joemi

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by joemi 3y ago
I'm _not_ upset on Netflix's behalf. I have many friends who work in tv/movie production. So when I see people like you proudly talking about pirating tv and/or movies I'm offended on my friends' behalf (behalv
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by joemi 3y ago
I think we're in agreement. I said it doesn't affect people who aren't sharing their password, and you seem to be talking about cases where passwords are being shared.
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by joemi 3y ago
Talking about it in jokes and codes just strikes me as either immature or ashamed, like how teenagers talk about sex or drugs. I think if they believe what they're doing is justified then they shouldn't be ashamed, and there'
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by joemi 3y ago
It's still declaring an intention to commit a crime either way though, isn't it? Unless you truly believe any prosecutorial organization wouldn't be able to crack the code.
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by joemi 3y ago
You sound pretty proud of the fact that you're pirating what other people are paying for, so again I ask, why use veiled references to what you're suggesting?
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by joemi 3y ago
There's a lot to unpack in what you wrote, and I agree with a lot of it. But you seem to be implying that the fact that you can't buy DRM-free shows or movies via your preferred distribution method (ie. without physical media) mor
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by joemi 3y ago
That's how I treat all streaming services nowadays. With the fractured landscape it's kind of the only way to handle it now.
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by joemi 3y ago
> downloading Linux ISOs starts to look more and more attractive Is that a veiled reference to piracy? If so, why not just say piracy?
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by joemi 3y ago
> Overall it'll be interesting to see how much impact this actually has or doesn't have for subscription volume. My guess is maybe not as much as the usual uproared comments would have you think. I suspect you're right abo
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by joemi 3y ago
Why be coy and simply (heavily) imply pirating? Just say outright that you're going to pirate stuff because you for some reason believe you have a right to view their content and not pay for it?
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by joemi 3y ago
Over the years there have been a few times where I got an additional (small) return due to overpayment. As far as I know, I've never been audited (and I think I'd know if I were).
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by joemi 3y ago
> I find that bench-top "fume extractors", consisting of a fan and thin dust filter, are extremely noisy and essentially useless. Compared to no fan/filter, they're A LOT better, I'd say. And a relatively small
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by joemi 3y ago
I had tried my hand with hobbyist electronics a few times over the years, and had a few different cheap pencil style soldering irons from Radio Shack and always found soldering so hard to do well. I had no idea how people were getting the k
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by joemi 3y ago
You don't find the TX-6 too small? That's what's preventing me from even considering buying it. If it were a little bigger, I'd be dreaming about getting it, or perhaps even actually getting it.
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by joemi 3y ago
Datamoshing is one effect that I don't think I'll ever process as an effect instead of an error (and as a result, I don't like it). My brain simply won't process it as "effect". I think it's from my histor
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by joemi 4y ago
Isn’t this just how making a product (any product) works? If you’re a small company and you don’t have a patent over the general concept of your unique product, another larger company can swoop in and make the same thing and run you out of
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by joemi 4y ago
I think there are still a lot of cool ones, but not as many sexy ones. Rocket planes like the X-15 were incredibly sexy, IMO, though in many ways not as cool and useful as current rockets.
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by joemi 4y ago
A lot of the books that preceded the movies are from more than a decade ago. And there are even more YA books/movies that have themes of teens being oppressed from longer ago than that. As far as I'm aware, teens always feel oppre
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by joemi 4y ago
> What problem, exactly, is a blockchain based social network trying to solve? I think the problem it's trying to solve is: "How can we mix social networking with blockchain?"
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by joemi 4y ago
RIP. Settlers Of Catan and Uwe Rosenberg's Bohnanza were my intro to boardgames beyond Monopoly. I always hated Monopoly, and all board games by extension. Thanks to Catan and Bohnanza I discovered that board games didn't have to
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by joemi 4y ago
Without knowing the context, being hesitant definitely makes sense. I know the album its referencing and I was still a little apprehensive.
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by joemi 4y ago
To be fair, I've searched for this kind of thing before, and the results are usually plagued with so much sponsored content that it's hard to tell what's really a good deal and what's something someone's being paid
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by joemi 4y ago
This touches on one of my least favorite things about Apple Music: They don't have different versions of a lot of stuff. I've seen many cases where a particular track they have with an album is actually a single version (or vice v
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by joemi 4y ago
> your website or webapp should care significantly more about visually fitting in with the user's system, settings, and preferences than it should about expressing your corporate branding and looking the same on every device in the
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by joemi 4y ago
I love your analogy. That's definitely how it's felt for me.
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by joemi 4y ago
Speed, sure. But I highly doubt that speed beyond comprehensibility is what they intended to convey.
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by joemi 4y ago
As someone who just decided to learn React (and modern javascript, after 1.5 decades or so of not programming in javascript at all) in the past month or two, I've been extremely frustrated by the documentation (in particular) and the w
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by joemi 4y ago
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I found most of the animations in this article to go too fast. I couldn't tell what was happening, couldn't tell what I was supposed to be looking at.
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by joemi 4y ago
The part that you quoted says "I wish that people built simple keyboard-and-mouse VR games" -- that sounds to me like they mean the same thing you mean when you say "WASD+mouse for me please".
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by joemi 4y ago
"Code" was such a great read even though I already knew a lot of what's in it. I highly recommend it.

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