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by bigbob2 5y ago
This "feature" bothers me a lot. When my girlfriend tries to play Planet Coaster from my account via the family sharing feature, sometimes she kicked off even though I'm not even playing a game at all! I think this is a big r
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by bigbob2 5y ago
The democratic party essentially stood in unity opposing single payer during the primary. I see two parties which demonize it.
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by bigbob2 5y ago
I'm not sure about the state of Xamarin Forms these days, but back when I worked with it a few years ago even the sample apps had memory leaks on iOS. I agree that conceptually it was amazing, as was Xamarin itself. If Forms doesn&#x27
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by bigbob2 5y ago
The verbage may have changed but this has been happening for a while and is certainly not limited to Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders. Article found from simple Google News archive search of "Pelosi" from 2004-2006: http://www
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by bigbob2 5y ago
Don't forget about the rape allegations.
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by bigbob2 5y ago
Exactly. The reality is there almost always exists more than two viewpoints. Maybe it's not done deliberately, but this false dilemma may be a big reason the echo chamber effect is so powerful. I'll also acknowledge it's diff
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by bigbob2 5y ago
Was thinking the same thing... There's no evidence I can see to suggest the parent is not also against other forms of excessive energy consumption.
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by bigbob2 5y ago
The whole thing is apples to oranges because Wendy's is a specific business whereas the game industry is an entire industry. Many people enjoy working in restaurants, maybe just not so many at Wendy's. I'm sure many people wh
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by bigbob2 5y ago
> Can I enforce line endings? .gitattributes text setting
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by bigbob2 5y ago
My parents often worked 70+ hour weeks just to keep a roof over my head. If they tried to find the time to restrict content from me in the manner you suggest, I may have never become a developer. Every situation is different, so I don'
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by bigbob2 6y ago
> Being "at the whims of politicians and fed officials" seems in practice to provide much better stability than being at the whims of a horde of reddit "investors" (or a cabal of Chinese miners). Not to mention almost
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by bigbob2 6y ago
Under PoW each of those GPUs consumes significant energy and that's the real issue. It seems like a fairly cavalier attitude to ignore that fact. Maybe PoW will be fine in 200 years when fossil fuels are finally phased out, but likely
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by bigbob2 6y ago
> The climate effects of burning coal were well known in the scientific community as early as 1856 (Eunice Foote) or 1859 (John Tyndall). So about 150 to 200 years ago... > Deliberate misinformation from fossil fuel companies has been
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by bigbob2 6y ago
At the end he argues that desktop software is not commoditized but look at Sublime Text vs VSCode - granted it was probably released 15 years after this article came out, but I think that's a pretty good example of commoditized/i
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by bigbob2 6y ago
> Relatedly I've been thinking about how to compare the moral culpability of anti-nuclear activists for climate change to that of oil companies. Are sins of preventing beneficial action comparable to sins of taking harmful action? D
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by bigbob2 6y ago
This seems like the sweet spot to me. Often times there are smaller internal services which need to be hosted and at a small to medium sized org there's a good chance there won't be proper budget allocated for devops, k8s and the
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by bigbob2 6y ago
Luckily in that case there is usually a means to roll back.
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by bigbob2 6y ago
That's why I like using a system which gives me control over which updates I want to receive. I'm not forced to take updates on an operating system which can also change the privacy policy on me and has done so in the past.
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by bigbob2 6y ago
Agreed - maybe there is a grain of validity in many of these stereotypes, but it's riddled with misinformation such as: > Typically – especially on large development teams – low quality is caused by individual developers rather than
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by bigbob2 6y ago
Very true, on the flip side at least someone else is footing the power bill.
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by bigbob2 6y ago
> tackling climate change should be a secondary priority to (why it should wait for) addressing these other local issues FIRST That is very much situational. A big part of why climate change is bad is because it will cause complete ecosy
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by bigbob2 6y ago
Not saying I disagree with the sentiment, but I think there are other environmental impacts to consider besides just climate change. Hydroelectric dams have in many cases destroyed complete ecosystems. There have been case studies of how ge
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by bigbob2 6y ago
I understand your point but I'm not sure what the TOS has to do with a murder trial... The parent never said anything about all laws being a conspiracy.
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by bigbob2 6y ago
This entire discussion is about privately held organizations systematically charging customers for services they did not receive with no oversight to prevent it. Your argument doesn't even make sense in this context.
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by bigbob2 6y ago
Here in the US the media effectively controls who people vote for, and the DNC/RNC is quick to "aggressively interject itself" if that tactic fails; so it seems to me that democracy as we know it is nothing more than smoke an
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by bigbob2 6y ago
Honestly between "disabling legacy extensions" on Mac and it being absurdly expensive or beyond your control to install genuine parts, I'm not sure I can bring myself to own another Apple product moving forward. Just sucks th
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by bigbob2 6y ago
It does seem paranoid to think that someone viewing something like this with scepticism makes them a state actor. I think there have been too many incidents of companies crying wolf for people to think otherwise. This is a forum for discuss
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by bigbob2 6y ago
> Covid-19 has unleashed state corruption on a grand scale, and it is harmful to public health. Well, I think state corruption was already prevalent before COVID-19, but point taken.
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by bigbob2 6y ago
Whether or not you realize it your vendors probably do business with Google, so that statement isn't really true.
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by bigbob2 6y ago
In this day and age I'm not really sure you are free not to do business with them.

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