theshackleford

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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> you can feel your eye muscles release tension when you go from light to dark mode For those like me, i'd like to add, this is not universally true. For some, dark mode will provide a significant reduction in comfort and increase i
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
If only I took life advice from ketamine junkies.
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> I would refuse anything work-related on my personal phone. What a wonderful privileged position you hold. If only everyone could afford to tell their employer to pound sand in the same heroic manner you have undertaken. So brave.
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
And the rest of the world should ignore US laws. Drug law, copyright law and of course, patent law. Let's throw it all in the bin, where it belongs.
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by theshackleford 9mo ago
You’ve driven every car from China? WOW!
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by theshackleford 9mo ago
> Making good cars. They can make cheap ones, maybe acceptable ones, but not good ones. Did you just get out of your Time Machine from a decade ago?
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by theshackleford 9mo ago
> If I lost my software engineering job tomorrow and was unable to find work within a few months, I have a repurposing plan ready to go. Get back to me when you need to execute that plan with millions of others joining the bread line.
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by theshackleford 9mo ago
> and those companies worked exactly like Uber Not in my country they didn’t. Booking or no booking, taxis did whatever they wanted. More often than not your booked taxi just wouldn’t turn up and you wouldn’t know until well after you ne
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by theshackleford 9mo ago
> Was there a lot of warmongering in russia in preparation for starting the war in 2022? Yes. It’s crazy to me this would even need to be asked but I guess most don’t pay attention until it’s of individual significance to them.
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by theshackleford 9mo ago
> I assume worse You know what they say about assuming.
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by theshackleford 9mo ago
Anecdotally, many non-technical users or "regular joes" as it were that I know who were very enthusiastic about AI a year ago are now disengaging. With the rate really picking up the last couple of months. Their usage has declined
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by theshackleford 9mo ago
> I feel very strongly that any device which has other apps is a terrible tool for ADHD management and organization. I strongly disagree. While that approach may work for you, it did not work for me. I do not believe there is a one size
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by theshackleford 9mo ago
> The only thing that reliably works is co-working with another human. I found this didnt really do anything for me. > ADHD cannot be "app-ed" out. I have found significant success with Kanban. To the point where at times, I
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by theshackleford 9mo ago
Remote work has allowed me to build the structure I need to function and perform at a high level. I have severe ADHD and do not fit well into conventional office environments, not because I lack capability, but because my work is most effec
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by theshackleford 9mo ago
Housing in my city has been expensive for years, and the knock-on effect is that most people I know live so far apart we barely see each other anymore. When you stack a two hour trip each way on top of the rising cost of doing anything at a
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by theshackleford 9mo ago
I went the opposite route because I don't like compromise in either domain and so just bought separate displays. Not an option for all obviously. It actually helped me enforce a separation between WFH/where I relax anyway, so not
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by theshackleford 9mo ago
> specific model Dell QD-OLED with a sub pixel arrangement that causes a fringe It’s in fact most, if not all of the PC display OLEDs on the market today because they almost all use non standard subpixel arrangements, but will change soo
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by theshackleford 9mo ago
> In practice for me, it's been unnoticeable. You act like being able to see this a minority opinion, it’s not, and it’s a known issue. And you don’t need to be sitting close, or using a tiny font to notice it. My 4K OLED is noticea
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by theshackleford 10mo ago
I learned my lesson about the media after a spate of interviews I did about a decade ago. The difference between what I said, and what they cut and edited it into was completely wild. It completely changed the narrative. It as a result comp
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by theshackleford 10mo ago
> If you want every game to work then you would be better off with a game console. I have a console. They can not offer performance I can tolerate. I require 120+ fps for most titles in order to not get motion sickness from modern displa
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by theshackleford 10mo ago
> At this point, the only valid excuses to stay on Windows, in my opinion I didn’t see a performance increase moving to Linux for the vast majority of titles tested. Certainly not enough to outweigh the fact that I want EVERY game to wor
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by theshackleford 10mo ago
Some real rose tinted glasses here.
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by theshackleford 10mo ago
And equally I know many people running non software businesses whose experience is the complete opposite of yours and Google ads has and continues to drive the majority of their revenue. I expected them to start seeing a hit or significant
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by theshackleford 10mo ago
> Really, Google ads have been dead for a long time. For you perhaps. I work with a huge amount of businesses whose profits are still driven almost entirely by them, who have seen not even a blip and make money hand over fist.
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by theshackleford 10mo ago
That’s like saying we should let children smoke because as a fifteen year old I was able to acquire cigarettes. I might have taken up smoking (to be fair I took it up when homeless from being around older homeless people who smoked) but a l
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by theshackleford 10mo ago
> but I've not heard of any other adults being adversely affected by this I’m a 40 year old man and I’ve been impacted. A huge circle of people I know have been impacted. A number of companies now want to scan my license or my face,
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by theshackleford 11mo ago
The HDR implementation in Windows 11 is fine. And it's not even that bad in 11 in terms of titles and content officially supporting HDR. Most of the ideas that it's "bad" comes from the "cheap monitor" part, no
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by theshackleford 11mo ago
Thank you for this post. It’s so obvious in hindsight, but I’ve been struggling for the last couple of years with my day job, especially the last while since I’ve been unmedicated. In office, I listened to music almost my entire career, it’
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by theshackleford 11mo ago
Diagnosed with both (as a child, then again as an adult after ignoring said diagnosis for a long time) I’ve been continually told there is a close link between the two, in that it’s not uncommon if you have one, to be diagnosed with the oth
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by theshackleford 11mo ago
You don’t get ads with the premium subscription. Have I misunderstood the intent of this correction?

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