carlospwk

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by carlospwk 4y ago
I'd love to agree with this but almost every experience I've had with an open source project that has a complex GUI has been painful. Tried to switch from Sheets to Libre Office Calc and it's like going back to an incredibly
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by carlospwk 4y ago
While I definitely recognize there’s a cycle, I also can’t but feel that old media is regurgitated because the state of what we are creating now. I don’t think we’ll be doing the same 20-30 years now with Marvel movies.
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by carlospwk 4y ago
What are they going to change?
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by carlospwk 4y ago
Same as doctors not thinking washing their hands was useful until somewhere around the mid 1800s.
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by carlospwk 4y ago
I don't know why you've come to that conclusion? I do the exact opposite. I got to malls to buy something specific, but there's no reason to spend anymore time there than necessary. City centres are the opposite.
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by carlospwk 4y ago
5 to 15 minutes? What if you want to have lunch?
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by carlospwk 4y ago
Why?
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by carlospwk 4y ago
A question for all those in favour of street parking: If parking right in front of the store is so vital for business, why don't they do it in shopping malls? Why do you have to park your car somewhere else and then walk to the stores?
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by carlospwk 5y ago
What has worked for me: 1. Find out why you are overweight. For me it was comfort eating junk food and large meals. 2. Start working on what’s causing the first step. I very gradually changed my approach to eating, shifting from unhealthy f
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by carlospwk 5y ago
Damn. RIP, lots of laughs a long time ago.
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by carlospwk 5y ago
>This makes a lot of unfounded assumptions about what the police can and would do. In a lot of places they do absolutely nothing . A lot of bikes show up on sale on places like FB Marketplace shortly after they're stolen, cops coul
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by carlospwk 5y ago
So what do you do when the lock breaks and you can't cut it open? Look, I could list a dozen reasons why this is a bad design but I won't. Besides the U-lock, there has never been a widely adopted tech solution to combat bike thef
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by carlospwk 5y ago
“A statement from Austin’s Transportation Department says it had provided a list of groups Refraction AI should reach out to ahead of launching service here. The list of groups included the Bicycle Advisory Council. The company provided no
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by carlospwk 6y ago
After I clicked a few panels I got this weird feeling and then I realized it... I actually remember reading this when it came out! 1998 was 22 years ago :$
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by carlospwk 7y ago
Our Teams has Planner to do lists. Great, I thought, now our to dos are integrated into our chat platform. Then I tried to edit a comment I made on a card. Couldn't figure out, contacted our vendor only to find out it's NOT POSSIB
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by carlospwk 7y ago
Finn here. We don't have an Apple store, but I've been to a few in NYC. Just wondering around and looking all the staff run around and people waiting gives me anxiety. If I buy an Apple product, I either order it with express deli
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by carlospwk 8y ago
Really interesting read on how fonts render on different systems. However a huge reason why I went from Win to macOS are the incredibly frustrating scaling issues. At work I gave up and just set my laptop display to 100% since I’d rather de
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by carlospwk 8y ago
It's 2:40 AM, I open Hacker News because I couldn't sleep and notice this is on top of the page. I have no words. I didn't really know Alex from his work at Automattic, I knew him as the guy who ran the fan website for "
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by carlospwk 8y ago
I'm curious, what made you write this comment? What's with the negativity?
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by carlospwk 8y ago
I've been there. In my idealistic grumpy old man world, I'd rather have the main area silent and if you want to have a chat, just book a room :)
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by carlospwk 8y ago
In the past few years I've been to public libraries in Espoo, Helsinki and Vantaa. They all have the same modern vibe as Oodi (although less glamorous buildings maybe). >If you need to study the university library is just around the
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by carlospwk 8y ago
>Exactly. The nostalgic fantasy I'm criticising carlospwk for is that public libraries are "noisy, too relaxed and not geared towards actual studying". Not really a position that fosters the needs of the diverse population
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by carlospwk 8y ago
>I find that the fetishising of books and silent library spaces is a nostalgic fantasy championed by people that rarely actually use libraries, while they are unaware that libraries are the most used cultural institutions in many countri
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by carlospwk 8y ago
I don’t think it’s accurate to call Oodi a library. It’s more of a communal space for citizens and a sort of a playground/hangout for kids. With some books. Maybe I’m a cranky old man but I don’t really enjoy these kind of open spaces.
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by carlospwk 8y ago
Ditto. I instantly thought of a less successful and intelligent version of Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley.
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by carlospwk 8y ago
What would be a concrete example of utilizing mindfulness?
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by carlospwk 8y ago
I find it depressing that (despite this post) there really are only two viable operating systems for 99% of the user base that needs ease of use and commercial software. Same in mobile devices. And there is absolutely nothing indicating a c
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by carlospwk 8y ago
I’m in Finland. I get about 2-3 telemarketing calls a month which I quickly end and add the number as a spam contact.
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by carlospwk 8y ago
To me it’s more like a device which can also make calls with an app.
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by carlospwk 8y ago
I have no idea what a robocall is but I would LOVE a simple notification banner for when someone calls. I rarely get calls these days but when I do, it’s a major annoyance if I’m doing something on my phone. It’s time calls are relegated to

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