wellokpetejr

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by wellokpetejr 4y ago
For someone who knows what a file is, it looks like you made an uninformed decision. It’s well known that iPhone doesn’t allow for much customization. Do schools give out iPhones? Never heard of that. I’ve seen them give out iPads and that’
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by wellokpetejr 4y ago
Prioritize which features are important then look at the phones.
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by wellokpetejr 4y ago
No data to back it up, but from my noob experience, it’s Ubuntu. Google any Linux issue and add Ubuntu as a search term and you have a higher probability of finding a solution. If you look at GitHub repos, they will almost always have Ubunt
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by wellokpetejr 4y ago
What are the different ways? Like subscribing to their substack if they have one?
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by wellokpetejr 4y ago
Is SNS an acronym for social networking services? I’ve never heard of it before. Think replacing SNS with “social media” could help chrome users understand the purpose of the plugin.
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by wellokpetejr 4y ago
Way more video calls. Especially if you have kids.
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by wellokpetejr 4y ago
Why lol?
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by wellokpetejr 4y ago
Some combo of all. What have you tried so far?
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by wellokpetejr 4y ago
Is anyone else dependent on you financially? Like partner or kids? If the answer is no, go to Portugal.
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by wellokpetejr 4y ago
It seems like using a web hosting service that provides one click Wordpress installs would solve most of your problems. Plus there is no lock in. You can export all the content and import it into another Wordpress instance pretty easily.
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by wellokpetejr 4y ago
> In the end I decided the only real way to tell if what we were doing was working, was to turn it all off, for several months to see if there was a measurable difference. This is how he should have started. It’s called incrementality. Y
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by wellokpetejr 5y ago
Tangent here, what are better solutions?
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by wellokpetejr 5y ago
The list of sites you are pulling from would be helpful.
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by wellokpetejr 5y ago
It was cool when companies initially did that. Now? Does the average person even type in urls? They probably click on a link. Who cares what the URL is then.
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by wellokpetejr 5y ago
Emacs. j/k Not really though.
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by wellokpetejr 5y ago
This is great. Are there other plain text sites?
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by wellokpetejr 5y ago
> Facts are of secondary importance; what really matters is bold statements expressed with complete confidence, especially if they are so imprecise and ambiguous that they can't be proven false on the spot. LOL. As if this started w
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by wellokpetejr 5y ago
There is a lot of friction with programming. Picking a programming language, picking an IDE, learning concepts and syntax, googling the errors, etc. Think of how a painter probably got introduced to painting. Parents or teachers gave them a
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by wellokpetejr 5y ago
Am I the only one who doesn’t know any of these acronyms?
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by wellokpetejr 5y ago
Wish there as a RSS feed or someway to add events to a calendar.
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by wellokpetejr 5y ago
Is it me or is the privacy policy surprisingly not terrible?
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Ask HN: Which weekly newsletters do you subscribe to?
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by wellokpetejr 5y ago
Healthy skepticism is fine, but if I’m skeptical of experts on anything novel, whose information am I supposed to trust? What is a better decision making process? Don’t we have conflicting needs here? We don’t want scientists waiting for pe
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by wellokpetejr 5y ago
I haven’t read the article because of the paywall. Like most people I’ve spent thousands and thousands of hours getting good at something that employers pay me for. Outside of that, I’m no smarter at anything than any other person. And ther
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by wellokpetejr 5y ago
VPN, use the Tor Browser or what I’ve been doing recently: run debloated Windows 10 in a VM + VPN. If none of these work soon, I’m going to start firing up Windows instances on Azure or AWS and browse using them.
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by wellokpetejr 5y ago
I work in the web3/blockchain world. And I don’t really care if any of it takes off. I have no interest in crypto or the politics surrounding all of this. For me, it’s something new and interesting. It’s like the Wild West. It has some