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by m12k 5y ago
>Also, what does this mean!? >> …Mac users … are subject to a way less economically motivated attacker base. It means there are much fewer Mac users than iOS users so there's a bigger economic reward for bypassing iOS security
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by m12k 5y ago
> JavaScript is such a polarising topic and I wonder why Probably because it's a gatekeeper language - in order to run code in a browser, you have to use this language[1]. That means a lot of developers that dislike it enough that t
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by m12k 5y ago
Did you reply to the wrong thread?
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by m12k 6y ago
This felt like a bonus episode of Halt and Catch Fire. If you haven't seen it, it's the story of a fictional Texan calculator company entering the frenzied IBM PC clone market. Period piece, skunk works, early hacker culture and s
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by m12k 6y ago
I never finished Oblivion, but as I recall, by far the most broken strategy was to just never rest, so you never leveled up. Enemies are scaled with your level, but you could get most of the benefits from improved skills, but not face stro
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by m12k 6y ago
Sure, but the fact that Turkey is becoming increasingly corrupt isn't really a good argument why it would be a good idea to take away the ability of all central banks to perform monetary policy to stabilize the economy.
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by m12k 6y ago
About min-maxing: Teenage-me made the mistake of discovering that the vendor economy in Morrowind is fundamentally broken. Basically, the base price that vendors will buy and sell something for goes down when they like you more and up when
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by m12k 6y ago
Snowball or Yeti consistently get good reviews.
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by m12k 6y ago
So... what I said?
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by m12k 6y ago
Maybe a financial analysis that tech growth companies like theirs will have their valuation punished when the economy recovers and the fed starts raising interest rates, so better raise enough capital for several years of growth now?
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by m12k 6y ago
A world where each country is just strong enough to defend itself from an attack, but not invade anyone else seems ideal.
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by m12k 6y ago
I think it helps build an intuition of how higher dimensions can help us explain physics, if instead of a shadow, you think of projection as a cross-section, like the ones you see in brain scans, where you only see one "layer" of
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by m12k 6y ago
And LinkedIn is still terrible, but no more so than they were before the acquisition. Then again Skype just got worse and worse and Wunderlist just got absorbed by the borg cube. So a mixed record, but at least seems to have been getting be
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by m12k 6y ago
As someone who had had a surround sound setup, but then not even bothered to set it up after moving, it was pretty obvious to me even back then that 3D TV was in the same category of "technically better but practically pointless"
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by m12k 6y ago
Another point is that he is now free to go out and get another job if he wants to, while still getting the ad money from Photopea every year. That's the whole point of building up a passive income stream - once you uncouple the income
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by m12k 6y ago
You don't need to find a bunker, but there's a risk that we'll soon have a lot more 'space debris' in orbit. If a collision happens, it'll basically turn the colliding satellites into scattershot, leading to a
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by m12k 6y ago
Reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/PeopleLiveInCities/
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by m12k 6y ago
The same thing happened in reverse with the Toyota MR2, which in France was just called the Toyota MR, because "MR2" sounds like a swear word (merde) in French.
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by m12k 6y ago
What's the maximum fine under GDPR? It's some percentage of global revenue, right?
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by m12k 6y ago
> Which is expected if he has some form of autism. There's something ironic about a lynch mob calling someone ableist because he's got autistic communication issues.
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by m12k 6y ago
You're right, which is why the only sane way for this to work is for any law referencing a copyrighted work needs to be considered unconstitutional. Lawmakers need to either get the copyright holder to release it to the public domain,
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by m12k 6y ago
I can't speak for GP, but I'd pay for Path Finder even if all it did was give me cmd-x to cut, and enter key to mean open instead of rename. It does a ton more, but those two are the killer features for me (Tabs used to be one too
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by m12k 6y ago
About time they came up with an open source alternative to https://unity-chan.com/
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by m12k 6y ago
You're missing an important use case here: Money laundry. While regular cryptocurrency is quite useful for this, it comes with the drawback of having a well-defined market value at any given point in time, making it harder to cook the
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by m12k 6y ago
Yes, the trouble is agreeing on a definition of "simple"
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by m12k 6y ago
Won't the image proxy make it look like all emails to Gmail addresses are always opened, essentially making the tracking useless?
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by m12k 6y ago
Fair enough
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by m12k 6y ago
If AZ until recently thought they were going to be shipping those doses to the UK, and the UK has approved that, then it's hard to fault AZ for not applying to have the plant approved in a jurisdiction that it wasn't intended to b
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by m12k 6y ago
I think if you've been bitten by compilation times in e.g. Scala or C++, then compile speed is something you end up caring about. When it comes to modern static languages, it seem like there's a tradeoff where providing all the ab
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by m12k 6y ago
That's fair - and tbh most games don't need to push the envelope when it comes to performance, so it makes sense to just stay with the most flexible default option. Still, when you compare to something like ECS, which basically ne

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