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by alickz 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I have no background in biology but from what I gathered watching the talk this is some real sci-fi shit. Very cool
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by alickz 4y ago
i thought it was like a tornado warnings repo
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by alickz 4y ago
i feel for ya mate, i can see it coming for me too
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by alickz 4y ago
Wikipedia link if anyone wants to read more on broken window economics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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by alickz 4y ago
> If this was a single well-remembered click on each site no one would mind, the problem is that the providers want to make it painful so you start to just click 'accept' to get it over with. God bless any website with a simple
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by alickz 4y ago
> You can call it a "I'm a responsible adult" button. Apple even have the copy for it signed off by Steve Jobs. “Are you sure you want to open the application ‘Monkey Ball’ from the developer ‘Sega’?” https://em
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by alickz 4y ago
>I have personally jailbroken my LG smart TV using a V8 n-day exploit (details not public, yet). What have you done with your jailbroken TV? I was considering jailbreaking my LG Smart TV too as I _hate_ the Home screen with a passion and
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by alickz 4y ago
>I don't want to install additional browsers, app stores, or other crap on my phone, I just want it to work well, out of the box with reasonably high security. I don't see these as mutually exclusive.
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by alickz 4y ago
> Displaced Gamers is great. Seconded, their videos are informative and lean. If anyone has a passing interest in NES architecture or just how NES games work I'd recommend checking out the creators other videos.
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by alickz 4y ago
How are the incentives any different between an investor owned corporation and a worker owned corporation? Surely the worker owned corporation will also try to maximise revenue for the owners too? Just the owners are now the workers instead
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by alickz 4y ago
>And then they invoked the system permissions dialog that allows the user to grant location access, but instead of only asking for permission to access user data when the app is open, they told iOS to ask the user if they could always ha
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by alickz 4y ago
You're not alone. Also when I see US dev salaries posted I feel like as a European I'm missing out big time.
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by alickz 4y ago
>But why would I? It's not like they took something from me. I am the lord of my destiny. Envy. You can be genuinely happy for them, but then be sad that your life isn't going as well. I think this compounded by the idea that a
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by alickz 4y ago
> I realized it for myself when I bought a lot of games but never "have time or mood" to actually play them. When this happens to me consistently it is nearly always depression killing my desire. Although it's never obviou
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by alickz 4y ago
CRPG video games are also having a bit of a renaissance right now. Between Obsidian (Pillars of Eternity), Larian (Divinity Original Sin, Baldurs Gate 3), and Owlcat (Pathfinder WOTR) it's a good time to be a CRPG fan and the genre see
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by alickz 5y ago
> ⋚ U+22DA LESS-THAN EQUAL TO OR GREATER-THAN > ⋛ U+22DB GREATER-THAN EQUAL TO OR LESS-THAN These are very interesting. What would be the use case for these?
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by alickz 5y ago
By that logic if you are in favour of actionable threats being illegal you should have no problem with this. It's just speech after all. I'm also in favour of limits on speech, but I draw the line at threats and sustained harassme
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by alickz 5y ago
But why are phones considered gated platforms in the first place? How is a phone not just a general computing device? How is a phone not just a laptop in a different form factor? Because Apple/Google say so? There would be massive push
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by alickz 5y ago
Steam doesn't belong there, as it's not the only avenue for developers to distribute games on PC. Even Google Play is iffy, as developers could distribute through 3rd party app stores or sideloading, though Google makes that harde
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by alickz 5y ago
I'd pay for Youtube Premium if they'd let me use SponsorBlock with their Android app.
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by alickz 5y ago
cool
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by alickz 5y ago
I only have a layman understanding of bitcoin, and I've never used a cheque in my life, but would it not be more like "someone wrote you a cheque and there's no guarantee it won't bounce when you try to cash it in"?
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by alickz 5y ago
the last few years have been a mini golden age for JRPGs Persona 5: Royal, Dragon Quest 11, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, FFVII:R
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by alickz 5y ago
I like Reddit but I think you have to be very careful about trusting any information on it, it's a populist's wet dream. There have been multiple times on Reddit I saw a comment about something I personally had deep knowledge of,
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by alickz 5y ago
The article has been updated with a response from Danny Sullivan, the person you're responding to, which is worth a read. I just tested "eggzackly this" and every result on the first page contains the string "eggzackly t
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by alickz 5y ago
For live action I believe this is the case. For example the 48fps version of The Hobbit was very uncanny, and the makeup and SFX were too obvious. But for purely animated films I don't think this is the case; there's no makeup or
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by alickz 5y ago
Is macOS a separate "thing"? Does macOS wholly belong to Apple? Do I have the "right" to develop a Mac app without Apples say-so? I don't say this to be combative, I just don't see the difference between iOS an
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by alickz 5y ago
Mozilla removed add-on support from Firefox Android for non-approved add-ons. So now 90% of the add-ons I used to use are gone. There is a workaround using custom AOM collections but it's annoying to have a feature removed.
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by alickz 5y ago
For me it was when I couldn't right click and "Open file location" from the Windows search What folder is Gears of War 5 installed to on my PC? Who knows, certainly not me. Also a reason why I hate the Windows Store (not that
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by alickz 5y ago
>That's how Nintendo of EU gets away with not refunding. You started downloading it so no returns. Sony too. https://www.playstation.com/en-ie/support/store/ps-store-ref...

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