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Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more on Saturday May 20, 2023 @08:03AM (#36011182)
This feels like the same logic as "I had to pay off my student loans, so other people should have to suffer like that too." Suffering does not make you better later despite what millennia of Christian theology has told people about its supposed purgative effects. It seems pretty rad to me to be able to just not suffer through the bad part of getting over a major life problem, and I for one am happy that people will be able to skip that part and get on to the part where they live well.
Re:Stop Using Hamburger Menus on Friday May 05, 2023 @02:57PM (#35833690)
here's a better idea: stop having unilateral rules about menu layout. Different use cases require different layouts and interactions. You could maybe say "don't just default to hamburger menus."
Gotta give the cops their billions unfortunately. No room in the budget for frivolous luxuries like "things that make citizens lives better". Heck, they're even going to hobble our libraries to feed the cop beast.
Re:How Much Can Duolingo Teach Us? on Saturday April 22, 2023 @06:22PM (#35671459)
> occupation: nazi hunter, linguist

Nice

Of course. But driving a car doesn't need a user-facing OS. It shouldn't feel like using a computer to drive a car. Am I misunderstanding the car operating system they were working on? I thought it was to facilitate UI on touchscreen controls not just low-level systems.
Cars already have an operating system. It's a dash with dials you can look at to get info, a wheel you can use to steer, a set of pedals to control motion, a set of switches and buttons to control lights and such, and a center console with physical buttons that control extras like radio and heat/cooling. Not everything needs to be a computer!
> Good.

> I'm not saying it's bad or good.

Yeah you are?

The ruling party in Italy currently are literally fascists.
Sure glad I lost my job to help some billionaires get richer.
oh dang, ok... the "Home" link on your blog should really go to that page instead. I clicked home assuming it would take me to the landing page, then didn't even check the url (which was https://www.coscreen.co/blog/tag/deep-collaboration/ for some reason? why is that Home?)
Seems neat but this website is really terrible at explaining what the product is or why I'd want to use it. The homepage looks like a spammy blog landing page? give me a big hero image (ideally an autoplay no-audio video acting like a gif) and like, 10 words and some links to more details. Also no info on pricing?
Looking more and more like a linux desktop distro that (poorly) ripped off most of its ideas from OS X.
Re:Laying Out a Print Book with CSS on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:53AM (#35247049)
This person hasn't heard of pandoc I guess
One of the best? It's the only good one.
This kind of nonsense is a great ad for Apple's hardware.

The extremely very obvious solution for people who want to install whatever they want is to get an android device, and yet people bend over backwards to try to get stuff onto Apple hardware. It's like buying a shirt that famously only comes in blue and trying to figure out how to make it be red.

Re:Do New Housing Units in Your Backyard Raise Your Rents? on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:39PM (#35161977)
Good, let's do it
Re:Common Beginner Mistakes with React on Saturday March 11, 2023 @05:49PM (#35113604)
This is also a much easier to read way of doing it.

For others' context, it's something like this:

  setFoo((f) => f + 1);
Re:Emergency credit line for SVB customers on Friday March 10, 2023 @07:32PM (#35103478)
Lot of libertarians suddenly interested in the services a central government can offer them today.
Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:30AM (#35056401)
The free version is unfortunately hobbled but slack is a lot better than discord at least at critical things like "getting caught up on messages that were sent since you last read." Some friends and I recently started a discord server for an async D&D game and it's a real pain to get caught up. They have the same red "you were here" line and the same "X new messages" banner as slack, but discord's default scrolling behavior works against you.
ah yes, my errant comment on the internet is the cause of my woes, thanks mate, cheers
I just want to own a home so that I have stable housing expenses and don't live at the whim of an absentee landlord who never fixes anything, raises the rent by double-digit percentages every year, and could choose not to renew my lease any year now.
I could afford something like a $6k/mo mortgage, but I don't have the ridiculous lump sum easily at hand required to put a downpayment on a home. So I guess I'll just keep flushing my money away in rent forever. Landlords should be the first against the wall.
Re:GitHub Desktop 3.2: Preview your pull request on Saturday March 04, 2023 @11:19PM (#35026877)
Huh, TIL there's an official GitHub desktop app
Re:Honestly, It's Probably the Phones on Thursday March 02, 2023 @09:58AM (#34996410)
People said this dumb shit about novels too. It's not the phones.

It's the dystopian late stage capitalist hell world they live in. They see no good future for themselves. They know their lives will be worse than ours, which are worse than our parents' were on average in the US.

Re:Europe pushing for lunar time zone on Thursday March 02, 2023 @09:51AM (#34996331)
I truly do not see the point. Use UTC in space. Time is made up. No need to adapt it to whatever rock you happen to be standing on.
Re:Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @04:57PM (#34975473)
I'm not particularly worried about the well-being of the McDonald's corporation. I'd be more worried, if anything, about some bad actor deciding they want every car on a major interstate to wreck all at once.
Re:Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @04:55PM (#34975438)
I think you probably want a 2017ish Subaru
Isn't a cashier's check from your bank also not cancelable?
Re:What Is Anglish? on Monday February 27, 2023 @10:32PM (#34965308)
And the Angles came from modern day Germany anyway
Re:Enola: Hunt down social media accounts by username on Sunday February 26, 2023 @11:47AM (#34946947)
can't tell if you're being sarcastic but to be clear, I meant that in a bad way.

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