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That's great that whoever makes your device(assuming Apple) has stores where they can do repairs. Having a repairable device doesn't mean you have to repair it yourself, it just me…

Quick aside: This should have a (2020) tag. The keyboard and mousepad on my Thinkpad have died twice. I've replaced it twice for 30 dollars each time. I would have had to buy a new…

You not reading the thread is problematic. Meta is pledging 3 years of engineer time not money.

This is what I'm referring to for the most part. There are other things like Disney+ carrying pro wrestling in other countries like Indonesia.

Disney+ is a different animal in countries that aren't the US.

I enjoy them. It's a paragraph or so of easily digestible information. Not everyone has read something like Atomic Habits so the value is relative. Worst case scenario it acts as a…

Why is it geographically infeasible to expand bus service in a city? Most medium to large US cities are designed with a grid system which would fit more buses perfectly. My city re…

The amount of hoop jumping people go through to avoid saying we should invest more in public transit is insane. You see it on HN every time someone mentions density or transit. No …

The idea behind the phrase is that cops are either bastards or they sit by and let other cops be bastards and are themselves bastards. Any cop who doesn't sit by and let other cops…

When you find out let me know. Almost 10 years in and I don't know what I'm doing most the time.

Didn't know this extension existed, thank you. I don't actually subscribe to any Youtube channels and mainly search for what I want at the time but this may be a healthier way to u…

I use the extension BlockTube to filter out videos by channel and I think it works pretty well since I only need to right click on a video and can block the entire channel. That me…

Can you create a category just for Delta Chat messages? I've never used Delta Chat but in Gmail you can create categories and tabs so I would be able to create a category just for …

I think you're equating teacher with lecturer because of how classes are taught in school. They are not the same thing. A teacher can just be someone that gives you feedback and co…

You can learn most things on your own and be "fine." But having a teacher accelerates your rate of learning beyond that.

Everyone learns better with a teacher because no matter how you think you learn best, getting feedback from someone who actually knows what they are talking about is required.

The artist you enjoy might not be but the streaming service you use to listen to them absolutely is.

Everything plays into attention economics and thinking otherwise is naive. Video games are optimized for play time and content, video streaming services try to keep you watching fo…

Not the person you are responding to but I also believe Power of Habit is better than Atomic Habits.

I wouldn't trust most tech workers to pick roses let alone pick government policy.

"Original value Canadians" sounds like a dog whistle to me but ignoring that, I grew up in a melting pot city and all of the different cultures intertwining ends up creating a uniq…

> ...the cost of tracing with a SaaS vendor is also very small. Far smaller than the developer time needed to set up something else. I'm mainly responding to this point regarding d…