carbonx · HackerTrans

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I used to play pool a fair amount and it reminds me of a quote an older player shared with me one time: "Every shot is a practice shot". His point was that every time you shot you were building up either good or bad habits, so every time you shoot you were to shoot the same way. Don't ever just "fuck around" because that contributes to bad habits or at least not building good habits.

carbonx

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Until it didn't.

carbonx

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Agreed. A regular frustration for me is clicking on a tweet that is a replay to a tween, and then I still have to scroll back to see the original tweet. I'm old and mostly use desktop, so I don't really know that's how it works on mobile.

carbonx

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Best info I can find is that they were only ever profitable in 2018 and 2019.

carbonx

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I worked for the govn't ~20 year ago - in IT - and even I hated our password policies. I just kept iterating the same password because we had to change it every 6 weeks.

carbonx

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

I just tried it and it sounds nothing at all like me. shrug

carbonx

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Wikipedia says based on true events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billion_Dollar_Code

carbonx

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Agree. I just did a quick check and 60 Minutes averages around 10 million viewers. It's not like in 1977 when something 20%+ of the US population was watching that show.

carbonx

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

I don't know how all cab services work, but my local cabbies have told me they split the fare 50/50 with the company. The company owns and maintains the car and the driver pays gas. With Uber they seem to take pretty close to half get to push all the vehicle expenses on the driver. It just doesn't make sense to me.

carbonx

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

I think the idea is that they would only partially unload. Get enough weight off the bow to help move it out.

carbonx

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I think the issues is a problem of transparency. I deliver for Postmates and I really think that most of the customers don't really understand that they might be ordering from a restaurant that isn't partnered with Postmates. The knock on effect is that often the menu isn't really correct, so the customer gets their order "wrong" and calls the restaurant to complain.

carbonx

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

I'm in the same boat as you as far as how long I've been using hotmail. I've been migrating more and more to gmail, but I've got that hotmail account tied to so much shit over the years, I'm not even sure what I'd be losing if I ditched it completely.

carbonx

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

You make a good point. The guy "estimates" $15 per license and then uses this estimate to draw conclusions, without providing any basis for his estimate. It seems to amount to nothing more than speculation.

carbonx

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

I love it. A simple, elegant solution to a seemingly complex and frustrating issue.

carbonx

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Misleading headline. HTTPS was only shut off if you a) set your location manually, and b) tried to enable a (relatively new) feature to force your account to always connect with HTTPS. It sounds like someone really just stumbled across a bug...and, oh by the way, it's been fixed.

carbonx

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Did they do any sort of beta testing on this before they rolled it out?

carbonx

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

I can tell you my experience. I was placed in a gifted program in the 4th grade, iirc. From day to day we would skip a different class and attend the gifted program instead. One day I failed to turn in an assignment for a one if my "regular" classes. I didn't know about the assignment because I wasn't in class the previous day. The teacher told me that I should have been able to keep up because I was in the gifted program. I hated every minuted of it and ended up dropping out in fairly short order. Although I'll admit in retrospect that the program certainly could have been run better.

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