Pxtl

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811.
by Pxtl 3y ago
Facebook is in the advertising industry. One pair of eyeballs is not worth the same as every other pair, they're worth what they can spend. Canadians are, in global terms, fabulously wealthy.
812.
by Pxtl 3y ago
While PM Trudeau has offered no evidence, he's also unable to offer evidence when it's international intelligence data. Trudeau's poor relationship with India has been a constant scandal for his government. Similarly his jun
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by Pxtl 3y ago
For reference from those outside of Canada/India, when a region of Canada had a problem with a terrorist separatist group... well on the one hand we temporarily suspended civil liberties with the "war measures act". But on th
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by Pxtl 3y ago
There's no need to be sexist in either direction. I was just listening to the 6-part Behind the Bastards podcast about Henry Kissinger, and basically their conclusion was that his greatest power was being the ultimate suck-up who coul
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I'd say name and a surrogate ID key so you can see which individuals own multiple related businesses that create a conflict of interest and who youd want to avoid working with. Not driver's license and address. That should be pri
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by Pxtl 3y ago
So what exactly did Willingham own of Fables? Like, does this mean the books themselves are now free of copyright? Or is it a matter of owning the characters for derivative works? Edit: his follow-up post says he signed away publishing an
817.
by Pxtl 3y ago
Yes but the difference is that Blueprint is actually a good language while SSIS is a dumpster-fire.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yes, but Unity targeted the Indie market with "free for small unsuccessful projects and we take a small cut of sales if it takes off" first and then Unreal jumped into that market. While Unreal entered that market from the opposit
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I can't help but be reminded of the people who jumped from Twitter to Threads. Ultimately, the recent wave of enshittifications of major products - Unity, Twitter and Reddit off the top of my head - It's a hard reminder that lock-
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Uh, did you miss that Hollywood is on strike? That Marvel's 3D artists are unionizing? I wouldn't call those "low skilled" jobs, or one where "quality is uniform". edit: Artistic endeavors where people are pas
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I love the concept of Lua, but the linguistic features always drive me up the wall. Poor FP functionality, the weird double-dipping on associative and non-associative arrays into the same data structure, and 1-based arrays all drive me b
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yes, but country-prefixes are something you could migrate gradually in a backwards-compatible way. "Waypoint Charlie Alpha Dash ALKOG, over." "This is an old machine, so just ALKOG then, over."
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by Pxtl 3y ago
If only there was a globally unique set of short two-letter names for every country that could be used as prefixes to enforce uniqueness while still allowing every country to manage their own internal waypoint list. If only.
824.
by Pxtl 3y ago
Artificial Cliff Claven. Mansplaining as a Service. Truthiness on tap.
825.
by Pxtl 3y ago
DotNet is meant to be the replacement. The big problem though is that MS keeps failing to make a GUI framework that is quick-and-easy as VB forms were. Winforms still exists, and it's only a bit clumsier than VB forms, but it'
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> "H. G. Wells", Right. That's probably the most common historical form, and is a good example of how the punctuation for sentence-ends and abbreviations is often the same - period and then single-space.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Fair point, the sentence I invented off the top of my head isn't perfectly grammatically correct but it's close-enough that it shows the ambiguity problem. It's a lot to ask text-to-speech and typesetting programs to figure
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by Pxtl 3y ago
The only time I've felt Edge was forced on my was MS Teams has its own browser binding and defaulted to Edge. Otherwise? The system-level "firefox is my browser" seems to be working fine.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> H.G. Wells was read with a pause in between each period because it "thinks" that each letter boundary is a sentence change This is why I'm a firm "two spaces after the period" guy. Makes it unambiguous the dif
830.
by Pxtl 3y ago
> ring totally hollow I think to anyone who plays it regularly Obviously for a hobbyist player the experience is very different from people learning the ropes. Think the "kid playing against his dad at the cottage" experience.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Still, that it can get stuck in a moribund state and depends on the losing player to fold for it to be "fun" is a flaw.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
"Chess960" ? googles Oh, Fischer Random Chess. Except Bobby Fischer made some Nazi-level antisemitic comments, so new name. 960 because of 960 possible starting layouts. So, Chess960 it is, then.
833.
by Pxtl 3y ago
Well obviously the homeless people are getting drugs just fine so since prohibition failed why not let law-abiding folks have a hit?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
By that logic Xiangqi would be the best because the king is least mobile and so there's basically no chasing.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
My son says the same -- he played through some of the Yakuza games and now he wants a mahjong set.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Wow. "You obviously don't love Star Wars as much as me if you like The Last Jedi" is a heck of a take.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Actually it was a poor qa/test relationship that destroyed git flow for me. Because the presence of release branches made the PO confident they could release any fixes or "emergency features" they wanted, they kept the QA te
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I'll always take an interesting failure over a boring success. I thought that TLJ was incredibly uneven, but I wanted a sequel to that far more than a sequel to TFA.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
You think only Americans have mental health problems? Those are everywhere. The difference is that Americans reject their public transit for the bottom rung of society and then are surprised when it's populated with society's re
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by Pxtl 3y ago
The trick was that "recycle" was always a lie when it came to plastic. Paper can be recycled, but it's not super efficient. Metal can be recycled profitably . Glass can be recycled or even just reused. But plastic? It&#

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