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by alickz 6y ago
Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA
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by alickz 6y ago
>I was surprised to see that (at least on the 360) there was no way for a title to terminate itself; the game process ran until it was killed by something else (e.g., the user launching another title, or shutting the console down). This
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by alickz 6y ago
Similar to the Jevons Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by alickz 6y ago
> 2. Downloading a video game is usually capped by the server providing the download and not by your fiber connection speed. If this is the case the cap is way above 100Mbps. I regularly get 4-500Mbps downloading from Steam in EU.
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by alickz 6y ago
Happened on Steam too a couple of years ago, people being logged into other people's accounts.
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by alickz 6y ago
> Happened to H3H3 on YouTube Also same attack vector used to get access to Jack Dorsey's Twitter account I believe.
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by alickz 6y ago
I agree, while I think HN is better I also think it's a difference in scale, not a night and day difference. Your point about people who "know how to post" is very interesting, as on Reddit I've noticed there's a ce
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by alickz 6y ago
Oh yeah agreed, but I think that tiny difference leads to a noticeably different outcome. The Signal-to-Noise ratio here is more than Reddit, particularly Reddit's popular subreddits. As a result I find myself changing my mind while re
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by alickz 6y ago
That's a cool idea. I've also been put off from replying to older comments. The chronological thing is also interesting as it's a lot more like the forums of old, which I grew up on. Definitely a different experience from the
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by alickz 6y ago
Also I don't think Reddit's design incentivises thoughtful or interesting discourse. The upvote/downvote system turns every thread into a popularity contest. You don't get upvotes for asking interesting questions, or pro
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by alickz 6y ago
>What will also happen is that the government will end up regulating the App stores, since it’s no longer just Apple running them. App stores have been on PC for decades at this point and the government isn't regulating them. I&#x27
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by alickz 6y ago
Privacy should be built into the OS, not rely on fallible human review. Not to mention a 3rd party app store could be even MORE privacy focused than Apple's App Store, if the market was there for it. There's no reason Apple can&#x
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by alickz 6y ago
what are some right answers?
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by alickz 6y ago
Yeah it was posted not long ago. When it sees HN as the referrer it shows a picture of a testicle in an egg cup.
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by alickz 6y ago
Haha I know that pain. When I was a kid I asked my mom to print me out Grand Theft Auto cheats from Gamewinners.com while she was in work. Somehow I got the address wrong and she wanted to know why I wanted to print out pages and pages from
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by alickz 6y ago
They do quality creative as meaning "novel and useful" in their abstract. Novel can be a double edged sword but useful implies good I believe.
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by alickz 6y ago
That is extremely impressive. I'm not sure I want to code like that, but damn is it impressive.
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by alickz 6y ago
I bought from a (relatively) small German commerce site[1] rather than a bigger site like Amazon, OCUK, or Scan. I'm in EU though, probably doesn't help if you're US. I think I paid a €50 or so premium over the retail price b
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by alickz 6y ago
They barely allow single buying for the 30 series :( Took me quite a while to get my hands on a 3080.
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by alickz 6y ago
I'd guess it has something to do with FATCA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance... > The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is a 2010 United States federal law requiring all non
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by alickz 6y ago
Damn CERN back at it again. Quick, someone hook a phone up to a microwave so we can go back in time.
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by alickz 6y ago
True, it might not be a monopoly, or even a duopoly, but I'm not sure it's much better. Do you think if a politician is banned from Facebook, Twitter, and Google they have even a small chance of being elected? It wouldn't eve
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by alickz 6y ago
If a private party can use their monopoly on the limiting of free speech to control the government how is that any different than those private parties _being_ the government, and by extension enjoying the monopoly on violence? If a handful
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by alickz 6y ago
I understand this logic but my worry is since smartphones have become the primary computing device for millions of people ("What's a computer?") treating them as closed systems like gaming consoles is a bad approach. I think
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by alickz 6y ago
Those apps, if they exist, are explicitly against Apple's App Store policy. Usually they don't pass review. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#min...
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by alickz 6y ago
IIRC an article by the New York Times was considered a turning point in convincing the population of WMDs in Iraq.
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by alickz 6y ago
Long term I think better education and promoting critical thinking is the only way that doesn't erode democracy. Short term I have no idea. Silencing people you deem are running misinformation campaigns is probably the quickest, and ea
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by alickz 6y ago
Yeah I'm surprised by how poor iOS notifications are. A feature I really like on Android is being able to block specific notification channels for any given app. Want to receive notifications when your Uber is near, but don't want
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by alickz 6y ago
Back when I had a jailbroken iPhone (4S I believe) there were many useful, or just cool, jailbreak tweaks. Notable ones I remember where: 1. SBSettings, basically control center before Apple added the control center. 2. Flux, before Apple a
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by alickz 6y ago
The custom maps in CS:S / TF2 were my introduction to this. So many weird and wacky maps. Maps built to look like spongebob's house, maps to look like mario, so many hours wasted on surf maps. I'm sad newer games don't s

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