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by snozolli 6mo ago
I’m a Millennial, the 90s flew by as I was growing up I'm a young GenXer and I've told some Millennial friends that I feel bad for them because they had probably the best childhoods in human history[1] and then were plunged into
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by snozolli 6mo ago
It took the great flatness of the Internet. As Terry Pratchett predicted to Bill Gates back then. Can you say more about this? All I'm finding are articles about PTerry predicting the rise of fake news: https://www.thegua
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by snozolli 6mo ago
Possibly a Palm Treo, introduced in 2002, or a Windows-based PocketPC, introduced in 2000. I always felt that Apple basically reimplemented PalmOS with the benefit of ~10 years newer technology and a wildly efficient Chinese supply chain. I
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by snozolli 6mo ago
I think that GP is saying that recent betting market developments provide evidence that Trump or someone high up in the administration is tipping off others. Therefore, one might think that the 'in' crowd would be tipped off abou
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by snozolli 6mo ago
Not defending Sam, but if that is the case, then it's the kind of thing that Sam can hold up and say "Do you really think my critics are intellectually honest?" Why? It sounds like they were in an environment with many peo
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by snozolli 7mo ago
Lucky me, I'm stuck one or two releases back. Windows Update fails every time it tries to upgrade. I wasted a couple of days trying to troubleshoot the problem, reading their completely unhelpful logs, but gave up. I sure wish we cou
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by snozolli 7mo ago
I suffer from pretty severe motion sickness I don't, and yet I am also feeling nauseated after reading that page! What a truly awful experience.
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by snozolli 7mo ago
The 90s were a great era for innovation in bicycles, just like in computing. One of my personal favorites is the Cannondale Super V Raven mountain bike, particularly with a Lefty fork: https://www.bikeflip.com/bikes/67
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by snozolli 7mo ago
The next 5 years are going to be crazy exciting. I don't want exciting. I want a stable, well-paying job that allows me to put food on the table, raise a family with a sense of security and hope, and have free time.
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by snozolli 7mo ago
Tech salaries today are higher than they were back then Maybe at FAANGs or in the hottest spaces like AI, but I've been looking and listed salaries for senior positions are now lower than what I got paid my first year out of college
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by snozolli 7mo ago
You mentioned it, but I'll go deeper: the dog park. In reality, this applies to any third place, but we'll go with the dog park. I've been going to my local dog park nearly every day for the almost 14 years. Over time, I&#x
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by snozolli 8mo ago
My pet theory is that NYPD Blue and 24 paved the way in the American public mind for authoritarianism via the "good guys bending the rules and using violence because they know this guy did it" theme.
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by snozolli 8mo ago
Now you'll be routed through private roads anywhere. It should ignore the private flag if it's directly adjacent to the start or end of a route.
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by snozolli 8mo ago
My favorite detail of the Palm story is that the founder carried around a block of wood and pretended it was a PDA in order to work out details of the interface. https://albertosavoia.medium.com/the-palm-pilot-story-1a3424..
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by snozolli 8mo ago
There are a ton of posts and bug reports about the Windows 11 File Explorer being slow. Personally, after a few minutes of use, changing directories can take on the order of 20-30 seconds! The slowdown appears to be due to XAML Islands, wh
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by snozolli 8mo ago
These people categorically did not want to start a farm; otherwise they would not have been facing famine. Please tell me more on your theories regarding these immigrants. The only ones I'm aware of were Irish immigrants. Most of th
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by snozolli 8mo ago
I visited L.A. in 2023 and the thing that shocked me was how many billboards were for products that I only ever heard advertised on podcasts. MeUndies, for example.
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by snozolli 8mo ago
As someone who came up using Borland's Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo Vision (their OOP UI framework), it was called CUI (character-based user interface) to distinguish from GUI, which became relevant as Windows became dominant. I ne
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by snozolli 8mo ago
I found the old OKCupid blog posts via Gwern.net: https://web.archive.org/web/20140910162626/http://blog.okcup... These should be read by anyone interested in online dating, even if they are wildly out o
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by snozolli 8mo ago
The private equity firms that are gobbling up healthcare providers find ways to tap into Medicare funding. I don't think the train is going to slow down at all until the Baby Boomers die off.
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by snozolli 8mo ago
Wonderful. Blogging allowed everyone to broadcast their opinions without walking down to the town square. Social media allowed many to become celebrities to some degree, even if only within their own circle. Now we can all experience the
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by snozolli 8mo ago
Before we used to have to buy really expensive tools that were designed to last forever and perform a ton of jobs. Now we can just go to harbor freight and get a tool that is good enough for most people. This just isn't true. First,
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by snozolli 9mo ago
only when the 8 bit home computer era started was the 1024 convention firmly established. That's the microcomputer era that has defined the vast majority of our relationship with computers. IMO, having lived through this era, the onl
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by snozolli 9mo ago
I studied Spanish for years in school, then never really used it. Ten years later, I started studying Japanese. Whenever I got stuck, Spanish would come out. Spanish that I didn't even consciously remember. AFAIK, foreign languages
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by snozolli 9mo ago
I read an article about this years ago and came away with the impression that they were effectively mummifying themselves before death. From the Wikipedia page on sokushinbutsu: In medieval Japan, this tradition developed a process for sok
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by snozolli 9mo ago
As someone who has experienced a similar burnout, I would recommend that you seek new experiences, expose yourself to different kinds of people, and reflect deeply on what you find rewarding in life. Personally, I grew to hate tech, especia
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by snozolli 9mo ago
Third places. Become a regular at game night, church (if you're into that), join a bowling league, join organized dinners through meetup.com or whatever the modern version is, take up martial arts, take adult education classes outside
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by snozolli 9mo ago
You seem extremely judgemental and narrow in your view of the world. This is probably why you have difficulty forming deep friendships without the social proof of family. As a counter example, I've made some of the best friends of my
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by snozolli 9mo ago
Dogs are a bit like having kids, if you embrace it. They make it tougher to do extended trips (e.g. foreign countries), but you can develop an entire social network through them. Doing dog-related trips is a new world of opportunities. I
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by snozolli 10mo ago
Because it's a myth. It used to go around Reddit regularly. There's even a Snopes entry: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fuel-icon-foolery/

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