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falsem @kbin.social
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Is Ernest still here?
  • Considering his last post was about going to the hospital for a few days, over a month ago, I suspect he's not okay.

    Regardless, I just cancelled my $5/mo donation towards the development of the kbin software. Seeing as how there hasn't been any development in over a month.

  • Reddit’s IPO Filing Shows Lots Of Losses After Nearly 20 Years
  • I'd imagine reddit could be profitable too if they stopped throwing money at stupid shit like NFTs and avatars. Selling API access for AI training was a good move in terms of bringing in income since it basically costs them nothing, and they could have totally pulled that off without pissing off half their userbase.

  • Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo?
  • The reason I don't think it's all that in line with Diablo these days, though, is simply the pacing of the gameplay. You blow up screens of enemies at a time, and your deaths are often so fast that you're not really sure what killed you.

    Yeah, that's why I don't care for POE anymore these days.

  • U.S. workers are getting scooped up by international companies hiring remote roles
  • Don't be a contractor. Unless you're unusually skilled or have a very exotic and rare niche that you're an expert in then being a contractor is a step down for most people in the software field imo. Look for direct hire.

  • Seattle front and center as Everett's Paine Field announces name change

    The county announced Tuesday that Paine Field's official name would be Seattle Paine Field International Airport, adding the Emerald City to the title. In a press release, the change will improve the airport's marketing abilities outside of the region and "reinforce its geographic proximity" to Seattle.

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    Remote start via voice?

    Anyone have any ideas on how to do a remote start via voice for your PC? To power it on that is.

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    Want to sue your landlord? Seattle-area tenants ran into a roadblock …

    Issaquah tenant Mary Marks, whose rent had shot up 23% in the previous year and a half, suspected the algorithm could be behind her rent increase. Her property management company, Avenue5, was named along with the software maker RealPage in one of the lawsuits filed in Seattle. Late last year, Marks wondered if she could join a lawsuit. Then, she discovered something she had never noticed in her lease. A one-page addendum buried in the agreement said she had waived her right to bring or join “any purported class-action lawsuit” against her landlord or the landlord’s “agents.” She could only sue individually.

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    Managing pollution

    I haven't played with it since right after Biotech came out. What are some current strategies for managing pollution these days? Particularly if you go heavy on mechs.

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    Is this Stranger Things thing as cheesy as it looks?

    strangerthings-experience.com Stranger Things: The Experience - Seattle

    The Gate to the Upside Down is opening! Hawkins Lab 🧪 is in Seattle and only the bravest will discover its secrets. Join the experience now!

    Looks pretty cheesy. Who's the target audience?

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    What do people think of Stellaris Nexus?

    It has a demo on Steam this week: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1983990/Stellaris\_Nexus/

    My first thought was it looked like casual Stellari, but I guess the goal is a 4x that's playable in an hour for multiplayer?

    Gives me a little bit of a Slipways vibe: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1264280/Slipways/

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    Pioneer Square’s arts scene is changing – what that means for downtow…

    Meanwhile, a few hundred feet away, Pioneer Square mainstays Linda Hodges Gallery and the Center on Contemporary Art are celebrating a different milestone: their last First Thursday Art Walk. Linda Hodges Gallery, whose owner is retiring, and CoCA, which will be operating online only for a while, are among a number of high-profile Pioneer Square galleries that have closed their brick-and-mortar spaces in recent years. At the same time, new galleries, pop-up exhibits and artist-led events like Forest For The Trees are bringing fresh blood to the neighborhood and upending the long-held ways galleries have operated.

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    komonews.com Why did Seattle City Council halt a 900-unit SODO housing proposal?

    The Seattle City Council killed a proposal to build up to 900 housing units in a part of town that has been impacted significantly by chronic homelessness.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social falsem @kbin.social

    Why can't I view some lemmy.world communities here?

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    theconversation.com Linguists have identified a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida

    It came about through sustained contact with native Spanish speakers who directly translated phrases from Spanish into English, a form of linguistic borrowing called ‘calques.’

    “We got down from the car and went inside.”

    “I made the line to pay for groceries.”

    “He made a party to celebrate his son’s birthday.”

    These phrases might sound off to the ears of most English-speaking Americans.

    In Miami, however, they’ve become part of the local parlance.

    According to my recently published research, these expressions – along with a host of others – form part of a new dialect taking shape in South Florida.

    This language variety came about through sustained contact between Spanish and English speakers, particularly when speakers translated directly from Spanish.

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    Are there door to door religuous solicitors in the UK?

    In the US we have Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses that do this; are there any similar in the UK and what kind of religion do they proselytize?

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social falsem @kbin.social

    Why is kbin written in PHP? Any chance it'll change to... something else?

    I don't do frontend stuff but PHP has a bit of a negative reputation these days

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