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by bakugo 3y ago
> That kind is patriarchal bullshit is on its way out And so are birthrates, as a result.
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by bakugo 3y ago
> If people have to be worried again about their next sexual contact (condoms only offer between 70-90% protection against HIV), we will return to a prudish lifestyle again at a time the west can least afford it with falling birth rates.
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by bakugo 3y ago
> That's not a great idea security-wise. Unfortunately, a computer that doesn't do whatever you need it to do is useless, regardless of how "secure" it is.
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by bakugo 3y ago
The variety of different ways in which AI is starting to ruin modern society is impressive.
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by bakugo 3y ago
Several registrars are already selling general availability pre-orders. Does anyone know how this works? I have a feeling that, when the general availability period begins, if multiple people pre-ordered the same one, all but one of them ar
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by bakugo 3y ago
Turns out companies don't want to abandon whatever perfectly good domain they've already been using for decades just so they can have a funny TLD, who would've thought. Only new brands can really benefit from it.
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by bakugo 3y ago
Reminds me of libhoudini (ARM -> x86 translation layer) from the days when x86 Android phones were still thing. Performance wasn't amazing but compatibility was surprisingly good.
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by bakugo 3y ago
Because Xiaomi cares about software backwards compatibility on its devices? Just because many people are now used to being told "this app developer hasn't updated their app in a few years so now you can't use it, tough shit&q
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by bakugo 3y ago
> So many negative reviews I see these days are about performance issues. Unfortunately, negative publicity from bad performance doesn't really stop these games from selling well, as proven by most AAA releases in the past few years
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by bakugo 3y ago
>I'm getting 60fps on a $2000 card, that means it's not that bad! I hate modern AAA PC gaming so much.
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by bakugo 3y ago
> If you resell a phone, it's can only be because you stole it Am I right in assuming you're a regular buyer of Apple devices?
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by bakugo 3y ago
> The this prefix is mandatory for every instance property, which increases code bloat Stopped reading there. Whenever someone displays this mentality of "less code is better, every character above the minimum necessary is bloat&quo
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by bakugo 3y ago
This is exactly the kind of "Sarcastic comment by arrogant developer" that the article mocks.
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by bakugo 3y ago
> Sure, a frontend dev who strictly works on that won’t know much about, say, the OS layer. But they don’t have to, it’s not part of their job in any way. The HTTP protocol, HTML and vanilla JS are not "the OS layer", and yes,
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by bakugo 3y ago
Twitch partners were forbidden from doing it by their contract, yes.
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by bakugo 3y ago
The end game here is to simply turn all personal computing devices into locked down ecosystems that the user has no real control over, basically what iOS already is (and Android isn't too far off from). All code being executed on the d
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by bakugo 3y ago
Do you also throw away books after you read them once? Just curious.
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by bakugo 3y ago
> EDIT: $53,469, just shy of a $10k premium over ICE vehicles. I'm guessing this doesn't account for the fact that you'll have to buy a new one every 5 years when the batteries go bad.
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by bakugo 3y ago
The best part about stories like this is that I just know the person is going to go out and buy another one, even though they are now fully aware that they don't own any Apple device they "buy" and are actually just renting i
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by bakugo 3y ago
No, it's not the same at all... losing software compatibility because you installed an OS update and buying an entirely new piece of hardware that never had compatibility with your software are entirely different and unrelated things.
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by bakugo 3y ago
> this all is a reminder that JSON is a horrible format and you should never use it if you care about your data Works on my machine.
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by bakugo 3y ago
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ The answer is yes. Mac is currently at 1.43% while Linux is at 1.63% (43% of which is Steam Deck)
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by bakugo 3y ago
No point in releasing and maintaining games for a platform that is actively hostile towards them. Even disregarding the whole Vulkan/Metal situation, Apple's complete disregard for backwards compatibility means any game that does
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by bakugo 3y ago
Saw this coming from a mile away when they were first acquired. I legitimately can't remember the last time a megacorporation's acquisition of a smaller company ended well.
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by bakugo 3y ago
Why wouldn't it be profitable? All they really do is take money from people, give them to other people, and take a cut of it. I was under the impression that Patreon is struggling because their profits aren't enough to balance out
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by bakugo 3y ago
> Do you expect companies to keep their online servers running indefinitely? I expect the games I paid for to continue to be playable with the same features they had when I bought them, I don't care what the developer thinks or how
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by bakugo 3y ago
> Do you think a person’s cartridge of Pokemon Sun is going to stop working after this? No, but some of the game's features will stop working. It's not a huge deal for Pokemon because it's primarily a singleplayer game, bu
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by bakugo 3y ago
You actually still can, just not on official servers. You don't have to break your device's or the game's security to connect to a third party server, the game just lets you. Unfortunately this is mostly a thing of the past,
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by bakugo 3y ago
> The 3DS wasn't discontinued until 2020 Damn, I didn't realize it happened so recently. So it only took 2.5 years after discontinuation for eshop to be taken down, and 3 years for the remaining online services (other than redo
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by bakugo 3y ago
I have a Pixel 7 and I have the opposite problem, I often have to use mobile internet while at home because, on wifi, it will randomly lose connection for no reason regardless of what router or network type I connect it to.

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