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I can anecdotally say you didn't add to the conversation with this link, so maybe you are one of the folks who do not have anything to say to another, as Mr. Krugman so eloquently …

Whatever you say, boss! I'll never mention it again, my apologies.

> I get fed up and move to a computer. Big screens can be addicting, too - but not being portable helps it be less available 24x7 and makes the problem less visible to those around…

While reading this yarn about the Varangians, the Mongols, and the "Finno-Ugric substrate," a modern, unhinged empire is writing its current bloody chapter in real time. We aren't …

Career advice from Reddit is funny. Career advice from X tells me way more about you than you probably meant to share. Oof.

> (one of them tried to charge me $75 for a $3 capacitor) How much do you upcharge people for your services and "products" (often virtual)? What is acceptable to you? If you had to…

> So it's not unreasonable for OP to expect to start at this level, and work their way up to $150k over the next 5-7 years. So you're actually saying that OP xpecting $150,000 now,…

> Franework [sic] ... they are for from the best [sic] ... from what I read That's a lot of typos to just repeat someone else's first hand experience you read about. I guess I shou…

Do you think moving a town is similar to child labor? What environment/culture do you live in where you do not want to stand up for children and would rather child labor not be bro…

This has felt true for a long time now, so I don't doubt it. Writing is time-intensive for humans and just an electric bill for AI-writing services.

Yeah, I totally hear you. People are always like "please, make sure my desktop computer only uses 30 watts of energy" and "I'm an eco-gamer, please turn off the RGB lights and let'…

It's much higher in some categories, but in general across gameplay the 2080 is only about 20% slower than the 5060 in otherwise similar systems. NVIDIA's 3000 series was mostly wo…

> Having a microwave doesn't force me to eat TV dinners for every meal. But sometimes it's convenient to just microwave food. Just not all the time. It's hard for me to remember th…

4G came out a loong time ago and is slow. Cracked phones aren't tempting for anyone to steal when I leave it out, and the 5G iPhone SE came out many years ago and is available new …

Yeah, those products people are passionate about and really like are total junk. We should mock them while not explaining any of our reasoning, thank you for showing the way.

"It's so weird, everywhere I go and ask for advice, people tell me I'm the problem. Where else can I go ask that might tell me something different?"

Based on your responses, I think your soft skills / people skills are letting you down. I would recommend working diligently on how you interact and communicate so that you do not …

When the average US salary is something like 45k, $150k is a high salary especially when you have no plan or clear path to the goal Based on your comments in this thread, I'd sugge…

Apple doesn't sell the official battery as a standalone part even to Authorized Apple repair shops, so anyone telling you they're installing an official battery is already lying to…

> The most capable chip that has been constrained to tiny subset of potential applications and use cases. Having run Asahi Linux on an M1, it's obvious that a A and M chips were pu…

Not intended as sarcastic: how is that working out for you? It's easy to say "Oh, I'll just use my phone in a healthy way in the future " while pouring yourself another drink. I ca…