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All my hopes in vain. Google Support rants don't get popular on HackerNews as... well.. everybody knows except me that you should not use or rely on Google. :/

tl;dr: I've spent countless hours with Google Support, but the support process has completely failed. I was originally offered a mail-in repair (RMA) to my old address in Germany, …

Astonishing what use-cases Blender can be used for beyond 3D graphics for games and film. I tried the tutorials in combination with my mediocre knowledge. Somewhat magical to hold …

Happy to hear that people are offering courses for Blender. I skimmed through the course and will do the tutorial later on my machine. The combination with jewelry is nice even if …

Our department changed to new-work open space as well including those phone booths. After just 15 minutes it gets uncomfortably warm in these but the worst thing is feeling of bein…

Great this gem of German film culture has more fans. The scene with the PDP-11 mainframe and its power supply has meme status even today. Another great trope of the film are the dy…

Some of your preferences are ticked by the film "23"( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film) ). Based on a real story with some addition of KGB and cocaine.

Found your own company, be successful and start experiencing the same growth decline pattern. Maybe it's a cycle to stop expanding human groups in excess?

> highly-agreeable, low-performance Sounds like the effects when a company is blessed with good business for a long time but fails to adapt to upcoming required changed. I have exp…

Also the book "The Invincible" by Stanisław Lem tells a story about distributed intelligent lifeforms. Really nice as they are described in a very unique un-anthropocentric way, i.…

Would another Steve Jobs personality have a chance at today's corporate environment? I have doubts: leadership is a hot iron where laissez faire approaches are favoured. The cite f…

Local here. We were told to enjoy about 60 additional freight trains per day. The promised noise protection barriers were saved on due to budget after public voting went through. I…

Notch constantly advertised his game on a popular imageboard and evaded bans for spamming. He did not credit Infiniminer as a copycat. Got super rich. Fits the MS culture perfectly…

The toys are one dimension of perceived and artificially created desires for the hoi polloi. Please take into account that most of us humans are bound by various obligations. Be it…

We are supposed to perform and add value to the world. Not become mystics and monks. That's the Zeitgeist slave's mentality. Doing unhinged introspection with the help of booze or …

Wait until you _have_ to return a RMB2 via a RMA. I had to write 23 mails to them until they sent the replacement device - to another address...

You are right. I experienced the same cult-like fanatic adoration of the process with rather detrimental results for the company's IT department similar to the times of "agile will…

Not a baker but very close to one. Bakery is learned as apprenticeship in my home, i.e. 50% school with other young bakers and the other half in the bakery which took you in. This …

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. - Sokrates

Hugo is a great tool. I use it with my small project's websites for easily changing the content and getting hosting for nearly free. Just adding new posts, push the repo and let th…