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by gigaflop 5y ago
If you don't know, then you can't act to change. That's how I try to think about it. Once you're aware of the problem, you can start work to change it, even if slowly. Somewhat related, I used to weigh 270lbs. I changed
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by gigaflop 5y ago
If fungus has a language, it means we can 'talk' to it. So long as we can put electricity in, and get different electric signals out, we have a sort of interface. If they're sentient, then wow, great. If not, we can probably
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I feel like if I ever end up curious about a hobby or activity, that I could introduce it first to my hypothetical kids. I get to keep the kids busy, see if they have fun with something, and judge if it's something I'd personally
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I'm on the fence about having kids, but this all is one of the things that makes me consider them. It's going to depend on the partner I end up with, but I feel like I might end up making spending time my kids into one of my &#x27
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Back when I was applying for my first career position, one of the companies asked for a demo project, with one of the options being something that could poke at the Twitter API. It was pretty darn simple to get the text of a tweet, and just
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by gigaflop 5y ago
An easy way to personally blacklist (and a bare minimum on/off switch if you need to toggle it) would make me so damn happy. Why should I be forced to look at a page full of purple links when searching for some specific programming top
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by gigaflop 5y ago
This is America[0], healthcare is a privilege. Unless you're dying, you should never call an ambulance, and should keep an up-to-date list of what hospitals accept your insurance. And, if the doctor is going to prescribe you something,
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by gigaflop 5y ago
My next PC build will be SFF, too. I've currently got a small-ish desktop, but want more space on my actual desk, and don't want to move it off because I'd have to deal with variable cable lengths(sit-stand desk). Going down
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by gigaflop 5y ago
True, you can apply it to desktops, but those are bulkier and more expensive to ship. I've kept the box my laptop was shipped to me in, and it's got all bases covered if I need to send it back. I'd wager that sending a laptop
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I've heard doctors have it worse with people not asking about 'simple fixes' in a timely manner. Also, consider what the default scenario might be for someone at a job like Olaf: How likely is he to be able to affect change w
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Some big problems I see with big new cityscape ideas is the 'legacy support' and 'network effect'. We can play SimCity all we want, but for the ideas to make an impact, they need to be implemented. 'Legacy support&#
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Have you considered one of those Thunderbolt-based external GPU enclosures? I've never had the money to play around with them, but have always been curious about how to integrate one into a setup. Theoretically, it would let you upgrad
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by gigaflop 5y ago
One other bonus for laptops is that it's way easier for an IT department to manage. It's got all the guts, all the connectivity, some version of all the major peripherals, and all of that under one SKU. Support and warranty work i
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Some things I like to ask myself when his name inevitably comes up: * Is he being stupid? * Is he promoting something? If so, for who's gain? * Is he lying? * Did he let the wrong thought out of his head and piss people off? Nobody in
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by gigaflop 5y ago
And even if it was a 3.0 connector, a cheap manufacturer could have just not connected the extra pins on the port.
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by gigaflop 5y ago
> the people who retire and spend time with family and friends That's the ideal way to go, imo. I'm trying to slowly figure out what I need to live that kind of life, so that I can become some sort of cyberpunk mountain man whe
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Even with work-from-home, I can see how more money == more better in life. My dream home would need space for a home gym, workshop, and small office. Having a home, a home big enough for all of that, and then getting all of that would not
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by gigaflop 5y ago
"10 cans of baked beans" vs "A gorilla" A real stumper there, gotta check my math on baked bean can sizes!
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by gigaflop 5y ago
My PC had been fine before the updates (hence not updating until I needed some other thing to work), and I'd never seen Search Indexer pop up in Task Manager in any notable way. something tells me that I might just have a broken versio
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by gigaflop 5y ago
This reminds me of Windows Search Indexer on my PC. Microsoft's spying aside, it apparently needs 13.5% or more of my CPU at all times. It started after I updated multiple time sin a row, and for the past few weeks, has never stopped.
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Either 2/3 or 3/3 of the apartments I've rented since graduating college have used a similar template to one another, where part of it comes down to checking boxes or filling in a blank space. They each had some variety of ad
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I like to think that I "sell" myself assuming 80% capacity, in order to avoid spending too much time operating at the bleeding edge with all pistons engaged. Nobody can deliver at 100% for an extended period of time without suffer
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by gigaflop 5y ago
'Startup' on Netflix was worse for me, since it didn't bother to lean into the humor at all, and the whole premise became more and more unbelievable as it went on. Silicon Valley was at least fun to laugh at.
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I feel like your arguments on plumage could equally be applied to lower-cost cosmetics, to the point where being able to recognize that someone is 'that specific Heavy', is more important than 'a Heavy with the limited-releas
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by gigaflop 5y ago
In something like TF2, I'd probably rely more on the player's name than what they were wearing. If I recognize the name (even if only in the context of the one match), and know roughly how good they are, I can have my mental prefe
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I'm not a console user, but ran into this when Modern Warfare 2 brought it to the PC (I think. If not MW2, then one of the early Black Ops titles). I was too young to have my own way to purchase them, but never felt the motivation to p
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by gigaflop 5y ago
The big studios sucking has, for better or worse, reduced the amount of time I spend on games. They don't survive if they don't do something right. Compare that to the big studios who churn out their yearly releases, and get by be
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by gigaflop 5y ago
> best fps in the world Have you played for very long? I originally got into it several years ago, a little before Moira was announced. After a while, it felt like everything devolved into samey-ness, especially when the maps stagnated.
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by gigaflop 5y ago
"Live Service" or "Games as a Service" may be the vocab you're looking for. The game exists as a monetization engine. Some amount of fresh content is required to keep feeding the machine, but the goal is generally t
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by gigaflop 5y ago
If you're at the pro-level, then why does cosmetic choice matter? If it's actually a competitive environment, with people of similar skill levels, then you should be able to have some amount of trust in the skills of other players

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