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by bstar77 5y ago
Blizzard and Star Citizen use torrents under the hood. Many others do as well, it's just hard to find documented confirmation.
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by bstar77 5y ago
He should recycle them. These machines are usually pawned off on seniors in very shady "deal of the century" sales schticks. My 72 year old father in law bought a complete pos laptop for $200 that was an abandoned machine from a
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by bstar77 5y ago
This article is laughably bad. I'm not even sure it's worth the time to give a counter response. The BitTorrent comment he made is objectively false and can be proven as such. Tons of game installers use torrents under the hood
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by bstar77 5y ago
I don't think being a New Yorker means you are destined to be as asshole. I'm from Jersey and generally don't care for people that meet the NY/NJ stereotypes. Maybe that's why guys like Rossman don't impress
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by bstar77 5y ago
Well said. I certainly liked him for a while, but eventually he just went too far. I understand he has a "base" that loves his schtick, but it's not for me. Some alternatives: https://www.youtube.com/channe
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by bstar77 5y ago
I find Rossman insufferable due to his hyperbolic approach to shaming Apple and having a bone to pick with just about everyone- he's the definition of a narcissist. I agree in principle to "right to repair", but Rossman&#x27
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by bstar77 5y ago
I might not be able to hear those frequencies, but I can sure as hell hear the artifacts. All I need to do is use my $300 B&O headphones.
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by bstar77 5y ago
"Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms - using virtually any frontend framework in existence. The core is built with Rust and the CLI leverages Node.js making Tauri a genuinely polyg
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by bstar77 5y ago
When I bought my 2000 Honda Insight, I was harassed, verbally assaulted and (in several cases) purposely run off the road. People were seriously offended by a hybrid back then. I warned everyone back then that rode in my car. My mother a
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by bstar77 5y ago
The way to redefine a const is to define an object who's values are mutable. I strongly prefer that as I can couple the mutating behavior in a single object.
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by bstar77 5y ago
IMO, `const` should be used by default, `let` in rare instances and `var` never.
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by bstar77 5y ago
That is kind of my point, I don't often work with primitives that need to be redefined. I'd rather operate on an object where I can mutate its value rather than redefine the whole thing.
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by bstar77 5y ago
Kind of unrelated, but I find it interesting that I've only used 'let' a handful of times over the past 4-5 years and then I see projects like this where it's the rule, not the exception. Am I in a minority that thinks
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by bstar77 5y ago
A product that has lots of reviews shows customer engagement and Amazon knows this. I'm certain those products get tons more sales because people naturally gravitate to what's popular. I just bought a small storage cabinet that
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by bstar77 5y ago
That's really interesting, I didn't know about these. $104 seems like a pretty solid deal too. Only thing is that the cable doesn't appear to be replaceable. I swap out different length cables quite a bit so this is a litt
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by bstar77 5y ago
I like the Cherry reds too. I don't think you can go wrong with any high end keyboard, I just don't care for rgb lighting.
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by bstar77 5y ago
I've not had to do anything other than light cleaning. When I moved a few years ago all of my keyboards were in the same box. Apparently it got really hot because a smaller (TKL) style Lexmark era IBM keyboard in that box melted, but
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by bstar77 5y ago
I still use my IBM Model-M from 1986. I have 2 of these that I got at the Trenton State Computer Festival (NJ) in 1992. I had no idea what I was buying when I spent $4 for 2 disgustingly dirty keyboards back when I was 15. I've taken
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by bstar77 5y ago
React/Redux/Angular all have staying power so I don't understand your point. I don't know what you mean by "shiny" tech. Other than specific libs that go unmaintained, most popular tech has some staying power
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by bstar77 5y ago
> Pay developers enough so that they'll stick around It's amazing FANG companies have any turnover based on that logic. Turnover happens for a variety of reasons... like global pandemics... you can't make a blanket statem
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by bstar77 5y ago
It's not popular because it's not realistic in most environments. In many cases it's advantageous to use those things you listed because that's what the market can provide talent-wise. I'd rather deal with learnin
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by bstar77 5y ago
I don't think this comment is going to age well.
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by bstar77 5y ago
I took the comment to mean it's only useful for something like npm/webpack (dependency management and hot loading), which I strongly disagree with.
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by bstar77 5y ago
I think node is great for stateless micro services. I know many people here have a vendetta against micro service architecture, but it has worked wonderfully for me in my career. Development is fast and I can keep cloud bills down with au
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by bstar77 5y ago
Many thousands of people and companies use Node for mission critical backends everyday. When I worked at a very large publisher (for 10 years), most of the backend was moved to node and it was far better than our previous Java backend. It
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by bstar77 5y ago
Most of the time it's just because something looks neat, is well documented and might be a useful skill. That's why I learned Ruby back in 2006 with little to no programming experience. I really wanted to make websites, but I ha
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by bstar77 6y ago
This whole setup is a game changer for me, I got a complete WHDLoad setup done in under 5 minutes after a bit of sleuthing on Internet Archive. Now I just need to get the proper cables to connect my Commodore 1084s.
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by bstar77 6y ago
https://cck-law.com/blog/anthrax-vaccine-causes-controversy/ Also, in the military very little is optional. This vaccine is optional, so it's a unique opportunity to say no.
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by bstar77 6y ago
Most I know don’t trust the military due to the anthrax vaccine fiasco.
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by bstar77 6y ago
Learning programming is no different than learning to become an artist, a musician, an engineer, a mathematician, an athlete, etc. Those things are all hard if you want to master them, but not everyone needs to be a master. I can draw, get

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