throwayay4929

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by throwayay4929 8d ago
Hahaha, yeah. It tells you about my age group for sure. But there are some new titles like RV Together that are pretty good too. We just don't have a ton of bandwidth to try new stuff too since it's usually 1 night every 2-4 month
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by throwayay4929 8d ago
You don't get to decide whats useful and what's not useful for other people. It's extremely disrespectful. I'm sure you'd hate it if someone were to look at your life and label parts of it that way.
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by throwayay4929 8d ago
Awesome project! My buddies and I do quarterly lan parties to play Q3, unreal tournament, tribes, l4d2, and a bunch of others stuff we find. We also bbq and hike. It's a great way to keep friend groups going!
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by throwayay4929 8d ago
It's eternal September but for HN. The relatively small group of HNers that used to inhabit this place has been slowly pushed out by people who are looking for cheap dunks. It's still better than other place but your question is n
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by throwayay4929 8d ago
The jobs are massively not the same. It's like saying the IT guy that's in charge of reimaging PCs at your municipal office is broadly doing the same job as the couple that built this lan house. There are relatively large pockets
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by throwayay4929 8d ago
Yeah, HN today is not the same HN as 10 years ago. A lot more Foucault, a lot less Paul Graham.
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by throwayay4929 13d ago
Would you say this is a similar but perhaps bigger change to frontpage/Dreamweaver/web app frameworks? Those all drastically cut down tub development time for web pages and at the same time opened up new possibilities. I wonder ho
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by throwayay4929 16d ago
Is Burning Man fun? I got the rather cynical impression that it's mostly very well off tech people and even better off finance/political people. Not trying to be flippant, genuinely curious if my impression is based on reality or
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by throwayay4929 22d ago
1. The papers author's never claim causality. 2. There are other large macro forces at play, like firm consolidation, proliferation of NDAs, interest rates*, lack of growth (without Nvidia, the US economy would basically be in a recess
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by throwayay4929 24d ago
"Dropbox is like a thin bash script around rsync" vibe here
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by throwayay4929 1mo ago
... And Django and React removed ("stole the jobs from under") the engineers handcrafting html and jQuery web pages/apps.
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by throwayay4929 1mo ago
I called this in 1994 when that Lee dude opened the floodgates to everyone and everyone brought their problems to the web.
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by throwayay4929 1mo ago
Could easily be used to track people who posted something bad on Twitter.
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by throwayay4929 1mo ago
Like the author, I enjoyed wfh for some time, but also found this creeping crushing loneliness settling on my brain after some years. My solution was to find a co-working space that actually has a community (most spaces are just places to r
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by throwayay4929 2mo ago
Both Berlin and Munich rank higher in terms of dirty air than the first polish city, Wroclaw: https://www.iqair.com/world-air-quality-ranking
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by throwayay4929 2mo ago
I did: https://aqicn.org/map/europe/
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by throwayay4929 2mo ago
Germany is in Europe and the economist is about Europe, so it makes sense to look at high emitters in Europe, no? Also, while it's important to look at the global picture, let's not ignore the local effects: air quality in Germany
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by throwayay4929 2mo ago
"This year the European Union will again make more money from fining US tech companies Than from the total tax income from Europe's own public tech companies!" https://x.com/levelsio/status/208031496
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by throwayay4929 2mo ago
There's nothing to prove when you posit your responsibility is limitless. Codeberg is in Germany yet I don't see them taking a stance in the Russian war in Ukraine, which they helped finance by building their economy on cheap Russ
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by throwayay4929 2mo ago
Supposing you know someone's motivation as if you have access to their psyche is a very unproductive way to participate in a discussion. The reason we have a Linux is because a bunch of geeks took a stand on an issue they cared about a
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by throwayay4929 2mo ago
So youre proposing that everyone should always be criticizing every unjust thing in the world or else they're upholding the status quo? By that silly logic I guess codeberg is supporting the uyghur genocide because they don't ment
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by throwayay4929 2mo ago
In Germany you can't leave a 3 star review saying "it's just ok" for a restaurant because the owner can sue Google for defamation so Google just removes your review[0]. "Politicians send SWAT teams to the homes of p
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by throwayay4929 2mo ago
> Tech is full of people who think they're smarter than everyone else Thanks for offering yourself as a prime example.
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by throwayay4929 2mo ago
Imaging where the world would be if Firefox, when it came out, went deep on the Iraq war? Or if RMS got involved in, I don't know, the Lewinsky affair in the 1990s, and made it a core part of the FSF? We'd all be using WinXP SE an
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by throwayay4929 7mo ago
Wow! What a blast from the past. I remember 13yo spending day after day on this game despite being an avid crpg player those days. Going to give this a spin after work. Thanks for the work and the writeup!
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by throwayay4929 11mo ago
Indeed, very strong "One fish turns to another and asks, What is water?" vibes. Even if you exclude all the discoverability functionality, just the pure distribution aspect, at this scale, makes the Spotify system impressive. Why