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by covidthrow 6y ago
Thank you for clarifying that. After my Kodi 19 broke, I went searching for some discussion on the plugins I use. Pretty much every discussion I saw where the dev of the broken plugin acknowledged the transition did so during last summer. N
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Yes. My wife and I have a strict "pay for what you consume" policy in this house. I'm a former "industry" professional, so I have the utmost respect for people being compensated on whichever end they process/re
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Check the Kodi wiki for the plugins you use. Chances are most don't work in the new version and you'll be left with everything you're used to broken.
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by covidthrow 6y ago
We use Emby Server to maintain watch status sync and various not-Kodi-friendly devices in our house. The TVs use Emby through Kodi because of Kodi's superior interface and processing. Kodi 19/Matrix broke that, however, so now we&
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by covidthrow 6y ago
I've gotta say, this was the most irresponsible Kodi release yet. It's never been fun to upgrade Kodi (something inevitably breaks), but this is by far the worst upgrade of all. And now to find out that the automatically update
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Many people have Android TV on their TVs, or boxes like Nvidia Shield. While a Raspberry Pi is a pretty simple way to get Linux/Kodi on the TV, getting it to integrate well is a whole other story. (Remotes, CEC, other services like N
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by covidthrow 6y ago
TDD is definitely helpful, but I don't ever use it as a metric for code fitness. At best it proves a limited number of inputs produce a limited number of expected outputs. Consider, for example, a bug recently introduced during a refac
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Parent is talking about percentiles, not averages. But on the point of averages: the median human has two breasts and no testicles.
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by covidthrow 6y ago
I can say with unscientific specificity that for 6 months following the start of COVID, I was buried in media on both sides of the spectrum and researched as much as I could. Right wing media was largely... not "wrong", I guess? B
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Perhaps—and I respect your acknowledgment of the problem—but that is a false dichotomy. A tremendous amount of opposition news was false and also propaganda, so perhaps you're just picking sides. But I'm of the opinion that th
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Thank you for your reply and reasoned downvote. Not exactly martyrdom, though. I've posted enough "Trump was demonstrably not wrong in this context" comments that have been downvoted into oblivion that my account has negative
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by covidthrow 6y ago
There was (and is), but you're not going to find many that agree on here. (Even in the comment section of a supporting data point.) People who dislike Trump (the majority of HN readers) are strongly biased to react negatively at the ve
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by covidthrow 6y ago
All this presupposes race is the dominant factor. Sure, it is almost certainly a present trait , but it's rather relevant to identify it as a causative factor. If profiling blacks is an inappropriate means to discern likelihood of cri
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by covidthrow 6y ago
The Actix unsafe code has long since been resolved. There are very few instances of it, and each are small, specific, easy to reason about, and wholly internal. I'd guess the risk is about on par with—or safer than—VM runtime languages
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by covidthrow 6y ago
While I wouldn't want our politicians subject to the risk of violence, I can't help but wonder what would have actually happened if some of the people that had such thoughts came into contact with their targets. While there have
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Of course he's not. But the liberal media elite have twisted his likeness into a demon, far as many Americans are concerned. Whether it was because it was fashionable, a tantrum because he won in 2016, that he is just abrasive/obn
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Yes, it is a threat to send armed agents of the State to intervene. Is it something other than that? I do not dispute that the partiers should have acted more considerately. But this whataboutism does not absolve the behavior of parent, unl
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by covidthrow 6y ago
His punishment was an anonymous threat of violence by way of institutional power. But I guess it all depends on how you frame it.
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by covidthrow 6y ago
I have placed myself in their shoes when I discussed huge fireworks going of near us within 200 yards until 3am several times a year. I spoke to the neighbors, analyzed the situation, and leave it alone. I'm being downvoted because I s
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by covidthrow 6y ago
I'm with you on this: the very occasional loud fun should, in my very humble opinion, be allowed to happen without fuss. Where I'm from, about 3-4 times a year, people in the area will go ape wild on fireworks until the wee hour
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by covidthrow 6y ago
> <g> Wow. I haven't seen that form of emoticon in a long time. Thank you for sharing, fellow time traveler... <bg>
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Without enumerating the criteria for "right", you're probably not going to get a sensible answer. A lot of the debate about pandemic management boils down to criticisms of, "did it wrong ," without saying what woul
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Perhaps you underestimate the total number of idiots on this planet.
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by covidthrow 6y ago
You're witness to mass hysteria driven by a whole lot of profit motive, career posturing, and social signaling, with a touch of "some kinda/pretty bad stuff is gonna happen." When I was younger—before the internet was in
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by covidthrow 6y ago
I would like to affirm your criticism, because the NYT, WaPo, et al have used such tactics (and others) in misleading ways, which is dishonest and subsequently could be viewed as "fake news". Sometimes such sources turned out not
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by covidthrow 6y ago
I think you are being downvoted in part because your comment is not 100% factual and because it triggers offense by some. But as a centrist, I want to be one to affirm that your statement has been demonstrably true in many (but not all) ins
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by covidthrow 6y ago
What about "correcting" fake news well after publishing? How does that impact the effects of fake news? Case in point, NYT effectively reframed The 1619 Project well after it was published, after they ignored a significant number
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by covidthrow 6y ago
For a bunch of people who raise hell about the dangers of using SMS for 2FA, I'm a little surprised at the cavalier dismissal of serious institutional and technological shortcomings in one of the most mission critical systems in the wo
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by covidthrow 6y ago
And how many people do you think review that paper? Probably as many as review their grocery store receipts, I'd guess. Which is to say, practically none.
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Possibly for accessibility features for the blind?

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