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throwaway12757 commented on Ask HN: How do you deal with being a failure?    · Posted by u/newbie578
throwaway12757 · 5 years ago
Find your thing(s).

You can work a job you don't like as long as it fuels your other hobbies.

You can work an all consuming job and love every second of the grind and have no hobbies.

Most people find something in between.

Learn, you are lucky to live at a time (and place) when the worlds information is right at your fingertips.

Figure out your goals and then figure out a plan to get there.

throwaway12757 commented on Apple and partners launch first-ever $200M Restore Fund   apple.com/newsroom/2021/0... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
throwaway12757 · 5 years ago
while 200M might seem like a lot, and every little bit helps. Apple alone has $195.57 billion in cash on hand to spend.

These companies look at what they can spend that seems a lot for common people just so those people buy Apple products because of "status."

Considering this was them less then a year ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/lens-te...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-u...

throwaway12757 commented on Fast and secure: Ethernet can be a better choice for your office than Wi-Fi   edt.computerworld.com/q/1... · Posted by u/CrankyBear
throwaway12757 · 5 years ago
Cables are better but "cracking WPA2 in a few hours" is extremely misleading.

If I make my WPA2 password '#@2rjoergoqj3rfowewWEFDWEjdfoqnowe2ew$^$' it would take thousands of years to crack.

throwaway12757 commented on Et Tu, Signal?   stephendiehl.com/blog/sig... · Posted by u/darylyu
throwaway12757 · 5 years ago
It sounds like they are trying to increase their revenue/profits and think this is the best way. I get that it is hard, because when everyone is anonymous then it is hard to collect money from people. Perhaps make some way to donate/subscription for signal a la pay what you want? I love Signal and would pay for it if I could.
throwaway12757 commented on Leaked memo shows Amazon knows delivery drivers resort to urinating in bottles   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/scottbucks
omginternets · 5 years ago
I recognize that labor laws are a complicated subject, and I recognize that their advocates don't always have the best interests of workers at heart. Nevertheless, I do wonder how far things have to go before we collectively agree that Amazon treats its workers inhumanely.

- Paying people so little that they resort to living in tents? No.

- Union-busting? No.

- Requiring near-total abnegation of basic bodily functions? No.

So where's the line? Does someone have to die of exhaustion? 10 people? 1% of workers?

A hallmark of totalitarianism is when a government deems itself to have power over the bodily functions of individuals. It may be useful to apply this analysis to private entities as well.

throwaway12757 · 5 years ago
As long as people get their Amazon package on time, I don't think they personally will care.

They really need to strike and unionize.

throwaway12757 commented on Do you really want Linux phones   blog.brixit.nl/do-you-rea... · Posted by u/JetSpiegel
kgwxd · 5 years ago
The Linux philosophy is important to me in a desktop, but I don't think I'd really care about it on a phone. If it were eventually to be both, then I would, but I never really believed in that goal. If I'm going to use a computer in desktop mode, I'd rather just have a proper desktop, with hardware that is unrestrained by the smaller form factor.
throwaway12757 · 5 years ago
I was really hoping that Ubuntu Touch would have filled this market. I was excited for it to come out and then it never did.

I just wanted a phone that works as a phone and then I can plugin to a dock and I get a full linux desktop experience.

It's still a thing, but nowhere near what it was when they were trying to launch an actual phone.

https://ubports.com/devices/promoted-devices

throwaway12757 commented on Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop   twitter.com/KHOUStephanie... · Posted by u/Miner49er
Communitivity · 5 years ago
Dogecoin subreddit may get banned too. Saw elsewhere that they're trying to push it to $1 (it's at $0.01 and the push has raised it 72%). Half tempted to drop $1k in it, in a Just-In-Case thing. Supposedly the total volume of Dogecoin is only 128k coins, though that sounds low. If it is that low it explains why the coin is so volatile. My main cryptocurrency positions are Bitcoin and Cardano.
throwaway12757 · 5 years ago
There is no way that's true because I mined and then lost 81k dogecoins because I reformatted my computer.
throwaway12757 commented on Show HN: Unclack – a macOS app that mutes your microphone while you type   unclack.app... · Posted by u/robotsquidward
Wowfunhappy · 5 years ago
How often are you typing and speaking at the same time though? I’m not talented enough to do that, personally. :)

I think this app is really clever. I would definitely use it if my version of macOS wasn’t nearly a decade too old.

throwaway12757 · 5 years ago
Hmm.. I type and talk at the same time. It's not all the time, but I talk in meeting while I'm still typing the last part of my sentence.
throwaway12757 commented on Businesses Are Fleeing California. Blame Bad Government   bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/kjhughes
throwaway12757 · 5 years ago
So corporations are mad because of high taxes and regulation and move to state where there is less of all the above, what else is new?

Hell, we are at the point where corporations just throw out they are going to move somewhere and states throw tax breaks at them for the promise of X number of jobs - which never ends up happening.

throwaway12757 commented on Show HN: text.fish: Get Only Text, Read Peacefully   text.fish/?q=hn... · Posted by u/csantini
quickthrower2 · 5 years ago
Nice, a fresh paywall bypasser!
throwaway12757 · 5 years ago
With dark mode!

u/throwaway12757

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