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by HideousKojima 1y ago
It's the most reliable place to get the latest news on certain internet grifters and scammers (SVSeeker, a project to build a crowdfunded "scientific research vessel" being one of the ones I follow out of morbid curiousity).
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
KiwiFarms has had a similar captcha system since they got dropped by Cloudflare
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
I mean I don't want the viability of my business to be dependent on the whims of Microsoft either. Unfortunately your business is going to have counterparty risk no matter what your tech stack is but Microsoft's record is pretty m
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
And zoning, permitting, environmental impact reviews, etc. add significant extra drags onto many such projects.
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
No, his comment seems to be pretty clearly framing it as "not a monolith". Much like how Native Americans are often depicted as peaceful "noble savages" living in harmony with nature when some tribes might have fit that
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
I mean if you break it down per capita, Catholic priests are far less likely to sexually abuse kids than school teachers are, so there's likely some sort of effect on behavior (and/or selection effects amongst those who choose to
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>My view arises from the accounts of people who spoke to Babbage and his interactions with the government, press and similar. I'm sure you'll share some relevant quotes from these accounts any day now then
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
I'm not aware of Babbage ever claiming the difference engine (nor the analytical engine) were capable of thought. Frankly it sounds like you pulled an imagined argument from an imagined Babbage out of your ass to try and score points a
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Seems like the obvious reason is because women are disproportionately more likely to take "email jobs" than jobs that require hard skills, and email jobs are easier to replace with AI (mostly because they aren't really provid
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
The 2008 Prince of Persia is easier to get running through Proton than on Windows. For the Windows Steam release you have to disable the Steam overlay and some other tweaks to get it working
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
A game doesn't need to be live service to support cloud saves, though. There are completely DRM free games on Steam that support cloud saves. And PC games that released on discs back in the day still could get updates. Edit: I also alm
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
You just reminded me that you could use the Dreamcast's fishing rod controller to play Soul Calibur
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
If they were truly revolutionary they would have gone for base 12 or 60 instead of 10
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
And even earlier. Thomas Jefferson, writing in 1807: "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
That's just 1)
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
> I know it has a builtin that does the same as Option<T> with its nullable types, like int?, which can either be an int or null int? in C# is syntactic sugar for the type Nullable<int>. The big issue though is that Nullable&
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
To clear things up for you a bit more (hopefully, or I'll just make it worse): Any legacy .NET projects are made with .NET Framework 4.x (4.8.1 8s the latest). So if it's 4.x, or called .NET Framework instead of just .NET, it&#x27
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>but every time I've tried to figure out how to install it I get lost in the morass of nearly-identical names for totally different platforms and forget which one I'm supposed to be installing on Linux these days. I realize Mic
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
We certainly don't hide it away from the public ever being able to (legally) see it again. That's what the Simpson's rightsholders did when they removed the episode Jackson guest starred in from streaming services. People als
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>The FEMA report found that its warehouse in Puerto Rico was nearly empty when Hurricane Maria hit last September, without cots or tarps, and very low levels of food and water, as most of the supplies had been rerouted to the U.S. Virgin
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Doesn't cover the internal incompetence within FEMA (despite significant funding) nearly enough: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/13/628861808/fema-report-acknowl...
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>FEMA cuts probably means these poor people will live through what Puerto Rico did when the island was wiped out years ago by that hurricane :( Why didn't a well-funded FEMA prevent what happened in Puerto Rico?
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
And a sequel (prequel?) to ICO, from the same devs
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Product owners and project managers have the soft skills to convince the company that they aren't a drain on its resources regardless of what they actually are.
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
AI is most effective as an accountability sink
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Sure, but the post I replied to claimed bounds check issues were entirely avoidable at compile time
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>The issue with bound checks for exemple is entirely avoidable if you prove that all your calls are within bounds before compiling, same thing for partial initialization. You can't always know the bounds at compile time, though.
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions... Educational institutions that have been banned from practicing racial discrimination in admissions (such as all public universities in California since th
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Some vendors even make it impossible to get information. See Oracle and Microsoft forbidding publishing benchmarks for their SQL databases.
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
My pet theory: The Big Bang happened at the "north pole" of spacetime. Eventually all matter and energy will reach the "south pole" and recombine. The Big Crunch theory will never die!

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