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by hug 7y ago
Well, yes, of course having a tech on is worth it if the tech has something to do. That's how jobs work. The problem for the cinema is whether or not the tech has something to do often enough that his salary is less than the refunds th
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by hug 7y ago
Or how about instead of eroding the user experience to allow Uber to continue to take advantage of the fiction of the drivers being "independent contractors", the state does what it should and enforce minimum conditions, including
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by hug 7y ago
The guy that your parent post is responding to us the guy responsible for refusing rides, in this instance, not Uber. The point is with this change it is no longer like “complaining to the customer service rep” it is now a whole lot more li
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by hug 7y ago
Lasagna, Carbonara (often with cream), and Bolognese. Chicken Parmigiana or schnitzel. Probably some very average pizzas. For contrast, here's Universal's menu, which is a "Lygon Street" Italian restaurant: https:/
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by hug 7y ago
Linux users are not the core enthusiast crowd for laptops. Even among my extremely tech savvy crowd of friends, I only know one guy who runs linux as their desktop environment.
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by hug 7y ago
> First time in awhile I've felt that the aliens were really alien, some great ideas in there. If anyone is looking for very alien aliens, give Embassytown by China Miéville a read.
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by hug 7y ago
Assuming that this is all largely fiction, you'll generally get a decent ePub of essentially any book published by a large publisher, and given that ePub is essentially just XHTML it's not "hard" to parse well enough for
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by hug 7y ago
It certainly does poke a lot of fun at big tech. It also helps that I think out of all of the reads mentioned on this comment thread so far, Unsong is definitely my favourite of the lot.
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by hug 7y ago
I would say Unsong is a lot more theology and theodicy than computer science. (if it can be said to be about computer sciience at all.) It is an excellent and hilarious read nonetheless. One of the best web serials I have read.
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by hug 7y ago
Books I like that contain things that are kinda computer-sciency: Permutation City , by Greg Egan -- a bit of a mind-uploady brain-simluation story. Fairly philosophical, but not impenetrable. Accelerando , by Charles Stross -- Focused on
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by hug 7y ago
Unsolicited book review time! I read this after hearing many good things about it, especially about how well thought out the science in it was. While the science was solid as far as speculative fiction action-thriller science goes, I felt l
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by hug 7y ago
> the clients are concerned with actual geophysical location. Are they, though? This is, of course, completely anecdotal, but the only real reason I will change the 'location' of my VPN endpoint is exactly that. My suspicion is
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by hug 7y ago
The situation isn’t quite as dire as that with the Sony buds: you don’t have to forget and re-pair, you can just enter pairing mode on the buds and hit connect from a device that had previously paired, which is better but by no means go
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by hug 7y ago
> I don't see how a phone or watch is more convenient than a credit card; I'm carrying backup cash and ID at a minimum already, so adding a credit card to the mix doesn't really lighten my load. Not the parent poster, but
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by hug 7y ago
Libraries, maker spaces, men's sheds, and community gardens all fill some of the role you're talking about. Depending on your hobbies, there are other similar things: I have a membership to a local community motorcycle garage, whe
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by hug 7y ago
Christmas does not belong to Christians, is not a specifically Christian holiday, and essentially never has been. The date, trees, wreaths, Santa, gift giving, and caroling are all 'pagan' traditions. Everyone I know, almost none
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by hug 7y ago
Off the top of my head, do a highlight pulse on the two snapped edges, and over the app window raise an ephemeral notification "New window snapped, click here or press [hotkey] to undo". This is just the first thing I have thought
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by hug 7y ago
It's only not easy if you intend to do it legally. If you don't, it's really easy. I mean like "you can start running payday loans with a paypal account, a reddit account, and 10 minutes to read an FAQ" level of e
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by hug 7y ago
If you're using a third-party VPN service as the single way in which you are protecting your privacy, you're already in such a sorry state that it doesn't matter whether or not your VPN provider is compromised. If your threat
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by hug 7y ago
I don’t believe that they’re “doing politics”. Think of them as widget-collecting aliens who understand nothing about humans but are told that by putting a rainbow on a trinket they can collect more widgets. There is nothing political about
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by hug 7y ago
Do not mistake a giant faceless corporation’s product marketing decisions for anything other than the soulless money grubbing than they are. If Blizzard actually were so politically progressive, perhaps they might not be in this situation o
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by hug 7y ago
I am completely unaware of blizzard tooting their own horn for being progressive about having a gay character. Undoubtedly they’ve used gay and lesbian characters in marketing, but marketing towards gay and lesbian people is, again, not a p
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by hug 7y ago
Being gay isn’t political.
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by hug 7y ago
It sure didn't. Sideloading came about as content was generally downloaded elsewhere and then pushed onto a device over a local connection -- i.e. sideways. It's a lot older than the N-Gage.
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by hug 7y ago
Attaching a second monitor doesn't suddenly make your main display useless. One of the things I completely fail to understand is why most people I work with close their laptop displays when docked to secondary monitors. I have a 34&quo
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by hug 7y ago
Although I'm hardly losing sleep over my loss of karma, I'm glad someone appreciated it.
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by hug 7y ago
But how will tech companies extract value from you if you don't pick up your phone even when driving?
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by hug 7y ago
There are 268 million vehicles in the United States. If we assume that each vehicle makes two trips per day on average, and than the number of minutes of inconvenience taken up by pulling over to operate a phone is 5, that’d be 2.68 billion
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by hug 7y ago
Some trams go further than the distance that anyone I know would call "inner suburbs". Bundoora, Preston, and Box Hill to the north, Surrey Hills to the East, Carnegie to the South. (I don't think anything goes West further t
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by hug 7y ago
For some people, 4G is definitely better than NBN. Not all people. I’m not saying the NBN isn’t a trash fire of an infrastructure project (it is), or that our 4G is bad (it isn’t), but at least for me I get rock solid 100/40 on HFC, wh

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