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by bar_de 7mo ago
All my hopes in vain. Google Support rants don't get popular on HackerNews as... well.. everybody knows except me that you should not use or rely on Google. :/
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Brave New Smart Phone Dependence World and Google Support
1 points by bar_de 7mo ago|1 comments
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by bar_de 4y ago
Astonishing what use-cases Blender can be used for beyond 3D graphics for games and film. I tried the tutorials in combination with my mediocre knowledge. Somewhat magical to hold a physical object in my hands after clicking around. How man
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by bar_de 4y ago
Happy to hear that people are offering courses for Blender. I skimmed through the course and will do the tutorial later on my machine. The combination with jewelry is nice even if I didn't know such use-cases exist.
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by bar_de 4y ago
Our department changed to new-work open space as well including those phone booths. After just 15 minutes it gets uncomfortably warm in these but the worst thing is feeling of being in an aquarium. Coworkers watching from the side through t
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by bar_de 4y ago
Great this gem of German film culture has more fans. The scene with the PDP-11 mainframe and its power supply has meme status even today. Another great trope of the film are the dynamics how the hackers around Karl get exploited by the busi
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by bar_de 4y ago
Some of your preferences are ticked by the film "23"( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film) ). Based on a real story with some addition of KGB and cocaine.
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by bar_de 4y ago
Found your own company, be successful and start experiencing the same growth decline pattern. Maybe it's a cycle to stop expanding human groups in excess?
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by bar_de 4y ago
> highly-agreeable, low-performance Sounds like the effects when a company is blessed with good business for a long time but fails to adapt to upcoming required changed. I have experienced such places and it's real horror to change
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by bar_de 4y ago
Also the book "The Invincible" by Stanisław Lem tells a story about distributed intelligent lifeforms. Really nice as they are described in a very unique un-anthropocentric way, i.e. their rationality is hardly understandable by t
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by bar_de 5y ago
Would another Steve Jobs personality have a chance at today's corporate environment? I have doubts: leadership is a hot iron where laissez faire approaches are favoured. The cite from Kawasaki that he was "unpleasant and always sc
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by bar_de 5y ago
Local here. We were told to enjoy about 60 additional freight trains per day. The promised noise protection barriers were saved on due to budget after public voting went through. Interestingly the ferry which is currently used to transport
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by bar_de 5y ago
Notch constantly advertised his game on a popular imageboard and evaded bans for spamming. He did not credit Infiniminer as a copycat. Got super rich. Fits the MS culture perfectly.
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by bar_de 5y ago
The toys are one dimension of perceived and artificially created desires for the hoi polloi. Please take into account that most of us humans are bound by various obligations. Be it the financial type, i.e. paying off your house for 30+ year
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by bar_de 5y ago
We are supposed to perform and add value to the world. Not become mystics and monks. That's the Zeitgeist slave's mentality. Doing unhinged introspection with the help of booze or other drugs is frowned upon as you you will reali
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by bar_de 5y ago
Wait until you _have_ to return a RMB2 via a RMA. I had to write 23 mails to them until they sent the replacement device - to another address...
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by bar_de 5y ago
You are right. I experienced the same cult-like fanatic adoration of the process with rather detrimental results for the company's IT department similar to the times of "agile will solve everything and heal cancer" which bit
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by bar_de 5y ago
Not a baker but very close to one. Bakery is learned as apprenticeship in my home, i.e. 50% school with other young bakers and the other half in the bakery which took you in. This is a very classical education type for trades called "A
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by bar_de 7y ago
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. - Sokrates
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by bar_de 7y ago
Hugo is a great tool. I use it with my small project's websites for easily changing the content and getting hosting for nearly free. Just adding new posts, push the repo and let the build and deployment scripts do their thing. And - do