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by hnick 4y ago
Lofi-girl helps me too, it's completely out of my traditional musical tastes but there's something in it that makes me start working. I also have to turn it off eventually though, I find I need to revert to silence after a while f
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Based on the wording and the table of contents I'm pretty sure lawyers were involved in at least reviewing this open letter. A final ditch effort before the real expenses begin.
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As an amateur it sounds a bit like copyright with a lien or caveat attached. They legally own it now, but can't legally use it since it was rejected and not paid for. It's not as clear cut as if I personally ripped BFG Division to
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They can be used in court cases to avoid biasing the public/jury before the case is heard to completion. Depending on your perspective you may see this as protecting the assholes involved but its intent is for a balanced and impartial
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Yeah JB Hi-Fi is a local retailer in Aus (guessing it's like a Best Buy but a strong focus on music CDs originally), it's probably a reference to the software the staff uses. Haven't had a chance to look over their shoulder a
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I figured that came under "easy access to user metrics and data", but I did consider some kind of rhyme linking piracy to privacy but it was a little early in the day to commit that sin. It's probably worth mentioning twice a
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Well browsers solved multiple other issues too: cross platform apps, updating all clients in a single place, sharing data between devices, and the most important for many developers - switching software from an ownership to a rental model,
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I feel like the push to make software accessible (in a new-user, not disability, context) and intuitive has made complexity the enemy. Instead of having software that grows with the user's capability, features are hidden from the top l
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Artificial Interactions? Because it has all the semblance of interacting with none of the substance.
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I used it once with my wife to see what it was, all it seemed to be was EXTREMELY LOUD MUSIC playing over various things, it was annoying. Not everything needs music. We didn't last two minutes.
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Not exactly the same but I had to integrate with a payments API which required one call to an auth endpoint with user/password under HTTP basic auth to get an access token. The actual calls to calculate and execute payments used this a
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I was looking for a laptop for work and decent gaming, I went with an Intel NUC. Everything pointed to Ryzen being far better in most aspects - power, weight, height, and importantly battery life - however for the price point I was looking
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Fools! Don't they know pornography drives all new technology? This is dead in the water.
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Which shows how short-sighted not investigating "this" crime is. Anyone willing to go to those lengths is probably committing multiple crimes, maybe some worse.
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Makes sense to me, the thing that matters is not total money but active money. Prices go up because there is the same amount of money, but sellers expect more, and buyers are used to paying more. This can continue by having their proportion
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I have heard of someone who got dressed up, walked around the block, then arrived at work (at home). And the same in the evening. Commutes can be terrible but they do serve an important role in decompressing and separating spaces in our bra
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I agree, as a child I was mostly indoors and non-practical. Typical techie nerd reading a lot of books. Having a home now, I've started learning to fix so many things. Today I just replaced 2 shower taps (washers and valves) for a leak
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This is not entirely true for at least the postal service - someone can address a bomb or drugs with some stamps and a fake sender address quite easily. Only the recipient address is known, but again people sometimes have mail sent to a kno
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And it seems these days, all nudity is automatically treated as pornographic. When I was a child, my parents took photos of me - clothed or not, I might be doing something silly or endearing and those photos were created, whether in the bac
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That would be flaying. But in a medical context I think excoriating is skin removal... it's just not being used literally here.
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That doesn't seem to have a search feature? Not that a paper manual has, but flicking through quickly is a lot easier in paper than on screen. I tried to find the answer to a problem I had and it's not there. I inherited an iphone
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They can verify the identity using a service - there is no need to keep actual documents after the fact.
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Voyeurism, mixed with a little FOMO - they had a limited release early on, just like GMail. I think a large part of it was also the digital photo and smartphone revolution. Instagram did that a little better, but posting straight to Faceboo
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Many of the puzzles are illogical, or only make sense in "video game land" type logic similar to how Looney Tunes cartoons work with their own rules. So yeah, intelligence is not necessarily that important compared with obstinatel
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The difference there - you can at least verify your ad is being shown , even if it is not a guarantee of effectiveness, and use other estimates to see how many people see it such as foot traffic or TV viewership. I have no real way of know
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I wonder if it's a programmer thing, but as I read that I realised I was mentally bracketing related words together almost like a token parser to build a syntax tree.
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Yeah I found it quite hard as a novice to actually tell if my Facebook pixel stuff was all working and firing exactly as intended. The lack of data means it's hard to map a 1:1 relationship for a certain visitor (me). "Luckily&quo
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Or Baltimore slang, like when I tried to watch The Wire back in the day. It was actually the show that I first turned on subs for and I usually keep them on now out of habit. I found the thick local accents hard to understand which is rare
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Thanks that's interesting. Crypto isn't required for trade of course but I guess one place it helps is that the developer doesn't need to implement the trade details themselves, just read results from the blockchain. Not sure
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Has anyone done something similar for a "gacha waifu" type game ala Genshin Impact? If they get the random generator making nice looking characters, I can see the ability to trade unique and attractive characters appealing to some

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