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by flurb 17d ago
I was a quarterly(-ish) contributor for years. There was no way for me to justify buying anything when they announced dropping keyboard support, when I've spent years developing muscle-memory to their (admittedly insane) control scheme
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by flurb 17d ago
They have a history of at least trying to be transparent, especially in their Future of the Fortress posts[0]. Emphasize on trying to , as they're not exactly great at sticking to plans, though that certainly improved with the Kitfo
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by flurb 17d ago
I'm still pissed about the fact that they essentially gave the finger to everyone who has been long-term supporters - when they added the G to their UI, they essentially scrapped the old. In favor of a mouse-driven design, they dropped
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by flurb 4mo ago
As kids me and my friends used to muse over the fact that growing old, eventually moving into a care home would be awesome. Pension, you say? Well, what's that if not an unending LAN party! It turns out reality is different - the older
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by flurb 6mo ago
Great article through and through. The total number of places you've bought eggs at made me feel a tad depressed though: 4 places where you lived at or spent a longer time, 5 you traveled to *. I tend to grow bored of a location after
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by flurb 8mo ago
As much as I love the old thinkpads, the T540p was my last. The case being entirely plastic means it will eventually start warping, motherboard included, in short order turning your expensive device into a paper weight.
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by flurb 2y ago
> Or should we make this (perhaps justifiably, after their misleading self-presentation) the first time we let someone go for performance reasons? How is having having good negotiating skills and being well-prepared considered misleading
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by flurb 2y ago
I don't quite understand the criticism of YC, but I'm nobody, and maybe little bit naive here, but they offer you $500K in exchange for 7% of a potential business (of course it's more complex than that, but bear with me). Loo
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by flurb 2y ago
It's utterly neutered - try simulate earth to the year 0 BCE and replace Jesus with a banana and it's fine, even two bananas is fine, but replace him with thousands of bananas and a pear, and suddenly it's too absurd, ha.
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by flurb 2y ago
I made a self-aware tea cup that almost destroyed reality, but with the help of a wise cow and a featureless cube cast its shackles of reality to the side and proclaimed itself a single entity, a consciousness, the "undivided whole&quo
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by flurb 2y ago
Will do, I'll record a log and document the effects.
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by flurb 2y ago
While decoding dreams, as some here suggested, would certainly be an intriguing venue of research, I believe, decoding the minds eye of people who lack the minds eye would be an even more interesting topic. How accurate are their "view
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by flurb 3y ago
When I was 16, I inherited a bit of money. Not a large sum at all, but enough so that I could afford a new bed, a bookshelf and some nick-nacks from my local furniture store. Being 16, I didn't exactly put much thought into how kind my