FractalParadigm

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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
GameStop has pivoted to some extent. It's incredibly rare that I go into one of their stores, but the last time I did it was less of a games store and more of a gaming merchandise store. Their acquisition of ThinkGeek and subsequ
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I'd wager it's the same reason they're getting rid of parking pay booths and parking meters - it's a hell of a lot cheaper for people to install your app and pay through that, than installing traditional payment option
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I can anecdotally confirm; shrooms today feel about as legal as weed did ~10 years ago - nobody really cared unless you were a blatant dick about, and/or dealing it. To go the extra mile with your example, there are several (grey marke
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I have a similar printer, the HL2240. Bought it for uni probably 7 years ago now and it just keeps soldiering on. Nothing but USB for input, which admittedly has caused some headache since my spouse and I use it regularly and needed a good
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
> It's amazingly rare to find gas stations that don't require prepay these days... Interestingly here in Canada I have the opposite experience; it seems like only stations in high-crime and super high-volume locations require i
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
It's possible they mean exactly what they're writing - my ISP has an option (usually part of their business package but can be had for home users by talking to the right person) where you can rent their WiFi modem that includes LT
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
> Walking through a city, you might have 100 NPCs on the screen at once, who all have hair. This is why I'm most excited for high-core counts leading to game development that allows these kinds of things to run in their own hardware
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
It also helps that, at least here in Ontario (Canada), diesel is a very popular substitute to run in conventional oil-burning furnaces - having a generator is almost a no-brainer when you've already got tons of fresh fuel on hand. On
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I noticed this in MLB as well. Having been to the Rogers Centre/SkyDome many times in my life, it's really jarring to see them throw ads in places they've never been. Add to that the inconsistencies, and it's just a we
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
Given theres been controvery in the past regarding HP (and others, likely) printers refusing to print B/W when the colour ink is empty/missing[0], its highly likely that yes, they're still printing yellow dots on B/W stu
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
> FYI a 3D printer is super affordable nowadays This seriously cannot be understated enough. When I was in my final year of high school (2012) my shop teacher was the first person in the entire school board to get a 3D printer, one of
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
How? They've recently bought a ton of gaming IPs, including Bethesda and id, to add to their existing sizable portfolio including some big names like Halo, Forza, Flight Sim, Minecraft, Gears. They seem to have a pretty solid agreeme
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
What I personally hate is how cable type/speeds aren't usually advertised. I've got a dozen or so USB-C 2.0 cables that feel useless for anything but power, and only a couple 3.0 cables that continually get lost and need repl
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
What I find ironic, is the police are doing a copyright infringement (unauthorized public performance of these songs) in order to infringe on citizens' rights. Why are record companies not more pissed about this?
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
Anecdotally, our regular grocery bill increased from ~$150 to >$250 ($CAD) per week*. And that's with cutbacks on meats and snacks. At this point our only saving grace is the rent increase freeze my province enacted due to COVID.
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I was really hoping this would be the outcome of Epic v. Apple, but alas it was not. I honestly don't know if I understand any reasoning behind it. I would buy an iPhone tomorrow if I could get a web browser or keyboard that weren&#x
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
Here in Canada I would go so far to argue that A&W is on-par with a lot of the 'fancier' burger joints, if not better . It's a burger I can't eat while driving because it's so juicy it ends up ruining clothes.
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
Admittedly it was more of a tongue-in-cheek joke with some fact - I've done it successfully 4 or 5 times on systems meant for "production" only after testing on EoL/scheduled for the bin hardware with mixed results - a
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
For point [1] it's also trivial to file or Dremel the slot to be open-backed, if you're careful. I've done this successfully a handful of times, unsuccessfully a few more than that...
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
If one place is walking distance and will price-match, it doesn't make sense to even start the car let alone drive elsewhere. In a different vein, when I was younger my mom price-matched a TV at Best Buy against a lower price at the Fu
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I'd love to see the copyrights holders go after law enforcement officer for unauthorized public performance of their songs. If a business owner has to pay a license to play music in their shop, or a DJ needs licenses to play a wedding,
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
To each their own, but I feel like the discoverability of the 'whole story' seriously suffers. Any time I try to follow a Twitter thread I can usually find 2/3 of the posts pretty easily while the rest tend to be buried somew
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
Last time I had to install either AMD or Nvidia drivers there was GUI installers. Or in the case of AMDGPU the driver is already in kernel and is updated automatically via package manager.
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
A good majority of media takes advantage of AWS; From [0]: > Here are the names that are on record publicly as using AWS: > Aon, Adobe, Airbnb, Alcatel-Lucent, AOL, Acquia, AdRoll, AEG, Alert Logic, Autodesk, Bitdefender, BMW, British
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I don't know what's more impressive, the fact someone managed to come up with something so ridiculous, or the fact some people actually believe this level of technology exists.
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
The Optimus Maximus felt like the future of keyboards when I was a kid and it first released. Hold shift and all the letters go from lower-case to upper, hold control/command and the keys change into their modifiers, telling you exactl
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
Now that it's (clearly) catching on, I can see Google and/or Samsung re-branding their Pay apps to something else (maybe Google goes back to Wallet?) and including ID capabilities. Personally while I like the idea of digital ID,
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
> my knowledge of Canada is too far out of date to be useful All I can say, is in personal anecdotal experience, I make about the same money (with better hours!) in my current factory job than I would have if I finished my degree and wen
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
As another commenter mentioned, TrueNAS is my go-to for general storage and phone/PC/Mac backups; it's dead simple to setup and is extremely capable, not to mention it'll run on just about anything (barring the ZFS cache
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by FractalParadigm 5y ago
I was having crazy issues in GDrive and GDocs where I could download nothing using FF - no PDFs, no .docx files, none of my other backed-up files, you'd click download and nothing would happen. Do the same in Chrome, Edge, Safari, Op

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