GeorgeWBasic

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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
It seems like there are circumstances that make it reasonable, though. And this isn't wage theft. This is where through no fault of the company, their bank closed down and their money is no longer theirs. It is in no way reasonable t
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
You're asking someone for a source for their opinion, instead of understanding what an opinion is?
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
Bullshit, it's not spyware. It seems it's no longer possible to discuss it here without the trolls coming out.
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
How is the ECC support deficient on later CPUs? I checked the docs, it does seem to be supported on the 7000x series.
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
I sure would love it if they came up with a way to block those "intent to leave" popups too.
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
Thank you for that. That's a concept I remembered reading about, but I couldn't remember the name and had no way to find it again.
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
I don't see how it isn't fraud to claim that.
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
"We have to do something. This is something. Therefore, we have to do this." Never mind that it doesn't have any positive effect, and a lot of negative effects.
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
Maybe not enough people know what's really happening with those companies.
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
Kiwi Browser on Android works with uBlock just fine, and I think Brave's built-in adblocker also stopped youtube ads for me, but I'm less sure of that one.
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
That seems like the sort of thing chargebacks are intended to solve. Your credit shouldn't be taking a hit for that.
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
What exactly is difficult about detecting direct copies of just those three sites? Because that's what's out there: exact copies. If Google isn't filtering those out, it's because they don't want to.
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
Same, I've only ever seen reddit in that section. Helping reddit's hegemony is counterproductive, not helpful.
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
Nothing's wrong with it, if you turned off the Fisher-Price theme. It was usable and simple, and displayed information clearly. It wasn't suitable for mixed-DPI, but a replacement easily could be without losing anything. Instead,
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
Which one do you have? That's remarkable fuel economy for city driving, and better than the older Volkswagens I've been considering.
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
You think women don't do shit tests?
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by GeorgeWBasic 4y ago
I don't know if it's for emissions reasons, and I doubt it does anything for emissions, but Volkswagen diesels have a throttle that's there to make engine shutoff much less shaky. It's called the anti-shudder valve, and
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by GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
Turns out that's no longer the case since banks started to adopt cancel culture too, as seen in Canada. Overbearing governments have created legitimate use cases for crypto money transfers.
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by GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
It's possible that they tanked because of this news: https://www.aroged.com/2021/12/13/sites-with-pirated-content... thus removing one of the major reasons to use Yandex.
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by GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
I was about say, before the trolls responded, that I'm about 50/50 on it being that and it being that Eich hasn't stayed cancelled, that he's done well for himself despite that, which just infuriates a certain crowd here
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by GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
They aren't forcing it on you. It's opt-in. Google's trying to force things on all their users: manifest V3, this, et cetera.
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by GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
Thank you, that's a reason at least.
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by GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
Would you happen to know the authors of yasm felt the need to completely rewrite nasm? It's always been confusing to me.
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by GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
There was an HN discussion about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996432 People are pissed .
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by GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
"You're fired. How do you like them apples?"
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by GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
For another third party perspective, I find your tone entirely appropriate, given that web.dev is a propaganda machine for Chrome. Pushback is necessary.
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by GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
> I wonder why there is so much hype with wayland, in use its mostly terrible unless you choose GNOME Ah, but then you have two problems.
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by GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
I think Librewolf is a Firefox alternative that needs more exposure.
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by GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
That's a really stupid answer.
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by GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for.

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