washmyelbows

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by washmyelbows 3mo ago
proton too
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by washmyelbows 5mo ago
its weirdly endearing in the age of LLMs to see a word like company misspelled in a blog post
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
I mean, the person is looking for a cleaner in their area. If all of the cleaning businesses in the area slash their marketing budget to 0, the author is not going to fail to find a cleaner. All the marketing budget is doing is funneling pe
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
fantastic username
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
The article goes on to say the exact opposite of the headline. Bluesky users are celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, it's simply not the majority of them
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
Not much yellow on the web
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
Couldn't agree more on many of these points. There is so much 'whatever' everywhere on the web that I legitimately don't understand people being interested in the platforms that suck everyone's time. Its frustrating
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
so I guess you just don't read ebooks?
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
wow - I've quickly found 2 songs that are better than anything I've discovered in weeks
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
There's also a ton of multi sale per person in overwatch. Especially before role queue existed, it was easier to just spend 10 bucks on a new account to learn a hero than to suffer ELO hell while doing it. People are so toxic in compet
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
Agreed. It's so painless to use and yet the adoption is so bad
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
my favorite stout is 400 calories for 12oz
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
There's a lot of people downplaying the importance of genuine online comments but the reality is that (outside of the bubbles lives in by many HN users) millions upon millions of people are meaningfully participating and forming their
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
there is a very large collection of old catalogs on archive.org for people interested in looking at old print advertisements
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
12ft.io seemed to stop being useful almost immediately after gaining any amount of popularity
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
Trees good, study finds
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by washmyelbows 1y ago
the post office scans the exterior, not the contents. That is a significant difference.
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by washmyelbows 2y ago
Are these types of restaurants actually going away or are crappy chains just going under because better alternatives are a dime a dozen?
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by washmyelbows 2y ago
The inability to get a TV/stream box without some kind of ads cooked in infuriates me to no end, and it just feels like it's getting worse
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by washmyelbows 2y ago
LCP markets itself as an open standard, but has made multiple platforms unusable for me as a kobo user. Aggressively seeking out content like this and trying to bully away fixes for the tiny portion of the market it is helping is reprehens
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by washmyelbows 3y ago
I spent a good chunk of time at a small company trying to mitigate spam, it always felt like an uphill battle that google just did significantly better than I could. I'm not one to usually advocate outsourcing services that my departme
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by washmyelbows 3y ago
"Only about 10% of players ever gain more than 100 points, and only about 1% of players gain more than 200 rating points given years." This seems like a wild claim. On chess.com I've gone from 500 to ~1050 in a handful of mon
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by washmyelbows 3y ago
same here! If I could go back, I would've learned colemak for the keyboard shortcut reasons people have outlined in other comments, but I don't have it in me to learn another layout at this point.
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by washmyelbows 3y ago
yup. weekly trivia nights at the pub did it for us. most of us are drinkers, but for those that aren't there's still dinner, a fun activity and good company
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by washmyelbows 4y ago
is there energy loss with transferring power 2300 miles? how significant?
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by washmyelbows 4y ago
page 10 lists over 2 million in government grants
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by washmyelbows 4y ago
return to office
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by washmyelbows 4y ago
I'll be lucky if I can afford a single family home after 20 years of software engineering in the US. halfway there now, we'll see. Moving to a senior position has helped but I feel like a lot of people forget that the compensation
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by washmyelbows 4y ago
isn't this kind of thing common in US politics? what makes this specifically actionable?