StevePerkins

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by StevePerkins 5mo ago
That would be quite a feat, given that Mr. Carnegie was born in the 1800's and died over 70 years ago. I'm convinced that 99% of the people who criticize or even just talk about that book have never actually read it, and have zero
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by StevePerkins 5mo ago
> Why do they think they are "helping" It's not about helping. It's about the feeling of clout. There are still plenty of people who look at Github profile activity to judge job candiates, etc. What gets measured
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by StevePerkins 7mo ago
While I personally agree that claiming any European identity label from 400+ years ago is silly, I disagree that there's any winning move other than ignoring the slacktivist noise. The people telling you that your natural identity lab
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by StevePerkins 7mo ago
1. People yearn for identity labels. It's a core part of human existance. 2. "White" and "American" are problematic identity labels. People therefore often reach back toward European ancestry (real or supposed), f
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by StevePerkins 8mo ago
I was involved in a UU church for a few years. It's a weird organization, and very unstable, with another revolution sweeping in new leadership (and completely new culture) every 5 to 10 years. When I first started going, it was VERY
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by StevePerkins 8mo ago
Is that REALLY a lot of power, though? Reddit is quasi-anonymous, how "isolated" are you when you can create a different account in seconds?
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by StevePerkins 8mo ago
"Don't talk about your kids at work, it's off-putting" ... then proceeds to talk about their dog every day. :) Yeah, a lot of this discussion does seem pretty myopic sometimes.
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by StevePerkins 8mo ago
Nonsense. It's fine to be boring, and to have boring friends. This expectation that you need to be travel influencer or a deep philosopher in order to have anything to talk about is an artifact of social media. I'm old enough to
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by StevePerkins 8mo ago
That has never really been part of the definition. If you look at that Wikipedia article a couple comments up, I only see two examples (i.e. stoops and parks) that are free, and I think parks are a stretch because conversation is not a pri
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by StevePerkins 11mo ago
This sounds like me always complaining about "Past Me"'s tech debt. Or when tech debt is being introduced, my team jokes about it being "Future Me"'s problem. It's good for a chuckle, but obviously there
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by StevePerkins 11mo ago
This never has anything to do with open source vs. closed source, or anything like that. It always has to do with prioritizing the cohort that's most likely to pay money. It's been shown over and over again in A/B testing th
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by StevePerkins 11mo ago
Of course it does. Do you think the elites actually WANT massive tariffs putting a brake on GDP growth? Why are tech companies suddenly reversing course on content moderation and/or DEI, after years of pushing in the opposite directi
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by StevePerkins 1y ago
I only clicked this to see if Coolify could be a compelling option against my current setup, of using Docker Compose for everything on my VM (including a private Docker registry for my images, and a Traefik frontend proxy to route it all).
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by StevePerkins 1y ago
I believe that's the entire point.
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by StevePerkins 2y ago
Chris Rock comedy special, and the Tom Brady roast. Nothing on this scale, though.
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by StevePerkins 2y ago
Let's put it a different way. Are you as likely to see the same number of Pixel watches, while walking around the hallways in the Apple spaceship?
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by StevePerkins 2y ago
I'm sorry, but this is absolutely nonsensical. I literally just posted a screenshot showing that this is configurable on a Samsung. In fact, when I first setup this phone, I had to specifically choose to make the home bar visible at a
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by StevePerkins 2y ago
This? https://i.imgur.com/9uUJLaz.jpeg I've never seen any kind of UI where the "Home" button wouldn't be in the center. And you have the option of placing the "Back" button on the left and th
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by StevePerkins 2y ago
I can see wanting a smaller phone. That is an underserved market segment. But implying that phone marketing is patriarchy-driven is laughably absurd. Marketing for phones is probably more diverse and carefully balanced than for any other
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by StevePerkins 2y ago
> It blows me away that people actually care how much other people spend on something at all. It's an idle discussion thread about consumer electronics. Not an attack on the core of your personal identity.
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by StevePerkins 2y ago
It's crazy that I'm the first person in this sub-thread to mention Samsung, when they are by far the market leader in Android phones. They have decent options at pretty much every price point. For some reason, HN and Reddit just
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by StevePerkins 2y ago
Is that really a large subculture, or is that mostly car rental places cycling vehicles through their fleet? The rental companies typically buy vehicles from the manufacturer at such a volume discount, that they're able to flip them on
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by StevePerkins 2y ago
The point is not to balance a budget. The point is to rein in persistently triple-digit inflation. Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too, but the reality is that you fight inflation by cooling economic activity for a period.
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by StevePerkins 2y ago
Same, and I note that the OVERWHELMING majority of other customers that I see at the grocery store or Target are still inserting plastic credit cards into the readers (I do think swiping is going extinct though, as the readers push you to i
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by StevePerkins 2y ago
> No idea what it tastes like. Then what's the point of including it in dishes like paella, where any fragrance will be drowned out by all of the other spices and flavors in the dish?
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by StevePerkins 2y ago
This article seems to stem from a desire to dunk on "evil Silicon Valley robber barons" more than anything else. As others have pointed out here, the premise is based on a linked Washington Post survey that doesn't even reall
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by StevePerkins 2y ago
Have you actually read the books? That TV series was one of the most true to its adapted source material. Amazon didn't pivot from a detective story to an action story. Abraham and Franck (aka James S.A. Corey), the authors, did. Af
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
I would wager that the vast majority of backend software jobs are for people writing REST API microservices, exchanging JSON, with a mindset that is more practical and "blue-collar" than academic. Golang is an absolutely ideal lan
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
I don't give a damn! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_on_First%3F#Sketch
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
Jesus.

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