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by ebg13 6y ago
Bonzi Buddy, as a money making enterprise, would have paid for a signing certificate as a cost of business. This does not save you from Bonzi Buddy.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> What can Microsoft do, as an alternative, that doesn't result in an identical or worse situation? Stop. Reasons for doing it at all are bullshit. If you want to evaluate the software, do that. I'll happily hand you the sour
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by ebg13 6y ago
Application signing is a mafia protection racket, plain and simple. If you aren't signed by an "authority", every user is told by default automatically that your code is unsafe until you pay money. It is 100% analogous to thu
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by ebg13 6y ago
The application of qualified immunity clearly stems from the principle that sometimes one causes accidental harm when doing the right thing. It's most reasonably stated as an extension of good samaritan laws. The problem isn't the
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Do you want to allow downloads on “www.thisdx7cartdoesnotexist.com”? Nope.
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by ebg13 6y ago
ubernete! This program is a kubernetes boostrap, AKA k8s bootstrap, AKA k8s "up", something that _actually_ sounds like ketchup instead of kethreesup. The author not seeing that makes me both sad and angry.
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by ebg13 6y ago
Really k8sup would be closest in both theme and also pronunciation.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> The Regan administration had two options. Por que no los dos?
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by ebg13 6y ago
Chemotherapy has been used as a cancer treatment for decades as well. There is zero doubt that chemo is extremely harmful to the body even as it destroys cancer cells. Sometimes you take one thing that's unsafe because something else i
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by ebg13 6y ago
The bit that really stands out to me is where he says "We even convinced Google to invest. Google! Those guys are smart!" This flavor of trope really needs to die. Some people at Google may be smart, but it's pretty clear tim
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I have no issue looking around in any of the games I use trackIR with So you have screens behind you? And above you? And to either side of you? And at other odd angles? Suddenly your $200 is looking a lot more expensive, otherwise yo
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by ebg13 6y ago
> In my office Two of those words are extremely important to your experience, "my" and "office".
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Comments like these make me feel like VR proponents are just people who don't know TrackIR exists. Comments like this make me feel like TrackIR proponents are just people who don't know depth perception exists or that thing
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by ebg13 6y ago
> VSCode is using about 300MB+ and Sublime Text (working under built-in ia32 emulation) is using 15MB. On my mac VSCode sits at ~380MB without any files open, but opening one empty plaintext file brings that up to 460MB, opening one ti
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by ebg13 6y ago
> dentists doing this to patients I'm dying. "SNIFF IT! SNIIFFFFFFF IIIIIIITTTTTT!" TBH, that sounds like assault.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> That site is the definition of midwit pulp. You mean the WAPF site, right? > Sure, WAPF has some wacky stuff, but they also have some obviously good advice, and for most of the disputable claims they make, we don't actually
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by ebg13 6y ago
The same Weston A Price? https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/sbm-weston-prices-appalling...
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by ebg13 6y ago
Except shaped and veneered to look and function normally.
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by ebg13 6y ago
Flossing doesn't need to be "effective" to be worthwhile. All you have to do is not floss for a long time and then floss and sniff the floss.
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by ebg13 6y ago
I have a dream of one day being able to just replace _all_ of my teeth at once with one solid porcelain+titanium prosthetic without any interstitial cracks or crevices. No more painful cavities. No more cracked teeth. No more need for floss
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by ebg13 6y ago
I once threw a relatively complex Python application with background server/client processes at Cython and the generated .exe literally just worked without any special effort. I don't know how transferable that is, but N=1 it&#x27
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by ebg13 6y ago
Clippers?
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by ebg13 6y ago
The reality of failures applies everywhere.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Not sure what this proves... That every laptop exhibits problems. That "Your X has problem? Y doesn't have problem." is wrong and silly.
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by ebg13 6y ago
Yes, this is reality. But for some reason some people decide that they're absolutely certain about the huge scale of issues with Apple products while being absolutely certain about the lack of scale for issues everywhere else. It could
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by ebg13 6y ago
> XPS 15 OH YES? https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=dell+xps+15+crashing https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=dell+xps+15+coil+whin... https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&a
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by ebg13 6y ago
Because the alternatives are also bad in a bunch of ways and people still prefer these problems to those problems. Let's not pretend like other hardware vendors and operating systems are magical fairy realms of candy and rainbows where
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by ebg13 6y ago
Why does it move so slowly?
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by ebg13 6y ago
I know! It's crazy! Reviewers are like "OMG so amazing! Look at how cool it is when you move around!", and they're in there going "Ok, but wouldn't it be fun if we hid it from everyone and made it look like we&
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by ebg13 6y ago
I don't think the video quality or display quality is the problem though. The 8k screen itself looks plenty high quality in the Linus video bouncing around this thread. The problem is that their promo material entirely eliminates any s

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