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by falcolas 3y ago
Gary Bowser was in jail for years, and will have his wages garnished for the rest of his life. Yes, what he was doing was different, but the ends rhyme. I hope nobody is prosecuted, but Nintendo is already after the key dumping software. It
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by falcolas 3y ago
Really? I'd call "accomplishing everything you wanted" satisfaction. Especially since the chances are nearly 100% that the time to complete was known prior to the purchase (at a minimum, the information was available). I woul
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by falcolas 3y ago
That's fair enough. :) I would point out that one advantage the C64 had was thick wires carefully separated. Takes longer for things like tin whiskers to form and kill the SS transistors. Still, awesome project, and I'll be happy
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by falcolas 3y ago
Nah, we had those already. Gacha games and looter shooters with lootboxes.
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by falcolas 3y ago
The refunds are not due to dissatisfaction, it's because they can. The act is closer to piracy than an angry customer. Hot Take Edit: It's gamer Karens requesting the refunds. "I had information available to me that said the
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by falcolas 3y ago
I'm strongly considering trialing and buying Dead Space through this, even though I don't care for the game (I'm not a horror game fan). Customer friendly policies and programs are absolutely worth rewarding. I have a wallet,
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by falcolas 3y ago
I think this is super cool. That said, calling it a "forever" or "heirloom" doesn't match the reality of the lifespans of electronics. Hopefully it will last longer if there are no defects in the components, and sin
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Is it, though? Within our profession, which is almost entirely text based, yes. Outside of our profession, I'm happy to concede that literacy levels are demonstrably lower. > I would even posit most people hate reading It'
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by falcolas 3y ago
> how they produced it is less important than the result A correct result includes how the result was reached. Thanks to patent and copyright laws, not all paths to a "right" answer are correct in the real world either. In coll
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by falcolas 3y ago
I vote that this is a failure of the manager to set and reinforce expectations.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Reading, however, is a skill taught to all schoolchildren, and taken further in college. The idea that someone is able to read yet can not read technical manuals while being in the CS space is just shy of unthinkable to me. Reading them slo
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by falcolas 3y ago
Financial transactions are held to a higher standard (i.e. there's a bunch of laws around them) than device access. That said, you can make your device passcode as complex as your Apple ID password if it's a tradeoff you're w
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by falcolas 3y ago
At the same time, artists of every kind have to contend with the fact that this is currently a golden age for art. We are confronted with more art of every kind than we could ever consume. The cost for moving on has never been lower. So whi
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by falcolas 3y ago
> “Type your password to buy this item on the App Store”. Why? Because store items can be quite expensive (particularly the microtransactions), and it's using a stored credit card. I too get bugged by the plethora of prompts, but th
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by falcolas 3y ago
> These conditions were almost non-existent until recent history That's a myth, actually. ADHD has been studied and described for well over 100 years under different names: "Clumsy Child Syndrome", "Minor Brain Damage
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by falcolas 3y ago
This is pure misinformation, and it would be great if you'd stop spreading it. ADHD is real. It's helped with meds. Denying its existence because of your own bad experience is going to hurt others. Listen to professionals' ad
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by falcolas 3y ago
ADHD has been estimated to impact 5% of the population for years now. 4% of children and 2% of adults are diagnosed with ADHD. That's under diagnosis, not over diagnoses.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Yes! If you do have ADHD, getting meds is a bloody nightmare of the most ADHD incompatible procedures that could exist. You can only get three months of scrip ahead of time. You can only get meds once a month. You can only get meds one week
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by falcolas 3y ago
What do you think protests are? Coordinated congregation to push a specific point of view is protesting. And, for an an emotional take, I’ve seen some pro birth protests and how they treat the out group. Peaceful my ass. Screaming “whore” a
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by falcolas 3y ago
The cost of adding irrelevant data to relevant data is minuscule. Trying to use a "Rod from God" that is the deficit spending limit to set a finishing nail will only destroy the entire city.
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by falcolas 3y ago
A point of context: Dataminr == Tweets, with ML and human filtering. They're one of the few remaining firehose consumers.
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by falcolas 3y ago
I’d put my money on building early Dall-e and LLM training sets, followed by DDOS-for-hire.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Post scarcity has more to do with divorcing labor from production For almost everything, we’re there. Especially when it comes to food production. There’s still some employment to be had, but precious little when compared with the numb
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by falcolas 3y ago
Oil companies don't much care that their products and practices have exacerbated climate change - they hid relevant data from us generated by their scientists - yet we are finding ways to hold them liable, and we generally don't t
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Kindle Unlimited will increasingly be flooded with junk And our compensation for this is increased KU subscription prices.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Do you tow an excavator or bobcat behind your truck often enough to justify purchasing one given how high the ongoing costs will be? But even then, Dodge does offer their 3500 at a base trim that's only a bit over the $40k bar I set (a
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by falcolas 3y ago
Vehicles are rolling onto the lots quite a bit right now. Manufacturing is catching up. However, they're rolling right back off the lots too, after 3+ years of shortages.
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by falcolas 3y ago
You're probably right. At least a Tesla can't be modified to roll coal. Yes people do that. Yes, they're absolute pricks. And at least most Teslas don't have their light bars at head height thanks to the lift kits. Nothi
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by falcolas 3y ago
If you're purchasing a new vehicle for over $40k, you're getting scammed IMO. There's a lot of great electric and hybrid vehicles with good reliability history. But if you want to look like a _____ in a lifted dodge ram, well
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by falcolas 3y ago
Hiya. Probably closer to 7 years on a stable dex regime. Over 9 years on amphetamines in total. Haven’t had to increase since it stabilized. And no, I don’t (intentionally, ADHD is a real bitch to habits) take med vacations. Meds still make

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