves!
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
I also see the other side. I wish it wasn’t Google that currently has the best free product, because their well-oiled ad machine is going to inevitably turn the crank to find that sweet spot where the product is barely tolerable due to ads.
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
“Someone’s handing out free carrots but it may be sticks someday so I’m gonna be mad about it today and grow my own carrots. That’ll show ‘em! My neighbor’s roasted carrots sure do smell good though.”
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
I'm as anti-Google as anyone out there. I block all their ads, refuse to pay for youtube, go out of my way to avoid their hardware, etc. But I have to admit AI mode is great. It's fast, free, not yet cluttered with ads, and useful
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
Unfortunately, even if we'd prefer to not accept it, we live in a world where those people exist. So I hope that they are being driven by their self-driving car when they inevitably drink and drive or fall asleep at the wheel. And to m
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
You're technically correct of course, but the fact of the matter is every driver gets distracted/tired and having the FSD safety net only makes things safer, assuming you don't go out of your way to get distracted. I've
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
It doesn’t have to be completely unsupervised for the driver to realize huge improvements in quality of life. I don’t even notice when people drive slow or cut me off. I’m just relaxing, fiddling with the music or talking to my family. And
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
From an admittedly selfish point of view, I also don't mind this. I don't use rideshare anymore. I use my self-driving cars when I'm at home, use private vans to go to the airport, or rent a self-driving car when I'm tra
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
I've been through this cycle a few times. Rent (because I'm a college student or in my 20s) Buy (because American Dream and FOMO) Buy a few rental properties (diversify income) Buy a vacation home (seemed like a good idea at the t
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
“Just” “simple as that” Reminds me of the occasional “JavaScript developer tries to vibe debug a Linux kernel issue” comments we get here.
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
I agree with the issue at stake but I’ve seen in practice where it can lead when people attach their morals to other people’s purchasing decisions. First, it’s “don’t buy their stuff”. Then “tell your friends not to buy their stuff”. Then i
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
Funny, I have exactly the opposite point of view. I hate the red light and speeding cameras because they catch normal people who don’t bother hiding their license plates (or have license plates at all). And I don’t mind Flock and its ilk fo
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
This is the lifecycle of every civilization. Reach dominance and then when life becomes easy, forget about what it takes to stay at the top. This makes room for the next civilization.
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
One of my favorite chili recipes suggests doing exactly this to toast them before turning them into a puree: https://www.seriouseats.com/pressure-cooker-chile-con-carne-... The important part is that they're dried so t
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
I ended up getting that Bambu X2D right after I wrote that comment, and what do you know, the catamaran printed on its first try with the same filament that I was using before. I did set up developer/LAN mode and integrated it with Hom
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
My dad doesn't care what the regulatory definition is, he just presses "Start Self-Driving" and off he goes.
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
Agree. Multiple people I know have bought Teslas because they don’t trust themselves or their spouses to drive safely, and want them to use FSD. There should be incentives to get people onto self driving.
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
I’m about to toss my ender 3 s1 pro. The damn print won’t adhere to the bed. Z-probe calibration, temp towers, bed leveling, wash the plate, use a glue stick, turn the fan down, increase flow rate. I’ve tried it all. Still get spaghetti whe
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
Yeah I didn’t get one to do “truck stuff”. I pay people to do truck stuff for me, and use my “not a truck” truck for shuttling my family around. Never saw any R1T or F150 lightning or god forbid, Hummer EV truck owners do truck stuff either
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
> Ads on the lock screen and in the dock next? Arguably already happened, via notifications. They've long allowed third-party apps to send notifications that are actually ads, and a few first-party apps (most notably wallet with the
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by qwerpy 5mo ago
Really sad to see. The last thing I want when I'm trying to figure out how to get somewhere is a bunch of sponsored pins and results, slowing me down and giving my brain more garbage to process. That screenshot in the link is still vas

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