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by froo 11y ago
> What I suspect is that over decades PR firms and major brands have executed a rebranding of the old ways, attempting to recast it as 'paranoia culture' or some form of political radicalism. Their campaign likely involves emph
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by froo 11y ago
> It is very common (especially as you get older) to mix up names for people that are in the same mental category while you are speaking Exactly this. My mother calls me by my dead brother's name all the time. I'm pretty sure i
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by froo 11y ago
It should be noted that I live in Australia, so our law enforcement system is relatively lax too. However, my father also died of a heart attack a little over a year beforehand, so I'm sure that was part of it, but I'm sure the ja
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by froo 11y ago
My brother committed suicide after facing a prison sentence. It is a really difficult thing that when you meet people (even for years afterwards, it still happens to this day 13 years on) and they just want to talk about the circumstances b
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by froo 11y ago
There are also TV's mounted in 2-way mirrors, so that when you turn off your TV, it's still a functional piece of furniture.
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by froo 11y ago
I have personally programmed my toe into my iPhone last year sometime. Purely for testing. It does work.
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by froo 11y ago
So the solution to fixing interacting with a smart watch when your hands are otherwise engaged is not to use another conductive piece of your body, but to instead turn a bezel with your hand? GG thinly veiled ad.
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by froo 11y ago
> Your only issue then is graphics card / graphics card drivers. Some developers are only developing for DirectX only. Even some developers who, have in the past (Blizzard) supported Macs, have forgone this in their latest product (
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by froo 11y ago
It's still a chicken and egg problem. It's not going away any time soon. Developers are more inclined to develop for PC, because more people use Windows. More people use Windows, because there is a greater number of games in compa
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by froo 11y ago
You're telling me. When we first moved into this apartment building, NBNco hadn't even hooked the building up correctly. It took 5 weeks of constant calling to eventually get an engineer to actually fix it (and in the process, get
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by froo 11y ago
I've got a 100mbit Fibre connection. I live in an inner city suburb. It is continually dropping out (I get an average about 1 hour a week of downtime), my upload speed tops out at 35mbit (using iiNet's own tools) and for a lot of
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by froo 11y ago
... Where we've also lost the Flurry out of our McFlurry's
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by froo 11y ago
> and getting the patterns/timing correct As a kid, I was banned from an arcade in my home town for being a bit too good on a certain ticket giving arcade machine (probably around 1995) The manager was having to reload the machine
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by froo 11y ago
Not necessarily. Some people have serious problems multitasking and can't juggle resource management, unit constraints, tech trees and defense/offence simultaneously themselves (my girlfriend being one of them, she just can't
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by froo 11y ago
Honestly? They've been posting a lot more Mac developer jobs lately and their Mac client's quality for WOW has been degrading consistently over the last few major versions. I'd say their devs familiar in that space are gettin
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by froo 11y ago
> at least in SC it's obvious. I watched Life in the World Championships on the weekend do like 300APM constantly. I'd honestly be going GG at about 1 minute in I think.
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by froo 11y ago
> At this scale, two solar panels, so something like 1200 watt hours of energy per day I don't think you'll find a wind generator and tower to beat the price. There are many small scale wind generators that produce more than en
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by froo 11y ago
You could probably rewrite the previous statement as "Alphabet/Google is killing any product that doesn't directly contribute ongoing revenue" That would include Google Cloud like you mentioned and exclude Calico as that
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by froo 11y ago
I really don't get some public holidays either. Here in Victoria, Australia, they introduced a new public holiday this year the day before a sporting event to celebrate that sporting event (the AFL grand final). It's official name
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by froo 11y ago
As a non American.. it really confuses the heck out of me that Black Friday sales are starting on the preceding Thursday at like 6pm in some cases.
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by froo 11y ago
I've not found this. My original iPad ran all of the apps that I use on my current one, it simply ran old versions of the apps. I only upgraded it about a month and a half ago simply because the screen failed (not bad for 5.5 years tho
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by froo 11y ago
I only upgraded my original iPad a month and a half ago because the screen failed - it ran all of the apps that I used flawlessly. My use case is perhaps in the minority (I used my iPad primarily to read, watch movies via Air Video, browse
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by froo 11y ago
You could more or less argue the same thing about phones. They all have the same apps that 90% of people use (Facebook etc), they all have the same core features that 90% of people use (texting, internet and calling) and yet.. many people u
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by froo 11y ago
Yeah I figured it got enough bad press to get priority fixing
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by froo 11y ago
Not unlocked... The thing you're talking about gives access to photos and contacts[1] - still a fair amount of data, but not unlocked. Not sure if it's been fixed yet or not, but you can just turn off Siri from the lock screen. 1:
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by froo 11y ago
Vs maintaining it on a USB stick? I think it's a hollow argument
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by froo 11y ago
Because there is an opportunity cost to having an SD slot. Remember it takes up physical space inside the device, which could be used for more internal memory, battery space etc. they would have opted for something everyone wants over a sma
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by froo 11y ago
I imagine his managerial style is leading by example. More of a "Hey guys, we're going in this direction, follow me!" over a "Hey, we're going this way, off you go!"
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by froo 11y ago
^ This I know you edited your post saying you would't, but do NOT do anything to their codebase/website etc. Don't even remotely entertain the idea. Similarly, don't spout anything libellous incase they end up going on t
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by froo 11y ago
Incoming acquisition in 3...2.....1

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