lambic

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by lambic 3y ago
I also have a 20+ year old Montauk. I had the cushions replaced a couple of years ago because they don't offer a restuffing service. Not cheap, but should keep me going for another 20 years.
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by lambic 3y ago
My country does have a good safety net, so I choose to work for a company that shares my core ethics and has a solid work/life balance. I could be earning a lot more but I choose sanity over wealth.
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Cyber Squirrel 1(cybersquirrel1.com)
1 points by lambic 3y ago|0 comments
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by lambic 3y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted, that second paragraph is right on the money.
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by lambic 3y ago
Same for me with Podcast Addict, which as far as I can tell is a solo developer effort and a great product.
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by lambic 3y ago
We use Matomo and have been fairly happy with it.
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by lambic 3y ago
Sure, but why use google analytics? There are better trackers for this kind of thing that don't need cookies and can be self-hosted.
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by lambic 3y ago
and bikes?
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by lambic 3y ago
I got the impression English is not the Author's native language.
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by lambic 3y ago
I wrote a curses based cheque processing system in C over a weekend after our old cheque processing server literally went up in smoke. I'm guessing it is long dead and did not become a leader in its field though.
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by lambic 3y ago
I very strongly disagree, without online interactions I probably would've gone crazy during lockdown. Even now that's all (mostly) over, I still rely on online interaction for communicating with most of my family.
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by lambic 3y ago
I find my phone even more important using public transport, checking schedules and figuring out which buses and trains I need to get for my destination.
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by lambic 3y ago
Literally cancer? Really?
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by lambic 3y ago
The same is becoming true of Twitter, can't remember the last time I saw an embedded tweet.
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by lambic 3y ago
I tend to ask ChatGPT first these days, but then follow up with a DDG search because I don't fully trust ChatGPT.
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by lambic 3y ago
And everything was simpler, you could throw something up on a $10/month shared host. Now you need a full stack of services running in the cloud charged by the minute.
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by lambic 3y ago
Seems almost like you just read the headline
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by lambic 3y ago
None of those definitions fit the original blog post. It's not satirical or ironic, it's not aggressive, it's not trolling, it's not off-topic, it's not even a "comment". It's not poor quality (imo).
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by lambic 3y ago
1. (noun) any content on the internet whose humor derives from its surreal nature and/or its lack of clear context. Differs from a meme: whereas a meme's humor comes from its repeatability, a shitpost is funny simply because it is
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by lambic 3y ago
What are 200X and 201X internets?
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by lambic 3y ago
Your definition of shitposting is... odd.
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by lambic 3y ago
There are diminishing returns at a certain point though, the crowd gets so large that utility stops increasing. I want to interact with experts in subjects I'm interested in, the occasional media figure, and some brands. Sadly brands a
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by lambic 3y ago
Isn't this basically how we got Boaty McBoatface?
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30 Years of PDF (and HTML)(pdfa.org)
3 points by lambic 3y ago|0 comments
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by lambic 3y ago
It seems to be a favourite thing in the javascript community sadly.
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by lambic 3y ago
I don't think the UK pasteurizes their milk to the same degree as North America. When I lived in the UK a pint of milk would last a week or so at most, but here in Canada it can last a month.
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by lambic 3y ago
I expect most "tech nomads" use Airbnb and the like.
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by lambic 3y ago
Not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse or not, but here's my comparison: "Complicated electronics" on a car are designed (usually) to make it safer. If those complicated electronics go wrong, it can cause injury or
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by lambic 3y ago
A car?
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by lambic 3y ago
Maybe think about what other lethal weapons already contain complicated electronics.

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