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by hug 9y ago
Very useful for the ~12% of desktops on Mac OS or linux. Not at all useful for the single largest desktop OS, Windows. Even less sensible for the majority of Internet traffic, which is now on a mobile OS.
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by hug 9y ago
It seems like bad advice because it is, frankly, just bad advice. Nearly all of his arguments fall down, even within his own post. He says that VPN providers don't provide more security. They do, and he mentions this himself when it co
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by hug 9y ago
If it's not a joke, it's at least an exercise in absurdity. I wrote a regex that would allow things that aren't facebook, and then you said "No, you're not allowing things that aren't facebook, you're not
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by hug 9y ago
How do you define a whitelist? A list of items, that, if matched, are allowed? That regex will only positively "match" non-facebook items, and will only block facebook if implemented in a whitelist. I'm just playing the strai
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by hug 9y ago
In case you think this is hard: ^(?!facebook).*
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by hug 9y ago
I take it that you are also a fan of Mister Truong's? If you have not been, you're missing out on the best pork roll the city has to offer. I wasn't a fan of banh mi, and to be honest I don't really like Vietnamese cuisi
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by hug 9y ago
Anecdotally: I game, compile, transcode, and do any other number of CPU-intensive tasks on my machine. My household is definitely "geeky". I still run an i7 2600k, which is a Sandy Bridge CPU introduced 7 years ago. I don't (
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by hug 9y ago
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you: What I believe is that there are currently no keyboard layouts worth the hassle of switching, and to be honest I have a bit of a problem believing that there's any particular layout of 12 in
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by hug 9y ago
I feel like this is a sentiment that should be fairly familiar to you if you have read Stross' previous works. There are points in Accelerando (2005) where semisentient AI corporations are a threat to the protagonist, along with things
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by hug 9y ago
I mean, maybe I am, maybe I'm not. How many other languages from the '70s haven't been replaced in a domain where they should have been? And, I mean, maybe your example isn't really the best example you could have given.
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by hug 9y ago
Let's be honest: If you could make these choices more natural then you would have done so by now. If you could make SQL better than it is, you already would have done that as well. In fact, if most people who are interested in SQL co
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by hug 9y ago
> if they were even just comparable in price to taxis, they would never be able to survive In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary, [citation needed]. Uber has invested millions of dollars into something. One of those things is, undoubted
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by hug 9y ago
Find me a private hire firm, operating across the entirety of metropolitan Melbourne (Australia), with a pickup time of under 30 minutes, with a rate that is available to someone you wouldn't describe as "independently wealthy&quo
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by hug 9y ago
You don't, but I do. All of the above continue to be a problem on the incumbent taxi provider apps. (For reference, I'm in Australia.)
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by hug 9y ago
I hope that what I said didn't come across as supporting a lack of regulation. I'm pro-regulation. I'm anti-luddism, though, and sometimes it's hard to figure out where on the line I should stand. The point is not that u
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by hug 9y ago
Sure. I pay twice as much, on average, to get home in a lot less than half the time. I also support public transport. I pay for a monthly pass, every month. Do I want that to be my only option? No.
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by hug 9y ago
You know what used to happen if I got upset about a taxi driver driving irresponsibly? I'd call up. I'd complain. They told me they'd take the feedback onboard, and they'd definitely do something. And then, of course, th
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by hug 9y ago
I take a bunch of ubers, by which I mean I take maybe 4 or 5 ubers a week. Before I took ubers, I didn't take cabs, I took the train. I walked five minutes to get on a tram to the train station, I switched to a train, and then I walked
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by hug 9y ago
My citibank credit card redirects me to "cardservicesdirect.com.au" -- which reads like a phishing site if I've ever seen one. I confirmed over the phone with their support that was indeed the correct site before typing anyth
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by hug 9y ago
I am quite nonplussed by your linguistic prescriptivism. It is, however a moot point in a discussion about Nintendo's products. I appreciate your efforts to remain cordial , however. (In case you didn't get it: All of those w
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by hug 9y ago
The NintendoSwitch subreddit polled their userbase on how they used the console, they got 7192 responses, and it looks like TV use versus handheld use is split fairly well down the middle. Graph here: https://i.redd.it/j0ogx
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by hug 9y ago
Think you might want to re-examine your logic there, my friend. Just because something is for one group, doesn’t mean that it’s illegal for another group to use it. Yeah, I think the Switch is for children. I think it’s designed to appeal t
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by hug 9y ago
Nintendo is a toy company. You don’t buy their hardware thinking that you’ve got a device which is going to take over your living room, delivering television and games and voice recognition and baking you cookies. You buy a big ol’ expensiv
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by hug 9y ago
It's banned in Australia, too. Our cigarette packets also can't have any branding, must be a drab olive colour, and must have a graphic warning about the medical dangers of smoking. (Think "picture of a gangrenous foot"
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by hug 9y ago
I mean, on a universal timeline that's pretty recent. (I have no idea who Ben Johnson is or was. You are probably correct, and I probably look silly.)
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by hug 9y ago
The venues existing just for the poker machines is essentially incontestable. In this article ( http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north/news-story/535a0090... ) about the shadiness of the Preston RSL, they adm
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by hug 9y ago
We're definitely just trading anecdotes here, but I assume you've never spent any time inside the local TAB in a rural Australian town; It's not exactly filled to the brim with young professional up-and-comers. My experience
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by hug 9y ago
My opinion is that Australia should ban gambling advertising. I also believe that Australia should also remove the electronic poker machine licenses from the Returned Services Leagues, and I also think that Australia should toughen up the m
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by hug 9y ago
As an Australian, living in a society where betting is legal albeit fairly regulated: I sincerely hope not. The reason for that hope is that gambling and gambling advertising, with the rise of online betting sites and smartphone apps, has s
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by hug 9y ago
I rent an apartment with double brick walls everywhere. I cannot install cabling in the wall, or really anywhere it's not a severe trip hazard. For the most part, this is fine, because almost every device I own that requires internet a

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