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by boobsbr 6y ago
My issue with these copyright strikes on streams is: who will actually watch a stream just to listen to a song played in the background of a videogame with all the game sound effects and dialog and streamers talking? It's the worst lis
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by boobsbr 6y ago
The problem is, somewhere along the road you run out of bigger, stronger bullies, and the meanest rules above us all. And no David will come along to slay Goliath.
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by boobsbr 6y ago
Am I on a list now for having looked at that?
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by boobsbr 6y ago
> Aren’t all Java UIs cursed? That gave me a chuckle
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by boobsbr 6y ago
Thanks, I hate it.
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by boobsbr 6y ago
Oh God, how I miss the tactile buttons on my HP-48.
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by boobsbr 6y ago
I agree. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1306359385656946688.html
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by boobsbr 6y ago
The amount of people defending Razer is incredible. They fully buy the idea that internet connection and accounts are necessary to use a mouse, or simple features like changing the dpi.
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by boobsbr 6y ago
I thought the AACS key fiasco triggered the exodus. At least that was my reason for leaving.
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by boobsbr 6y ago
I'm also a Digg refugee. 13 years, man, what a trip.
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by boobsbr 6y ago
For the past 10 years I worked for companies with NDA and exclusivity clauses in the contracts. I can only describe what I worked on superficially, I cannot contribute to other projects because all code I produce (even off-hours) that has m
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by boobsbr 6y ago
> and make these metrics part of our stand-up meetings To each their own, if your team likes it, fine. If they just tolerate it because the decision came from above, yikes, what a nightmare, more management surveillance. I would look for
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by boobsbr 6y ago
It's not a dystopian future anymore, it's the present reality. The nightmare has been realized.
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by boobsbr 6y ago
I was thinking of Tribes this week when I watching the Cursed Halo mod video https://youtu.be/dMxIjGjMJz0?t=240 . There's a flying Warthog, a sedan and a limo. It reminded me of the Heavy Personnel Carrier. Loading the
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by boobsbr 7y ago
This is the same guy that installed Linux on his hard drive's controller. A very interesting read: https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack
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by boobsbr 7y ago
I really don't see anything special about Iain M. Banks' Cultute books. Consider Phlebas was the more interesting to me, but not great.
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by boobsbr 7y ago
That feels like JSP to me, and I don't have fond memories of JSP.
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by boobsbr 7y ago
I had already prepared my pitchfork...
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by boobsbr 7y ago
That feels like learning Angular template syntax, and I really dislike it. React has its warts, but I find JSX very readable, much more flexible.
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by boobsbr 7y ago
I think a perl expert can write it even shorter.
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by boobsbr 7y ago
We had Conectiva as well.
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by boobsbr 7y ago
I learned the word 'qanat' from Frank Herbert's Dune. And I thought 'faqir' was written with a K.
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by boobsbr 7y ago
I'm seriously tempted, but at the same time, I remember that it would generate MORE heat outside to cool my bedroom. And the surge in electricity would be probably supplied from burning gas or coal. I feel conflicted.
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by boobsbr 7y ago
Accidentally what? =)
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by boobsbr 7y ago
It never occurred to me that words ending in -gem in Portuguese were mostly feminine. Guess we don't pay much attention to these things regarding our native language. I have misconceptions about other Romance languages as well. I oft
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by boobsbr 7y ago
In Portugese, both a linguagem and a língua are feminine.
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by boobsbr 7y ago
Portuguese and Spanish: tongue (can mean language as well): a língua portuguesa, la lengua española. language is different, Portuguese is feminine, and Spanish is masculine: a linguaguem de programação, el lenguaje de programación. idiom is
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by boobsbr 7y ago
Standard in Brazil.
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by boobsbr 7y ago
Coding Horror began in 2004, that's where I knew him from.
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by boobsbr 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh...

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