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> earning money off of your looks I'm assuming your taking about the sex workers of OnlyFans. I find your attitudes a bit dismissive and offensive. These are real humans with real …

I like to think of it this way: Revenue != Usefulness (to the users of the app) Revenue == Usefulness (to the recipient of the revenue) Analogy to non-software biz: 1. CandyCo buys…

I configured my kid's tablet to use AdGuard's public DNS https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html No more in-app ads. Strange thing, I tried it on my FireTV to block youtube ads, …

I have this idea for a chorded VR keyboard that's modeled after a drum kit or xylophone. I predict that once you learn the chords enough with muscle memory, you'll be able to take …

This quote reminds me of a book I just finished: "The Pathless Path" by Paul Millerd https://think-boundless.com/the-pathless-path/ It's about rejecting the default career path whi…

I like the idea, I'll fill out your form later today. Feedback on the website: On the graphic at the bottom where you overlay different models of phone: 1. I think the red/green/bl…

> unhinged I have this speculative theory that Elon Musk's public behavior is a complex long term ruse. I suspect his odd behavior is intentionally designed to get other to underes…

I could never have read Atlas Shrugged if not for the audio book. I've always struggled with staying focused while reading a book. I'm too easily distracted. If you are actually in…

Glad to see someone else noticed the similarity. I was more subtle in my comment, hoping that someone would pick up the thread and point it out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

Trains derailing regularly is consider acceptable and to be expected, infrastructure being tasked with jobs for which it was not designed, calls for more resources ignored, policy …

P.P.S. Minecraft with my daughter. It's the first survival play-through for both of us.

Interesting little article. To me, it speaks like the author is a bit remorseful for spending so much time on academic pursuits, and not building important social skills. I can rec…

Eh, it's one thing to know a highly memorable quote. It's another to remember the following line. I've listened to the audiobooks of that series so many times. Tangent, they got Si…

I was making a reference the next line in the book: "Very deep," said Arthur, "you should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you."

I feel the same way about my time in elementary school. My theory is that it was boredom that made school time feel so slow. Summer vacation always seemed to fly by.

Sounds like a deep quote I read from that page in Reader's Digest.

I like to use DEBT for times when I'm writing code that I know are poor practices, and will need to be refactored, but I'm in a mood where I just want to get something built that I…

> that this should be intrinsic to product design at this point I don't think it is feasible to engineer products in a way which optimizes their disposal. Certainly that is not som…

I worked at a startup where the single room bathroom opened into the kitchenette. It's rather unpleasant to smell your co-worker's poo as you're heating up your lunch. I'm not sure…

> Does it become toxic micro particles in our waters, bodies? I think the answer to that question lays somewhere between maybe and probably. I'm curious, what made you bring up the…

In my experience as a software developer, I've grouped my peers into a few different categories. This is just a rough estimate based a small sample set, there are probably various …

I wonder if this tech will lead to better quality audio from toys/books/greeting-cards that produce sound. I often wonder if the poor quality in such applications is due to the tin…

I liked it when StackOverflow introduced features to elicit better community manners. For example, the prompt that say something to the effect of "BobUserXYZ is new to SO, he may n…

Once upon a time, I was on a dev team which had to share an RSA 2FA token for accessing a client's VPN. Rather than pass it around to whoever needed it, we just pointed a webcam at…

That prompts a curious thought: If you dump 1 unit of your toxic blood into the 9 units of blood inside the body of a transfusion recipient, then how toxic does their blood become?…