Andrex

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by Andrex 4y ago
> HBO Max is great, but it's tied to a terrible management/company anchor. Rumor is now they are going to drop the trusted HBO brand smh. The Kool-Aid right now seems to be WBD is pure evil but from my perspective they're
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by Andrex 4y ago
How much of the red tape is needed vs. unnecessary? I'm glad lead isn't being used anymore and wheelchair access is required, among other things, but I can see things getting nitpicky and senseless real quick. My mom's antiqu
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by Andrex 4y ago
> The effect of this is that a video game is a casino where no matter how lucky or skilled the player is, the house always keeps 100% of the real money no matter what. And we let children play in these casinos. I think you just described
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by Andrex 4y ago
> I can't go back to normal toilets now, its that good. Getting nature's call outside the house must be hell...
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by Andrex 4y ago
Mastodon not working without JS is a complete joke. I hope its popularity is stymied until this is fixed.
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by Andrex 4y ago
In my house we had floppies of Duke, Commander Keen, and... Mario is Missing.
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by Andrex 4y ago
Currently making my own social network from scratch and it's more media-based than text-based, but I love the idea of RSS feeds for everything. My only concern would be extra bandwidth requirements if there's a ton of readers out
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by Andrex 4y ago
I'm not very knowledgeable, but couldn't we wrap the space suits in tinfoil or something?
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by Andrex 4y ago
Censor "Google" out of the submission title and you'll notice an immediate tone change in the HN comments.
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by Andrex 4y ago
"don’t ally with the Japanese." Turnabout is fair play. "In 2014, Emmanuel Macron, then France’s economy minister, pulled a devious stunt under the country’s protectionist Florange Law which doubled the voting rights attached
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by Andrex 4y ago
I overwrote Windows 10 and installed Fedora last year. I just love Gnome.
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by Andrex 4y ago
Maybe the expectation that technology will solve all our problems has been and will always be false. Techno-utopianism is a shallow dream.
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by Andrex 4y ago
Just like we went to war with Saudi over Jamal Khashoggi? Short of a politician, no individual death is going to start a war. And maybe that's for the best?
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by Andrex 4y ago
> 2038 is... 16 years away Thanks for throwing me into an existential crisis... /s
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by Andrex 4y ago
It's already too late for her. Better to focus on educating the next generation, honestly.
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by Andrex 4y ago
Over the past two years I've gotten regular AWS recruitment emails, in fact for the last few months it's been every two weeks (from different people each time!) I responded that I had left tech, but if Amazon Studios was intereste
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by Andrex 4y ago
I'm curious about your gripes with Wikipedia. I donate regularly because it's still growing more useful to me year after year and has resisted ads and obscene partnerships.
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by Andrex 4y ago
Oh man, you should have seen the mobile sphere before Android...
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by Andrex 4y ago
Stra-teachery. My brain misinterpreted it at first and now it's too late to fix it.
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by Andrex 4y ago
Agreed. Well, it's probably not far off. It's not 2090 yet. Appreciate your choice of handle, by the way.
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by Andrex 4y ago
“So the leaders conceived of their most desperate strategy yet, a final solution - the destruction of the sky. Thus would man try to cut the Machines off from the sun, their main energy source. May there be mercy on man and machine for thei
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by Andrex 4y ago
I'm sure this is useful to some, but I come to HN more for longer-form articles these days. This change might have originated when I ditched programming as a career, or merely growing older. Dunno. Language is so disposable these days
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by Andrex 4y ago
Less human error is a meaningful benefit, even if it has nothing to do with the tech itself. A new generation is always behind us, and explaining a nice, even 24.0 to them will just be a better situation.
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by Andrex 4y ago
ZigBii
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by Andrex 4y ago
Anecdotal and it may not be hip to say, but I haven't had a problem with any Dell I've used (Fedora and Ubuntu since ~2010).
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by Andrex 4y ago
New Horizons used the standard internal game engine Nintendo deploys for most of their flagship Switch games, called LunchPak/LunchPak 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/fnfdic/nintendos_g.
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by Andrex 4y ago
> GNOME clearly targets the mobile form factor I think it's more fair to say all form factors are treated equally, to the possible detriment of focusing exclusively on desktop. I think Gnome does well and is really versatile no matt
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by Andrex 4y ago
Not the user you're replying to, but some workflows just don't work well in Gnome (yet). But the combination of key shortcuts and mouse gestures makes it feel really nice to use in practice. Workspaces work like I'd expect, a
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by Andrex 4y ago
Gnome actually has a different philosophy. There wasn't much customization offered at first, as the focus was on nailing a single set of UX and aesthetics. And I think the Gnome team succeeded, but the lack of customization is/was
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by Andrex 4y ago
Comparing Gnome to Windows 10/11? No way.

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