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by firmretention 7d ago
The capacitive multitouch screen and the software/gestures to go with it was what made the iPhone a success. All the other feature phones of the time were so much less pleasant to use - I had one, the Nokia N95. On paper it destroyed a
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by firmretention 7d ago
IMO, price is the problem. I can afford a folding phone, but I can't justify the cost for a tertiary computing device. Whenever possible I'd rather use a desktop, followed by a laptop. If I was more dependent on my phone it might
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by firmretention 15d ago
SERIOUSLY?! You'd be surprised how few people know you can easily spot planets with the naked eye, in addition to many other little interesting things in life. You react as if he didn't know how to his shoes.
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by firmretention 15d ago
It reminds me of how the first Terminator moved because of the stop motion effects.
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by firmretention 21d ago
Sloppity slop.
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by firmretention 21d ago
WFH was a great example of this. Everyone seemed to be on board, this was the way of the future, etc. Yet it seems nobody in charge thought about downtown economies or commercial real estate, and it turns out having a bunch of empty office
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by firmretention 28d ago
I'm tired of being told what things aren't or what they don't do.
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by firmretention 29d ago
I suspect he was not nearly as lean as he suspected. Everyone over estimates how much fat they have to lose until they actually try to get shredded. My own efforts let me to discover that despite lifting weights in a dedicated fashion for y
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by firmretention 29d ago
My alma mater took an interesting approach in that they dived right into vector spaces right away. At the time we used Elementary Linear Algebra by Nicholson in the prof's custom order, but it seems they've since written an open t
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by firmretention 29d ago
I can relate to all of these. One way to get rid of them is to put them on a "special project". Something low stakes and inconsequential to keep them busy.
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by firmretention 1mo ago
It's a big club - and you ain't in it.
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by firmretention 1mo ago
>Again, I think this is a programmer centric way of looking at things: “how do I know it’s right if I can’t compile it”. I would argue this would only be true for those without formal education. Writing your code on paper is very common
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by firmretention 1mo ago
Just don't eat too much and you will be just fine. Just don't use screens so much and you will be just fine. Once a something becomes a seamlessly integrated and essential part of daily life, "just don't do the bad thing
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by firmretention 1mo ago
Imagine how much it must have cost to have him read your comment! I hope he sends you an invoice.
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by firmretention 1mo ago
Dang it, sold out :(
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by firmretention 1mo ago
Not really. The exercise needed is minimal and the rest is just calorie management. Now having said that it's not easy - simple, and not particularly time consuming yes, but psychologically very difficult unless you naturally tend towa
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by firmretention 1mo ago
I still enjoy some of his later works. James Cameron on the other hand - boggles my mind that he wants to waste his remaining years on that Avatar dreck.
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by firmretention 1mo ago
This is definitely a thing. I remember buying the Metallica black album tab book and there was one section in there with a chord that was literally impossible to play as written. I can't remember exactly where it was, but it was a two
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by firmretention 1mo ago
I'd be more than happy to take your place on death row.
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by firmretention 1mo ago
While I agree self-custody is too onerous for the average person, Coldcard's own documentation had a section on generating secure seeds with dice and why that's more secure. It wasn't some esoteric knowledge - anyone who RTFM
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by firmretention 1mo ago
I found the physical addiction much harder to kick. I switched to no-nicotine e-liquid and felt very little in the way of withdrawals. But months later I was still reaching for a phantom vape to puff on. It's been almost two years now
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by firmretention 1mo ago
Yeah, now you pay $30 in real shipping to have everything routed through ebay's hub and have your package take three times long to get there.
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by firmretention 2mo ago
I was on the web in the late 90s! I don't recall seeing anything like this, although it certainly may have existed. Animated cursors yes (CometCursor!), but not little animations chasing your cursor.
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by firmretention 2mo ago
I remember CometCursor and the like, but nothing that chased the cursor itself.
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by firmretention 2mo ago
I have loud subwoofers in my car, but they're for my enjoyment. The fact that others might hear them is an unfortunate reality of physics. I try to be considerate in not blasting it in residential areas, late at night, etc., but bass i
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by firmretention 2mo ago
On the list of extremely annoying things you can put on a webpage, a cat constantly running after my cursor is definitely a new one for me.
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by firmretention 2mo ago
My most hated one is not allowing me to right-click to open a context menu, or even worse, making right-click act the same as left-click, redirecting me to some page I never intended to go to.
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by firmretention 2mo ago
Ivanhoe is a story about a Russian farmer and his tool.
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by firmretention 2mo ago
I used to do this more often, but I find the gap is narrowing a lot. Most of the time I find I don't save enough to justify getting it in two weeks over 1 day.
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by firmretention 3mo ago
Yup. My house is 50 years old and a townhome. I was killing 3-4 mice a week at one point! Got the entry points sealed and it's down to 2-3 a year. Will probably never get it down to zero because they can get in through my neighbors and

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