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by brmgb 6y ago
> I don't know the underlying mechanics that trigger this association, but it's quite consistent. I'm guessing that it's a side effect of how my memory of language is organized, some processing trick my mind is using
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> Valve does treat game developers poorly Valve definitely doesn't treat developers poorly (well their commission is too big but they are quite reasonable in how they interact with developers). > They’re bad at dealing with Japan
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Do you mean with technology or something like "technically it could have worked in the market"? Yes, I mean the technology. I played cyberpunk on it. It worked really well (better than I expected a streaming service to work).
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by brmgb 6y ago
If Valve treated game developers like Google does, Steam would have followed the path of Stadia which is failing despite being technically a good product. That's my personal take on the current situation: despite owning one of the larg
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Interestingly enough in francophone countries lawyers have their own commonly used honorific "master" or in french "maître" (Mᵉ). Yes but it's never used outside of a professional setting in the same way everyo
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by brmgb 6y ago
> They were just better No offense but we are talking about a "package manager" which: - complained when you installed things in /use/local (where they belong) not managed by itself; - had a flag to install packages s
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by brmgb 6y ago
> I don't think Homebrew took the field purely through sneaky marketing or n00b decisions alone. The Homebrew team was using a lot of FUD regarding MacPorts when Homebrew started. It's actually funny because they were criticizi
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by brmgb 6y ago
I think what they are doing is more than fair. It's basically them saying we consider that the next version we will ship corresponds to the work we promised (which is more than true). Now, they want to extend this base game and are ann
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by brmgb 6y ago
> This is pretty dismissive Well, actually, I found your post to be mostly in agreement with me. > There's lots of valid criticism for Tesla. So it could be said they are an average car (in the sense that their quality is neither
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> That might not be what they meant, of course, but it's not hard to come to that conclusion. The overlap between Ocaml and Rust is approximately similar to the one between Python and C (except Ocaml actually has relatively good pe
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by brmgb 6y ago
Most definitely and everyone knew Tesla was going to suffer from the manufacturing side of things. They went at it with the wrong attitude while it's by far the hardest part of being a car company pushing large volume. Where I was wron
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As a counterpoint, while I consider the shows to be oscillating between enjoyable and watchable (though admittedly only barely if we are talking about season 3), I found the books to be completely unreadable (well the first one at least - I
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by brmgb 6y ago
> because it is a garbage pile that reasonable people don't want to deal with. I mean to be fair now that Wayland and PipeWire are there it's finally starting to look like a modern OS.
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That's also solved by using Wayland with Gnome 3 which comes by default and doesn't require me to tweak anything.
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> How often does it actually happen to you, and under which circumstances? Scrolling, moving windows, resizing windows, approximately constantly.
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Xorg is 16 years old Xorg is a fork of Xfree86 which started in 1991 but feature parity minus the cruft has been reached years ago. Some people disagree about what is cruft however. For example, I view 90% of the list in the posted art
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by brmgb 6y ago
> I heard that it was Belgian Law. In case you didn't notice, Belgium is part of the EU. The EU is not a jurisdiction for contract law. The contract will obviously have to rely on the law of one of the EU member state, here Belgium
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by brmgb 6y ago
Why should the details of the Matrix.org server moderation be of significance to Element users? We are talking about a decentralized and optionally end to end encrypted chat client. Anyway, Matrix.org is hosted by a foundation with an indep
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Can anything tradeable with a fixed supply become a currency? Yes, very much so (including something with unpredictable supply). Through history, diverse things were used as currency including shells, salt, silver and gold. The commonl
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> What I wrote is a composite of a number of lawyer's comments on Twitter A moment there I was worried my reading comprehension was failing me, thankfully none of the link you posted so authoritatively talk about section 5. They are
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> Section 5.1 of the PDF seems to imply that the "Initial Europe Doses" are to be manufactured within Europe [0] "following EU marketing authorization". You are completely misreading it. That's not at all what se
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by brmgb 6y ago
As a French I'm still extremely bitter about the insane manoeuvering by the EPP to put her in place. Then again, finding anyone even remotely competent in the EPP is probably quite hard.
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by brmgb 6y ago
> I guess at some point Google will close the F-Droid loophole in Android and only allow installations through the Playstore anymore. Google standing in Europe is already really shaky. They keep taking fines after fines for abuse of thei
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Or we could simply ban short. This has been discussed regularly since they were allowed in the 30s. Shorts have pretty much no legitimate use after all. They are only useful to speculate and speculation itself is mostly a useless by-product
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I don't really know how to read your comment. All the wireless protocol that we use are actually "raw" radio whatever that means. You can use them to do P2P communication if you want to as demonstrated by this protocol. The w
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> Maybe Banks had enough imagination to think up the Culture, but not enough of an imagination to think up any interesting stories that would be internal to the Culture... I suppose Wodehousian or Jane Austen-style comedies of manners se
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Consider Phlebas is generally considered weak but good as an author first sci-fi book. The plot is not particularly strong but the prose remains enjoyable (which is notable in a genre plagued with authors who basically can't write). Th
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TTML is also supported by pretty much every piece of m pptultimedia equipment out there including chromecast , which is the exact opposite of ASS which is supported by basically nothing. The fansubbing community is so annoying with its insi
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> I grew up in a village in France: the neighbor has a rooster and the house is next to a church. To be fair, I grew up into one of the most rural part of France as did my parents and my grand parents before them and I have a vivid memor
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> “If you want to be safe” doesn’t really jive with “extremely limited risk.” Of course it does. To put it bluntly, it is extremely likely that any bottle of industrial argon is actually food safe because it's produced in basically

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