Yapping7880

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by Yapping7880 6d ago
They were targeting Medium-users with Gutenberg, which in my opinion was a misread of the growth and direction of WordPress. Even after blogging died, WordPress was still always focused on being a blogging platform. Back in the early prop
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by Yapping7880 28d ago
I am glad to see this: "I do not believe the quality time theory. I firmly believe in maximizing the quantity of time spent with them." Because I think that among highly motivated workers there's a falsely held belief that yo
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by Yapping7880 1mo ago
The 2026 midterm election date is November 3rd, the jobs numbers are released on the first Friday of the month, November 6th. Intentionally trending numbers down in August, with only two more jobs reports before the election, would be risk
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by Yapping7880 1mo ago
Interesting idea that seems FUBAR.
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by Yapping7880 2mo ago
I really appreciate how the author dramatizes hypothyroidism, which I've also had since 25, and in the modern world, it's like the most treatable, easy to live with condition on earth. Taking a tiny pill once daily, with the lone
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by Yapping7880 3mo ago
Some of these are valid arguments against Palantir and the weaponization of surveillance. But too many others are bullshit as the author was getting full of themselves. "6. We are ruled by a senile gerontocracy. Unlike the generations
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by Yapping7880 3mo ago
I feel like, as an industry or social group, we're going through a midlife crisis. There were so many people in tech who I looked up to as a young engineer, and now it feels especially bleak for young people in tech to find role model
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by Yapping7880 3mo ago
Photographer/Photo-journalist Kim Raff is the photograher, I doubt that she did that, there's never been any evidence of her doing that in the past. The photos just look like good photos to me. https://www.nytimes.com&
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by Yapping7880 3mo ago
I work on a commonly used piece of software, I also make jokes to my colleagues about the software that I work on, many of us do. If I had infinite time and infinite money and infinite power, and there was no downstream risk to any of my u
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by Yapping7880 7mo ago
Pretty interesting. There was a study about Clemastine use as a potential treatment/prolonging for ALS, but it did not show any significant benefit at preventing/delaying neuron death. I bring it up ALS because there are certain
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by Yapping7880 7mo ago
How do people read this drivel and take it seriously? I read the first 5 paragraphs of complete fluff, and then started skimming, and then realized it went on and on, and just closed it. The author had not gotten to any cogent point eithe
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by Yapping7880 8mo ago
I'd challenge the person who submitted this to think about this rule: "Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads. A crap link is one that's o
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by Yapping7880 8mo ago
Unfortunately my wife has a terminal illness, and while $10m would be quite a lot, when facing the bills of ALS without proper health insurance, that could run out very quickly. With $10m, I'd work, but do all of the things that I don