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by tombert 6mo ago
"too high for my liking" is doing a lot of work there. Some of these loans are outright predatory, with multi-thousand-percent interest rates. These aren't loans that people who have better options are taking, and moreover I
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by tombert 6mo ago
I suspect so that they get people used to ads so they can spam them with enough to make it not negligible. If they put millions of ads all over the page right away, it would turn everyone off. If they do the boiling frog thing and ease yo
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by tombert 6mo ago
Yes but they would only need enough to keep the lights on and pay the engineers. When you're a for-profit company, especially a public one (which I believe they're looking to be soon), you can't just maintain homeostasis. Yo
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by tombert 6mo ago
Interesting. Most of the stuff I've done for reverse proxies has been pretty straightforward and just using the stuff built into Nginx, but I have to admit that it wouldn't have even occurred to me to use FastCGI if I needed somet
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by tombert 6mo ago
I had never done the PR-over-email thing until I got an account on SourceHut; it was a bit of a chore to set up, but not that hard, and it did make me feel like it's very clearly the "correct" way of doing things.
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by tombert 6mo ago
But there are companies that charge money and manage to be successful, as I stated. Even before the internet most businesses failed. Sometimes for good reasons, sometimes for dumb reasons. Before people expected everything to be free. P
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by tombert 6mo ago
Do we need more than 1% conversion though? As long as the company is sustainable then that's sufficient to justify the company's existence. I think it says more about a lot of these services in that they're so shitty that th
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by tombert 6mo ago
I mean, part of it is that I really hated the Fisher Price look to it, but it was also the first time I ever felt like I had to "hack" things to make stuff work. I had to muck with registry keys. Oh, and it was the first time tha
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by tombert 6mo ago
Tough to say for sure, but I think it's probably still better to have more billionaires if there's more competition. I wasn't around during the breakup, but my parents told me that phone service got considerably better and ch
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by tombert 6mo ago
I've heard dozens of people say this (and I've even said it myself) but I don't think it actually holds water. People will pay for things if those things don't suck, and it's not even hard to find examples of that (
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by tombert 6mo ago
This administration has made it very clear that they will do what they can to change laws whenever convenient, without congressional oversight, whether or not they are "allowed" to. Trump implemented tariffs he wasn't allowed
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by tombert 6mo ago
I mean the same can be said about most versions of Windows as well. People act like Windows 11 is where it all went sour, but I've personally kind of hated it since Windows XP. I feel like a recurring pattern with Microsoft is to creat
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by tombert 6mo ago
I mean it's basically an extremely high-stakes version of the (possibly apocryphal) Upton Sinclair quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Most peo
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by tombert 6mo ago
Judging by how many people apparently are paying bots to give their lazily vibe-coded repos thousands of stars, it seems like people both simultaneously take stars seriously while not taking them seriously at all. It breaks my brain.
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by tombert 6mo ago
I'm shocked, shocked to find that Microsoft takes credit for a slow, unoriginal product that doesn't actually do what it advertises.
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by tombert 6mo ago
Assuming that this Graphene partnership ends up working out, this is probably what I will end up doing once my current iPhone dies. I like my iPhone 13 Pro Max, it's a good phone and I don't really have a desire to get rid of it,
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by tombert 6mo ago
You have been able to sideload on iOS for years; I first did it in 2021 but I think it was earlier than that. You just needed to create a server on a Mac and you could easily load apps on, all without any kind of special jailbreak. When De
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by tombert 6mo ago
When my sister and I would play monopoly as kids, we had lost the manual so whenever we didn’t like the outcome of whatever happened, we would make up rules about what was right. Technically then, it was very easy stay compliant while still
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by tombert 6mo ago
I'm no fan of social media and I'm not even a big fan of capitalism, but isn't this kind of reductive? You can always point out bad things and try and extrapolate that outward. We live in a time with an extremely low murder r
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by tombert 6mo ago
I had to upgrade the firmware in my HP printer a couple years ago. It’s a printer that I think was released in ~2009 (I am not able to check right now), and in order to upgrade the RAM to 256MB I needed to do a firmware update. I dreaded th
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by tombert 6mo ago
Yes but they didn’t show anything irrelevant in the trial. It was idiotic to send a dump of the entire phone.
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by tombert 6mo ago
No, I would say making therapy affordable would be part of fixing it.
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by tombert 6mo ago
Just because you can name counterexamples doesn't really undermine my point. I know people who were alcoholics in college and then stopped being alcoholics later but that doesn't mean we should encourage people to be alcoholics i
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by tombert 6mo ago
I'm not claiming I know how to fix it, but I am quite confident that the solution to fixing issues with depression, focus, or any other number of psychological issues is not reading a Reddit post about weed and/or mushrooms and
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by tombert 6mo ago
Sure, I've had my share of issues with therapists, but I think the solution is to fix the therapists, not to YOLO it by self-medicating with weed.
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by tombert 6mo ago
I've never actually touched weed, but I would see this with my friends in high school and college. In the better case, they just become insufferable and pseudo-intellectual because they started watching Alan Watts and Carl Sagan while
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by tombert 6mo ago
I don't the president can pardon away a lawsuit. He could pardon away a crime, and sometimes the crime can be a basis for a civil lawsuit, but in this case I don't think anyone has seriously considered criminally charging Jones f
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by tombert 6mo ago
That was an impressively stupid and/or lazy fuck up, to a point where I think Jones could have a lawsuit against his attorneys there. IANAL but it does seems like "sending an entire copy of your clients phone and making no effort
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by tombert 6mo ago
I think the theoretical idea is that we want to ensure that there is always a very large domestic corn supply, in the event of war or something. Corn is a crop that has a lot of uses; it can be refined into sugar, it can be used as flour,
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by tombert 6mo ago
I was baffled when I first moved to NYC and found out that people just throw their garbage onto the sidewalk. I have the wheely bin now, which is good, but it's insane that it took until 2025 to actually require it. Probably the only

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