throwaway5Am1k

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by throwaway5Am1k 5mo ago
This watch shares a lot of visual characteristics with something like the original Casio GShock. Just because it doesn't look like a modern smart-watch, doesn't mean it's ugly. I quite like the rugged aesthetic.
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by throwaway5Am1k 7mo ago
>Electricity, cheap computing, calculators, photography, the internet, the steam engine, the printing press, tv, cars, gps, bicycles... All of those were invented pre-1980. To misquote Thiel, if you remove TVs/phones from a house, y
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by throwaway5Am1k 2y ago
Where can I see the overture maps "final product" in action? Is anyone providing a hosted solution?
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by throwaway5Am1k 2y ago
>Pinta is a fork of an older version of Paint.NET and (as far as I know) doesn't aim to be a clone. There was a Paint.net fork (called Paint mono), but it is not Pinta. Pinta is a clone. From the original Pinta author: https:/
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by throwaway5Am1k 3y ago
This sounds like such a cop out. I've lived in low socioeconomic areas my whole life, went to school in them, played sports in them, been in communities in them. How many of these people have I met? 5? 10? The majority of people can, a
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by throwaway5Am1k 3y ago
At some point, you need to stop blaming (or giving power to) others for your situation, and take control for your own wellbeing. Who you marry is well within your control, and not the 0.1%. Take some responsibility, it's a good first s
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by throwaway5Am1k 3y ago
>I am not misusing the word Yes you are, see: >they are just progressively making things worse That's things going "shit". That's been around for as long as software has been around (e.g. Borland). Enshitification
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by throwaway5Am1k 3y ago
>enshittification This is the 2nd time this word has been used to describe the Linux desktop in this thread, and it's disingenuous. FOSS doesn't do any of the things described with enshitification article: it doesn't sit b
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by throwaway5Am1k 3y ago
Absolutely wrong, stop trying to rewrite history. Look at what happened in Melbourne, Australia. 1 hour of state mandated "outside" time per day, restrictions on gatherings, 5KM restrictions, 9PM curfews, park and gym closures, re
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by throwaway5Am1k 3y ago
A lot of people come to HN just to read the comments section though.
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by throwaway5Am1k 3y ago
>you have no idea which to pick and then you don’t bother and leave the site. No casual user is ever going to leave Reddit for Lemmy. This is a feature in my opinion. Mass adoption has ruined so many sites (including reddit). It's t
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by throwaway5Am1k 3y ago
>No, this needs to have the plug pulled on it if we're to keep global warming to 2C. Sure thing buddy. One of the ways the "little guy" can push back against big banks and big government needs to have its plug pulled becau
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by throwaway5Am1k 3y ago
>How is that amount still causing inflation? I can't tell if this is a disingenuous question. Your $2200 is a very, very small amount of the total pie. Have a look at how the money supply changed during the pandemic. At the very sta
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by throwaway5Am1k 3y ago
>"government spending" does not cause companies who are making record profits to increase their prices. That's just greed. It absolutely does. If people have "extra" money (e.g. COVID payments), they can bid high
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by throwaway5Am1k 3y ago
>I was apparently not alone; it did poorly at the box office. Box office response is hardly a barometer for anything. It can be a proxy for good, it can also be a proxy for marketing budgets (just look at how "successful" Marve
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by throwaway5Am1k 3y ago
>I'm not sure he's made a film I liked in nearly 20 years You didn't like Silence (2016)?
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by throwaway5Am1k 4y ago
This is such a hack response. >not necessarily nefarious It might not be nefarious, but if companies are putting out "feelers", and I'm investing ~30 hours per company, and half the companies I'm applying to are like
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by throwaway5Am1k 4y ago
I don't pay attention to these studies any more. It's all endless shilling, scheming, and hidden agendas to strip workers of their recent pandemic wins (WFH). I encourage all workers to push back on this. Ignore the studies, there
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by throwaway5Am1k 4y ago
>I know many intelligent people who absolutely hate the opposite party. Intelligent or simply well educated?
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by throwaway5Am1k 4y ago
>Life will absolutely not go on if we don't start handling it. Hyperbole much? The Earth used to be a molten rock and from it life sprung forth. Do you honestly believe that we can put it into a worse position? Humans might go extin
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by throwaway5Am1k 5y ago
Regarding climate change, please read how the number was calculated https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2016/12/14/fact-checki... Scientists agree that there's man-made climate change. There&