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by badlucklottery 2y ago
I think they're saved to your Microsoft account by default now. And, since Microsoft likes to pretend an account is required to even install Windows now, most people will likely have a linked account.
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by badlucklottery 2y ago
> The more time you put on something, the better the results. You'll rarely get worse results but it doesn't guarantee better results. Which is exactly the sort of calculus that leads to people pushing so hard they actually
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
Same here. And it makes perfect sense. For me personally, being able to move somewhere with a lower cost of living without having a lengthy commute is a huge benefit. Especially in the face of ongoing layoffs.
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
> And the scientists have mostly themselves to blame for this sad state of affairs. Ehh, that's debatable. There's been a decades-long campaign to malign science and science-related institutions by big tobacco, big oil, various
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
I think the difficulty of respeccing should be the inverse of the length of the game. If you're playing a quick roguelike where it's all over in a couple hours at most: no need for respeccing, the class constraints add replayabili
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
> So if we don't dog-pile on a specific tech CEO and give the rest a pass we are white knights? The problem with bringing up those other tech CEOs vs. actually defending Musk is it starts looking like whataboutism. I personally thin
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
It might be driven by transparency/security. Safely letting users easily see what's in a suspicious RAR before just blindly extracting it or opening it in third party software (possibly with known/unknown exploits) sounds lik
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
RobertPeip (FPGAzumSpass, the developer of the Mister PS1 core) also an open source N64 FPGA core in development: https://github.com/RobertPeip/Mister64
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
> Because the training data is itself the result of this type of bad policing, the resulting model can only further engrain these practices, it can't offer truly novel solutions. I think the sad part is: that's the point. Depar
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
> Can we have an example of toxic masculinity? A good example is if you your son is allowed help change the oil but you don't allow your daughter or wife to help because it's "man's work". Or if you force your
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
Off the top of my head, the left talks a lot about gun suicides (and how to improve the situation). Why this is relevant to the discussion: The gun suicide rate is up for teens: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
+1 If OP has a big yard, a well-maintained house, and decent schools nearby, that almost immediately puts you over $1m in Austin. If their house actually has some serious square footage or acreage, $1.5-2m isn't ridiculous. You can tak
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
> If it's not cheap, why bother? The mortgage lender can require it. They don't want to have a burnt down house on the books for any amount of time.
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
> What makes this game great besides the nostalgia factor? Using some very light immersive sim elements and solid first person melee combat, the game rewards you for winning fights unfairly: - You can lure enemies in front of a trap and
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
>it isn’t producing good work for the money? They already have a mechanism for dealing with workers who don't produce up to standards: performance improvement plans (PIP). The fact they aren't using the existing mechanism and i
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
I think it's relatively common for artists (especially digital artists and tattoo artists) to get a lot of work through social media. I haven't seen much of it on Twitter but it seems much more common on Instagram.
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
> And now this person is suing because what? It sounds like this doctor in particular was running a pill mill catering to the conspiracy crowd. I suppose we'll find out what role America’s Frontline Doctors played in all of this soo
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
Equal access to education (a consequence of the 14th Amendment) means that the school district more or less has to do whatever it takes to educate each kid regardless of disability. A modern, functional district will have a small army of Sp
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
The 1-2 quarters is just to "realign" the SWEs, not the codebase. Old code can usually be left as-is unless there some particularly egregious security hole or the like.
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
> if you don't have a job, so being put in jail won't make you lose your job, you should be jailed longer to make up for the fact that jail harms you less. I know you were being facetious but, due to how the US legal system wo
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
This. Someone dropped the ball. There's a form to get your corner of the codebase exempted from readability temporarily. This gives your team a quarter or two to build up readability.
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
So Oregon started a two-pronged approach (reduced criminalization coupled with low-/no-cost treatment centers) and weren't able to actually get the treatment side of it working. Statistically jail is a very bad drug treatment cent
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
> "RxJS exists. Why bother specifying this in the language?" And, honestly, that's a great point. It's even easy to wrap EventTargets: fromEvent(target, 'eventName'). For the record: I'm a big fan of Rx
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
> the only people with clearance to debate climate science are climate scientists, which is, all things considered, a pretty small marketplace. Like most highly specialized fields, getting 100% current on the state of the art will likely
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
This. For example, most journals will specifically select peer reviewers who have published papers with conclusions/results counter to the one being reviewed. And those reviewers will take a run at you. Journals do this because pri
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
> Though an interesting question is whether people who took a pay reduction for remote working "somewhere cheaper" will get an IMMEDIATE bump in salary due to now having to move back to SF? So Google really had two types of rem
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by badlucklottery 3y ago
I worked in the games industry for a short amount of time and have a few friends still in it (less and less as the years go by) so that's what I'm basing this opinion on. Anyway, a big part of the efficiency issues with AAA studio
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by badlucklottery 4y ago
> This should come with the caveat that they are going after ultra-high net worth individuals. It sounds like that's the plan: "It also aims to help close the "tax gap" between taxes owed and those paid, estimated by
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by badlucklottery 4y ago
Countdown until someone brings a gun to this guy's house to "get their phone back".
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by badlucklottery 4y ago
The difference comes when you interface with other well-typed code and want to convert from any/unknown down to a specific type. For example: function handleString(s: string) { //... } declare const a: any; dec

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