l_j_w

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by l_j_w 1y ago
I used to love the CandyBar app by Panic. It was fun to customize my Mac and people shared such amazing icons and themes. Miss those days.
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by l_j_w 1y ago
I know that HN is basically an SV FAANG echo chamber, so when I read a question like this I assume it’s asked from that standpoint. This world where someone graduates from Waterloo, comes to SV and gets a job immediately making six figures
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by l_j_w 2y ago
Climate change wasn't always such a political topic. Both sides would agree on climate changing over a period of time. Getting hotter, getting cooler. We knew we were in a time of it getting hotter. It's when scientists started po
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by l_j_w 2y ago
I occasionally use this service called serial literature that sends an email on the cadence you want for their selection of stories. I chose Count of Monte Cristo twice a week. After the first couple emails I ended up reading then clicking
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by l_j_w 2y ago
Not so much an answer to your question, as the sites are still around, more than what made the sites enjoyable is gone. OSNews - while Thom does well, there’s just not as much great content anymore, nor discussions. Reddit/Slashdot - I
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by l_j_w 2y ago
I do, but I worked my way up to it over the past 30 years. I went to University back in 1989 in Munich, but was only there for a year and a half. My father was in the military and was deployed to the Desert Storm war so my mother had me com
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by l_j_w 2y ago
I got one of these when I backed them on Kickstarter. It was a fun build and works well. I gave it to one of my neighbors' kids since I didn't really see myself using it all that much, and he enjoys it.
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by l_j_w 2y ago
I can't remember if it was a comedian or just some other person I'd seen a quote from; but they basically joked about how teacher's always said to pay attention and do well in school, or you would grow up to be a garbageman,
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by l_j_w 3y ago
I have a System 76 Pangolin 15" Laptop (4.75 GHz AMD Ryzen 7, 32GB RAM) About the only complaint I have is the keyboard, which has a numerical pad on it, so it takes up a lot of space for something I never use. I tried out Pop_OS which
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by l_j_w 3y ago
A contractor placed a web service call in the onPaint() method of a .NET Windows Forms application. This blocked the paint from happening until the service call finished, causing the app to just be a blank white window.