DoctorMckay101

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by DoctorMckay101 7mo ago
I was gifted my first computer, running Windows 95, at 11 years of age. By age 13 I was probably within the five people who better understood how to do stuff on a computer in my town. By age 16 I was making Pokemon hackroms, flash animation
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by DoctorMckay101 8mo ago
This will be Twitter VS Bluesky once more. It does not matter if the power user moves over to another platform or not. It does not matter if the average user moves or not. Its content creators that move masses. And if those do not move nobo
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by DoctorMckay101 1y ago
The interest rate on my mortgage has been below inflation for 5 years now. I'm 7 years shy of paying it fully. I pay around 850€ a month for my mortgage + 110€ monthly community costs + 400€ on property taxes annually. Lets round it u
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by DoctorMckay101 1y ago
My approved to shut down question rate was about 40/60. And within the approved questions, I only got the answers I looked for like 50-60% of the time. Got to 350 points myself. I hated every second of it. Really aggressive moderation,
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by DoctorMckay101 2y ago
I mean, yes and no? 27M speaking. I see most of my friends irl about once every two weeks or so. We either make all day/weekend long plans or we don't meet up. However we spend at least 2-3h on call daily in Discord and exchange a
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by DoctorMckay101 2y ago
My experiences with Asus have been terrible. First Asus purchase ever. USB Bluetooth dongle. Stopped working in 2 weeks. Second. An Asus GTX 770. It broke in 3 months. Third. Asus Xonar PCIE Sound Card. Optical did not work, started hissing
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by DoctorMckay101 2y ago
Emulator developer here (not for videogame consoles but IoT and Honeypots). The DRM circumvention that Yuzu implements can be attacked legally twofold. The decryption process to run a game in the Nintendo Switch uses some alphanumerical key
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by DoctorMckay101 2y ago
I would not expect a user to run a pretty lengthy powershell command or edit registry to get the old right-click context menu though. The "More options" option is quite annoying.
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by DoctorMckay101 2y ago
WSA was a flop because of the Amazon store exclusivity. Almost nobody implements Direct Storage after years of it being available. The UI worsened overall: new right click context menu is horrible. TPM requirement on install. Microsoft acco
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by DoctorMckay101 3y ago
I can imagine how 1 meeting with HR would help weeding out people for junior and early senior positions with little requirement in terms of CV. You could get a couple thousand applicants there. For sure. However, I can not imagine a situati
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by DoctorMckay101 3y ago
I feel the need to add a very important point to your third paragraph. Most times these interviews persist even if you have all of those. And what is worse, they are performed by HR people. And I'm sorry, but... wtf does a socials majo
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by DoctorMckay101 3y ago
Not gonna lie. The moment a company refuses a refund or a return that complies with their policies, or just stalls me for more than 30 minutes, I'm calling a governmental customer protection agency and issuing a "comply or get sue
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by DoctorMckay101 3y ago
Look up lead plumbing in the Roman Empire and the documented case of many emperors and council members being more "aggressive" than usual.
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by DoctorMckay101 3y ago
Tbh, that is exactly my situation. I have a 3rd or 4th hand Ford from 2007 or so that I got for $2k about two years ago. It is parked in my garage and I seldom use it. I bike to work, I use public transport whenever I can. I would buy an EV
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by DoctorMckay101 3y ago
Your reasoning is sound. However, the problem is, as pointed out by the document within the article, and I quote: "The problem, in short, is that the law targets websites as a whole, rather than at the level of the individual page or s
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by DoctorMckay101 3y ago
Tbh, I'm not against a Basic Income. I'm against the "Universal" part. A basic income should be something handed out to those in need of it and they should be helped so they can stop relying on it. Thus handing out 20k t
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by DoctorMckay101 3y ago
And meanwhile everybody from 18 to 30+ that lives paycheck to paycheck, without a possibility of getting into a mortgage, without being financially stable enough to become parents, get nothing. Also, "everybody" will get 20k? Even
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by DoctorMckay101 3y ago
Tbh, the only reason I am crawling myself through a PhD is that I want to be a professor. Maybe in the USA this is almost unachievable, not to mention you will probably have to get an academic tenure too. But where I live (northern Spain),
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by DoctorMckay101 3y ago
Actually chuckled. Good comment.
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by DoctorMckay101 3y ago
Pretty much, yeah. In my case I would not care about going to the office if it were anywhere near downtown. That way I could go down to my local pub or game store after work. However, my company is located in the periphery of the city. If I
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by DoctorMckay101 3y ago
I think my sentiments are best expressed in a greentext manner: > be me > wfh as a soft dev for a big tech company > company tells me to come back to the office > they claim it is to promote coworking and socialize > have to
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by DoctorMckay101 3y ago
Question is, what constitutes social media? I got my first PC at 11, running Windows 98. Since then I've been participating in online forums and sites like facebook and myspace. If I ever have a kid I want them to be able to experience
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by DoctorMckay101 4y ago
Cowntdown until either Numberphile or Matt Parker does a video on this. starting now
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by DoctorMckay101 4y ago
People be like: chatGPT is horribly bad and does not work. Its a fancy autocomplete. Anyways... I am using it everyday. Its a great first step to take when you are blocked creatively or dunno where to start looking for things. And this is c
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by DoctorMckay101 4y ago
Working a 8 to 17 job, my best hours are from 8:00am to 13:00pm. It is when I get most work done. The reason why it slows down in the afternoon is because I have a designated hour for lunch break that won't count as "work" an
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by DoctorMckay101 4y ago
Technically yes but it takes 1 more step. afaik (maybe I'm wrong) you can only reset a Telegram cloud password with a recovery email address. And you can maybe access that email address through a SMS based recovery. Having your Telegra