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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Ah, I wasn't aware at all. I thought the joke was made about the website!
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Someone told me that "It's called Medium because the articles are neither rare, nor well-done." That seems accurate in my experience.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I checked out wirecutter today and it seems really decent. Thanks for the recommendation!
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
>In a twist of questionable logic, the researchers claim that, because about four in five robbery cases remain unsolved, the real number of false complaints must be higher. There are no unsolved cases, just false complaints! The power of
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I live in Spain, so now I get all of my components and electronics from PCComponentes. I had to return a broken monitor and the service was amazing too, although to Amazon's credit, I've never had an issue with Amazon's retur
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I use Amazon a lot and I have Amazon Prime but I've started to do big purchases elsewhere. Because, frankly, the difference between having 25 relevant SKU's in a smaller store versus 1000's on Amazon doesn't matter to me
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I've read A Deepness In The Sky and enjoyed it, I was wondering whether it A Fire Upon The Deep is similar? Also, it was lucky I had A Deepness In The Sky on my e-reader as I had no idea how long it was and it would have been far
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I think he means there is little to no protectionism in Europe when it comes to software - so we get 'digitally colonised' by the USA. Whereas China and Russia have stricter rules about what foreign corporations can do, so there t
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
If it's paid for by the people, it should belong to the people. Open-source meets this requirement, proprietary software doesn't.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
IMO the first season of Altered Carbon was good - the second one? Not so much... and it seems like the viewing stats reflected that. I'd read the first book and it was interesting that despite the first season changing so much from the
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I used to use it back in 2009/2010 as an alternative to Bittorrent etc. which was ruthlessly blocked by the University network. It didn't seem to count towards our download limit either. Not sure why not, but that was awesome.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
In Europe, especially in the cities it is much more common to rent and generally you aren't allowed to drill into the walls etc. As the gamer demographic skews younger and the homeowner demographic is skewing increasingly older - I can
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Yeah, five years old is really young but I guess it's worth a try. I think at 5 years old I played some educational games that my parents had (I can't even remember the names..) and I was lucky that we had a computer because that
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
It reminds me of what Stephen Jay Gould said: “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I just recently finished all of the books. The third and fourth books are the weakest by far and are actually done much better by the TV series than the books. The TV series version of Ashford is an actual deep character and not just a 2d c
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I use a Kindle but just read .mobi files I put on it via Calibre.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
If you think privacy is the major concern of most people then no offence, but you've had a pretty privileged life. I doubt it's even the major concern of most people in Western countries due to unemployment, poverty, debt etc. let
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
> we need to have a conversation I'm not sure how they envisage such a "conversation" (whatever that means in this context) taking place.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
We also pay taxes in Europe. An engineer's pre-tax salary in Europe would be like 20-60k euros in the South/East and 30-80k in the North. The USA just has a lot more capital in tech so the demand for labor is a lot more robust. Eu
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
In Europe, most people earn nowhere near 100k USD, and as you just said in USA the median wage is 30k USD. I'd still say Europe and most of the USA is "first world living standards".
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Yep, Fall Guys just broke Proton (i.e. Linux) and Ultrawide Monitor support with the addition of Easy Anti-Cheat in the latest patch. I feel consumers need better protections against this stuff.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I agree that Jobs is overhyped, but his contributions via NeXT were pretty considerable, no? I mean, the vision was for a powerful yet affordable computer for use in Higher Education. This seems like quite a noble goal given the technologic
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Is it possible that the conditions in the deep oceans of that world might still be amenable to life - far below the harsh surface conditions?
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I mean the price is still incredibly volatile compared to say gold, silver, Government bonds etc. I don't get how it can be a good long term store of value with that level of volatility?
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I suspect it would be hard to eat raw fruit in sufficient volume for it to be an issue though? Although for sure, you have to be careful drinking a lot of fruit juice etc.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Yeah, I thought this was referring to YouTube Premium at first (which doesn't seem so bad as it would let me download videos to my phone to watch when I don't have connectivity) This YoutubeTV thing just seems awful - frankly I&#x
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
The Elements of Computing Systems - Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken (MIT Press) It's used in the Nand2Tetris course[1]. It guides you through building a computer and writing an assembler and compiler. It's not so much a textbook yo
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I did Nand2Tetris in Python as it was what I was familiar with at the time. I think using a much stricter language like Rust would have saved me a lot of heartache.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Also on mobile you are constrained by the app store requirements as well.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I don't want to be on my own all day. The best set-up I've ever had was when I had an office with just my team (and only the other engineers) so just the people who I was actually working with. This meant discussions could actuall

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