throwmeback (u/throwmeback)

throwmeback commented on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu theverge.com/2024/4/12/24... · Posted by u/ashton314

woranl · 2 years ago

"The problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have no taste and I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way" - Steve Jobs

throwmeback · 2 years ago

There's something utterly amusing about posting Steve Jobs quotes under M$ critique and vice versa.

throwmeback commented on Polars pola.rs/... · Posted by u/tosh

tonyedgecombe · 2 years ago

I'll wait until chatGPT can regurgitate it.

throwmeback · 2 years ago

losing all nuance by virtue of getting dopamine quicker? count me in!

throwmeback commented on Polars pola.rs/... · Posted by u/tosh

Fuzzwah · 2 years ago

I often see this comment, and every time I think; but having people come to the information AND the community is better for the project.

throwmeback · 2 years ago

by community do you mean all the people who make an account just to ask a question on the project's discord, only ever open it to check if someone answered and then never use discord again?

throwmeback commented on My failed attempt at using a closet as an office blog.pamelafox.org/2023/1... · Posted by u/pamelafox

dotancohen · 2 years ago

  > You also get that intangible "separation" of your work life from your home life that your commute used to give you--hard to explain. A brief walk outside to and from the office allows me to reset into work-mode or home-mode.

A lifehack that I learned here on HN when I was working from home was to actually leave the door, then walk right back in and work. If I needed to do any housework, I would again leave through the door, and return "home".

This reduced all temptations to mix work and home life. It also made it clear to the other people in the house that daddy is now serious, and that even just a simple "hi, how are you" would require me to get up, leave, and return to answer. And then leave and return to go back to work. The social friction was important.

throwmeback · 2 years ago

Somehow as I was reading this post, a mugshot of Ted Kaczynski appeared in the background.

throwmeback commented on Psychedelic Mushrooms Hit the Market in Oregon nytimes.com/2023/10/23/us... · Posted by u/lxm

drcongo · 2 years ago

Same here, but sertraline.

throwmeback · 2 years ago

Wouldn't be here today without it.

throwmeback commented on Amazon acquires Fig fig.io/blog/post/fig-join... · Posted by u/fatfox

throwmeback · 2 years ago

Ehh, time to uninstall. Too bad, it worked great for me.

throwmeback commented on Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding ai.meta.com/blog/code-lla... · Posted by u/marcopicentini

lynx23 · 2 years ago

Downvoting this is not enough. I'd pay $5 (reddit style) to have this properly killfiled if HN allowed for that. Besides, not "everybody hates them, only those inmature enough to still need intellectual babysitting.

throwmeback · 2 years ago

Whoa there Satan

throwmeback commented on Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption 9to5mac.com/2023/07/20/ap... · Posted by u/samwillis

hiatus · 2 years ago

So what you're really complaining about is that other people will not follow your choices. If your relations have such a hard line that a single app is "the only way to interact with certain groups of people", they are the ones to blame, not the maker of the app.

throwmeback · 2 years ago

I'm afraid life (at least mine) is way more complicated than that.

throwmeback commented on I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days davidmuller.github.io/pos... · Posted by u/dmuller

soco · 3 years ago

Actually this might rather be coming from an autism spectrum. This work mate, a very fine programmer I must say, starts any point he might have with a few minutes long background presentation. I can't say that I get much value from that intro, but that's his way so I say let him have it. And we're never under that time pressure to need to interrupt him anyway.

throwmeback · 3 years ago

sounds like me, but I have ADHD :D

throwmeback commented on Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address home.omg.lol... · Posted by u/cdme

zhynn · 3 years ago

I love the service, I hate the name. It's got too much cute/whimsy for my taste, and it just makes me feel like the "hello fellow teenagers" guy. If they had the same everything but it was a "short and easy to spell/pronounce" domain service, I would 100% go for it.

It doesn't have to be entirely boring, but less... cute. Also I think that meme language has a high risk of drifting into the cringe zone, and then that will feel bad too. I would have the same problem with lit.lol or yeet.lol.

Am I alone in being willing to pay more for less whimsy? Give me the $30/year plan where I can pick bucket.web or tiny.star or something less of the moment.

throwmeback · 3 years ago

I'm sorry for the quality of this comment, but boo hoo.

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