guyzero

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by guyzero 7y ago
every single Seagrams product is just flavoured vodka - they all start as neutral spirits
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by guyzero 7y ago
None of the lobster fishermen in Nova Scotia are going to lose their healthcare.
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by guyzero 7y ago
I did not know that! I thought it was only in the app. I stand corrected.
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by guyzero 7y ago
L1 DRM requires a secured channel all the way from the app layer to the hardware. No DRM vendor is going to offer their solution on something like Linux. You can't even watch Netflix in 4K in a browser - it's only available on sec
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by guyzero 7y ago
why "not proud"? Life is too short to struggle with basic stuff like watching Netflix when you want to relax.
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by guyzero 7y ago
Chromecast and AirPlay are both locked down because they're fundamentally tied to DRM and no content provider is going to spend any time on a platform that doesn't have strong L1 DRM.
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by guyzero 7y ago
That was more 4th edition. 5th ed is less MMO-centric but it definitely has elements from newer RPGs like inspiration and mechanics like advantage to minimize the need to track lots of small +1's. There are variants in the core ruleboo
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by guyzero 7y ago
I was thinking about this module just last week and had ascribed its terribleness to just being an old dungeon crawl but didn't know it had previously been a tournament module. That makes a lot of sense. The S4 published version has a
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by guyzero 7y ago
I was 37 when I joined Google in a senior IC role in 2008, so nearly my entire 40's. It's still work, there are still issues with coworkers and there's still stress compared to the startups I used to work at. The company isn&
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by guyzero 7y ago
If a nurse comes into your hospital room with a bag of saline you're going to check the price tag and argue with him about whether it's the right brand?
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by guyzero 7y ago
This is fine, people can do what they want, but they're deluding themselves if they think small companies are perfect stewards of data. How exactly do these people know that Fitbit wasn't already selling their data using it in a w
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by guyzero 7y ago
T and N went first for me It's like a global monte carlo letter frequency measurement experiment
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by guyzero 7y ago
Eating sushi wasn't something normal people in the US did in 1985. It was a bit of a class marker that he was sophisticated and did crazy things. I realize that sushi is pretty commonplace now but in 1985, for white Americans it was pr
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by guyzero 7y ago
Great, you want one password, use one password and two-factor authentication. TANSTAAFL
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by guyzero 7y ago
Nest changed their camera to prevent users from disabling the light that indicate the camera is recording and users complained loudly and bitterly about it.
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by guyzero 7y ago
"What we quickly found was that (surprising no one at all, least of all us) kids have way more time on their hands and are willing to expend way more energy to remove blockers than parents do to enforce them." this this this. limi
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by guyzero 7y ago
In high school a teacher in the computer lab tossed a piece of note paper in the garbage, a fellow student saw it, fished it out and brought it to me because I would be interested in having an admin password I guess. It was indeed the admin
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by guyzero 7y ago
"Apple doesn't earn revenue by selling targeted ads" Apple earns billions yearly from their search deal with Google. Apple earns billions from sales of targeted ads.
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by guyzero 7y ago
Canada has an immense unguarded border with a country that has several million uneducated people living in extreme poverty.
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by guyzero 7y ago
"Google has a monopoly on websites being able to promote themselves." Incredibly far from the truth. "There are plenty of other channels" Yep.
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by guyzero 7y ago
That means you have a notification: https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7073219?hl=en
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by guyzero 7y ago
Works with Nest had issues.
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by guyzero 7y ago
Yeah, I love how he basically admits in public that DDG is just a skin on Bing.
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by guyzero 7y ago
Those are not possessives. They're contractions, like it's.
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by guyzero 8y ago
This is great but I worry that it's like when Google was sending search traffic to smaller blogs all the time... until they didn't. Everyone loves free money but it sounds like it could dry up at any time at Spotify's whim an
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by guyzero 8y ago
But it's pretty much the only way to get a work visa in the US. What are the alternatives? L-1? Not much good for US companies that want to hire at the US HQ locations. O-1? Even the average master's degree holder doesn't qua
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by guyzero 8y ago
How would Apple make any return? Do you think DDG's ads are as profitable as Google's?
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by guyzero 8y ago
Do you need to learn C to have a successful career in CS or any other field? No. Should you learn it? Yes. Do you need to bake bread to eat it? No. Should you learn to bake it? Yes. There are lots of things you should learn to do because th
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by guyzero 8y ago
No one cares why someone broke a law.
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by guyzero 8y ago
"If it is real, then most likely this was done inadvertently." That's probably not going to help much, even if it is true.

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