Dalewyn

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by Dalewyn 2y ago
There are some practical benefits to doing things this way, for both the game and the players. Namely in that the in-game currency, not ackshually being real money, can be provided as rewards during normal gameplay and distributed by the
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
As a whale who buys probably far too much in Fate/Grand Order , Princess Connect! Re:Dive , and Fire Emblem Heroes I just write it off as a discount for future me because I'll just buy more later anyway. :V
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I did not say this should not be done, actually I said the opposite but also that the law of unintended consequences should be respected.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I think this is a good thing in principle because there is no way pricing transparency is ever a bad thing. But I think this will inadvertantly lead to an overall increase in prices, probably not intended by the people pursuing this. Why? B
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I don't think I've ever seen a graphical system of any kind that didn't have 0,0 at the top-left corner of the monitor or viewport either, with positive x going right and positive y going down. I actually didn't even thi
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Backwards compatibility with older binaries (some of which might not have devs anymore), and infrastructure and workflows already in place. Granted this might not actually be worth considering here, given the much shorter history unlike x86
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Tell me you haven't worked in network infrastructure without telling me you haven't worked in network infrastructure. Am I wrong, though? >I mean, sure, officially, when all laws are followed and in a friction-less plane th
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
First consider that the internet was designed to withstand and endure attacks upon it. So long as at least one connection remains, the nodes thereof remain accessible. Next, consider that the authority of US sovereignty ends at US borders.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
You might have had a point in the days of .xls, but Excel by default uses .xlsx now which is just XML packaged inside a .zip archive if I recall. And yes, Excel still fully supports .xls too. I fear whatever format LibreOffice uses will die
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>SCOTUS has said that the chief executive of the note-holding institution (in this case, the President of the United States) cannot use discretion in deciding who he gets to forgive for loans. Yes, because the power of the purse rests so
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
No, the only proper way to prevent attacks on the data thereof is to keep a backup that isn't readily accessible. Aka offline, whether that's literally turned off or just airgapped from the rest of the infrastructure.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I have no reason to presume someone holding crypto isn't a cryptobro. Either way it's irrelevant, the criminals got a hold of their personal information somehow and the most likely cause in this day and age is the victims divulgin
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>how did the criminals identify or decide to target these specific victims. They used SIM swapping, which is done by fooling customer service agents using stolen, partial personal information. The victims were also cryptobros, so I am gu
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Not sure what to believe Keep them running. Why?: * The read/write heads experience literally next to no wear while they are floating above the platters. They physically land onto shelves or onto landing zones on the platters thems
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Reading a bit more into the war started by Biden against the Houthis, I... didn't quite realize the Navy had straight up admitted we are weak and useless. >“We’re sort of on the verge of the Houthis being able to mount the kinds of
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>The discussion was more about if the military fumbled Afghanistan or if it was a political failure. While I started off with the former, overall it is both. >You haven't shown a military failure. It has been demonstrated by Afgh
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Despite their good reputation (mostly associated with their RAM), Kingston is just a repackager of third-party parts. They don't actually make any of their products themselves. Therefore, you indeed can't trust their original pack
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Here's a (kind of?) objective take: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni... By my quick count, Obama (awarded the Nobel Peace Prize) started seven wars, Trump started zero wars, and Bid
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>then blamed the military for those poor choices. Also the military. A war effort involves the entire country: The entire economy beyond just the military industrial complex, all branches of politics, and the military including both of
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Can you tell articulate what the political goal of the war was? The goal was to eradicate the Taliban, remove terroristic sentiments, rebuild Afghanistan, bring the country to 21st century democratic standards, and prevent future 9&#x2F
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The practical history of flash memory dates back to 1997 with the introduction of MMC by Sandisk. I don't blame anyone for not knowing about Toshiba because they actively detested the technology and shunned its inventor and employee Fu
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Considering the US hasn't won a single war against technologically and numerically inferior opponents since the turn of the century, I think we have even more fundamental problems than just a rusty war machine dependent on Chinese blue
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Look, we're going down one way or another. We might as well get down there faster so we can start crawling back up sooner.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>I'm increasingly convinced Boeing needs to go bankrupt. I agree and hope they do go bankrupt, but I hope so because the country needs a fucking wake up call: American Exceptionalism(tm) is simply no longer true. I sincerely think w
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>governments can simply print physical cash. That's still addressing the question of cash flow: Making the cash coming in meet or exceed the cash going out by printing more cash to go out. The various means to effect cash flow mig
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
It's the same reason that the nominal thrust level on the Space Shuttle Main Engines is 104.5%[1]. No, not 100% (it was originally), 104.5%. Why? Because you don't go back and change all your rules and documentation following subs
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
> so the world of consumer debt doesn't work that way. Yes, but I laid out how national budgets and household budgets are fundamentally the same thing: The flow of cash coming in must meet or exceed the flow of cashing going out. I&
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
If a household can keep on borrowing money basically indefinitely to pay for expenditures that exceed revenue, that's basically what the US's (and many others' like Japan's) national budget is. To put it another way: Ame
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The context was the cost of a Solidworks license within the purchasing power of an average salary. Meaning the question posed was whether an employee could buy a Solidworks license. To that, I say that is irrelevant because just like you
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The soft power that had many (most?) young Americans screaming at the government for banning Tiktok. The soft power that catapulted Genshin Impact to the top of sales rankings across the entire world.[1] The soft power that led to China&#x2

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