BizarreByte

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by BizarreByte 21d ago
Given the fact the comment you replied to is flagged and dead? Apparently even mentioning that some ideas online may not have widespread support offline.
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by BizarreByte 7mo ago
I want to feel bad, but shipping anything across borders is a huge gamble, or at least it feels like it these days. One has to wonder if the customs agent even knew what a floppy is, as there’s an ever increasing chance they’d never seen on
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by BizarreByte 1y ago
> It's both the identifying thing and of course the steady (and mostly - high) income. It's the income for me. This career was my only ticket out of poverty, it actually saved me from an otherwise horrible life. Now supposed
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by BizarreByte 1y ago
> You say that, until you start spending those hundred dollar bills on therapy. The only people who wouldn't prefer that are ones who haven't endured true poverty. I have little sympathy for those folks unhappy with their conve
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by BizarreByte 1y ago
Same for me as well. I've also gone as far as moving any paying business away from the US. I have completely moved off paid US services as of about a month ago to Canadian or EU equivalents.
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by BizarreByte 1y ago
> I’ve been to the U.S. a hundred times and nothing has really changed to make me blink at continuing to go. Let's hope you never get unlucky, it only takes one border agent having a bad day after all. I've been to the US many,
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by BizarreByte 1y ago
Again I do not care. The US has done more than enough to instill fear in Canadians like me. Would you travel to a country where its leader is constantly making threats against your country, some as serious as repeatedly calling for your ann
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by BizarreByte 1y ago
The specifics of this case are largely irrelevant to me, the fact is I am scared to cross the border into the US at this point. For the foreseeable future I will not be travelling to the US for any reason. Canada is safe and there is nothin
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
My favourite part of my .ca domains is that personal data is protected by default and I don't have to pay for it as an additional service. There's no need for people to know my information because I happen to own a domain.
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
Perhaps, but I can normally force myself in overcome fear/anxiety if there's a real benefit to me. When it comes to these drugs? I can only see neutral or negative outcomes.
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
I've read most of the comments on this post and I can honestly say none of them make me want to try hallucinogenics. It just seems like playing with fire and asking for trouble, especially for those of us with severe anxiety issues.
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
I'm not rich and I have this mindset. I make far less than most people on HN do, less than industry average too, but I've been able to live an okay life regardless. The goal was never to get rich as I realized early on that was im
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
> So maybe seeing that at interview time is a good thing? Perhaps, but an interview is a fundamentally different environment than day to day work. There's no way to solve the interview/interviewee problem though, the whole thin
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
That's completely unrealistic though. If you have a job that allows you to support yourself and doesn't make you want to veer into oncoming traffic daily that's about as good as it gets for the vast majority of people. There&
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
> Having lived next to a semi-main street through a smallish California coastal city without much rain it is pretty eye opening how much black dirt and junk just coat everything next to the road. One day I made the mistake of leaning aga
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
I am so tired of this gender war nonsense.
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
It's worse than that, if we're being entirely realistic most (all?) companies would kill you if they could profit from it. Proof? Cigarette companies, Dupont, and others were happy to do that.
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
> What socialist laptop do you recommend? You have options other than Macbooks. The communist kid with a Macbook is a meme for a reason, they're out of touch. It's absurd to call oneself a communist or socialist while buying on
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
Even within the system you have options and ignorance isn't a good excuse.
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
Why such a hostile response to someone who cares about presenting themselves in a way they see fit? Your image is very important and it's logical that they want to control theirs.
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
> or because you haven't been properly compensated for your contribution to the content on the internet? This comes across as snark, but I will assume you are well meaning. I have put code, guides, and videos on the internet for oth
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
AI haters? I don't hate AI I just don't want things I've created being used to enrich multi-billion dollar companies for free. These companies are behaving poorly and they should expect this kind of push back.
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
500k/y jobs are not common and as such the vast majority of us are not making that much.
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
> Feelings of entitlement are wrong here. How dare people have feelings right? A lot of contractors (like myself) are treated like employees who are easier to fire. I understand the separation from a legal perspective, but at the same ti
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
I suffer from the same issue and I've always assumed it was astigmatism as well. There are different types of astigmatism so perhaps some types have this issue and some don't? I'm unsure, but I know that dark mode is legitima
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
> Six months' wait to see your GP for an in-person visit is a worryingly long wait. I always find it cute to see what Americans consider a long wait for any medical service. For myself in Canada the very minimum time to see a GP is
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
I felt that way about the master to main debacle, but some angry people online won anyway.
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
“Therapy doesn’t work” is always refuted by this claim that you just haven’t found the right one yet. It’s tiring honestly, you are not allowed to criticize therapy in the current year.
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by BizarreByte 2y ago
All kinds of pseudoscience makes people believe they feel better. Without proof therapy works it’s no better than homeopathy.

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