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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
I envision a world where a portion of senior workers -- 40%, I would guess, based on vague approximations of folks who prefer in-person or hybrid work -- work in office, with mentorship representing a huge portion of their responsibilities.
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Agreed, but I would argue that the PS3/Xbox 360 generation was the first where the majority of console owners played online. I was an adolescent/teenager at the time and it was almost a guarantee that any other boys in my class ha
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Not to be a bandwagoner, but Lemmy has really picked up over the last few days. There's plenty of scaling issues right now, but take a look at the centralized community browser ( https://browse.feddit.de/ ) to see if the
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
I was on the fence for the past couple of weeks. But this interview ( https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve... ) pushed me over the edge. Huffman's doublespeak, white lies (I&#x
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
I experienced exactly this a couple of years ago in /r/espresso. Fortunately the low-quality memespam pushed me to look for alternatives, and I found Home Barista forums, one of the best quality web forums I've ever participa
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Why don't niche subreddits just start web forums up again? It's simple enough to pay the hosting bills with some sideroll ads (that clever admins could even sell at a premium, thanks to their highly niche audience). Of course, tod
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Combining tons of disparate web forums under a single toxic leadership is what caused these issues in the first place. I would far prefer either something federated (in the Fediverse sense) or a decent lightweight reddit alternative with no
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but this feels like it'll cause even more issues. Today, clever students can share books, buy used, share electronic copies, or skip the book entirely if they don't think it's necessary. With
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
I've been trying to cut Reddit usage since I first heard about their impending IPO a few months ago, actually. When they killed i.reddit.com and the /i suffix, it tripped my alarm bells and I realized I shouldn't keep relying
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Compact mode still exists! Add the suffix `/.i` to any reddit URL and you'll get it back. They removed i.reddit.com and the `/i` suffix but I think the PMs forget to mention `/.i` in their "kill compact reddit"
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
> At the same time, I would also not mind an unmozillad firefox, perhaps in exchange for a certain donation amount per year. LibreWolf ( https://librewolf.net/ ) is essentially this: Firefox, with the telemetry and Mozilla
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
The answer is enforcement: cars were much easier to steal in the past, and somehow we managed to deter theft anyway. But in many US cities if your car gets stolen the cops won't even pick up the phone . They openly admit there's
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
It also has a headphone jack, which is getting harder and harder to find these days. Even if you usually use bluetooth headphones... it's still nice to have a backup. There's lots of situations where headphone jack input is simple
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
I'm beginning to wonder if soulless, boring, corpspeak AI-generated text is going to turn out to be a huge competitive disadvantage for those who become reliant on it. If someone sends me an email or a message that sounds AI-generate
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
As someone who can run at a pretty competitive pace, speed isn't everything. I notice that operating at the top competitive levels of most sports tends to destroy your body pretty quickly -- lots of stress injuries, sprains, accidents,
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Additionally, my home Pi4 sits in a metal case that acts as a heat sink so I don't have to use a fan at all. That translates to: - additional energy savings - more or less eliminated need to clean out dust or eventually replace a fan -
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
I feel similarly. The other problem I'm experiencing: extremely slow search page loads, both on desktop and Android Firefox. For now, I've been able to work around it with DDG's HTML site (thank god this exists!), but if I wa
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
A lot of light rail and subway systems are entirely automated today. As far as I know, most of the systems that haven't automated conductor work are either grandfathered into union negotiations that preserve those positions or haven&#x
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Thanks for the fact check. Looks like I accidentally grabbed quarterly numbers instead of yearly. At least it's the correct order of magnitude :)
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
The internet seems ripe for the return of a service like StumbleUpon. I used to find all kinds of great niche content through that service. A much better way to kill time than endlessly refreshing a feed or shitposting -- it feels more like
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
The figure is utterly ridiculous. They truly expect to generate a revenue stream 2x the size of Spotify or AirPods? Apple as a whole only makes 21B a year from all services, and they run everything from cloud storage, to synchronization,
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Additionally, artists can sign up to get prioritization in the radio and recommendation algorithms... at the cost of some of their royalties. You're likely already missing out on artists who don't pay the troll toll if you rely he
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
True. But before others pre-judge: I actually did learn quite a bit about Tailscale's architecture and robot vacuums from this article. It's interesting but lighthearted enough to give me a chuckle. I wish more company blogs used
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
In some markets, the last 2-3 years of price increases put a LOT of folks over the $250,000 (x2 for married couples) gains deduction. I wonder how many folks are hesitant to sell at a price that'll cost a serious amount of taxes if the
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Try living in Vermont, Alaska, or Maine. No billboards, by law. Even signage for businesses is constrained. Visiting NYC is a visual gorefest to me now. Honestly I would pay a decent price for AR glasses with billboard blocking built in.
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Careful, Reddit is rumored to IPO later this year so they've been turning the enshittification screws. Expect to see less and less legitimate opinions, more and more corporate manipulation and ads, and likely a lot of LLM-generated ast
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by vanilla_nut 4y ago
Of course it depends on enforcement. But individuals literally cannot solve this problem alone. That's why we have government in the first place: to level the playing field and avoid these prisoner's dilemma situations. Only an en
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by vanilla_nut 4y ago
I experienced a very similar situation in Denver before I decided to leave. From friends and acquaintances I gather that Portland and Seattle are in similar situations as well. NYC doesn't seem quite as bad, but it's definitely
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by vanilla_nut 4y ago
Very true, especially on a worldwide scale: we could allocate resources much more efficiently to take care of a lot of people who are suffering around the whole world. Within the microcosm of SF? I would make the basic argument that SF&#x
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by vanilla_nut 4y ago
Meanwhile NYC's tree-planting program plants trees in the narrow sidewalk because nobody is willing to give up even a single parking space in a city where the majority of people (55%) don't own cars.

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