robbyking

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by robbyking 5mo ago
It's funny as a parent, because I'm expected to tell my son that he shouldn't curse even though his mom and I do. And all of our friends. And coworkers. And my boss. And his boss. And our CEO. And the fucking president. It&#x
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by robbyking 2y ago
> What is the threshold for running something in the cloud? To be fair, this was just the keynote -- details will be revealed in the sessions.
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by robbyking 3y ago
I think a lot of people don't understand how anonymous sourcing works in jounalism.
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by robbyking 3y ago
The US economy has proven this pretty decisively. There's a reason we don't have single payer healthcare, or mandatory living wage, Super PAC contribution limits, or an ability to close tax loopholes for the rich.
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by robbyking 3y ago
I agree 100%! A couple years ago I would have guessed that it would take us decades to get where we are now. The new Copilot integration into Office 365 (I can't believe I'm saying this!) looks fantastic, and even though a lot of
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by robbyking 3y ago
I'm sorry, if Wix and SquareSpace can figure it out for their templates, a site with dedicated UX designers should be able to figure it out, too. The smartphone is 15 years old, designers know what to expect.
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by robbyking 3y ago
What's interesting is I found that the less time I spent on an estimate the more accurate I was. (5 perfect cuts, 97% accuracy total.)
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by robbyking 3y ago
There really are two different version of the internet, and which one you use depends on how how well your ad blockers are configured. I was using my mom's laptop over the holidays, and it took me a minute to realize why every site I v
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by robbyking 3y ago
I'm in the same boat. I was planning on upgrading my iPhone 13, but TBH it's pretty much in perfect shape so it feels wasteful.
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by robbyking 3y ago
It was closer to 15, but still...
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by robbyking 3y ago
That's been my frustration as well. I live in city and only drive on weekends, so I'd absolutely love a little 4 door AWD electric hatchback, but the US car market pushes people like me into hybrid crossovers like RAV4 and the CRV
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by robbyking 3y ago
What's interesting to me is that in my experience most car enthusiasts feel the same way. Even though I don't have a lot of interest in car culture, I'm a big fan of the Smoking Tire Podcast, and the host -- who has his own P
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by robbyking 3y ago
What is your primary language? I’ve worked at some pretty well known tech companies over the last couple of decades, and it’s been nothing but Macs for at least the last 15 or so years.
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by robbyking 3y ago
It’s the year of the Linux desktop!
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by robbyking 3y ago
This plugin: https://apps.apple.com/app/keyword-search/id1558453954
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by robbyking 3y ago
And IIRC, Chrome copied this from Opera. It's a shame Opera never found its audience (or more specifically, a revenue stream), they pioneered a lot of browser features that we consider to be standard these days, like tabs and support f
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by robbyking 3y ago
Absolutely! I feel like VR is still in its Napster phase.
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by robbyking 3y ago
I agree about VR, but I'm really excited for advancements in AR! I'm a really avid mountain biker, road cyclist and snowboarder, and I'd love some basic telemetry displayed in the goggles or glasses I'm already wearing.
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by robbyking 3y ago
Why did you feel it necessary to include the family's race?
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by robbyking 3y ago
I haven't really had any luck yet. I was a Farker back in the day, but went to Reddit while a lot of other people were going to Digg. Back then I loved Reddit as a social news site, but now I really dislike it because it's mostly
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by robbyking 3y ago
That community ate away at my soul. We had a good group of core users, but by my estimate about a third of all submissions were from karma farmers and new users shitposting memes and image macros. (Or people complaining that I wasn't a
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by robbyking 3y ago
I was a long time reddit user (I created my first account in 2007), and I eventually left for this reason. I moderated a cycling community (r/mtb) that grew to about a quarter million subscribers and I had a really difficult time keepi
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by robbyking 3y ago
Do people really make the assumption that the QWERTY keyboard's layout is random? I'm GenX and I was taught the reason given in the video.
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by robbyking 3y ago
> Does someone really sit on their couch, put on a massive headset, and scroll through their vacation photos? There was a time that people said the same thing about digital photos -- people swore nothing would ever replace physical pho
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by robbyking 3y ago
I'm going to add another vote for volunteering. A lot of people only think of food kitchens and political campaigns when it comes to volunteering, but as a cyclist I've made a lot (if not a majority) of my friends while volunteeri
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by robbyking 3y ago
> Do what kids in the 80's did, and many still do: go to the local playground, and ask if you could also play with them. I was a stay at home dad for a couple years, and I made a lot of long term friends this way. In one case I sa
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by robbyking 3y ago
When my mom moved to a new city I recommended she look for a hiking Meetup as a way to make some friends, and she ended up meeting her future husband there!
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by robbyking 3y ago
> I notice a lot of posters seek out tech communities. While I get why a nerd would want to do that, I have a different tendency. Absolutely! I genuinely enjoy writing code at work, but I literally never do it in my spare time. I alre
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by robbyking 3y ago
That's really funny, my story is almost exactly the same. I was working an hourly job out of high school and my roommate was a web developer who not only made about 4x what I did (this was 1998), but he also got to wear jeans and death
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by robbyking 3y ago
I genuinely enjoy writing code at work (the same way I enjoy doing crossword puzzles), but I literally never do it in my spare time. I already spend a greater number of waking hours in front of my computer than I do with my family (or playi

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