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by grawprog 6y ago
Web monetization seems like a great way to create a two tiered internet. A high quality one full of usefull information for the wealthy that can afford to pay multiple subscriptions to websites for content. Meanwhile, the poor plebs will be
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by grawprog 6y ago
I know, my comment was mostly...i dunno facetious...sarcastic?? I did read the article...it wasn't EA's influence that led to the game's direction it that case...i just thought it was funny that EA got involved in the series
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Pfizer Demands Governments Gamble with State Assets to Secure Vaccine Deal(science.thewire.in)
2 points by grawprog 6y ago|2 comments
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by grawprog 6y ago
>Having been recently acquired by Electronic Arts, >The goal was, if someone said, “What’s an interactive movie?” we’d just hand them the CDs from Wing Commander III and say, “Here, check this out.” >This is not necessarily a bad t
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by grawprog 6y ago
Which is really odd, because then it gives the full list of prohibited uses outlined in the license and none of them really have anything to do with the bible at all save one that tends to be pushed by bible folks and in fact, bans many thi
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by grawprog 6y ago
>JACK applications are supported through a re-implementation of the JACK client libraries and the pw-jack tool if both native and PipeWire JACK libraries are installed in parallel >unlike JACK, PipeWire uses timer-based audio scheduli
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by grawprog 6y ago
>The one thing I agree with vegans is the fact they want people to get the processed trash out of their diet. Except, i don't think i've yet met a vegan that doesn't consume ultra processed soy and or gluten based products
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by grawprog 6y ago
How in the space of seventy years or so did equal rights go from 'Stop Segregation' to 'Everybody Should be Segregated Based On Race or Other Physical Factors'?
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by grawprog 6y ago
Harrison Bergeron's one of those few cases where i actually preferred the movie version to the original story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron_(film) I thought the original was a bit over the top a
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by grawprog 6y ago
I dunno, years ago, i learned something that stuck. I worked in a grocery store, we stocked those 4L ice cream buckets, the year i took over the frozen food section, dairyland decided to remove the handles on their buckets...people lost the
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by grawprog 6y ago
>then the 2020s could be the golden age of drive-thru tech. >In 2019 the average McDonald's drive-thru took six minutes and 18 seconds, but recently the company trimmed that to five minutes and 49 seconds in 2020, I mean i guess
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by grawprog 6y ago
I know this probably won't fly well here...but i'm fundamentally opposed to most of transhumanism. The basic premise of transhumanism rests on the idea that humans should transcend nature and shape the world and all life, includin
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by grawprog 6y ago
In my case...it was a gatorade bottle full of acetone my coworker placed next to my gatorade bottle full of water...but yeah pretty much. I guess the lesson is, gatorade bottles make for poor acetone storage.
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by grawprog 6y ago
Hmm might have worded that poorly. Was just a swallow, after in my readings i learned up to a soda can will not affect you too badly.
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by grawprog 6y ago
I'm mostly self taught other than some basic in high school and R in university. It's taken me years of working on different kinds of projects, reading tons of books and practicing to the point where i became competent enough to w
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by grawprog 6y ago
I accidentally drank acetone once. It tasted like icy death. I learned after that hastily, worried i was going to die, you can consume up to a pop can's worth and not suffer ill effects as your body can actually break it down. It'
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Mr. Potato Head goes gender neutral(nbcnews.com)
3 points by grawprog 6y ago|0 comments
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by grawprog 6y ago
>but to me this is like complaining about a case being glued shut or requiring a special driver to access. Both of those are fairly valid complaints though. Intentionally making a device hard to access or repair is almost as bad as not a
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Thousands reportedly attempt to obtain easily forged vaccinated certificate(timesofisrael.com)
5 points by grawprog 6y ago|0 comments
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by grawprog 6y ago
I'm not sure rom hackers and people who can entirely dissassemble a rom always overlap. You don't need full knowledge of assembly or your target system's architecture to open a rom in a hex editor and play with some values. T
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by grawprog 6y ago
Thanks for taking the time to answer, sorry for coming across bluntly, but it is a pretty big sell. I appreciate you taking the time to address those points and yours and the above commenter did clarify things. In industries relying on larg
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by grawprog 6y ago
Well, for a fraction of the price, one could hire a person who's job it is solely to inspect and keep track of maintenance, it's pretty visually obvious when a zerk hasn't been recently greased. Seems a lot cheaper than retro
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by grawprog 6y ago
>On the hardware side: we put RFID tags that fit like washers under each zerk. These are read by a head unit that is retrofittable to existing grease guns, which includes a custom RFID reader integrated into the nozzle. It also includes
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by grawprog 6y ago
Who's this guitar playing sonzabitch?" Is a question common asked On his head a bucket of chicken bones On his face a plastic mask He's the bastard son of a preacher-man On the town he left a stain They made him live in a chi
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by grawprog 6y ago
Yeah, you know what, i've personally experienced that more than once, it's not politically correct to say, but i'm not american so... and it happened in Richmond so meh... I've also met enough people from different place
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by grawprog 6y ago
I don't want to go on too much, I know this topic can be rather divisive and people get sort of heated about it but I really think in many cases things like the black/white list changes are counterproductive. There are actual race
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by grawprog 6y ago
What I really have to wonder about specifically this instance of political correctness was, how many people were honestly and truly offended by the term 'blacklist' or 'whitelist' before some lignustics, sociology, whate
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by grawprog 6y ago
The whole idea of an internet connected car that constantly 'phones home' without any easy way to bypass or disable is kind of mind boggling to me. I don't understand why after this people weren't in an uproar. https:&#
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by grawprog 6y ago
Well how else could they tease you into eventually accepting the terms? You get that little dopamine hit from a notification, but can't deal with it until you accept their terms. It's fairly insidious.
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by grawprog 6y ago
I'd heard of Diplomacy before but never really knew what it was, it just seemed like another one of those games i'd likely never find enough people to play. That was a fascinating read though. It sounds like a game i'd like t

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