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by froggit 3y ago
Get in on some WinME! Windows "Mistake Edition" Ranked 4th in 2006 PCWorld "25 Worst Tech Products of All Time"
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by froggit 3y ago
It kinda seems the fastest way to get an iphone would be to go to a store where you can actually say "i want to buy an iphone from you immediately" and they respond with "i want to sell an iphone to you immediately" wher
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by froggit 3y ago
This may not come as a surprise, but the practice of locking up expensive shit so people can't go grab stuff they aren't supposed to isn't unique to the Apple Store. I've worked places that used this kind of process. It
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by froggit 3y ago
That isn't an issue here. Structural polysaccharides, such as the cellulose used in this case, can be engineered to be extremely durable while remaining biodegradable. In cases where extreme longetivity is required (i.e. decades, centu
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by froggit 3y ago
> You don't get upset and leave a profane comment unless you did a deep dive and realized the code does something absurdly horrible that took you far too long to figure out. This describes my profanity use in comments perfectly. I&#
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by froggit 3y ago
I block remote fonts w/ ublock! It's pretty handy in a "I always know text is gonna be rendered with a font I can read and it cuts down on having to make the connections to get them. ublock has a bit of a learning curve (half
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by froggit 3y ago
More evidence you can find anything on Amazon.
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by froggit 3y ago
This is exactly how users felt when Reddit ran A/B testing on their "feature" that forcibly signed out people on mobile browsers and said they needed to use the Reddit app to sign back in. I saw a crazy long thread of straigh
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by froggit 3y ago
It always kind of cracks me up when I hear someone having to explain the difference between between these 2 breeds of VM. At one point back in school a friend said to me "hey, I can't figure out how to install and boot JVM on Vir
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by froggit 3y ago
America: where you get shot picking up someone else's dog's poop.
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by froggit 3y ago
> But I'm still not 100% percent sure what he meant because I don't speak german. Nobody said anything in German though. A German man said something in English. From what I can tell, you've got speaking english in your ski
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by froggit 3y ago
They're voicing their position in writing. There's no way to make that "neutral" unless they have a neutral position. Of course someone on the left is going to write like they're on the left. Likewise, someone on th
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by froggit 3y ago
> Again, accidents happen, but if you are the catalyst over and over again it's on you. Yeah, they "accidentally" carried swords, firebombs and molotov cocktails to a protest. It was an honest mistake, right? I mean, those
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by froggit 3y ago
So... fine as long as you don't compare it to its past self?
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by froggit 3y ago
That's functionally identical to how generative LLM AIs have no problem successfully outputting objectively false bullshit or blatant hallucinations that people will readily accept as true. No one needs actual facts or data cause anyon
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by froggit 3y ago
Grammatically, the location of the apostrophe makes parent singular. However, it seems weird if I think of it that way, likely because pronunciation as a whole is the same regardless of parent being singular or plural. Computers is plural
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by froggit 3y ago
>an agency does not want to telegraph their moves ahead of time, since that would give potential criminals a heads up that they are on a deadline and need to focus on cover up their crimes. I think you might mean the "potential susp
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by froggit 3y ago
It's not particularly reassuring that "George III" (spoken aloud as "George the Third" ), and "George 3" (spoken aloud as "George Three" ) are apparently thought to be interchangeable in the US.
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by froggit 3y ago
> It gets an even more politically incorrect meaning when you read "tie" as a verb. The change from "black tie" to "african-american tie" seems much less like a goofy 'find and replace' fail when y
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by froggit 3y ago
Funny, i get multiple daily notifications for suggestions on subreddits to follow. I'd love if we could just cut out the middleman and get the users following you to follow the threads that get suggested to me instead.
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by froggit 3y ago
Are bots users?
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by froggit 3y ago
Pulling a Twitter XD
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by froggit 3y ago
It would make me so happy if they have an SQL table or whatever they use that's actually called "fake." That'd really be cutting the bullshit while also creating bullshit. It's more likely to be some kind of prettif
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by froggit 3y ago
Comcast gig is 1gb/s downstream. I don't know what the upstream rate is and they avoid mentioning it, but based on my experience with them I could see 4 video calls being enough to choke it. It's hard to really appreciate the
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by froggit 3y ago
It's reasonable to interpret debullshitification as "removing bullshit." Specifically, "the reverse process of bullshitification." Speaking nonsense, misleading, and deceiving aren't the same as "adding bi
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by froggit 3y ago
I agree, having AI sportscasters would be kinda cool.
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by froggit 3y ago
>Have they just become content to be an old corporate software house who only manages to keep users through dark patterns and anti-competitive behaviour because they have given up on making products which people enjoy to use? Change that
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by froggit 3y ago
That may be why I thought "this might be cool to see a video game character interact with a tablet in a futuristic-theme rpg to make for like the menu screen or something."
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by froggit 3y ago
let me make sure I understand... filtering spam from geographical sources known to produce a disproportionate amount of spam, that someone never gets legit email from as they have no interaction with anyone there, means they're a bigot
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by froggit 3y ago
there's no such thing as a "woke" spam filter... i mean, it'd hafta be inclusive or whatever to make sure none of the email feels marginalized or sad... so to be "PC" it's gotta let everything through...

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