Osiris

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by Osiris 5y ago
> I “played” the recent matrix awakens unreal 5 tech demo and boy i really miss just driving in a huge open city. It is visually striking and quite immersive until you start driving. Physics in games still feels really, really, far from
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by Osiris 5y ago
I don't understand the draw. It was on Game Pass recently so I downloaded it and I got through the first one or two missions and I just didn't get any enjoyment out of it at all. For context, my favorite games are open world RPGs
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by Osiris 5y ago
I suspect it's a mobile GTA game designed to create a sense of FOMO and using microtransactions to scratch that itch, eventually relying on a small number of "whales" to support the game.
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by Osiris 5y ago
I do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a common submission technique is to cut off blood flow to the brain (known as a blood choke). I've lost consciousness twice after being put into a blood choke. The experience of regaining consciousness is v
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by Osiris 5y ago
> I don't care to analyze the US cellular market, but I would be curious to what extent the way the government has regulated this market has pushed it toward mergers. I believe that auctioning spectrum is a huge factor in creating m
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by Osiris 5y ago
Microsoft, with massive resources, has been trying to break the Google search monopoly for over a decade without making a dent. Search startup DuckDuckGo uses Bing on the backend rather than building their own.
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by Osiris 5y ago
Exactly. The phrase "power vacuum" is a good way to visualize this idea. When there is an opportunity for someone to gain power (of which there are many kinds), someone will exert the effort to take that power for themselves.
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by Osiris 5y ago
And over the last 40 years has slowly consolidated back again.
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by Osiris 5y ago
In an unregulated capitalist economy, the inevitable end result is monopoly. The best way to compete in the economy is to not have to compete. Without external restraints, any sufficiently large company will focus on eliminating competition
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by Osiris 5y ago
Scrubbing was turned on by default and the scrubbing was catching checksum errors. And yes, Seagate SMR drives (obviously not ideal but I'm cheap)
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by Osiris 5y ago
I have a small home NAS with 3x 8TB drives in ZFS RAID-Z. Everything was fine then one day my son complained that some video files were pausing in the middle when they used to work. I check the zpool status and saw that the system had been
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by Osiris 5y ago
The 55 mph speed limit was enacted as a way to improve fuel economy and reduce the reliance on foreign oil in the 70s. It had nothing to do with safety.
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by Osiris 5y ago
I've never really understood this MBA mentality because growth must stop at some point. There are only so many humans on earth. The expectation that a company can grow forever is impossible, at least until we find an alien planet with
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by Osiris 5y ago
Isn't TikTok just videos though (I don't use it so I'm guessing)? It doesn't really seem useful for sharing the same kind of information that people use Facebook for (mostly text based information, questions, etc).
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by Osiris 5y ago
I use Facebook almost exclusively for local motorcycle groups and my BJJ gym. For small, local groups, Facebook is a great free way to setup events (like group rides) and share hobbies. My motorcycle group used to use Meetup but it has a fe
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by Osiris 5y ago
I've been trying to figure out why I don't like the new Star Trek shows and I think your thoughts explain it. The old shows had plots. The new ones are just pretentious and try to get us to like them because "look, I mentione
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by Osiris 5y ago
That's the same as saying that the speed limit (on freeways) is wrong because if everyone obeyed the speed limit, it would cause significant traffic congestion. In fact, you can see this when there IS a police officer driving the speed
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by Osiris 5y ago
No one wants to crash their car. People do rolling stops because they are generally perfectly safe.
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Which, to me, just means the laws are wrong. The police often don't obey basic traffic laws like speed limits and signaling (in my experience of following police on the freeway).
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In my experience in Colorado, the right lane is usually empty and it's often easier to go faster than traffic in the right lane (at least on sections of freeway without exits close together). The left lane is usually traveling at least
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by Osiris 5y ago
> I don't think that's necessarily true. Another interpretation of being hired as a salaried employee might be "they get the work done that they were assigned, in a satisfactory manner, and are able to respond during regul
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Founder of Bolt calls Silicon Valley 'boys club' full of 'mob bosses'(nypost.com)
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by Osiris 5y ago
In the software industry it should be pretty easy to track tickets someone is working on and compare that to how long similar tickets are completed by coworkers.
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by Osiris 5y ago
I know a guy who's actively interviewing to take on a second remote job while keeping his first. He has no plans to make either party aware that he has other employment. His argument is that at his current job he can get all of his ass
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by Osiris 5y ago
Yeah I tend to refer to them as HTTP APIs.
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From what data source do you gather this? As a child my friend loved on a ranch. Multiple trucks and Jeeps. Where I live now there's a lot of farm and ranch land near the city. Drive by any and you'll see multiple trucks. Anecdota
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by Osiris 5y ago
What do you do for off-site backups?
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Every reasonably complex site I've worked on uses some form of bundler so even if a site uses a bunch of common libraries they are all compiled together into a big JS file. I think that a lot of the way websites are developed would hav
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by Osiris 5y ago
I'd settle for maps telling me if a road is paved or not. As a motorcycle rider that likes to take less well traveled roads, I've gotten into bad situations due to not knowing a road was unpaved until I got there. Not the least of
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by Osiris 5y ago
I fixed the screen on an old iPhone 7 Plus. After rebooting it, it updated to iOS 15. As an Android user that's always made me jealous.

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