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wwilim
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wwilim
3y ago
If you enjoy characters accepting the flop, you'll love the Czechoslovakian stop motion series "A je to!". Might just be my nostalgia goggles, but I think it's a gem. Example: https://youtu.be/tQ_sBzSaJIo
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3y ago
Dell 5451 truly feels like a piece of crap after using a T470 then some kind of IdeaPad at my previous workplace
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3y ago
I wonder if a modern equivalent of a game like this would sell at all. Modern supposedly story-driven games often have extremely short flavor/clue text so as not to interrupt the flow. Reading the clue docs outside of the game would al
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wwilim
3y ago
The eye-opener here is that it's not "the way things are", it's other people doing that to you
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3y ago
Just one?
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3y ago
Either that or he might be Polish himself
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3y ago
"Humanity's" distant past seems like quite a bit of a stretch here. I guess the word is there for clickbait factor
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3y ago
The screenshots are impossible to view because they go off the page on Android Chrome
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3y ago
Sample size one. Contracting for a trading shop for 2 years taught me that it's not technical aptitude that keeps the business rolling.
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3y ago
By deep silence he probably means "having nothing to do and doing nothing", a rare luxury
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3y ago
There were three types of kids in Poland in the early 00s, those who had no Internet access, those on dial-up who played Ogame, and those on broadband who played Tibia. Funnily enough, those two games uncannily reflected the reality those k
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3y ago
Especially the last point makes me realize that many frustrations with SQL are transferred frustrations with the suits (from the 70s or not) that we're all working for, and the company culture they've created
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3y ago
My wife is possibly about to be forced to throw away a $8k pair of hearing aids because after 6 years they are no longer supported by the manufacturer's software for hearing care professionals so it's likely she won't be able
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3y ago
Aren't you a bit of an outlier though?
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wwilim
3y ago
Plot twist - it was a spy submarine all along
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3y ago
Relax the problem - remove one constraint and try again.
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3y ago
I like the google translate powered click-to-translate, truly the best kind of low-effort functionality. You can get even more bang for buck if you add a dropdown at the top to select the target language - you will now support learners from
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3y ago
Prompt wrangling, prompt whispering?
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3y ago
One of my most vivid memories of adolescence is walking back from the optometrist wearing my new glasses, after finally accepting that I can't continue to function without them.
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4y ago
Is it Ron to discuss it?
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wwilim
4y ago
You could try playing Tibia, it has exactly what you're describing, save for being able to enter other player's houses uninvited. It's kinda dead though
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4y ago
I think it's worth dropping your oldschool web elitist schtick for this one
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4y ago
It's potentially even better than the big data craze - actually using the operational data was often stuck in a vicious cycle of (nobody has yet successfully used the data -> data is poor quality because nobody motivates making it b
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4y ago
There are a number of extensions which do the same thing, I happen to use Markdown Image by Hancel.Lin - if you do, make sure to configure it to put image files next to the file you're pasting into rather than at the root folder opened
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4y ago
I have a 10 line C# script which manages my notes. It's pinned to my Start menu. When I run it, it ensures an .md file for the current day is created in the folder for the current day, which is in the folder for the current month, whic
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4y ago
And so we have reached the point of discussing makers on Etsy and people with OF accounts in an article about elites.
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4y ago
It provides a useful metaphor
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4y ago
In contrast, the bare minimum standardized testing in Poland ("matura") leaves you no chance whatsoever unless you've been keeping up in literature class for the past 3 years.
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4y ago
The computers are the good part of the job. Unless I'm dealing with npm.
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4y ago
Dare I say, the article is quite a shallow take... but maybe that's all there is - the apparent ease and the few industries that have been built on top of it?
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