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by giobox 1y ago
One of the original design requirements for NT was that it be portable between different CPU architectures, it was one of the driving forces behind its creation. So much so in fact, Microsoft developed NT 3.1 first on non-x86 architecture
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by giobox 1y ago
Thanks, I stand corrected! Apologies to the OP.
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by giobox 1y ago
There is likely zero chance the OP's recollection is remotely correct. Pandora went public in 2011 with 80 million users, the chances of a publicly listed company of this size taking payments over HTTP in 2012 are about as close to zer
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by giobox 1y ago
Yes for Valve, but that hasn't stopped a secondary market transacting tens of thousands of dollars or more for them in some cases. > https://dmarket.com/blog/most-expensive-csgo-skins > https://tr
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by giobox 1y ago
The only thing I remember ASIMO for, disappointingly, is falling down stairs: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTlV0Y5yAww
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by giobox 1y ago
Super common failure is accidental commit of a secret key. People suck at actually deleting something from git history. Had one colleague leak a Digital Ocean key this way with an accidental env file commit. He reverted, but the key is of
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by giobox 1y ago
Perhaps, but its been a while now and AFAIK has been rolled out to all of YouTube's apps, even the integrated TV ones.
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by giobox 1y ago
Sponsor block is much less useful now Premium subscriptions have the "skip commonly skipped section" feature, which is always the sponsored content. With the addition of this, you can avoid ads and sponsors well enough now on Prem
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by giobox 1y ago
> where a single outside unit can supply 2,4, or 6 units individually and independently In my current home, I have two "heads" attached to a single outside unit, but they cannot operate independently beyond setting different fa
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by giobox 1y ago
Even ignoring global OS marketshare, iOS app store customers just simply spend a lot more money per user on the App Store vs Google Play (Google's Android app store). You gotta go where the money is to some extent to get paid. Global r
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by giobox 1y ago
These machines exist a lot in the USA/other countries too, typically called a coin pusher: > https://bhmvending.com/collections/coin-pushers While it won't be true for all kids, personally I felt coin push
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by giobox 1y ago
I've had similar experiences too, it's almost like trying to get a room full of software engineers to agree on a definition of "Agile".
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by giobox 1y ago
> The 30% specifically applies to buying digital goods and services through iOS apps This is not correct at all and grossly misrepresents how Apple collects revenues on the store - the 30% applied to the list price of any paid app as w
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by giobox 1y ago
A quicker denial is still better than a long drawn out one, even if it isn't the outcome you might want.
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by giobox 1y ago
> those that do mostly have to pay 15% This case only concerns Apple's App Store fees before 2020; it was a blanket 30% charge for paid apps until they introduced those changes following the whole Epic Games legal saga etc. Apple ar
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by giobox 1y ago
This isn't an EU judgement.
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by giobox 1y ago
If a team of 20 engineers got blocked because you/the team didn't run docker prune, you arguably have even bigger problems...
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by giobox 1y ago
This Rivian bike is bizarrely "pedal by wire" - there is no physical connection between the pedals and the rear wheel. Instead the pedals work as a throttle to set the speed of the motor and to charge the battery while you ride, r
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by giobox 1y ago
Agreed, this is truly bizarre to me. Is OP not going to have to do this work all over again in x days time once the nodes fill with stale docker assets again? AI can still be helpful here if new to scheduling a simple shell command, but I&#
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by giobox 1y ago
This attack has been done trivially for years - you just sticker over the barcode with the barcode of a cheaper item in the store. If you plan to use self-service checkouts for this scam, pick cheaper item with same weight or with a tag tha
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by giobox 1y ago
Based on conversations with some affected friends, there was layoffs outside of the Meta AI org today too. Not sure if this 600 number is representative of how many people were actually let go by Meta today. One friend told me she feels eve
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by giobox 1y ago
Rightly or wrongly, The Gambling Act 2005 put the UK literally decades ahead of places like the US in terms of creating a legal framework for sports betting/gambling in general.
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by giobox 1y ago
> Hasn't the ISO to install W11 now gotten too large to be burned to the biggest DVD? No. The Windows 11 media creation tool still officially supports creating a DVD installer from ISO image for Windows 11 (including the latest 25H2
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by giobox 1y ago
If you mean the Great Depression, the invention of mass market car finance predates it by a decade.
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by giobox 1y ago
Loans appeared almost immediately alongside the invention of the private motor car (~1920 Ford/GM had to start offering financing on private vehicles to make them affordable), with 60-75 percent purchased this way in the 20s. Today its
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by giobox 1y ago
> I’ve seen some crazy stories on YouTube about people trading in cars they’re already underwater on just to finance an even more expensive one. This has happened for as long as there has been car finance (i.e. practically since the dawn
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by giobox 1y ago
This still happens in some places. In various parts of Europe there are legal obligations not to email employees out of hours if it is avoidable. Volkswagen famously adopted a policy in Germany of only enabling receipt of new email messages
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by giobox 1y ago
Good for you! This of course doesn't help in the situation where a dependency author retroactively changes the licensing state of a component, or reconfigures the project to rely on a new external dependency with differing license stat
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by giobox 1y ago
Agreed. For all the people arguing "just click the link and the license is there!!", I have been burned several times before where a technical solution has a prominent open permissive license github repo (MIT or similar etc) based
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by giobox 1y ago
Sim racing has been default better in VR for the last few years IMO if you have decent spec computer that can sustain good frame rates. Especially since the release of the Quest 3 with its really nice lenses (huge "sweet spot"), 1

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