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by xp84 3mo ago
Yeah, I've reversed course on both those things now. I literally just tell my spouse, "I think tonight at 8 I'm going to go see Project Hail Mary" since I'm the only one interested in that kind of movie. And dine wh
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by xp84 3mo ago
I agree. Independent movie rental shops had a very long window of viability before Blockbuster expanded enough to threaten them, so there were a ton of places that had a better chance of having people who deliberately like working there, th
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by xp84 3mo ago
I remember when they opened the Alamo Drafthouse they had a semi-permanent outpost of Lost Weekend included in the lobby area. I wonder if it's on the Killed By Covid And Never Came Back list.
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by xp84 3mo ago
God, that sounds like absolute paradise. Either as a kid or a grown-up.
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by xp84 3mo ago
If I'm having a problem with a server and you commented "Former sysadmin was dumb and lazy, so they misconfigured it" (and you're correct) is that constructive? I think we mostly all agree that we as a society caused the
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by xp84 3mo ago
Not only that, the tween years used to be when you developed the skills of independence that you'd hopefully more or less be able to use to be a teenager. A 9 or 10-year-old would have permission to walk or bike around the neighborhood
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by xp84 3mo ago
> professional HN posters Wait, is this a career option I should have been aspiring to? I wonder if it's too late...
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by xp84 3mo ago
Agree. I think it might have been okay if the Internet had stayed in the naïve form it had circa 2003. In those days, I had a circle of friends on LiveJournal (the closer of which became AIM buddies as well) and I think we all derived huge
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by xp84 3mo ago
> the drive-in theater took on much of the role that the earlier movie theater had played, serving as a third place for local youth and families where the space and interactions with other audience members were as important as the movie
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by xp84 3mo ago
Indeed. It sounds more like management (Minus the 'people skills' since you don't technically need Claude to like you... yet).
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by xp84 3mo ago
More and more, I wonder if projects like this (I assume they're made possible 'all of a sudden' because of AI coding tools) are going to eventually breathe new life into dozens of "obsolete" platforms long ago deeme
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by xp84 3mo ago
There's no need to settle for a measly $10GB plan for that kind of money. Mine costs $32.50 and includes unlimited data (actually not deprioritized, too) and 50GB of hotspot. If you really can settle for 10GB though, you could do it fo
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by xp84 3mo ago
> 4 lines on Unlimited Plus for $31/line. Important: Does this include taxes and the many "regulatory offset fees" or whatever they call them? My numbers do include everything. Looks like that plan[1] offers 30GB of mobile
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by xp84 3mo ago
They already do shred as many as they can (as my link documented) because used iPhones merely existing compete with Apple's offerings. Think of it from Apple's perspective: You sell a phone for $1,100 and get a 37%[1] margin on it
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by xp84 3mo ago
> make sure highly gifted kids from diverse background It would be ideal to get those gifted kids before they spend 5-6 years in the 'real world' with all the "Baby Shark," Roblox, and various other brainrot, but if y
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by xp84 3mo ago
When I see these types of articles and headlines, it just makes me supremely grateful for all the many people far smarter[1] than me. And humbles me, too, since I actually passed for a "very smart person" in places like high schoo
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by xp84 3mo ago
I think "most people" have been shifting towards longer than 24-month replacement cycles. Leasing with a fixed end is probably predicted in their financial models to do a better job of getting more people onto a strict 24 month cy
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by xp84 3mo ago
Seems like a good place to also mourn the canonical best iPhone financing method - the blissfully simple Apple Card payment plan. They got rid of it[1] (except if you're engaging in the postpaid carrier contract foolishness) in 2023, w
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by xp84 3mo ago
Hey that's not fair, there has been one actually useful "innovation" -- switching to USB-C like the rest of the world has been using for 10 years. Literally nothing has made me feel the slightest craving for a new iPhone sinc
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by xp84 3mo ago
By that logic, how can we even justify finding Nazi ideology disgusting? "Sure, a lot of Nazis committed a ton of heinous crimes, and their value system told them it was good and proper to do so, but some of them are probably nice peop
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by xp84 3mo ago
> there's plenty of other reasons they can fail that you're already living on the edge if all you're carrying is your phone I see what you're arguing, but I just want to point out 2 things: 1. If I leave the house for
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by xp84 3mo ago
That's surprising. Of all the Apple Watch's many failings (such as its hilariously bad transcription) I've never had Apple Pay not work flawlessly on it. One of the main reasons (the other being the "make my phone loudly
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by xp84 3mo ago
That is super cool. Unimaginable budget from a US perspective. I think in California I could struggle to stay under that $120k budget on just one kitchen renovation, and I don't mean a luxury kitchen with Viking appliances. Just the no
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by xp84 3mo ago
I don't think anybody wants to cut a separate hole in their countertop for controls when everyone already has one big rectangular hole where a cooktop goes.
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by xp84 3mo ago
That's kind of a special case, one couldn't pick a situation more tuned to the strengths of electric. The big burner on the stove heats the air up a ton, including a huge amount of heat going around the pot, straight up around the
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by xp84 3mo ago
Sure, but it imposes its own limitations as the previous poster pointed out. There is no 1:1 swap-out for cooking that doesn't require either changing out your cookware or settling for a frustrating and slow cooking experience. Also (t
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by xp84 3mo ago
> last time I heard about something like this, it was because the guy's car was parked 5 stories underground, and didn't carry his car keys, because he was using his phone to unlock all the time I hope you aren't suggestin
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by xp84 3mo ago
Another tiny data point example: A previous company used Stripe for a very niche feature (most companies who used our product didn't ever enable it) but having the SDK in the bundle drops their "anti-fraud" cookies, whatever
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by xp84 3mo ago
Speaking of the news-type sites you bring up: I hate all these patterns too, but interestingly it feels like I hate it more because the whole Internet has been designed around the "free to read with ads" paradigm -- we've bee
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by xp84 3mo ago
That proves little though. Their ads would be brand advertising anyway, notoriously hard to measure. Just "Don't forget Coca-Cola exists!" and you can accomplish the same with billboards or in-store advertising. The ads that

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