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by lucb1e 4mo ago
Isn't the story that some gaming consoles were sold at or under cost price and the markup was on the game sales? I don't know if it's fair to require that needs to be unlocked Yet I 100% agree on a generic computing device an
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by lucb1e 4mo ago
Could have said the same for Linux? Microsoft could have learned from it however much they liked, but not only is Linux relevant despite commercial competitors (think Firefox market share as of today), it's now by far the most widespre
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by lucb1e 4mo ago
> people start preparing for tests 2 to 3 years in advance Pardon? Is that a normal thing in the USA? I don't think I've ever started preparing for a test more than a week and a half ahead, a month if you count graduation exams
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by lucb1e 4mo ago
Exactly, I was also pretty unamused by Google pushing product ads into system notifications. Not the first software I stop using due to system notification ads! Mentioned it in an off-topic company chat but the director has gotten tired of
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by lucb1e 4mo ago
Okay, but is it not what you wished for, "a similar tool for the modern era"? edit: I see I simul-posted with u/modeless, but I can't remove it now that there's a (duplicate) reply. Maybe mods can remove or at least
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by lucb1e 4mo ago
I agree about many screens being commonly too bright, but not really about anything else. My partner's previous company car had a back-up camera with a fine brightness and the current one has none at all. I feel blind backing out of pa
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by lucb1e 4mo ago
Half the passengers sit in the sun half the time My partner enjoys ambient temperatures about 3°C warmer than I do Depending on which of us is currently in the sun, or which of us is alone, you need to vary it quite a lot in summer In winte
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by lucb1e 4mo ago
> It can be a mess of a system that relies on all kinds of services Nowadays, this is much less of a "can" and more of a "definitely is" :( Based on what I see as (non-game) security consultant in terms of service com
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by lucb1e 4mo ago
>> It also prohibits the continued sale or distribution of games that have become unusable due to service termination. Does anyone know how this should be interpreted? Maybe to have a concrete example, let's take Rollercoaster Ty
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
Yeah I'm surprised as well! A lot of items would burn but also so many, I'd think, wouldn't. Apparently it works out
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
Tried this once as well with plastic filler material that said you should visit some website to find a place that takes it back for reuse, and the website referred me to ask the merchant instead The merchant (who produces the product and fi
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
You mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration ? At family gatherings here it's a typical argument for why there's allegedly no point separating out plastics: the recycling bin allegedly also ends up ther
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
If you just see a blurry image and nothing loads or happens, check the javascript console if it says "WebGL not supported"
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
Same, came to google after DDG failed to locate a string that I suspect would occur (error message on Factorio forums). Google then gives me some LLM hallucinations about what the error might indicate, also when you specifically don't
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
Not answering the question. Is there some small gene change that we're specifically worried about here or was GP wildly speculating? > reproduced and mutated as rapidly as viruses HIV spreads in similar ways afaik (some fluids, I do
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
Or it was too little because it still spread easily? I'm on the border of three countries and you'd always see symptom reports go up in a region, sewage analyses go up, hospitalizations go up, and finally shortly before mortality
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
> 4. (This is the big one) [...] People with the flu tend to self-isolate showing symptoms. Even if optimistically 80% of people do that (in western europe I'd guess it's more like 45%+/-20, might be better elsewhere), if
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
Pigs can grow wings too. Is there a particular small set of mutations that you're referring to that we're actually worried about, or just wildly speculating of what could happen in a one-in-a-quadrillion event?
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
If Python were the language spoken in Fictionastan then yes, and C is indeed even more terrible than something like Golang but that predates the internet so it's pretty searchable after all > if you were still confused after that I
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
I'm aware, I also host various websites that see an IP do a single request to the most unlikely of deep pages. Usually not hard to correlate with similar surprising requests from the same ISP, though, and that's exactly why it wou
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
Just to add to the two negative replies, I find Anubis to be the only system that doesn't ever get in the way. My browsers have Javascript enabled and, so far, it never took more than a fraction of a second to complete the checks Eve
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
Then see my other replies in the thread where I've specifically addressed residential IPs, e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163060
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
Then block all of Amazon, Meta, or wherever botnet/crawling traffic is coming from that doesn't honor robots.txt, sends DDoS reflection traffic, submits SMTP messages (in large volumes, not just probing) for domains they're n
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
> you can't possibly orchestrate filing all of the complaints To the ISPs? Each IP range has an abuse email address registered and this is specifically exempt from rate limiting at RIPE's WHOIS server. Not sure how it is in oth
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
I know. All the more reason to do it, right? If an ISP can't keep its network clean, then allowing them to send traffic onto the web is just asking for the problem to continue Show people a useful error, such as "You are using [IS
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
Somehow I'm still in the mode where I'm surprised where it is, rather than when it isn't, but yeah it's annoyingly often. Do you come across it so much that it's your default expectation now?
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
I was so confused by the word factorial in the first example for a language , but decided to click it and just see what it means Turns out, Futhark != https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futhark (runes, old germanic alphabe
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
It should be automateable, yes. Different RIRs (regional internet registries), which all operate their own WHOIS databases, might handle this differently but generally you should be able to get an abuse contact in an automated fashion for e
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
There is no comment of yours when I click the "parent" link until the root post. What exactly were we supposed to read before fortran77's comment?
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by lucb1e 5mo ago
Yeah I also have to fight the URL parameters on Algolia from time to time, the JS front-end seems to have some syncing bugs Makes me think I should probably have reported it, even if I found a quick-for-me workaround. Looking at the repo, t

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