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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
> though if Apple suddenly took gaming seriously, like extending Rosetta to act as a translation layer for Windows games a la Proton, I’d gladly throw down for an M5 Ultra when it’s released No joke, if I could run my Steam library on my
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
For a first run-through, I'd recommend the "Zero Rando" edition of the [Deus Ex Randomizer]( https://github.com/Die4Ever/deus-ex-randomizer/ ) mod, since that's strictly limited to quality-of-lif
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
> It keeps nagging me to upgrade to the family plan or plus or whatever. And if I ignore it enough it enrolls me in a free trial of the family plan without me even asking every once it a while. The amount of up-selling they try to push o
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
Also, "waste" doesn't have a singular definition: a contract with Honeywell (just picking a big government contractor at random) with the DOD/DOW to develop a new weapon could easily be seen as wasteful by one taxpayer,
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
> The F1 guys are probably as fit as a top footballer. They're dealing with black out levels of lateral G forces whilst slamming on the brakes within a fraction of a second of loser times or crashing out. I don't think it ever
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
It's because the leagues (and therefore the teams) make significantly more money when the rights are shared vs. when they're owned by a single entity. For example, the National Hockey League is in the middle of a seven-year, $4.5
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
Only a handful of scenes were shot in the Bay Area: - https://filminglocations.fandom.com/wiki/Sneakers - https://www.set-jetter.com/ontheset/sneakers
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
I'm thinking of the scene where they talk about the corrupting influence of money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifJMFqSV7ic
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
They're not on the roof for that scene; they're in his office, using the computer room's air conditioning as a sound mask (and using a Cray Y-MP as a bench). While the movie takes some very early-90s liberties with technolog
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
I've found that creators and channels I've subscribed to don't always appear in the subscriptions feed. Thankfully, YouTube still posts an RSS feed for every channel, and following a bunch of them in my reader app reliably c
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
They exist, but in New Jersey -- most of the "cities" (with the exception of downtown Jersey City and downtown Newark) would be called streetcar suburbs in an earlier time. I live in one of them, and it's great: I have a sma
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
I would argue that a public transportation network is a requirement, maybe even a prerequisite, for high density. Manhattan simply could not work without the various public transportation methods -- if everyone commuting in from CT, LI, NJ
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
To me, it's a big reason why Americans love Disney World: you can drive to your local airport, fly to Florida, take a shuttle bus to your resort (that handles your luggage for you), and then rely on Disney's private network of bus
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
The problem for America is that moneyed interests (big car manufacturers) would frequently sabotage or otherwise salt the earth for public transportation projects. One immediate one off the top of my head is the Long Island Expressway: when
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
Caro has a way with words; one of my favorite turns was when Moses declared traffic a problem "solved for a generation", only for Caro to begin the next paragraph with a description of the traffic jams that began to develop a few
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
> secretaries who took dictation (with a typewriter, of course) to write those documents Complete aside, just because you brought up this thought and I like the concept of it: My mom trained professionally as a secretary in the 1970s and
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
It's not a bug or issue with those phones, it's how batteries behave -- over time, they lose both their capacity and the power they output. Apple decided to throttle their phones via software instead of letting them crash. I'
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
> These days I use VSCode and IntelliJ (depending on language) because they do so many things out of the box. While I don't appreciate the weight of an IDE, the time commitment to create (and maintain!) a config for vim/nvim wi
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
Apple handles it cleanly in Safari (you get a list of the accounts you're registered with on macOS, and iOS gives you the two most-recently-used accounts for that website with a button to reveal more). The implementation in Chromium br
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
Valve goes one step beyond loot boxes with their marketplace: you get a loot box, pay to open it (basically a slot machine spin), and you get an item in a "game of chance" -- but that item is a "thing of value" that can
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
The way Google handles the Chromium source (one big Git monorepo that's undergoing near-constant refactoring) means anything that doesn't want to hard fork is limited to bolting on a new UI and features around the core rendering e
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
Normally, I'd agree with you -- defaults are a very, _very_ powerful thing. But if you're using Google's web tools, they make it (too) easy to download their apps and push you in that direction in a million little ways. For
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
In a world where people need both fiat and crypto, the volatility of crypto precludes returns.
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
On the other hand, I'm absolutely amazed some US states hasn't yet gone after Valve for running an unlicensed casino with no age verification.
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
Marijuana sales, at least in the US, are a whole different can of worms, because marijuana exists as kind of a Schroedinger's illicit substance: its legal at a state level in most US states, while simultaneously illegal at the federal
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
Debit cards still go through MasterCard and/or Visa. They could take crypto, but crypto is far too volatile for the types of transactions Valve wants to be handling.
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
The problem with the Supreme Court is the handshake-agreement to limit the court's size in combination with lifetime appointments and the Senate majority leader's pocket veto. Going back to 1992 (eight Presidential terms, three s
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
Then it becomes an organization dominated by those who donate the most -- and there have already been cases where a PBS affiliate self-censored and modified its editorial in an attempt to placate a potential donor[0]. [0] https:/&#x2F
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
Valve has done a lot, but until you start getting the big "forever" games to support Linux, it'll never be an acceptable substitute for most home users. Doubly so for anyone with kids.
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
I think it's more that Nintendo's choice of hardware (and its relative lack of horsepower) force them into more stylized visuals because it means photo-realism is basically off the table to start with. We the audience tend not to

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