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by gblargg 1y ago
Agreed. I'm waiting until they get it back up to watch it. I can wait.
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by gblargg 1y ago
We can't child-proof everything. There are endless pits adults can get themselves into. If we really think that people with mental issues can't make sane choices, we need to lock them up. You can't have both at the same time:
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by gblargg 1y ago
Ironic that Google's supposed concern for avoiding malware will cause people to turn off their malware scanner.
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by gblargg 1y ago
I think of it as manual installation, since I also have to manually update it. The app stores automatically install and update it (they find the appropriate APK for my device, download it, run the installer, and do the equivalent each time
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by gblargg 1y ago
So they cut corners in other ways?
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by gblargg 1y ago
Why would someone use the YouTube app? It's cancer.
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by gblargg 1y ago
Once I kept refreshing and finally got an English question, it asked me to act like a Linux terminal, and issues pwd, ls, then cd over and over until I gave up. The concept is funny, where I get to act like CrapGPT, but it needs to not get
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by gblargg 1y ago
> I would love to see how it handles Castlevania II. I assume you're thinking specifically of using the red crystal to spawn a tornado: https://youtu.be/Mx9PwRIK9Io
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by gblargg 1y ago
When I first started using self-checkout that was my experience, slow and annoying. That went away after about ten times. I'll trade a little annoyance for an extra 5-10 minutes of my time.
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by gblargg 1y ago
Or those backward states where you must let the gas station attendant pump your gas.
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by gblargg 1y ago
I thought it was because the stores can't press charges if it's a small thing, so the only way they can bring any action is to build a case.
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by gblargg 1y ago
I don't think you understood the point of the comment you replied to. It was two-fold: what authentic means, and why people prefer imperfect people to be authentic than present a false image. Even your disrespectful response shows its
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by gblargg 1y ago
Worse, it prevents people with older browsers from even visiting the site.
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by gblargg 1y ago
The dollar figures per month are somewhat meaningless without knowing the cost of living and how much non-monetary assistance they get.
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by gblargg 1y ago
So I guess it's back to locking the door manually before I close it, and being absolutely sure I don't leave the keys in the car.
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by gblargg 1y ago
This article's setup seems to be: we could go back and change bytes to be 9 bits, but make all the same decisions for sizes of things as we did, so that everything would be the same now except we'd have a little more room.
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by gblargg 1y ago
I often stick some tape over the beeper in products. I was trying a ceiling fan and it made a loud beep every time you pressed a button on the remote. Not very good if say adjusting things in the middle of the night.
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by gblargg 1y ago
> or a toilet that has pop-up notifications. Toilets occasionally do that, but dismissing it requires a plunger and mop.
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by gblargg 1y ago
Any app that pops up a notification when NOTHING EXTERNAL HAS HAPPENED has all its notifications turned off immediately and permanently. It's literally just deciding "hey, I'll bother the user about something pre-programmed r
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by gblargg 1y ago
Which is even worse. It's like mixing broken glass with food. Why even waste food if it's going to be inedible anyway?
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by gblargg 1y ago
Just like lifetime subscriptions and warranties.
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by gblargg 1y ago
> When the chip is not tuned to a station, the chip replaces the audio with a white noise source. Wow, I always thought the background noise was just natural when it was off-station, like on a TV.
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by gblargg 1y ago
The author doesn't grasp what putting all your eggs into one basket means: > Before anyone says “you put all your eggs in one basket,” let me be clear: I didn’t. I put them in one provider, with what should have been bulletproof red
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by gblargg 1y ago
The central problem seems to be that the people who are in a position to benefit from claiming something is fake that's actually real are the same ones you have to trust to determine whether it's fake, since the viewer can't
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by gblargg 1y ago
The real test is if you can have it tweak things. Have the ship shoot down. Have the space invaders come from the left and right. Add two player simultaneous mode with two ships.
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by gblargg 1y ago
They capture information you have when writing the code that communicates something useful about it.
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by gblargg 1y ago
The bar is counting down time to wear out the receptors in your eye (you need to be staring at the center the whole time). THEN the illusion begins.
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by gblargg 1y ago
Software is a design. In the same conditions it never wears out. As conditions change it tends to work less and less well unless modified, as expected.
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by gblargg 1y ago
Apparently a "quantum light" can generate single photons of light, a quanta of light.
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by gblargg 1y ago
I'd take the opposite approach, put something in the room that continually triggers it so they keep coming up and then just ignore it eventually.

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