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by daemin 6y ago
It works as long as people actually care about the formatting of their code. I've seen far too many cases where people just don't care or care about the wrong things when it comes to formatting. Like they copy/cut & paste
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by daemin 6y ago
Actually I'd say that it's not any better than pay-to-win, and could actually be worse. At least with pay-to-win you know that it's a sham and that it's only the amount of money that you spend which influences how good y
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by daemin 6y ago
There is always a dip in productivity when switching systems as you need to untrain people from the old and train them in the new system. Then you need to work out all the bugs and edge cases in the new system. So even if it will make you f
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by daemin 6y ago
I would say more like they found a local maxima and stayed there, never going even slightly less efficient in order to find a higher maxima than the one they had. Kind of reminds me of which countries have the fastest/cheapest Internet
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by daemin 6y ago
I guess we really need to examine if we as a society and as buyers of these products want to continue enabling people to sell us physical goods with a software subscription service to continue enabling functionality. Do we want to buy physi
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by daemin 6y ago
The emails can definitely be a good thing for reminding someone about billing, but they're not entirely effective. Most people would ignore emails such as these or they would read them and forget the information as something else is mo
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by daemin 6y ago
Provided that you have a Mac or a PC with Windows installed first. Then you'll have to sully your Windows installation by installing iTunes.
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by daemin 6y ago
China has existed for thousands of years as a rough idea and not as a continuous country for all that time. For many hundreds of years it was a set of countries like Europe and for others it was a single entity. So to say that China has alw
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by daemin 6y ago
I would have said that returning Hong Kong back to China was one of the biggest mistakes the UK has made, but here we are in 2020. It would have been better if they made it into an independent city state like Singapore.
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by daemin 6y ago
And as it turns out the proponents of helmet wearing for bicycles are car companies. Bike helmets don't really do much to protect the front or sides of the face, only impacts directly to the top of the head. So people wearing helmets r
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by daemin 6y ago
More like it's too remote. Most if not all immigrants prefer Melbourne and Sydney as they are the largest cities with the most things happening and a pleasant climate.
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by daemin 6y ago
Does anyone know of such hacking that someone has done and documented? I'd be interested in trying to telnet or connect to a Samsung TV that I have, or at least be able to sandbox it somehow.
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by daemin 6y ago
Pretty much. In Australia Pay TV has more ads in it per hour than free to air TV.
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by daemin 6y ago
It was more that he could have said "No" to them, where as in this case he cannot really say "no" (or "yes" for that matter).
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by daemin 6y ago
I have that happen with hibernated desktops, where they would wake up randomly to do something then shut down again. On some forums I read that people suspect its the virus scanner or some other scheduled task that is doing this. If someone
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by daemin 6y ago
I remember this too, but the second point is the crux of the usability and lock in. It kind of relies on another product having an importer to ingest it to another product/service. Or you have to pay a consultant to do this for you (wr
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by daemin 7y ago
Yes I made a mistake during editing the comment, I had processor threads in there before and somehow got mixed up with cores, my apologies. As with the other points though, a low-mid tier gaming PC is something like 4 core/8 thread, 16
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by daemin 7y ago
8 processor threads, 4 physical cores. Yes it's more of a mid tier system but it's a low end system that you would get to play games on. Also given that games still target the consoles you can get away with 8GB of ram easy.
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by daemin 7y ago
If you want to make the same game now that you would have released 5 years ago, sure. But games have become way more complex in that time, and the expectations of players have grown considerably. So you end up having to put more content in,
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by daemin 7y ago
The current gen hardware is over 6 years old, and when writing for it you can definitely feel its age. Modern PC hardware even at the lower end is so much better and easier to deal with. Also you are forced to make the game run on the lowes
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by daemin 7y ago
So in that case Neumann was a damn smart individual, he saw the money flood coming and tried to siphon off as much as he could in creative ways. On one point, well done getting as much of the flood as he could, even though a lot of it was d
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by daemin 7y ago
Australian here as well. If you own things and sell them for a capital loss you get a tax credit to use later. If you sell for a capital gain within 12 months then you will pay tax on the full amount of profit from the sale. For individuals
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by daemin 7y ago
It will never overtake having a local device which you can play games on, and people that think so are delusional or are trying to sell you something on subscription. There will be people streaming the games they are playing, there will be
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by daemin 7y ago
I agree with Linus from LTT where he said it's because the TV and Phone industry have effectively ignored 1440p as a resolution. Movies are either HD (1080p) or 4k and so TV and phone panels are made in those resolutions. Monitors may
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by daemin 7y ago
Well 10mbit is nice, until someone in the house starts streaming a video as well.
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by daemin 7y ago
I read this in an opinion piece that promotions and bonuses at Google are issued for launching things - products, face lifts, new features - not necessarily maintaining applications (maybe with the exception of search and advertising). So t
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by daemin 7y ago
Didn't Google buy a game company recently to work entirely in-house? So not sure how long until they get shut down. Though I think the game industry is kind of used to that by now. Big giants like EA, Activision, Microsoft, etc keep bu
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by daemin 7y ago
> This whole "you're paid enough so don't unionize" thing is so weak Exactly, even Hollywood actors have a union! Although I would wager most of them aren't the high paying variety.
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by daemin 7y ago
What I mean is how big does an organisation have to get to effectively challenge the sovereignty of the government. How big does it have to get (relative to the government size) that (threatening to or actually) revoking its charter won&#x2
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by daemin 7y ago
So these scammers have a better customer support system than Google?

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