leakycap

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by leakycap 11mo ago
I can anecdotally say you didn't add to the conversation with this link, so maybe you are one of the folks who do not have anything to say to another, as Mr. Krugman so eloquently put it.
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by leakycap 11mo ago
Whatever you say, boss! I'll never mention it again, my apologies.
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by leakycap 11mo ago
> I get fed up and move to a computer. Big screens can be addicting, too - but not being portable helps it be less available 24x7 and makes the problem less visible to those around you. Do you track your screen time using an accurate&#x2
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by leakycap 11mo ago
While reading this yarn about the Varangians, the Mongols, and the "Finno-Ugric substrate," a modern, unhinged empire is writing its current bloody chapter in real time. We aren't living through an intellectual exercise about
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by leakycap 11mo ago
Career advice from Reddit is funny. Career advice from X tells me way more about you than you probably meant to share. Oof.
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by leakycap 11mo ago
> (one of them tried to charge me $75 for a $3 capacitor) How much do you upcharge people for your services and "products" (often virtual)? What is acceptable to you? If you had to have a physical copy of the apps you work with
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by leakycap 11mo ago
> So it's not unreasonable for OP to expect to start at this level, and work their way up to $150k over the next 5-7 years. So you're actually saying that OP xpecting $150,000 now, given that is what they're expecting (and
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by leakycap 11mo ago
> Franework [sic] ... they are for from the best [sic] ... from what I read That's a lot of typos to just repeat someone else's first hand experience you read about. I guess I should have opinions on Airbus vs. Boeing, too -- m
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by leakycap 11mo ago
Do you think moving a town is similar to child labor? What environment/culture do you live in where you do not want to stand up for children and would rather child labor not be brought up? Do you benefit from child labor?
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by leakycap 11mo ago
This has felt true for a long time now, so I don't doubt it. Writing is time-intensive for humans and just an electric bill for AI-writing services.
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by leakycap 11mo ago
Yeah, I totally hear you. People are always like "please, make sure my desktop computer only uses 30 watts of energy" and "I'm an eco-gamer, please turn off the RGB lights and let's all play the game on eco/low
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by leakycap 11mo ago
It's much higher in some categories, but in general across gameplay the 2080 is only about 20% slower than the 5060 in otherwise similar systems. NVIDIA's 3000 series was mostly worse than the 2080 except the 3090, which itself is
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by leakycap 11mo ago
> Having a microwave doesn't force me to eat TV dinners for every meal. But sometimes it's convenient to just microwave food. Just not all the time. It's hard for me to remember the times I accidentally scrolled two hours
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by leakycap 11mo ago
4G came out a loong time ago and is slow. Cracked phones aren't tempting for anyone to steal when I leave it out, and the 5G iPhone SE came out many years ago and is available new for about $130 without a cracked screen, but finding a
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by leakycap 11mo ago
Yeah, those products people are passionate about and really like are total junk. We should mock them while not explaining any of our reasoning, thank you for showing the way.
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by leakycap 11mo ago
"It's so weird, everywhere I go and ask for advice, people tell me I'm the problem. Where else can I go ask that might tell me something different?"
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by leakycap 11mo ago
Based on your responses, I think your soft skills / people skills are letting you down. I would recommend working diligently on how you interact and communicate so that you do not come across as arrogant, dismissive, or out of touch.
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by leakycap 11mo ago
When the average US salary is something like 45k, $150k is a high salary especially when you have no plan or clear path to the goal Based on your comments in this thread, I'd suggest that soft skills could use a refresher and might b
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by leakycap 11mo ago
Apple doesn't sell the official battery as a standalone part even to Authorized Apple repair shops, so anyone telling you they're installing an official battery is already lying to you or putting in something used. Even if a loc
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by leakycap 11mo ago
> The most capable chip that has been constrained to tiny subset of potential applications and use cases. Having run Asahi Linux on an M1, it's obvious that a A and M chips were purpose built/designed together for the software
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by leakycap 11mo ago
Not intended as sarcastic: how is that working out for you? It's easy to say "Oh, I'll just use my phone in a healthy way in the future " while pouring yourself another drink. I can quit when I want mindset. I quit. It&
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by leakycap 11mo ago
You have set a high goal of $150k salary without a clear way to achieve it, or a clear passion, if I'm reading correctly. What is your depth of knowledge in? You say software? Law would be an risk idea if you don't love it with al
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by leakycap 11mo ago
> Intel chips were getting faster Do you consider margin-of-error, single-digit gains to be worth arguing over? Intel offered 14nm for 4 years straight: Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Coffee Lake Refresh—four different names, same pr
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by leakycap 11mo ago
That joke jitterbugged right past you.
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by leakycap 11mo ago
I agree with the author's take that shifting how you use mobile technology has huge impacts, but maintaining that shift is more difficult than it sounds in today's QR-code and App-checkout world.
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by leakycap 11mo ago
> Unless you think we can't improve our energy infrastructure in the USA without using child labor too? I think pointing out child labor anytime we're discussing someone who is doing it... actually is a good thing. You seem to
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by leakycap 11mo ago
Based on the type of responses you are giving, I actually do believe you probably call your phone company's customer service regularly. So perhaps your criteria might be different. Have you heard of Consumer Cellular?
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by leakycap 11mo ago
Replacing a MacBook battery is a lot of delicate work. Not everyone has steady hands, great eyes, etc. For $300, the Apple Store is a better deal for most (and guaranteed to be a quality battery with warranty) compared to the difficulty of
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by leakycap 11mo ago
> I'm happy to hear your games work well for you, but it sounds like the games you're playing aren't demanding compared to modern AAA titles. That's why I made the specific distinction in the comment you're respo
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by leakycap 11mo ago
It's weird how you just replied to me on social media to tell me people have nothing to say to one another. It's almost like you're ... unaware of what is happening?

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