Mikeb85

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by Mikeb85 4y ago
SMH
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> but aren't the side-effects of covid well established, on average more severe, and much more common? You forgot to account for the risk of getting the virus. If you choose to get the vaccine, the probability is 1. But what'
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
YouTube and Netflix use VP9...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Removing support for those particular codecs isn't the end of the world. YouTube, Disney, Netflix, Prime Video (ie. the largest video streaming sites) all use open codecs and thus are unaffected by Fedora/Suse's decision.
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A bit less than an F-35 engine, a bit more than a single 737 engine.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
??? Locking phones should have been illegal. You can enforce contracts through other means, all locking does is prevent the owner from switching carriers at the end of a term or legally reselling the phone after it's paid off and the
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I didn't say webapps are better... I said Android allowed all the things the parent listed with the implication being that it's a pretty open platform.
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Canada is a terrible example. Like 90% of applicants who try to get into nursing school are rejected... Plus wages should be higher. Plus the work kind of sucks. It's a crisis that's *entirely* our governments' doing.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
I mean, Google Android already allows all these things...
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The problem with Among Us is that it's an online game. Meaning you need a certain amount of actual people playing it before it's fun. So it's a chicken or egg problem; it's not fun without players, players won't j
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Pretty sure the EU will smack that one down...
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Development has definitely slowed and the creator has moved on to other things. I've played around with it and my main takeaway is that it's easier to create an actor system in an existing language than to create an entire ecosyst
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
The problem isn't just Ruby speed, it's that GDScript exists and Ruby doesn't really offer any benefit over it. If there were no scripting language, sure, hook up Ruby. But GDScript is good.
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> My dream would be mruby or full ruby in Godot. There's a C API for Godot and GDExtension. It should be easy and it has been done before (but not maintained). The problem is that it's just far slower than GDScript or C#.
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I mean, the purchase doesn't make any financial sense except to try make all of Activision Blizzard's games MS exclusives to help their platforms...
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> Historians have long suspected that the authors of Christian holy books were inspired by several other religions I mean, Judaism is basically a mashup of Egyptian and Mesopotamian religion while Christianity is that + Buddhism...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Optimism is trying to convince yourself things are better than they are, hope is the idea that things can actually get better.
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Fair enough, but most people do know the actual cause... Namely mental illness or depression.
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> For learning purposes, anyone knows what was his major cause of frustration? Suicide isn't because of frustration. Everyone has frustrations, most don't kill themselves because of it.
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Can't even give an example? Because every non-Russian historian would say otherwise... Exhibit A: Holodomor.
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Straight up propaganda here. You omitted the fact that Russia invaded Donbas 8 years ago. Also it's funny that Russia's "liberation" looks like mass murder, rape, genocide, kidnapping children and bombing apartments and
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> Reminded me that Russians escaping Russia are refugees too. They're dissidents, not refugees. Their country isn't being attacked nor under invasion.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Afghanistan has suffered greatly under the Taliban. Ask the women there how their lives are... As for Iraq, ask Iranians how they feel about Saddam? Or the Kuwaitis? Or the Kurds? Or the many dissidents that Saddam murdered... And Ukra
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Both were dictatorships and terrorist nations. Not even close to equivalent. Ukraine is a democracy of 45 million people that's never threatened another nation.
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Please, there's been "deep" games with random world generation since the beginning of gaming... The whole roguelike genre is called that because of the original, Rogue. Civilization games also fit the bill. And while Minec
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Forget geniuses... Figure out UBI for everyone or at least a better social net. Even non-geniuses start businesses or do interesting things when given some economic freedom. Thriving countries have strong business investment, lots of smal
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> In many Western nations, we have a plummeting birth rate, and this may well be because women are increasingly refusing to have sex on men's terms. Immersed in violent, degrading pornography, the expectations of many men regarding
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Yes it does also apply to pasteurized cheese. But pasteurized cheese is safe at any age (young ones safe because of pasteurization step, older ones because of good bacteria). And slightly less flavourful.
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Raw milk cheese is safe after a certain age since the good bacteria eliminate the bad bacteria.
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Hung at room temperature overnight? Nah, it's typically hung in a refrigerated and ventilated cooler (before it's cooked)... Never seen a recipe that says it should be hung at room temperature. Whole article is based on a strawm

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