Causality1

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by Causality1 5y ago
Gods I miss the days when I got so excited for a Windows release. Now it's nothing but a constant stream of "fuck you-s" from Microsoft. I'd give anything to see a Windows install screen and smile again.
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by Causality1 5y ago
Xbox Live Gold. I'd call, give them my account details, and the rep would tell me it was canceled. Three months later, another bill. Called my bank and had my card replaced, three months later somehow again another bill on my new card.
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by Causality1 5y ago
I spent half a year being charged monthly by Microsoft because Google considers my email address the same whether or not it has a period in it but Microsoft had somehow split my account into two based on that difference.
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by Causality1 5y ago
I wonder if they have advertising methods in place to turn days like this into a windfall.
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by Causality1 5y ago
IP lawyers are the lowest of the low.
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by Causality1 5y ago
This is a good point. There are several other metrics by which larger-massed animals are more efficient than smaller ones, such as oxygen usage per kg of body mass. Perhaps a similar effect is applicable to brains?
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by Causality1 5y ago
Oh I'm not saying we will. I'm just saying that even taking the claimed effect at face value, it only has significance if it can hurt our genetic intelligence faster than engineering can improve it.
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by Causality1 5y ago
Like most looming disasters, whether or not this is a real problem depends on quantifying the problem. Is this likely to significantly affect the population intelligence before we learn to engineer our children, say within the next 200 year
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by Causality1 5y ago
So when you're mousing you hover your thumb over the pad? That's not tiring?
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by Causality1 5y ago
I just don't understand how everyone but me seems to just be okay with not knowing where left click stops and right click starts. They're just fine with having the pointer jiggle around whenever they click because their thumb does
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by Causality1 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I was trying to make the point it's not as surprising as it first seems that these edge cases become well known. Cases regarding the right not to divulge your passwords involving someone ac
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by Causality1 5y ago
I'm itching for the day Framework starts offering a touchpad with physical mouse buttons.
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by Causality1 5y ago
I'm curious what the mechanism is for it being more dangerous for a 25 year old than a 35 year old. What about the ostensibly healthier person's body is different?
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by Causality1 5y ago
Controversy naturally adheres to these edge cases. If Rittenhouse wasn't a law breaking idiot, there'd be no story. Similarly, if his actions weren't in self defense, there would also be much less story. Because you have some
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by Causality1 5y ago
Deceiving the user into thinking it's a tool for them while actually being a way to manipulate them. For Google that's extraordinarily on-brand.
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by Causality1 5y ago
Boeing is a company built for extracting the maximum possible amount of taxpayer money. SpaceX is a company built for colonizing Mars.
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by Causality1 5y ago
Fascinating. I've never heard of someone moving abroad because they were conservative. HN frowns on political discussion but have you written anything on the subject?
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by Causality1 5y ago
Absolutely. Getting ratio'd is one of the few ways users have to express displeasure. They took away video replies, comments are often disabled, but they can't pretend everyone likes their video. At least they couldn't until
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by Causality1 5y ago
Oh nice, I was just thinking this morning that YouTube isn't nearly "corporate bullshit" enough. /s
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by Causality1 5y ago
Always been fascinating to me that we only bolt a heat sink onto one side of the board. Nobody's come up with a circuit board material that's electrically insulating but thermally conductive so we could sink an appreciable amount
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by Causality1 5y ago
In the Raptor's case, the ambient air contained 2.821 ppm of total hydrocarbons, and the amount of total hydrocarbons coming out the Raptor's tailpipe measured 2.639 ppm. What's the point of comparing small outdoor engines
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by Causality1 5y ago
I am still miffed about Skylake being out of support for Windows 11. Is there a particular feature you find desirable enough to make up for the hot garbage that is the rest of Windows 11?
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by Causality1 5y ago
More likely it's just because cycles existed before the safety regulations and there would be too much backlash to banning them. Plenty of other things that only harm yourself, like drugs or unpasteurized milk are also illegal.
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by Causality1 5y ago
It's rather astonishing that all the safety regulations for cars manage to exist in the same legal system that allows motorcycles on public roads at all. Last I read the death risk ratio was about 24x.
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by Causality1 5y ago
I found it fascinating he appears to be a farmer yet he's wearing a vest and tie. Is he dressed up for the interview or is that normal? I can't imagine the nightmare of sweaty chafing I would be if I tried to do a physical job dre
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by Causality1 5y ago
Modern laptops have absolutely no style, no cool factor. I'd pay huge sums of money for a Sony X505 with modern specs.
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by Causality1 5y ago
That's wild. Is there any other case where someone gets to keep stolen property as long as they didn't know it was stolen? I have to say if I was in the victim's position, my reaction would probably land me in prison for long
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by Causality1 5y ago
As long as the writers are making enough money to produce their best output, the ideal situation is as long a tail as possible. The greater the variety of author, the greater the variety of books.
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by Causality1 5y ago
Exactly. Sure, Last of Us has the story of a generic zombie movie. But in a way, that was my twelve year old daughter I watched die. I don't think it's fair to criticize games for not having as good a story as a novel when you&#
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by Causality1 5y ago
If I was, I'd be writing books nobody buys because nobody buys books anymore Sales of printed books have been increasing every year since 2012. Last year alone saw a jump of over eight percent.

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