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xigoi
xigoi @ xigoi @lemmy.sdf.org
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Do you know of any obscure useful websites?

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  • Where is the pricing?

    • Why did the Dalmatian go to the optometrist?

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  • Looks like you didn't… spot the joke.

    • Why do people say that "return to office" is about raising commercial real estate prices?

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  • What do cars have to do with whether you should meet your coworkers in person?

    • Why do people say that "return to office" is about raising commercial real estate prices?

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  • I'm responding to your assertion that people historically always worked from home until relatively recently.

    • Why do people say that "return to office" is about raising commercial real estate prices?

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  • Many jobs involve talking with people. At what time in history was it possible to talk with someone without being physically close to them?

    • What's the best response to someone who believes in hard determinism but also uses this to deny responsibility for any immoral actions they commit?

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  • Dismissing a claim is not equivalent to asserting the negated claim.

    • FOSS Text Editor

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  • Install Termux and use your favorite TUI editor.

    • what tech company is the worst in you're opinion?

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  • I'm pretty sure Twitter has always been a walled garden.

    • what tech company is the worst in you're opinion?

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  • You say that as if destroying Twitter was a bad thing.

    • Do any languages have words for left & right that start with the same letter?

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  • Now the question becomes, is there a language where the word for “left” starts with R and “right” starts with L?

    • What popular quote are you tired of hearing?

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  • I just attended a lecture about this specific comma today. It was there as a rhetorical pause, not to separate clauses. A great example of how ambiguity in punctuation can cause thousands of deaths.

    • Why are 90% of the images WebP format?

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  • They still haven't managed to find a way they could make $$$ out of supporting WebP.

    • Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission

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  • If you buy a computer with Windows, you're paying for it as a part of the price.

    • I accidentally removed the WHERE clause from my SQL query in a personal tool. Every row is now the same. I overwrote 206,000+ rows. I have no backup, I am stupid.

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  • The people designing SQL, not having learned from the mistakes of COBOL, thought that having the syntax as close to English as possible will make it more readable.

    • Why do auto-flush public toilets even exist?

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  • Sitting makes it hard to properly position the paper without accidentally dipping it in the poopy water.

    • In your opinion, what's the best cheap laptop (with USB C charging)

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  • How is a laptop with a dead battery usable for school? Do they spend the whole time in a single classroom which has sockets?

    • whats bes and why: github, gitlab, codeberg, etc.

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  • I don't maintain any popular projects so I don't have personal experience, but many projects on SourceHut are developed using mailing lists (and outside SourceHut too, notably Linux) and they seem to be organized just fine.

    • Microsoft published a guide on how to install Linux.

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  • It's hard when you don't have a server:

    • whats bes and why: github, gitlab, codeberg, etc.

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  • Of course.

    • Microsoft published a guide on how to install Linux.

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  • GitLab's website is very slow and bloated, even more so that GitHub.