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by bbarn 5y ago
What freedom of speech? That freedom doesn't exist in two of the three countries involved here.
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by bbarn 5y ago
Wow, I could write almost the same article about my '85 Westfalia Vanagon.
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by bbarn 5y ago
> Further, visuals do impact the gameplay. Not only that, sometimes they can affect the basic mechanics too. For example, some guns in Destiny 2 the range is measured from the end of the weapon model, and some skins extend the model out
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by bbarn 5y ago
When I moved to Europe, companies starting giving me EU (In my case either danish or icelandic) laptops, and I can barely function without plugging in my US keyboard. I've found it so much easier just to learn key sequences to input t
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by bbarn 5y ago
The real issue is touched on by the article. No mayor or town council member wants to go down as the person who "lost the team". Even if losing that team is an economic boon to the city, it's incredibly unpopular. Many thi
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by bbarn 5y ago
I don't think interstate highways should be tolled, period. They were paid for decades ago, and maintenance should be covered by the existing gas tax. I am not opposed to convenience highways in metro areas being tolled, as long as t
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by bbarn 5y ago
Bingo. I had a bit of a "what am I doing with my life" crisis a few years back when I felt addicted to working, and I made the changes to live a calmer, more enjoyable life at the expense of some income. Will I now regret not lea
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by bbarn 5y ago
I hope that you're trolling, but since that's pretty uncharacteristic on this site, I'll answer you seriously. Individual privacy, to start. The concept of probable cause to search someone is a concept found in most modern g
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by bbarn 5y ago
Maybe this is a stupid question, but is there actually enough raw material in the solar system to cover the surface of our star and build the necessary machinery to keep it in place, collect its energy, etc.?
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by bbarn 5y ago
Can you really be a skilled programmer if you refuse code reviews and constantly ship buggy code? I might be an outlier here, but I absolutely think that makes a shit developer. No amount of code knowledge is worth hiring someone that won&
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by bbarn 5y ago
"In Skip the = operator introduces a new variable, but unlike other languages the = operator alone can not modify an existing variable." Using != to assign a value feels really strange to me. I know some languages use := but in t
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by bbarn 5y ago
CC was the second time they burned people who loved their products. Pagemaker being replaced with InDesign drove a lot of us crazy too. I had been using Pagemaker since it was called Aldus pagemaker, stuck with it through quark becoming m
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by bbarn 5y ago
As others have said - it's invasive, and probably illegal. BUT - I feel like we're missing some context here. Is your reason for refusal based solely on privacy concerns, or that you don't want them to know you see a psychia
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by bbarn 5y ago
My wife got the quest 2 and initially loved it when we were on vacation back to the US at xmas. Come back here to Europe and found it's geofenced with no likelyhood of ever coming because it uses royalty based songs.
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by bbarn 5y ago
100%. One of the areas I will spend more on is cordless tools. The modern Dewalt stuff has built me a deck and a campervan, and when it comes to lawn tools the E-go stuff has been fantastic. Both of those definitely locked me into a &quo
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by bbarn 5y ago
I'd argue then that the level of usage dictated a better one. Most people don't actually use tools to failure. I've owned edging tools, routers, sanders, even a small metal lathe from Harbor freight that have handled 10+ ye
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by bbarn 5y ago
Harbor Freight's "low quality" tools will work for a great many average home owners doing some upgrading or light work. We absolutely fall into the trap of wanting the best thing ever, but how many people actually need the t
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by bbarn 5y ago
The Rav4 is a car shaped like a small SUV. That "Compact SUV" style of car is not what I was talking about at all. Again though, if you want the model that can tow and has all wheel drive, you're looking at 47,000 USD for t
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by bbarn 5y ago
For all the talk about replacing these every 3-4 years, I think I'd be a lot less upset if every 3 years actually felt like an upgrade. A slightly bigger screen, a 10% better camera, less buttons? Why do I need a new one? Apple may
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by bbarn 5y ago
> SUVs are appealing because they're big and cost a lot of money. It's often a display of superiority and wealth. Those people would drive a tank if they could. Uh, that and they're useful? The only thing comparable for t
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by bbarn 5y ago
Probably should have done some digging before trying to coin a new name. Microshift is a huge chinese company making bicycle parts for over a decade.
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by bbarn 5y ago
I've had two induction stoves over the last two years, one newer and one a little older. I came from a lifetime of cooking with gas. First complaint - exactly the same as yours. Even a little boil over can sometimes just shut everyth
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by bbarn 5y ago
Since leaving the US, the idea that these services exist now boggles my mind. Here (Iceland) it's free to transfer money between individuals via your bank. You simply give them your ID number and bank account and it's done instan
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by bbarn 5y ago
> My advice is for the OP to make his build system GPLv3 licensed and sue anyone who willfully violates that license. Except that filing a lawsuit costs money, and if by nature your product is free, where are you getting the money for sa
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by bbarn 5y ago
Faulty Mass Airflow Sensor on my 09 Touareg told the car that not enough air was getting into the engine and it just refused to start. This is on the main intake, which unless completely covered is impossible to block. Plenty of air was g
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by bbarn 5y ago
Cars. I appreciate all of the advances in emissions reduction, safety, etc., but when I was a kid I learned the basics of working on nearly any car on the market, and now even with an OBD scanner most of them are still near unfixable withou
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by bbarn 5y ago
Working mostly in VMs, I use backgrounds and colors to visually remind myself what window I'm looking at.
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by bbarn 5y ago
I was a CFTC consultant for a time analysing suspect code subpoenaed in an investigation. I can say that the parameters for analysis were very strict and required explicit proof of spoofing by the app involved. The people I was involved w
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by bbarn 5y ago
I think most actors are genuinely acting in good faith. The problem comes when the machine gets so big that people don't understand that their good faith actions lead to overall bad outcomes. It's not so much evil corps as I thi
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by bbarn 5y ago
I've seen several developers google "w3schools someDomEvent" because they are conditioned by those search results. Has it accidentally become a halfway useful site?

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