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by hooby 4y ago
It doesn't have to be super accurate or super certain, for advertisers to catch a general trend. Even if the price adjustments lag significantly behind the actual decrease in effectiveness - the loss of effectiveness will still drive d
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No, haven't seen Idiocracy (yet) - but I remember seeing a short clip of the ads you mention. If I remember correctly, when I went to university 20+ years ago, "animation blindness" was already a coined term. The idea is, tha
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quirky
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There actually ARE other choices - like Librem, PinePhone, etc. These other choices definitely are better when it comes to privacy. But probably worse in every other regard. I personally am not quite willing to make that tradeoff (yet). But
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There's also the big question, if being exposed to that much advertising as an individual has other (psychological) side-effects as well, rather than just decreasing the effectiveness those ads have on you? After all, ads are intention
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Just one question about that - what you are describing here - is that: .) an unsolvable problem inherent to all peer reviews? .) a problem that comes from specific practices, and could be solved by doing peer reviews differently? I'm j
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by hooby 4y ago
Imho, the big question here is, if there's actually a trend. Was it easier, 10 years ago, to make money from a website, with just one single (non-animated) banner on top, than it is today with a website that's plastered with anima
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The account works and is connected to an email address I own. I can login, I can reset the password, I can change the email. They never deactivated the account, or contested my ownership of the account or anything. Only the game was gone -
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by hooby 4y ago
Correct. I do have the account, the password, the security answers. I can login, I can see my skin, I can change my password, I can change my email. The only thing that is gone, is the game download. I wrote support, asking them to look int
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Microsoft lost my copy of the game during the account transfer. Despite me having an account, that had both re-downloaded the game and played it just a few weeks earlier, had a custom character skin stored in it, and other stuff - they clai
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by hooby 4y ago
I kinda hate it, when an article is titled "Why companies are interested in...", and then goes on at length to explain what "..." actually is, and how it compares to something else, and how it's used by companies. A
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I've driven manual cars all my life. Shifting is completely normal to me, almost like muscle memory. I know my car well enough that can match motor revs to the new gear pretty close, without having to look at the dials. The whole proce
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I have only one big question: Why does that need to be tested? Does any driver exist on this planet, to whom this is not immediately and completely obvious?
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For decades now, SEOptimizers have constantly found new tricks to get their websites ranked higher than they should, while search engines have constantly updated their algorithms to make them harder to game like that. These two things have
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While you are certainly right that many reboots fall into "uninspired money-grab" territory, it wasn't necessarily my intention to imply that the Max Headroom reboot will suck. It might suck - but it might also turn out to be
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I can't really imagine this new rendition having the same edge as the original did - but I'd be very happy to be proven wrong on this. My prediction is, that they are going to look at the original Max Headroom material, and make a
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by hooby 4y ago
This site is very, very old. I believe it predates Google Chrome. It's based on a rendering limitation found in Firefox back then. It never really worked in Internet Explorer - and Firefox (as well as Chrome) can render much higher web
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unable != unwilling exactly that.
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Tineye works reasonably well, for finding exactly the same image (including different resolutions, crops, etc.) https://tineye.com/
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many OSS licenses require attribution
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> Population implosion is going to be the biggest problem of our lives. While some current projections do predict a steep decline in population growth - it's still gonna take roughly a hundred years, just to reach zero growth. Which
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While I don't fully agree with everything said in the article - the general idea behind it does ring true to some extent. I don't have to fully agree with it, to find it interesting and thought-provoking. Over the years I personal
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The article basically says that crypto currency currently is a huge scammy mess with lots of unsolved problems - BUT those problems are solvable in theory. It then spends most of it's paragraphs explaining what some of those solutions
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Woodworking does come with a distinct lack of "undo" though... that's the thing that tends to get me :P
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Oh this was not meant to be a criticism of that article. They do a good job of getting a nice color distribution - mostly by ignoring/working around that "only brand colors" requirement they mention at the start. Which goes t
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by hooby 4y ago
Personal gripe here, but I find it a bit annoying when websites think they have to do all their graph colors using brand colors only. You often end up with a mess of having many, barely distinctive shades of the same color, undesired/p
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> If people evolved like technology, you’d be 6,000 lizards, 30 chimps, and a couple Neanderthals all glued together with an anguished human face stretched across it as a “visual refresh.” Well, actually there's still quite some old
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by hooby 4y ago
There are other ways next to protection against loss. SWG for example had all items being player-made in addition to slowly loosing durability and breaking eventually. That means, instead of finding loot you can then use indefinitely, you w
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I don't particularly care whether it's first person or some other perspective. Whether it's a shooter (or some other form of combat) isn't really relevant to my point either. Open world yes - that's totally an ingre
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NWN is a great example as well. It's imho quite underrated/overlooked how ground-breaking that game was, considering it's editor- and GM-tools. It's a bit too static though, to fit the bill of what I'm longing for.

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