Sir_Substance

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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
FYI the person you were responding to was me, and I wasn't complaining.
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
I disagree. If that's what I'm after, I could just ask two or three people who own one to render an opinion. It would take me less then a minute to have that thread up on reddit. The whole argument behind why websites like wsj are
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/27568/consume... https://www.reddit.com/r/GearVR/comments/3vlsad/is_the_overh...
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
>$2200 in a PC and a Rift, or $100 that clips on your phone (assuming you're on Samsung)? Your figures are a little off. A rift is (all following figures in USD) $599, and a computer that will support it is generally quoted at $950,
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
Off the top of my head I don't think you can with the gear vr (doesn't the USB port get taken up by the headset?), but even if you can, one of the authors key complaints leading into that statement was that the rift was not wirele
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
>There’s already another VR rig that doesn’t have a tether—and it costs a fraction of the Rift. Samsung’s $100 Gear VR, made in partnership with Oculus, is powered by a smartphone that you physically insert in front of two lenses. The ex
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
Because it's beyond your ability to prevent, and your inevitable failure has terrible side effects. Are you seriously tell me that facebooks real name policy has made cyberbullying less hurtful?
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
>That is extremely easy to say when you haven't had this done to you. You should check my comment history dude. There's a chap named "assocguilt" who on this very site spent about two months stalking every post I made
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
I guess I don't agree that twitter is as mandatory as you think it is.
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
>We should all be able to participate in online communities without the fear of being stalked or harassed. My priority is anonymity and freedom of expression. You're never going to be able to satisfactorily reconcile that with your
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
It is standard. It being standard does not preclude it being sexist, but it is standard. Sorry if your world view doesn't fit the facts.
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
They space the seats farther apart, which helps a little, but the reality is that given a choice between home or cinema, I'll always pick home.
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
>Is audience behavior a problem? In my limited experience, it has never been a problem. I hate, deeply and profoundly, the sound of people eating. If it doesn't bother you then you might not have noticed this, but about 50% of popco
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
Sqlite has a really nice solution for this, by the way. Their code is public domain. If you happen to live in a place that doesn't have a well formed notion of public domain and that's going to cause you a problem (SQLite's n
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
I use printers so infrequently, it's usually easier to use the work or public library printer when I need to rather than maintain ink cartridges. They usually go dry before I use them, I typically print less than 10 pages a year. For t
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
>But where would you go? Iceland, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland, Ukraine, Hungary, Mexico, Argentina, Israel, India? The result of these kinds of policies is brain drain. The people you are trying to ban the actions
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
I just went to look at it, and cannot for the life of me figure out what Nginx Plus is trying to sell me for my $1900 a year. Clue me in?
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
I tried to view this on my phone, and it placed a massive JS blocker across the whole page bitching at me to view it vertically. Who the hell writes these scripts?
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
>I'm tired of low quality content, I want to be supporting serious, intelligent journalism that goes a bit further than the click-bait we're stuck with at the moment. The thing is, historically speaking this kind of content has
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
Prove you're a Turing, and there's no problem. Of course, you can't, which is why you're still following me months later posting impotent comments. I'm staggered how deep this bit, I really must have hit a nerve.
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
In general, I think it would be most optimal if technical decisions didn't hinge on legal restrictions. GPL makes this less likely because of its absolutionist stance.
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
Maybe I like it better? WHY ARE WE ARGUING? explodes
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
Xamarin studio can be run against .net on windows, it's not mono specific.
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
...because Visual Studio is a C#/C++ IDE that works on Windows, and Xamarin Studio is also a C#/C++ IDE that works on Windows? Xamarin Studio is a swiss army knife. I don't know about your use case, but I use it under the nam
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
I'm not debating that Xamarins products are useful to Microsoft, I'm questioning the assertion that they haven't just consumed a competitor.
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
...Xamarin studio isn't a competitor to Visual Studio? That's all I know that Xamarin makes, so I think this article is going a bit over my head, but it'll be a shame if I suddenly need a Microsoft account to use it. I do lik
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
I don't think I can do this without source access to skype, unless I'm missing something?
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
The deep irony of this is that I prefer the linux client to the windows one (or did until it broke, haven't tried to make a call recently), because it is ad free, clean and simple. I wish there was a reverse-wine I could use to run it
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
>I suspect we'll ultimately wind up with mainstream device manufacturers maintaining some kind of per-device master key that they turn over when ordered. It will be impossible to secure that database. Any number and size of bribes w
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by Sir_Substance 11y ago
Oh jesus buddy, there's always one of you. If you care that much go find a mod to ban me (or are you a mod? I don't care), and I'll go find some other corner of the internet. You're welcome to slowly turn this place into

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