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by bragh 4y ago
Funny then how for the first few months of the pandemic the emphasis and public guidance was on desinfecting hands and surfaces and endless debates about how if masks actually help.
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by bragh 4y ago
If reddit ever gets rid of old.reddit.com, that is the day that I stop using it.
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by bragh 4y ago
This only switches between windows of the same app. On Windows, with Alt+Tab you switch between all of the currently open windows of all applications.
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by bragh 5y ago
It depends on how the display is detected. Never got it to work with Dell UltraSharps, but some curved LG display works fine.
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by bragh 5y ago
What use is that all that performance when you can be randomly locked out without any recourse? In terms of gaming, "dead DPS does 0 dps".
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by bragh 5y ago
I think that say what you will about the social media and the ills of it, Tinder is definitely a net positive for society. This is because matching on Tinder removes the ambiguity of attraction from the whole confusing dance of social inter
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by bragh 5y ago
I am not saying whether you should or should not use this product. My point is that before using such products, you need to read really carefully where and how you can use it this product because of the included resources or intended purpos
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by bragh 5y ago
Usually projects like this are meant to be used together with Office 365 or for extending Microsoft ecosystem. Straight from the README, but maybe there are other limitations: "This project may contain Microsoft trademarks or logos for
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by bragh 5y ago
I think you are seriously and intentionally misunderstanding the point. So far it was completely fine for Facebook to ban whoever they wanted and it was justified by them being a private company. Anybody who complained about it was told tha
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by bragh 5y ago
If you do not like the rules set by them, you can always build your own social network.
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by bragh 5y ago
Actually, yes. Blizzard had an unbelievable amount of goodwill and reputation built up over the years and in any case, these kinds of changes do not happen overnight. For me, the first understanding that things are rolling downhill was how
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by bragh 5y ago
Yes, IIRC, for Formula One there was a saying ages ago that the 3 most unhappy participants after a race are 2nd place (did not win), 4th place (did not get to be on the podium) and 7th place (did not get any points). edit: Now I looked at
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by bragh 5y ago
There are legal ways to get around it. The viager system is a plot device in this short story by Guy de Maupassant: https://americanliterature.com/author/guy-de-maupassant/shor...
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by bragh 5y ago
And yet this is a very important game to play that you must participate in if you want your company to grow. What use is having a very good product with 15+ years of history and integrations to any system you consider relevant in that space
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by bragh 6y ago
Do not blame Firefox, this is actually how MacOS UI works by default: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/269622/macos-windo... I think the other poster has some addon installed and forgot about it.
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by bragh 6y ago
I am not sure how good of a comparison this is, but relying on one client or one platform in business feels like going all-in in poker. But in these kinds of relationships, you are definitely not the shark.
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by bragh 6y ago
The link to the Youtube video in the previous to last paragraph is not working for me even after removing the extra space after ?v= Does anyone know what the mentioned infamous example is about?
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by bragh 6y ago
Soviet Union kids might remember this book and how capitalism was displayed there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunno_on_the_Moon#Lunar_capita... Unbelievable that nowadays it reads more like a checklist.
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by bragh 6y ago
Because GP was discussing a socially sensitive topic, but the other person asked for an explanation about an easily googleable concept. This is intentional noodle-braining, explanation on reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r&#x2
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by bragh 6y ago
GP was not trying to be racist, such a concept does exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_c...
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by bragh 6y ago
In a common forum that is not purely dedicated to Microsoft technology, MS product names really ought to be prefixed — context is important. For example, it applies to Entity Framework also: it has happened a few times to me that a non-MS d
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by bragh 6y ago
It is very hard to trust hard drive manufacturers these days. I have a few of these drives mentioned here https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/ironwolf... with the specified "typical"
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by bragh 6y ago
In this case it is. High capacity 7200 rpm drives can be unbelievably noisy, to the level that they are not recommended for home theatre NAS as you can hear the seeking sound during a movie or from the next room at night.
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by bragh 6y ago
> The fact that sometimes suffering is very intense and temporary and that forcing someone to live through that can later lead to a fulfilling and happy life. A life where they are grateful they suffered through the temporary thing witho
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by bragh 6y ago
Let's keep it very simple here. What possible justification can you have to force another being with feelings to suffer? By the way, even the part of "something "suffering psychologically" is not unsurmountable" is
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by bragh 6y ago
Please try to think here in terms of probabilities, not absolutes and about the threat model. 1. Closed source and loaded on an USB stick is the simplest case. But in the end, how will you still know what is the actual code that the eventua
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by bragh 6y ago
It's not about it being compulsory, but the system being unverifiable end-to-end and any criticism of that being laughed at. If you put it into business terms, would you trust an employee or vendor who told you that everything was alri
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by bragh 6y ago
> The system is audited both internally and externally fairly regularly, the latest report being released just December last year Can you please clarify the 'fairly regularly' part? One of the members of that commission said th
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by bragh 6y ago
Brave guy to publish this, hopefully it won't end up similar to the Dreyfus affair — depends on which the media will roll due to it being "pickled cucumber season" (everybody is on vacation, nothing much happening during summ
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by bragh 6y ago
On average over time, I feel that Linux definitely loses out on desktop. But it's not about rudeness, but about the choice of when you want to use the administration time. If you have a strict deadline or presentation coming up, then t

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