SllX

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   by SllX 9y ago

   Depends on your perspective. From an American perspective, our Fighters are half of the reason our carrier strike groups are so lethal, and our carrier strike groups are lethal enough to topple a small country. They have to be lethal to
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   by SllX 9y ago

   As a massive collection of humans sending messages to each other and broadcasting across the board, it has a lot of "stuff" to offer. Exactly what this "stuff" is comes down largely to your own ability to curate a decent
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   by SllX 9y ago

   There are not adequate beds available in shelters for the homeless. There are not even adequate shelters for the homeless. The shelters are not always even safe places to be if you're homeless. Nor are the shelters that exist adequate
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   by SllX 9y ago

   Clarification on G Suite received and acknowledged! I am not someone who has signed the contract & ToS, and was prior to now, wary of doing so because it was attached to the Google name. I do thank you for taking the time to acknowle
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   by SllX 9y ago

   When and where do you start ascribing morality to software engineering and deciding who are "good people" within that domain? Like any business, there are those of us that agree with their choices, and those of us that disagree wi
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   by SllX 9y ago

   I posted a longer reply to someone else, but to clarify, when I say obsolete, I mean technically obsolete rather than commercially obsolete.
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   by SllX 9y ago

   So I probably should have put this in my original comment as I've gotten a few replies in the same vein. What I mean by MPEG-2 being obsolete is that whilst DVDs are still created and purchased all over the world, and DVDs do make use
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   by SllX 9y ago

   An obsolete movie format, but a large amount of stored media exists in this format so ultimately a win. I would like to say something to the effect of there being just a tiny bit less rent-seeking in the world today, but I'm sure by to
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   by SllX 9y ago

   I absolutely believe that engineers and product teams do care about their users. That said, I also completely believe that Executives at Google are driven by what drives the majority of Google's revenue, i.e. the people that pay them
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    by SllX 9y ago

    > Email “works” but it’s ass for consistently displaying anything more than text. That's a feature, not a bug.
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    by SllX 9y ago

    I only have anecdotal evidence but anecdotal evidence I do have. 1. There is a McDonalds that was near my Elementary school, actually used to be my favorite place as a kid and it was the place where I would socialize with kids from the Boys
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    by SllX 9y ago

    To be fair, they would be calling shots either way, either by paying up to be a Founding member or if they couldn't do that, indirectly through their own market power which as the makers of their own browsers and chipsets for most of t
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    by SllX 9y ago

    Worked as a Barista for a small Mom and Pop shop. I enjoyed my time there for various reasons, but it is not intellectually stimulating work (maybe if I had worked for a roaster instead?) and while you can dick around all day inventing new
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    by SllX 9y ago

    > Ad free YouTube: why not? This already exists in the form of a $10 monthly subscription, $15 for a Family Plan and is included with Google Play Music All-access (and vice versa). Just make sure you're subscribed, signed in and bam
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    by SllX 9y ago

    Apologies, I was using the acronym for Audio/Video and assumed it would be understood from context, but I could have been more clear.
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    by SllX 9y ago

    Two things about ads. They don't seek to inform you so much as they seek to inform you that something exists whilst manipulating your emotions to get a particular reaction out of you and millions of other people. This is particularly b
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    by SllX 9y ago

    Depending on the future direction they take this, it might end up replacing OpenBSD for me. Mac OS X and OpenBSD are my daily drivers, but at their core, they are BSDs, and less and less I find myself using the NeXTSTEP portion of Mac OS X
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    by SllX 9y ago

    A collectivist society doesn't necessarily mean a supportive community. Part of being part of a collective means trying not to cause problems for the whole, even if it means some self-sacrifice on your part. The nail that sticks out ge
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    by SllX 9y ago

    For me it was the reverse. I was a random highlighter since I was a kid on Windows machines, but after I bought my first Mac the behavior just kind of stopped. I also had another habit I dropped, in part because Mac OS X never supported it,
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    by SllX 9y ago

    Would you rely on common conventions in a legal document rather than legally defined terms?
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    by SllX 9y ago

    Friday Midnight is the same as Midnight Saturday Morning. I mean there is no standards committee for this, but that's what common convention tells us in the Anglophone part of the world.
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    by SllX 9y ago

    Actual dependency. Mac or Windows, QuickTime was the mechanism by which iTunes performed any playback at all whether audio or video. Anything that ran in QuickTime could theoretically also run in iTunes though if I recall correctly though,
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    by SllX 9y ago

    > it needs shortening but any proposal with 'original creator' center and foremost is basically ignoring the reality of modern content production There's a handful of ways to do it if you are not going to center copyright
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    by SllX 9y ago

    Whenever I had to go to the bank for whatever reason, I would check out the teller's desks while they were working on my transaction. It passed the time, but it was pretty interesting. At least at that time, at that bank branch, a typi
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    by SllX 9y ago

    I guess it'll be just like the good old days with Firefox 1.5.
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    by SllX 9y ago

    Yangtze (China) Indus (India, Pakistan, China) Yellow (China) Hai (China) Nile (Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Eritrea) Meghna (Bangladesh and I think India?)
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    by SllX 9y ago

    >Consumer tech seemed to move blisteringly fast then. If I recall correctly one of the "major" features of Windows Vista that Microsoft was advertising back in 2006 was a little screen OEMs might add to their laptop that would
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    by SllX 9y ago

    I use hledger everyday for basic personal accounting, but it might be the only Haskell application on my system.
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    by SllX 9y ago

    > You're expressing beliefs that others should have their rights taken away. That's unacceptable. I don't agree with his viewpoint, but consider it from the other side. There's two parts to marriage for a lot of peopl
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    by SllX 9y ago

    Speaking as someone that grew up in San Francisco, I wouldn't call it particularly tolerant anymore. At one time when the current political climate wasn't the default, maybe yeah. So what I would say is the default cultural assu