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This watch shares a lot of visual characteristics with something like the original Casio GShock. Just because it doesn't look like a modern smart-watch, doesn't mean it's ugly. I quite like the rugged aesthetic.
Electricity, cheap computing, calculators, photography, the internet, the steam engine, the printing press, tv, cars, gps, bicycles...
All of those were invented pre-1980. To misquote Thiel, if you remove TVs/phones from a house, you would think we're living in the 1970s
Where can I see the overture maps "final product" in action? Is anyone providing a hosted solution?
Pinta is a fork of an older version of Paint.NET and (as far as I know) doesn't aim to be a clone.
There was a Paint.net fork (called Paint mono), but it is not Pinta. Pinta is a clone. From the original Pinta author: https://jpobst.blogspot.com/2010/02/over-holiday-break-i-stu...
"Pinta is a clone of Paint.NET."
This sounds like such a cop out. I've lived in low socioeconomic areas my whole life, went to school in them, played sports in them, been in communities in them. How many of these people have I met? 5? 10?
The majority of people can, and should try and embrace good habits. Some structure, sleep, sunshine, exercise, community, etc.
At some point, you need to stop blaming (or giving power to) others for your situation, and take control for your own wellbeing. Who you marry is well within your control, and not the 0.1%. Take some responsibility, it's a good first step to improving your, and your community's situation.
Everything stems from this.
No, not it doesn't. If you think that wealth distribution is the cause of all of today's problems, you need to do more exploration.
I am not misusing the word
Yes you are, see:
they are just progressively making things worse
That's things going "shit". That's been around for as long as software has been around (e.g. Borland). Enshitification is a very specific thing: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
To quote it:
I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
shift the Overton window
You're all over the place. This has nothing to do with enshitification.
enshittification
This is the 2nd time this word has been used to describe the Linux desktop in this thread, and it's disingenuous. FOSS doesn't do any of the things described with enshitification article: it doesn't sit between buyers and sellers and screw each of them in turn. That's not what's been happening. Maybe the software goes shit, but it is not "enshitification". At every turn there's been alternatives (GNOME3 -> Unity/Xfce, KDE4 -> Trinity, Pulseaudio -> Pulsewire, systemd -> upstart, Debian -> Devuian, etc)
Stop misusing the word, you're discrediting the good work of FOSS.
Absolutely wrong, stop trying to rewrite history. Look at what happened in Melbourne, Australia. 1 hour of state mandated "outside" time per day, restrictions on gatherings, 5KM restrictions, 9PM curfews, park and gym closures, restrictions on shopping, public transport shutdown to stop protests, get the jab or lose your job. All that to "help" us, and we're living with the consequences to this day. Groceries 50%+ in the last 3 years. House prices are off the charts. Inflation that the government will blame on Russia, COVID supply shocks, aliens, but never their actions. The policies you backed well and truly fucked us. Own up to it.
A lot of people come to HN just to read the comments section though.
you have no idea which to pick and then you don’t bother and leave the site. No casual user is ever going to leave Reddit for Lemmy.
This is a feature in my opinion. Mass adoption has ruined so many sites (including reddit). It's taboo, but gatekeeping communities is absolutely required to stop mass adoption and the downward spiral. Reddit was better in 2010 than in 2020.
No, this needs to have the plug pulled on it if we're to keep global warming to 2C.
Sure thing buddy. One of the ways the "little guy" can push back against big banks and big government needs to have its plug pulled because of some imaginary 2 degrees panic. What the hell happened to "Hacker" in "Hacker News", this place is a cesspool of the mainstream rhetoric. Note: I have $0 invested in crypto, but I don't deny its usefulness in "keeping the bastards honest".
How is that amount still causing inflation?
I can't tell if this is a disingenuous question. Your $2200 is a very, very small amount of the total pie. Have a look at how the money supply changed during the pandemic. At the very start of the pandemic, when money was being printed there were experts saying "we will see inflation in the next 2 years", that's what we're seeing now.
Here's a Deloitte paper published in 2020 (see page 9: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/6...)
According to Friedman’s view, the United States will experience very significant inflation in 2022
"government spending" does not cause companies who are making record profits to increase their prices. That's just greed.
It absolutely does. If people have "extra" money (e.g. COVID payments), they can bid higher on limited resources (i.e. inflation). If there's more employed (i.e. government jobs), that's again, more people with more money, for limited resources (i.e. inflation).
While I'm sure companies are taking advantage of the fact, they must also realise that there's more demand for their limited resources, which causes them to raise prices.
These companies are making "record profits", but you also need to consider that the purchasing power of your dollar is being debased, and these companies are (at least partially) trying to keep up with inflation.
I was apparently not alone; it did poorly at the box office.
Box office response is hardly a barometer for anything. It can be a proxy for good, it can also be a proxy for marketing budgets (just look at how "successful" Marvel movies are, and they are the absolute worst types of movies).
I'm also generally not a fan of religious films
Filtered. Absolutely plebeian take. I know it's uncool to be religious in tech circles/SV, but it shouldn't stop you from enjoying great cinema.
I'm not sure he's made a film I liked in nearly 20 years
You didn't like Silence (2016)?
This is such a hack response.
not necessarily nefarious
It might not be nefarious, but if companies are putting out "feelers", and I'm investing ~30 hours per company, and half the companies I'm applying to are like this, then there's a huge waste of time (mine and theirs). I've started calling out this bullshit: "is there a job here, or is this a position to gauge the market?"
10 hours of interviewing is barely more than a single workday.
It's never 10 hours. It's 5+ interviews, plus a take-home test (that can take ~10-20 hours), plus scheduling, prep, etc. It's never 10 hours. Stop validating shitty behaviour.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable for a company to expect candidates to invest some time into going through an interview process.
I wouldn't mind, if there was a job on the other end. I can't even list the number of times I've gone through the whole interview process (at big companies!) and have been ghosted at the very end. I wish they'd stop wasting my time.
The phenomenon of hiring people into high paying jobs after a couple hours of casual interviews was largely an artifact of the recent tech bubble.
That's how it's been most of history. 10-30 hours of interviews for a single job is a relatively new phenomenon.
It’s also part of the reason we’re seeing mass layoffs
This is so false. We're in layoffs because we overhired, not because the interview process is too easy.
I don't pay attention to these studies any more. It's all endless shilling, scheming, and hidden agendas to strip workers of their recent pandemic wins (WFH). I encourage all workers to push back on this. Ignore the studies, there's big money behind it. Call out this bullshit, and call out anyone pushing this as a shill with an agenda. There is no objectivity here. The capitalists have had productivity wins for the last 50 years, time to give some time back to the worker.
I know many intelligent people who absolutely hate the opposite party.
Intelligent or simply well educated?
Life will absolutely not go on if we don't start handling it.
Hyperbole much? The Earth used to be a molten rock and from it life sprung forth. Do you honestly believe that we can put it into a worse position?
Humans might go extinct, but I'm certain that life will go on.
Regarding climate change, please read how the number was calculated https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2016/12/14/fact-checki...
Scientists agree that there's man-made climate change. There's no nuance of what the implications will be (e.g. rising sea levels, failing crops, mass migration), or what the solution should be (e.g. carbon tax).
It feels insanely difficult to say "climate change is real, but it's not something we should [overly] worry about; humans are getting better at combating natural disasters, our food yields are getting better, and the best we can do for the 3rd world is [for them] to continue to use gas [for the time being]"