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Interesting comment, thanks. Two questions out of curiosity: > Even though I have top notch viewing gear properly configured and calibrated Any chance you'd be willing to share a f…

> Everyone in the big city is a transient, only there to make money and find love before it's time to head for the suburbs. I might be taking this bit of hyperbole(?) too literally…

Yes, he refers to his source throughout the piece. I believe it's just one anonymous source for the entire thing though.

https://archive.ph/EOVNX

Related, from March 2021: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpgd7/the-mystery-of-fcking...

From the article: "Zuckerberg indicated that Meta plans to slow its hiring plans for engineers by at least 30% this year – adding roughly 6,000 or 7,000 workers rather than the 10,…

I thought this was an odd name too, but I'm guessing it's intentional, as git also is a derogatory word with a similar meaning. : a foolish or worthless person https://www.merriam-…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyGw3U8JdFA "friend track" big fan of this one, reminds me of selected ambient works era aphex twin

https://archive.md/MW0cN

twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/josevalim related tweet: https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1465327529238183940?s=2...

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710075

Not a strawman at all, it's a very common attitude if you are not on HN or in a similar bubble. I heard it in person (verbatim, actually) about 5 days ago.

Delightful! Really challenging.

That's what the one star reviews are for. (I read "unexceptional" to mean "neither exceptionally good nor exceptionally bad").

it's per subdomain i think.

This is funny and relatable, but from my anecdotal experience it doesn't really matter whether you click boxes that contain a little corner of the object you're supposed to identif…

> Capital One used to offer different mortgage rates to IE users and Firefox users That's amusing, I didn't know about it before. Looks like the story broke 10 years ago: https://h…

> Similar things happen to the thumbnails, which start containing more and more exaggerated, sometimes creepily-so, faces, reacting to absurd images that last for a fraction of a s…

More generally Enter acts as a left-click on whatever element has focus in the browser. If you press tab, you cycle the focus to the next link/input/button/whatever. Shift+tab cycl…

This is a concept that matches my lived experience, and I find it's very useful to keep in mind.

I'm not denying the unfortunate reality that in many/most cases in the US today, the employer holds outsize power relative to employees. If you are precarious - you don't have emer…

Imagine framing your employer as "the hand that feeds you", as if it is generously giving you a gift by paying you your salary in exchange for your labor. Here is a different view:…

It's scary not because this specific dataset was used to train Teslas that are on the road today. Rather, because it makes us aware of an entire class of errors that most of us pro…

This is a book review of Katharina Pistor's "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality". The review is written by Adam Tooze, himself the author of the excelle…