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Podcast experience on desktop is absolutely miserable. I just want a list of the most recent unplayed episodes in chronological order, is that too much to ask? Like jeez, it sounds…

It's a bunch of smoke and mirrors akin to blockchain, bitcoin (and the entire web3/crypto space in general) - a whole bunch of hype and "evangelists" who keep saying it's going to …

What about lying and fabricating facts about the Israel and Palestinian conflict? https://twitter.com/IsraelBitton/status/1624744618012160000

last year I made a custom build of Iosevka using the customizer on the website and building it on my machine, and I can't use any other font now. If you like the general look of Io…

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Reminding me of my younger days, during my lolbertarian phase where I thought people would do the right thing and have safety procedures in place because "market forces" would shut…

As I’m getting older I’ve basically had to swear off alchohol and marijuana completely. Even if I don’t get intoxicated (or stoned), I nearly always just feel like absolute garbage…

Of course not, they’re too busy coming up with their own Ponzi scheme.

> It's understandable that the external perception of the company is bad (and even sexist) > They were adamant about hiring women. So it seems like the perception is justified then…

I fail to see the value of an AI that basically just regurgitates something you could already find in a search engine, on top of just spewing out completely nonsensical garbage if …

> In my opinion, it would be beneficial if DEI initiatives were confidential and kept "hush hush" within a company. They shouldn't exist at all. If DEI favored white people, it wou…

Do you talk about your “senior engineers” this way to their faces? Using scare quotes to refer to the titles of your colleagues? Do you refer to them as minions too? You sound like…

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> If you're running Ubuntu anywhere there's a bit of bureaucracy, like a government or large business > businesses that can’t afford $500/year/server Pick one

classic regulatory capture, thanks Trump!

As a "rails folk", we aren't all like that :)

anti-virus software is the most dangerous malware that exists, it extracts money from you while slowing down your computer and generally making your life hell for no next to no ben…

Can tell it's AI generated because the "plot" makes absolutely zero sense, lol.

Buddy, have you ever heard of this thing called "cryptocurrency"?

Mercurial's branch management makes more sense. If you want to know which branch a commit originated from in git, good luck. Many things in git, are frankly anti-patterns in any ot…

Mercurial should have won, it's superior in every way. For pesonal projects I use Fossil, which is fantastic.

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I double checked with him just to make sure, and he confirmed with me that he can see the tip.

Friend of mine started driving for Door Dash recently and when he told me they can see up front what the tip is going to be I was just flabbergasted. That's not how it's supposed t…