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cokeandpepsi

266 karma · joined November 11, 2021

Ex-engineer now NFT Investor/CryptoCurrency Trader, Swimming in the big data lake. /s

English is my second langauge, z80 frist

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cokeandpepsi··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
I mean yeah, the money and growth these days is pulling people into choose their cloud/services platforms
cokeandpepsi··on Sci-Net
> uncontrollable fluctuations in coin price going with an established coin

How? even the site mentions "The more people use Sci-Hub token, the more valuable it becomes" the entire point is to make the coin price go up

cokeandpepsi··on Nobody cares
aren't homes generally extremely cheap in most of Japan?
cokeandpepsi··on Intel is on life support. Can anything save it?
Pandering to the people who own the company seems normal
cokeandpepsi··on Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election
Hard to imagine a incumbant who destoryed the country while millions flee won the election, also hard to imagine he's going anywhere
cokeandpepsi··on Global Population Crash Isn't Sci-Fi Anymore
Not surprising I can't recall a time in america where life didn't feel like it wasn't balanced on a knifes edge

It takes so long to feel safety your near the end of the fertile window at least in the case of my wife and I for us it was the '08 recession for others something else I'm sure; we've built a pretty shitty world

my siblings who luckily missed that window had 2-3 kids each and still struggle financially even with "decent" jobs and education.. I can help them with that but that's not the case for others

cokeandpepsi··on Don't Use Discord for FOSS (2021)
I'm not surprised, matrix is not easy or enjoyable to use at all; maybe the protocol itself is sound but every implementation I've tried both server and client is seriously bad
cokeandpepsi··on Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 is 6% faster than the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
the a series are well priced/supported and do more than enough for me, you can pick one up for $300 and be good for years.. all while there are people making monthly payments for 1,200 iphones
cokeandpepsi··on Why Is Everyone So Boring?
I just can't agree with this one
cokeandpepsi··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
I'm not suprised, they have been scraping the bottom of the talent barrel pretty hard lately
cokeandpepsi··on Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript
the refactored version of the example is much worse
cokeandpepsi··on Microsoft to lay off 10k workers
Would be cool if it got up to 100% one day
cokeandpepsi··on Microsoft to lay off 10k workers
yeah most american's don't receive severance outside unpaid vacation, the funny thing is that the people who need it most usually don't
cokeandpepsi··on UT-Austin blocks access to TikTok on campus Wi-Fi networks
as long as they don't ban the sugardaddy apps I don't care what UT Austin does
cokeandpepsi··on Medium Embraces Mastodon
well that's not a good sign
cokeandpepsi··on Windows 98 icons are great (2015)
It wouldn't suprise me if that was the case
cokeandpepsi··on Windows 98 icons are great (2015)
i think the concept originated with lisa
cokeandpepsi··on Windows 98 icons are great (2015)
it was made to look like a car streo i guess
cokeandpepsi··on U.S. cancer death rate has dropped by a third since 1991
it's crazy how fast smoking died out in the US even 10 years ago it felt people were puffing away all over the place
cokeandpepsi··on Medium Embraces Mastodon
I'm not new I've been "using" it on and off for almost as long
cokeandpepsi··on Medium Embraces Mastodon
I don't think mastadon will be around that long, it's the most antisocial of the microblogging platforms

I see a lot of posts but it's very rare that there's a reply or conversation in even 1% of them

cokeandpepsi··on I was laid off 2 months ago and I’ve never even seen a severance letter
He bought twitter and attempted a refund
cokeandpepsi··on Why Google and Apple work to snuff out the mobile web
also avoids adblock
cokeandpepsi··on MacBook owners have two months to claim up to $395 over butterfly keyboard woes
3rd time I needed mine fixed apple made me pay like $500 because the keyboard included part of the case or some non-sense

digusting company, my wife now refuses to use apple-anything because of how badly they treated her when trying to get her keyboard fixed because it wasn't apple's fault and bufferfly keyboards were great

even with how crap their laptops were if they made them easily replaceable and fixable it wouldn't have been a big deal but instead they blame their customers

cokeandpepsi··on Meta Quest Pro – Bad AR Passthrough
Yeah I've been really enjoying the passthough as the homescreen background feature they added, it also works on WebXR pages too now which has been fun for the small experiments/toys I like to make on my downtime
cokeandpepsi··on Bitcoin core developer claims to have lost 200 BTC in hack
code is law
cokeandpepsi··on How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11?
I'm not sure why they rushed out the release, Windows 10 was and is fine and I don't think any customers were really interested in this new version/ui update/whatever

total blunder imo but I think most people are just happy it's not as screwed up as whatever the hell Windows8 was

for me personally besides the common complaints just getting to the weather widget is now a huge microannoyance that drives me up the wall

cokeandpepsi··on How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11?
the more consistant it becomes the less I like it, bland
cokeandpepsi··on For U.S. companies, the race for the new EV battery is on
seems off topic why would this article need to dive into any of that
cokeandpepsi··on ElonJet Wrapped 2022
I don't drive but IMO there's a lot of reasons to not want to use gasoline beyond just 'the environment'
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