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by some-guy 4y ago
What is "suppression" in this case? What are the "consequences" in this case?
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by some-guy 4y ago
McCarthyism, music censorship, Jim Crow, the MPAA, sodomy laws--the United States has always engaged in "cancel culture" and it has never been fully partisan.
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by some-guy 4y ago
In addition to this, once OLED monitors for PCs (or similar) become commonplace, a lot of the complaints I had about LCD/LED are no longer relevant. My LG CX looks absolutely stunning, and the input lag is unnoticable.
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by some-guy 4y ago
Ultra-low latency is important, but zero packet loss and low jitter is even more important. I have "on paper" great internet in the SF Bay Area (Monkeybrains), and while I can get 600mpbs symmetrical throughput, the jitter and 0.5
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North Carolina Bill 1049: Bans free EV charging stations(webservices.ncleg.gov)
1 points by some-guy 4y ago|0 comments
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by some-guy 4y ago
The large enterprise outfit I work for has 8% IE11 usage still, almost all of which is in Korea. Our customers there go out of their way to not use Edge on their machines.
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by some-guy 4y ago
I have an ISP in the SF Bay Area (Monkeybrains) with very good throughput for the price (I get 700 up and down, static IP, no data cap for $35/mo), but Stadia / XCloud is basically unusable due to jitter since it uses a mesh micro
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by some-guy 4y ago
There's definitely a spectrum, and the big difference (my wife is a PhD student) is that the vast majority of PhDs _know_ it's all bullshit, but do it anyway. MLMs tend to have some kind of buy-in.
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by some-guy 4y ago
I'm in Oakland and I'm not in SF all the time, but it does feel like Market St. / the Financial District is the most affected post-pandemic, but the rest of the city feels like it's as popular as ever. Lots of SF residen
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by some-guy 4y ago
"Fulfilling" work is a huge privilege. As a high school dropout who eventually did community college to a degree in computer science at a UC, I've worked all kinds of minimum wage, soul-sucking jobs in between. Just having en
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by some-guy 4y ago
Another good option is to use an older flagship smartphone. I have a heavily cracked iPhone 8 that works wonderfully as a webcam.
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by some-guy 4y ago
This kind of bubble will be back in another form, whether it's crypto-based or not.
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Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?(newyorker.com)
1 points by some-guy 4y ago|0 comments
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by some-guy 4y ago
The assault rifle over the back was definitely something weird but quite a bit of America is like that. Even the rare IBM destruction wasn’t that big of a deal to me. What made me pissed was wearing the assault rifle on video while _mocking
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by some-guy 4y ago
The company I work at (Workday) does this, but it's for business / liability reasons.
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by some-guy 5y ago
Another anecdote: I’m in Oakland, where condo prices went down slightly during the pandemic overall, yet Zillow’s estimates are always much higher than Redfin’s (which seem to be in the same ballpark as the sale prices).
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by some-guy 5y ago
Bethesda sued Carmack, not ID Edit: also that was a much different issue around intellectual property ownership, I don't think even Microsoft / Bethesda will sue over soliciting donations
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by some-guy 5y ago
I've been doing $PRODUCT_NAME + "Wirecutter" for many items. I haven't had a bad suggestion by NYT yet if there's a Wirecutter review for it. If that fails, I do the Google + "reddit" search, but I have to
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by some-guy 5y ago
Some people just really enjoy solving problems in a convoluted way for the learning experience. I don't have that kind of drive personally--I feel like I learn enough programming during work hours.
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by some-guy 5y ago
Similar discussion to the "The dangers of high status, low wage jobs" post from today. I do think the stress is directly correlated with their financial situation. My spouse is in a PhD program. Advantages for her are a) her mothe
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by some-guy 5y ago
It's interesting to see how the economic model of the platform changes the controversy. If he were still on YouTube / generic podcast platforms, it's harder to become de-platformed, but of course you make less money.
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by some-guy 5y ago
My Windows Vista VM that runs on my homelab, for the sole purpose of keeping my HP LaserJet 3390’s scanner working with modern software. I got this thing for free on Freecycle and it works amazingly well mechanically, and the printer worked
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by some-guy 5y ago
I have a vintage Mac setup, and I tried to get my nieces and nephews when they visited to play KidPix. It's a PowerMac 5400 all-in-one, and they thought it was a weird looking machine, but they kept trying to use it as a touchscreen. W
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by some-guy 5y ago
Good timing, I just set up a RaSCSI to use with a PowerMac 5400! There was certainly a charm that Classic Mac OS has that was missing in OSX-onward.
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by some-guy 5y ago
I have an SFF Dell Optiplex I bought for $100 many years ago that’s still my main “homelab” machine. It’s fairly quiet besides the two 12TB spinning hard drives inside but the fan isn’t noticing. A rack mount server would be out of the ques
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The Ticking Clock for Miami’s Condo Empire(nytimes.com)
2 points by some-guy 5y ago|0 comments
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by some-guy 5y ago
I think this is a bit of an overgeneralization. There is _plenty_ of media (movies, television, music) that came out over the years that was absolutely terrible. Networks at the time also were very data-driven with their decisions, they jus
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by some-guy 5y ago
The hardest job I've ever had wasn't any of my software engineering jobs which paid six-figures: it was working at a retirement home as a dishwasher and food server. It paid $8.50 an hour (in 2007), and I didn't know my hours
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by some-guy 5y ago
I'll have to give this a try. Maybe it's a nostalgia thing, but Doom feels "wrong" at higher resolutions and hardware-accelerated texture smoothing. In the past I usually set GZDoom to a 720p resolution with software ren
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by some-guy 5y ago
It doesn’t have the warped textures but DUSK is probably the closest thing to a PS1 style indie game I’ve seen.

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