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by Scapeghost 6y ago
I immensely prefer USB-C to any of the alternatives.
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
I don't know why Apple hasn't positioned video podcasts as an alternative to YouTube. They already exist, and the subscriber mechanism is already better than YouTube (view offline, choose when/what to download), just needs so
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
I'm sure retconning (was the game even canon?) it as having happened after Crusade would have taken less work than writing an entire new story.. (though considering the quality of Skull's writing, I'm not sure)
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
One of the best things about gaming in that era was how you essentially got multiple remixes/covers for every piece of music, depending on the hardware you ran it on. For some games, I prefer the Amiga music, for others PC/Roland,
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Usually, after I complete a major project milestone, or do a lot of housekeeping (computerkeeping), or just when I feel like it's too been too long since the last manual full disk snapshot, I tend to do one.
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Everybody needs to try King's Quest, Maniac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island 1/2, and Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis at least once in their lives. (I still can't beleive the levels of stupitidy this universe m
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
(and of course, censorship and rug sweeping)
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Yes I don't think you can/should rely on TM only. It's convenient to keep running in the background but you'll still want to do manual backups to multiple places (external disks, Dropbox, Github etc)
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> issues like this cause people to unnecessarily throw away perfectly functional hardware > ChromeOS is targeted towards the non-technical and non-computer-literate. you just answered why :)
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Kettle, meet Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Reddit, HN.
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
When I was a kid, discovering "complicated" games like Elite in my uncle's library was almost like digging into the adults' secret porn stash, things you weren't supposed to know about :)
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
That is true as well, particularly when it comes to Western pick-up artists perpetuating the image of "Asian" girls as "easy" and desperate for any White men, who then flock to those places in hopes of scoring what they
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Are you honestly legitimately surprised? All this is very common in third world countries. We continually prey upon each other in the best of times and heaven help any sheltered foreigner who happens to walk around with their guard down.
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
This is a big problem in the UAE too. Any critique of anything that makes the country look less than a perfect paradise may get you fined, jailed and deported. For example, some Swiss journalists were apprehended for taking pictures of the
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
I'm from a country where "jugaad" is the dominant mentality and frankly, it results in a hell for anyone who wants shit to be done right or things to work long term. In practice, it actually becomes: Impatience: Don&#x2
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940014 "VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering"
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Your brazen fanboying for Google is really painful to watch. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hu3
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
It happens often on Reddit, which is really bad with their shadowbanning and associating you with other accounts that you have nothing to do with, probably because crappy ISPs reuse IP addresses for multiple users.
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Ask HN: How does Tinder track me across app installs?
3 points by Scapeghost 6y ago|2 comments
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
And let's not forget being assumed to be a spammer by almost all sites, getting rate limited or shadowbanned, not to mention being buried with captchas and having to do unpaid labor to train Google's AI just to access some sites!
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
This is just wrong. Anyone who justifies in any way this is evil. With practices like this, and other less murderous but still extremely wasteful shit like airlines burning thousands of gallons of fuel to keep their "slots" ( http
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> how much of our law, literature, politics, ethics, and aesthetics come from, like, four or five Greek guys. I always wondered what the world would have been like if these people got fervent followers and governed nations/cultures
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> Can anyone prove it? > The burden of proof is on you to show that they did not earn it. It was a response to "Didn't they earn it?" so the burden of proof is on them. > Do they need it? > Irrelevant. It's t
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> 1. It's also solved So you agree that there's an alternative solution to page numbers, but you want to go back to page numbers? > 2. Most users read from fullscreen readers on their phones or ebooks, so the window size doe
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Why are you against the idea of people being able to live without having to constantly struggle for basic needs and comforts? Do you want the "bottom rung" to just die off during every crunch and crisis like this?
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> If I'm reading it completely, glancing at the scroll bar tells me where I am in the document so it tells me if the document is reaching its conclusion, or perhaps just going on a side note. You'll see the hidden scrollbars wh
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> Didn't they earn it? Can anyone prove it? Do they need it? Is a CEO with multiple mansions and private jets and billions in the bank more worthy of life than the guy working in the mines processing the raw materials of modern civi
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
I keep reading about this and that new system feature which is supposed to make X class of bugs impossible. What silver bullet would prevent this kind of exploit?
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> where does that money come from? The people hoarding it.
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> To know how long the page is Why? How often the first thing you do is look at the scroll bar and close a document because it's too short or too long? If you're gonna read it you'll read it regardless of its length. If yo

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