SirSourdough

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by SirSourdough 5y ago
It seems like a lot more people have laptops only these days and most new laptops don’t have a CD drive. Neither my 2013 MBP or the desktop I built in 2018 have a CD drive and I’ve never needed one with the desktop and haven’t used one with
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Most organizations I have seen already only have a couple people who can actually make and edit the advanced sheets used by the org and lots of people who use those sheets with a very, very rudimentary knowledge of Excel to generally get th
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Agreed. Obviously, I'm not a lawyer so who knows. But it seems ridiculous that you could break into someone else's device and run all of their files and then come after them legally because a file you effectively stole didn&#x27
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Not every university / university class is big. Most likely explanation is that they simply said they live together.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Sounds like a little-used TLD that ICANN has been trying to phase out for decades. Google has individual sites for most of countries that would have initially been under the umbrella of the .su (USSR) TLD, and .su apparently has 2% of the u
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
From the perspective of someone who mostly dabbles in creating APIs for my own use: - Auto-generated docs and simple front end for your API allow you to examine and interact with your endpoints with essentially no added work or tools - Feat
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
Why wouldn't we assume they are lying? Interacting with their dispute process doesn't have any human qualities, so what would make us think that humans are involved? They are a massive monopoly and just the other day it was report
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
Didn’t Apple basically set the standard? Seems like a weird way to justify it.
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
From the wiki article: “Juno initially had an equity structure that planned to give drivers fifty percent of the founder's equity by 2026, but this program was discontinued in 2017 when Juno was acquired by Gett.” So I doubt much equit
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
Lots of details to be seen on the ground that can’t be seen or confidently established from satellite photography.
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
I’m aware of at least one case of a school installing software that allowed them to remotely access the webcams of students, and they admitted to using the software on 40+ occasions. I wouldn’t be surprised if this practice existed in the c
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
It reads HTML and returns the tables contained in the HTML as pandas dataframes. It’s a simple way to scrape tabular data from websites.
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
You should discourage the use of Unreal Engine and avoid it wherever possible if you believe that Epic is an unethical company, of course.
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
This seems like a pretty cut and dry example though. It’s a direct financial relationship where Epic profits off of Supergiants games. That money is support. It allows Epic to propagate their views and business model. Whether or not you cho
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
I guess in a vacuum each of those skills is easy to build up through practice and self-learning (which, lets remember, many people struggle with to begin with). However, I think the fact that you refer to people possessing all of them as &q
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
I hope we can agree that there's a significant difference in accessibility for something you can legally buy from the store versus something that you have to seek out illegally from random "sketchy people on the street".
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
I don't think this really addresses the point though. Alcohol is sold with known purity, quality, and quantity. You aren't going to overdose due to an impurity. Yet dangerous drinking is still very common, and alcohol causes signi
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
In the context of government, is this not the relationship that already exists between the communications teams of politicians and (good) journalists?
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
It seems like a default to the status quo for most, and in a broad sense I think aligns with people’s notions that they should be compensated for their work. I don’t think that the majority position on the issue is particularly informed and
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
They were threatening him with 50 years in jail and a million in fines or accepting an immoral (to him, and as a more broadly held belief of many) punishment with no opportunity to defend himself and the prospect of a lifelong record of ser
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
There are package-free / fully reusable packaging grocery stores popping up. I really think its something that could become the norm with pretty little pain for people. Worth looking to see if there is one in your area to push the deat
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
Surely the reduction in land used must have a significant environmental impact. For the crops in question, you are talking about the ability to have a 2-acre building surrounded by a 718 acre nature reserve to get the same results as a 720
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
Factorio is almost exclusively about factory building and automation. Rimworld is much more of a social/survival game, with hunting, gathering, cooking, diseases, invaders, exploration, character emotions, etc. Factorio has basically n
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
I disagree with your reading. Specifically, it doesn't say that 67,000 people died of the flu , it says that 67,000 people died . The entire report is about all-cause mortality, and so is that sentence. The flu was the reason for a
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
I can’t find any source that attributes over 60,000 deaths to the flu in France in January 2017. In fact, that’s close to 4x the most commonly reported figures for the whole 2016/2017 flu season in France. What numbers are you basing t
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
“Why this sentiment is not applied to Russia then?” Because China is literally 10x the GDP of Russia. The West, and particularly the USA, is willing to give up what it gets from Russia because it would have little impact. The same can not b
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
I mean sure, Google put the gun to every website and said “We are using our monopoly power to ensure your business will fail if you do not conduct business as we see fit”. Really, really positive way of bringing about change.
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
During COVID, the IA created an emergency lending program under which they would lend an unlimited number of copies of the books in their library rather than sticking to the 1:1 lending they normally allow. This resulted in a more or less i
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by SirSourdough 6y ago
What portion of all users are going to do that? A fraction of a percent? The point of making the companies change is that most users aren’t computer literate enough to understand the problem, it’s consequences, or the mitigations. The knowl
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by SirSourdough 7y ago
Yeah, but out of all the self-driving test miles Uber is doing, how many are in the self-driving cabs vs non-public road testing? I would expect them to be very careful with a passenger in the car scrutinizing but much less so in a test car

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