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My musical tastes have changed a lot, I've found new bands and artists pretty much every year of my life. I listen to music from my teenage years now & then, but more often than no…

So Amazon-owned Twitch makes huge job cuts, they cut jobs in Prime video, introduce ads for prime video users, all within the last few weeks? Is something wrong with Amazon's finan…

This is definitely the easier way to understand it. Imagine a point in the centre of the circle that is traveling. Draw the line that point takes, and then calculate using the new …

They're pretty essential for any situation where you can't just stop down the exposure in the camera. If you want a long exposure shot of some crashing waves on a bright day for in…

>How do you write the time? Do you put seconds or minutes before hours? Why not? No, because the seconds are rarely important. >How do you write the year? Do you put decade before …

Yeah, and that's great for storing things in databases. Not for everyday communication. We talk in terms of most relevant to least relevant - the day (or time) is typically most re…

In everyday use, the year is the least important part. It makes perfect sense in many cases. It's in order of most relevant information to least. YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS has its place …

3 million people used them between last year and this year. About 4.5% of the population. That's a lot of people.

The problem is the commute, not the office. Mostly.

Yep. I have been told numerous times to start a bakery, or a photography business, or to open a restaurant, or start a music tuition business. But none of the hobbies that sparked …

Turning something you do for fun into something you do to survive has always been a great way to sap the enjoyment out of it. I've been told numerous times over the years to turn m…

Has there ever been an example of an industry standard tool losing out to FOSS alternatives? Ever? There are reasons for that.

Every tech interview I have had has, at some point, included interviewing with the person I'd be working under

>I think the next bottleneck is likely to be software longevity. My girlfriend recently dropped (and broke) her iPhone X. She then bought a used Galaxy S9. The S9 is a few months o…

>Mullvad was the darling of the Vpn world Very much still are.

20 dollars a month for Reddit, oh man that's a good one

If I could walk 30 minutes to work I'd be overjoyed. I'd consider it if my walk took an hour, which is how long my commute often is.

The garden I crafted myself at home is better than any arboretum. For me. It's also nice and private.

Is that so bad? The other way of looking at it is that employers would be more likely to allow WFH, since they don't have to pay for your commute costs anymore

I don't want to go to an office, but I still am very social & go out all the time. This is the case for most people I know. In fact, if I didn't have to commute for 2 hours a day I…

> if I could walk 5 min to my office, would I still want to work from home? I have my own kitchen, my own bathroom, I can do housework things like putting the laundry in while I'm …

If you don't think all sides use propaganda, you've clearly fallen for the propaganda of whatever side you think doesn't use it.

My team have found it very useful in day-to-day work, actually.

People working from their personal PCs is what fucked lastpass in their last hack.

It was a good time for the internet, back then. I do miss those days. I've tried to visit 4chan a few times in the last decade, but the community is... different now.