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by evilduck 5y ago
Please explain how the Xbox isn’t then. It has storage, runs applications, has a web browser, standard PC input peripherals and hard drives work for it. The hardware is essentially just PC hardware. It seems like marketing difference more
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by evilduck 5y ago
Do you have a link to that for the Switch eStore? I'd love to check it out. Maybe an Amazon link for a Retroarch game cartridge I could buy?
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by evilduck 5y ago
> take a 30% cut for adding nothing to the platform other than owning it. Since you're the one making the claim: Please put together some numbers of what it costs to work with an international payment processor, managing refunds, cu
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by evilduck 5y ago
Wouldn't there be substantial consequences if Apple, a publicly traded company, were caught lying about revenue numbers?
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by evilduck 5y ago
Apple's cut is the same as Xbox, Playstation and the Switch and you _do_ have to use their stores and their physical media sales also gets a cut. The Switch can already be hacked to run Android and play other games from other stores, t
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by evilduck 5y ago
How do you capture more then 100% of a market?
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by evilduck 5y ago
It’s a standard practice for a tier of Top Secret security clearance.
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by evilduck 5y ago
Or The Rise and Fall of Dodo.
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by evilduck 5y ago
I have a 13" M1 MBA and a 16" Legion gaming laptop. They're both good computers for their own purposes but the 230 watt power supply for the Legion is almost as heavy as the MBA (2.2 vs 2.8 pounds). Carrying the computer and
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by evilduck 5y ago
Also, you may learn a bit about his other passions. I once learned a fair bit about curing meats (and probably something about ruby, I guess) from tenderlove at one of his talks.
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by evilduck 5y ago
I'm on a MBP where I pretty much only reboot for system and security updates and my workflow is the same as yours but two steps shorter. I basically never need to power on or power off. From my perspective it seems to me that you'
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by evilduck 5y ago
The TSA agent making $25/hr who was formerly a line chef or retail worker or correctional officer or whatever is not sophisticated enough to tell the difference. Suspicious computer cables don't cause planes to fall out of the sky
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by evilduck 5y ago
Thank you for replying. I don't mean this as a dig at you or your choices but from a cursory glance that model has a significantly worse screen, a weird nose-and-finger webcam on the bottom of the screen, negligible price and spec diff
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by evilduck 5y ago
Name them please, because I've looked and there seems to be a slew of compromises in every option that make them worse than a MBP.
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by evilduck 5y ago
Why do you care? Serious question. Have you ever compared the system resource demands of emacs and vim or neovim when you add enough plugins or extensions to reach feature parity with VS Code? They get to be just about as demanding on your
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by evilduck 5y ago
Hard disagree. I dont need more keys, I need better keys. More keys just means more reaching and more strain. I use the Preonic and would love to see layer keys on a laptop instead of a stupidly big spacebar nobody ever uses wasting so much
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by evilduck 5y ago
> Every distribution has the same problems because they are all built with more or less the same hodgepodges of desperately developed software. In other words, slightly better than trying to change system settings in Windows 10?
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by evilduck 5y ago
On the DARPA derived internet, no less.
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by evilduck 5y ago
Communities living next to or within forests also tend to prefer we put fires out.
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by evilduck 5y ago
The US seems pretty rife with examples too. Everyone wants to be the next tech billionaire here. From my first job as a software dev from like 13 years ago, I believe the CEO that was running that shop is still sitting in prison to this day
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by evilduck 5y ago
I'm curious how well you would describe your understanding of Vue? Because to me React and Vue are basically the same concept under the hood but presented differently (single file components vs functions that render html).
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by evilduck 5y ago
Oracle is relevant outside of a courthouse?
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by evilduck 5y ago
I know for solo-founder discussions about cut-throat effort expenditure judgements in the here and now don't really need to consider their project being shuttered and later revived, but the first step of reviving old projects is never
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by evilduck 5y ago
The United States was basically created because of religious splits in Europe and an unwillingness to agree. Constitutional freedom of religion, something baked into the founding tenants of the country, exists solely because religious peopl
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by evilduck 5y ago
FWIW I explicitly said "Ender's Game series". I think you're also redefining "plot point" to just be "plot". A plot point is simply an event that impacts what happens next. The reveal of FTL data hap
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by evilduck 5y ago
In your case, your rubber duck is the email editor. The trick is that your efforts to summarize and clarify the problem for someone else and doing your due diligence for others that you may not have done for yourself at first before you _ac
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by evilduck 5y ago
That was sort of a primary plot point of the Ender's Game series.
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by evilduck 5y ago
And Canada has the one time zone that’s shifted by only a half hour, invalidating their positive contributions to time management entirely. :)
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by evilduck 5y ago
In addition, dinosaur feathers that have been discovered have been in fossils where it's obviously still part of the animal, or preserved in amber where feathers were unexpected and it raised questions. Who's been looking for nean
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by evilduck 5y ago
I thinj that it's difficult to keep an idempotent shell script or programming language implementation as clean as Ansible over a long period. I deal with a similar thing at work and the Ansible stuff is still mostly good over the long

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