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hbons, 2 months ago to random

“Lawyers, economists and IT workers are sitters par excellence, clocking up 7.3 hours a day – even more than lorry drivers at 7.2 hours”

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/17/europes-champion-sitters-even-the-sporty-dutch-are-falling-victim-to-chair-use-disorder

root42, 2 months ago to retrogaming

What are your thoughts on Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins?
#retrogaming #nintendo #gameboy #supermario

hbons, 2 months ago to random

yes, chatGPT can make some tasks easier, but on the other side you need to read through garbage reports like this.

bastianallgeier, 2 months ago to random

Sometimes marketing is all about waiting long enough for your audience to forget about the 80s and 90s.

I love how ALDI celebrates this brilliant new design that saves 40% of plastic by removing the plastic lid.

lzg, 2 months ago to random

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hbons, 2 months ago to random

I have dreams of finding a good CRT at the charity shop now. the fuck have you done to me Mastodon.

hbons, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

the imposter syndrome career cycle:

1. 👀 try for a promotion to "fix" imposter feelings
2. 🎉 congrats! you're now an even bigger imposter! you've fooled everyone!
3. ♻️ GOTO 1

hbons, 2 months ago to random

yes, there are many meetings that could have been an email.

but spare a thought for all the email threads with five levels of indentation that could have been a 10 minute meeting. 😩

hbons, 2 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/03/we-were-constantly-in-terror-israeli-hostage-tells-of-captivity-in-gaza

hbons, 2 months ago to random

my first reaction was this look just like The Netherlands, but with a Mediterranean touch! (which makes sense for Arizona)

"Culdesac is the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US, and it will have housing for 1,000 residents"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA7OUNr5qLM

hbons, 2 months ago to random

“Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food-starvation-palestinians-war-crime-genocide

hbons, 2 months ago to random

ominous narrator voice: “I wasn’t long before Team Rocket took over the city…”

dfx, 3 months ago to VintageOSes

Okay, maybe I'm actually a little bit crazy.. I just spent over 100 Euros on a 360K 40-track 5.25inch floppy disk drive. 😉

#Floppy #Retro #MSDOS

Jeze3D, 3 months ago to politics

I'm in my 40s and still waiting for this "conservative phase" to kick in.

#politics #uspolitics #memes

hbons, 3 months ago to random

going to need a bigger screen just to read these CSS selectors... you don't want to know how the SCSS is made folks. :P

hbons, 3 months ago to random

I'm thinking about getting a Famicom with disk system just as a decorative piece because it looks cool. 😅

foxysen, 3 months ago to retrogaming

Top 3 most traumatic childhood moments:

1. Labyrinth Zone limited air underwater in Sonic The Hedgehog
2. Wall of drills and death on alien planet moving from the left in Taz: Escape From Mars
3. Pre-final boss Elma chasing you to insta"kill" you with a hug in Tiny Toons for Sega Genesis

#RetroGaming

hbons, 3 months ago to vscode

I want to shift focus to improving VS Code's version control flows soon. 🔀

what are some things you like/dislike currently? more importantly, what's frustrating you?

I'll start: I'm missing a visual git-log and feel disoriented because of it.

#vscode #VisualStudioCode #VisualStudio #ux #git #github #dev #coding #programming