SentientNo4

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by SentientNo4 1y ago
It's time you stop telling people how to enjoy things.
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by SentientNo4 3y ago
The first game to offer a trial is Dead Space which uses Denuvo. Game is also published by EA which would be at the tail of my list of consumer friendly publishers.
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by SentientNo4 4y ago
In a world where the de-facto language is English but most people are not native speakers, it's actually really hard to compose official or neutral sounding messages. I can navigate colloquial conversations in English pretty well, but
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by SentientNo4 4y ago
Location: Romania, EU Remote: Yes (location agnostic) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, Micronaut, ElasticSearch, Redis, Google Cloud Platform (PubSub, Compute Engine, Functions, Scheduler, Kubernetes), HTML/CSS,
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by SentientNo4 5y ago
> Cosmetic items are not just visual though. They are real elements in the game. Yes, I really hate this argument that cosmetics are not gameplay. Visuals are a huge part of what makes a game, no one would be happy if games shipped witho
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by SentientNo4 6y ago
> People also got lazy, why bother hosting your own website when you can just upload to Instagram ? Why bother changing your car oil when you can take it to the service? Why bother cooking your own meal when you can just go to the restau
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by SentientNo4 7y ago
I assume they bet on people who want to use the Chromium engine without all the Google stuff and corporate people who use macs but work with MS infrastructure (like Exchange and Sharepoint).
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by SentientNo4 8y ago
I don't know a single person that uses the mark as spam option to "delete legitimate emails". In fact, almost everybody just leaves those emails in their inbox after reading them. A small fraction of users use the archive fun
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by SentientNo4 8y ago
Simple: it costs them money and resources to go through the process you described, whereas it costs them almost nothing to directly close the account and send an automated message.
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by SentientNo4 8y ago
In that case, all that is leaked is your email address, which is probably in every email database already. Email addresses are not terribly easy to keep secret anyway.
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by SentientNo4 8y ago
The "new" app is actually not so new, and it was previously called Workflow ( https://www.workflow.is/ ). Looks like they bought it and rebranded it as Shortcuts.
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by SentientNo4 8y ago
I personally believe your definition is somewhat flawed. Computers are ubiquitous; my dentist's receptionist sits in front of a computer all day, using it to manage appointments and electronic communication. Does that make my dentist&#
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by SentientNo4 8y ago
> Because it's there I will type stuff in the "Search" box in Finder, expecting to filter on the filename of the current folder--instead it it searches "This Mac" http://osxdaily.com/2013/03
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by SentientNo4 9y ago
If you run a blog, yes, the global nature of Internet ensures that. If you're running a business, you must abide the law of every jurisdiction you operate in. Companies invest lots of money and effort doing this, from operational (havi
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by SentientNo4 9y ago
> but I was a fan of Allen Pike's mockup of bottom navigation on the iPhone X (or, "Pro", at the time) That looks too much like how Android navigation works. Apple will never go for something like this.
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Apple gave Uber's app 'unprecedented' access to a secret backdoor(uk.businessinsider.com)
13 points by SentientNo4 9y ago|0 comments
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by SentientNo4 9y ago
Computer software does not exist in isolation; it is built upon layers and layers of abstractions, starting from hardware and ending with your framework/language of choice, resulting in a system so complex that no person alive is able
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by SentientNo4 9y ago
But you throw your phone at the wall once a week? I think your problem requires a different solution.
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by SentientNo4 9y ago
I believe the battery drain would be an even better indicator. I'm sure if an app would constantly do audio processing in the background it would dramatically lower the battery life.
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by SentientNo4 9y ago
We don't have to entirely rely on Apple doing something. The users have a voice also. I went on and left a 1 star review, explaining that the apps tracks your location and sells this data. If enough users would do this, it will send a