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by Strom 6y ago
I'm not sure what the current sales are, but for pre-orders 59% were for PC. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-12-10-cyberpunk-...
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by Strom 6y ago
The Colosseum had wine & water on tap as part of its design. So you don't have to leave the building and can just unblock the tap and refill your cup. The concrete "piping" is still there today. I'd say that feature
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by Strom 6y ago
It's funny because Egypt has fallen even further from its peak glory than Italy.
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by Strom 6y ago
Unexpected pricing changes have already happened to Google Cloud offerings in the past. Google completely redesigned their App Engine pricing scheme in 2011. In practice this meant a 65x price increase for one of my small services. [1] Amon
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by Strom 6y ago
Sounds like any other AI. Surely you weren't expecting some sort of scientific breakthrough with this gag site?
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by Strom 6y ago
The link is hidden. It only shows up after waiting.
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by Strom 6y ago
It's not about physical presence. It's about whether the EU could do something to punish you. For every big company that is true. For example the EU can force Visa/MasterCard to stop doing business with you. If you're sm
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by Strom 6y ago
I do get a sense of mismanagement as well, however the platform situation is a bit complicated. Stadia release was probably contractually obligated to happen with the first volley. It was a big bet for Google, they never shut up about how C
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by Strom 6y ago
> Maybe they can relax the work/life balance now Surely SpaceX employees are there by choice. How many of their employees have no better work/life balance employment choices? I would guess a rare few.
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by Strom 6y ago
> Couldn't we spend absurd amounts of money on fixing Earth instead? We're already spending more than 99.99% of our money on Earth. Are you advocating for a strict 100%?
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by Strom 6y ago
> I don't see why they wouldn't be able to do it There can easily be plenty of critical knowledge employees who don't like the idea of their homeland now being occupied and would rather migrate to Singapore or Australia
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by Strom 6y ago
> What if China were to take over Taiwan and TSMC It's highly unlikely that China can take over Taiwan without doing immense damage to the island due to the required military force. So the move might work to hinder the US from ben
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by Strom 6y ago
Google never liked HTTP/2 push. I've been hosting some pages on Google App Engine and push never got implemented for the mandatory frontend proxy.
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by Strom 6y ago
I also use 20/40/50/70/80/90 so the half hour trick gets more complicated.
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by Strom 6y ago
I have the opposite problem where Siri always starts a timer for 13 minutes when I want 30. I've adjusted to setting the timer for 31 minutes.
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by Strom 6y ago
It's very much an issue with hCaptcha as well. I have to frequently identify US parking meters that I only vaguely know from Hollywood movies.
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by Strom 6y ago
The game is rated M for mature / PEGI-18. It's not meant to be played by 10 year olds.
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by Strom 6y ago
> It exposed something much more important Could you elaborate on what was exposed?
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by Strom 6y ago
There was certainly a semi-forced situation at one point. My mom's Windows 7 laptop started the Windows 10 installation automatically one night, with no questions asked. The computer just restarted and started installing it. Now the re
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by Strom 6y ago
The phrase didn't care in this context means that he was OK with his opinion being called wrong, not that he literally doesn't care either way.
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by Strom 6y ago
Yes HDMI 2.1 with VRR is confirmed at the bottom of the official product page. https://www.amd.com/en/graphics/amd-radeon-rx-6000-series
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International Sting Against Dark Web Vendors Leads to 179 Arrests(europol.europa.eu)
7 points by Strom 6y ago|0 comments
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by Strom 6y ago
On top of all that Dota 2 is one of the best supported games in history, comparable only to the likes of World of Warcraft and Fortnite. It's not like they released Dota 2 and that was that. They've kept developing it to this day
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by Strom 6y ago
jonplackett was asking about 28nm because chips were being mass produced at that size in 2013 already. Nowadays people are used to reading news about 5nm as a new process size. > You did.. read the article right? Please don't be s
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by Strom 6y ago
> continue where they left off The games are timed and this pause gives a lot of thinking time. If they're allowed to talk with others during the pause, then also consulting time. > why don't they start over That would b
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by Strom 6y ago
Improving Rust itself is already a humongous task with no shortage of issues to solve. Taking on something as big as Servo on top would be a horrible distraction.
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by Strom 6y ago
I'll just note that robots.txt does not affect indexing. It is used for traffic management and will not hide pages from Google. [1] -- [1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062608?hl=en
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by Strom 6y ago
> The Baltics could always get more power from Finland and Sweden and disconnect entirely from Russia and Belarus if necessary. Estonia has been a net exporter of electricity since 2017. [1] Amusingly one of the export targets is Russi
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by Strom 6y ago
That's a fun story. Looking more into it, it seems that $10M is based on rumors and it was more likely $3M. [1] Doesn't change the point of the story though. -- [1] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2220097
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by Strom 6y ago
Not everything that is possible has been done. That is such a dark outlook. Do you really think 2020 is peak humanity? New approaches are successful all the time.

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