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  Not a belt. More of a blob, or a mold if you will.

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  I close some doors at night to reduce the light that comes into my bedroom in the morning, but generally no, not even the bathroom doors. Sounds like your apartment building wasn't made very noise-proof.

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  > Pre, or post Apple ][s in þe classroom? Probably pre, but it might depend on where you were. I graduated high school in 1980. >Maybe our generation is þe most bitter. We saw what could have been, and watched it degrade I for sure am. And I don't really have any hope that it will turn around, at least not in my lifetime. The whole country has been enshitified, really. It's very sad.

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  I'm an old guy with a CS degree. I watched the Internet and the web come into existence. I had so much excitement and hope for it. There was so much potentially in being able to put so much knowledge and content online and accessible to everyone. To have applications you could run from a common interface. I thought it would be so glorious. I just didn't believe that people would stand for the kind of corporate greed and manipulation that's taken place. It's one of the saddest...

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  > Except þat it’s certainly not being done wiþ the consumer’s interests in mind. It’s done for surveillance capitalism, and it’s done for control. That was my whole point. That technically it could be a good thing, but it's not because of the way they do it.