hightrix

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by hightrix 3y ago
PEBKAC - Problem exists between keyboard and chair.
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by hightrix 3y ago
Yes. I used to live in an apartment in the middle of city. It was easy to walk to lunch/dinner/drinks. It was great for those activities but absolutely awful for many others. Grocery shopping? Still need a car. Going to another pa
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by hightrix 3y ago
Ads are their core business today. Search is only there to serve more ads. Google stopped being a search company when they bought/merged with double click. Google without ads is an unprofitable company that constantly makes bad technol
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by hightrix 3y ago
I love living in the suburbs and have zero desire to live in the city. Being accessible by car, I can get to anything I need in 15 minutes. The people promoting 15 minute cities completely miss the mark here. I, and many others, already
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by hightrix 3y ago
This is the real worry. Steam and valve are extremely consumer friendly and many of their decisions feel like they take the user into account before the accountants, contrary to many other video game products today. I really worry when Gabe
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by hightrix 3y ago
A subreddit being shutdown is not even barely related to a company going out of business. The reactions should be very different.
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by hightrix 3y ago
I don't know a good solution here. At a minimum, I'd like to see youtubers forced to label their videos with an "Ad" label if they are promoting a product.
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by hightrix 3y ago
And if there is no way to pay for a truly ad-free experience, then I'll just make an ad-free experience myself by not paying anything and pirating everything. Piracy is nearly always a service problem. I'm happy to pay for conten
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by hightrix 3y ago
Wow! I thought you were joking but the first name is the dude at the center of what started “gamergate” and everything that followed it. Thanks for pointing that out. This site is just another in a long list of game journalism sites that is
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by hightrix 3y ago
There is no way to pay for adfree YouTube. In stream promotions are ads and it is impossible to pay to block them. Yea, sponsorblock is a great alternative.
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by hightrix 3y ago
Let's take a more recent example to show how the statement "should you tolerate intolerant views" is meaningless or even harmful to the truth. "COVID was leaked from a lab in Wuhan" At various points in time in the
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by hightrix 3y ago
No, it means that I'm willing to pay Google for YouTube without Google Ads with either my money or my data. I will not pay with both. It is that simple.
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by hightrix 3y ago
I type like a toddler, hunting and pecking and completely ignore home row. I am very fast at this and can do it with my eyes closed. I’ve never had the slightest bit of issue even though I’ve been using a computer daily for 8+ hours every d
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by hightrix 3y ago
The most frustrating part, for me, is that Google Play Music was the perfect music streaming service. It just worked.
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by hightrix 3y ago
You're absolutely right. I use SponsorBlock and uBlock Origin on Youtube and will continue to do so until there is a way to pay to 1) remove all ads and 2) remove all data collection by Google. Until then, I'll continue paying w
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by hightrix 3y ago
It isn’t adfree. It is “no ads inserted by Google”. In-video promotions are ads. You cannot pay to block them.
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by hightrix 3y ago
I’m not the OP but my response is that I will not pay for content twice and it is impossible to get a truly adfree experience on YouTube by paying for premium.
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by hightrix 3y ago
We tend to only test what is being tested. So, most DB calls are mocked in our unit tests. For stored procs or other tests that need to be run on a DB, we use a test DB that is setup to mirror production. I'd bet there are a 100 dif
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by hightrix 3y ago
> There are online communities beyond X As an aside, I find this phrase funny today. In the past, I would have known you are using the term 'X' to be a generic reference to online communities. Today, I don't know if you
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by hightrix 3y ago
Is it? If this is your stance, expanding upon the why only opens the door for others to attempt to change your mind. If this person does not wish to engage in that conversation then offering more information, in this case, does nothing posi
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by hightrix 3y ago
Either trolling or a reddit employee. No one shills this hard for reddit anymore.
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by hightrix 3y ago
I'm not referring to the need for large SUVs or Trucks, or other large gas gusllers. We need normal looking sedans, sports cars, and other cars that don't look like these cheap EV compact hatchbacks.
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by hightrix 3y ago
Yes. I do not like compact hatchbacks and would never drive one by choice. I'm not alone in this opinion. Additionally, I don't mean we need EV monstrous SUVs, but just give me a normal looking sedan.
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by hightrix 3y ago
The Bolt falls victim to the same problem as many other cheap EVs, it is ugly as sin. I don't understand why manufacturers won't make EVs that look like normal cars. Yes, some exist, but this ugly beast style seems much more com
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by hightrix 3y ago
Have you truly never had a conversation or real world interaction with someone that you didn't want recorded and then posted to the internet?
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by hightrix 3y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. This could make room for vastly improved accuracy in tracking due to being able to use off device compute power. Reducing latency such that an AR app could get frame data or other communication from an external
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by hightrix 3y ago
> 1) Use an ad blocker, always. There used to be a time where it was moral to whitelist trusted websites to give them ad revenue. That time is far gone. Stories like this are a stark reminder to use a good adblocker (uBlock Origin) ever
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by hightrix 3y ago
This is fun to watch. The race to profitability by cost cutting while simultaneously hemorrhaging users seems like an interesting battle. I imagine the only winners at the end will be those that either never used or have left twitter. I won
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by hightrix 3y ago
Anecdotally, I fit this description. I own a large SUV as my daily driver. It is fully paid off. I use it to get lunch and other errands for most trips. About once a month or so, I need to use the full capacity of the vehicle. This would ru
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by hightrix 3y ago
Piracy and theft are two different things. Piracy is not theft.

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