mardef

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by mardef 2y ago
I wish we could disagree about policies. Instead we literally have elected leaders screaming that the one party is controlling the weather to destroy another party. How do you engage and have any kind of civil discourse with that?
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by mardef 2y ago
Ok, so my Pixel 1, 3, 5, and 7 have had no problems. Data shows 100% reliability then?
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by mardef 2y ago
No, nowhere is the article stating that only one viewpoint is allowed. For example, if there were several scientists that were debating more precise ways of calculating the circumference of Earth, the discourse would improve if flat Earth i
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by mardef 2y ago
The article states 6% believe they do more good than harm. I'm not sure where you came up with your headline or why you're reverting to name calling.
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by mardef 2y ago
> The thing about emoji is that they're highly contextual. Same with the flying money emoji. It's on the list as confusing, but it lists "gaining money, losing money, and transferring money" as 85% of meanings. Contex
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by mardef 2y ago
657 360 games are backwards compatible. https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/backward-compatibility?cat=...
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by mardef 2y ago
Many engineering interviews include literal "solve this problem on leetcode" sections.
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by mardef 2y ago
Much like Kleenex or xerox, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
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by mardef 3y ago
TFA mentions that charging during travel would allow trucks to carry fewer batteries, would would reduce weight and increase range, efficiency, and cargo capacity. You cannot achieve that by charging your semi at home.
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by mardef 3y ago
Similarly, I replied to someone suggesting they pay for a service and I received multiple replies suggesting I kill myself. This wasn't on some random Marxist community, this was on one of the big tech communities.
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by mardef 3y ago
Average is probably a poor way of analyzing this. In my experience there's a bimodal distribution of tenure that correspond to your job hoppers and your long-term employees. I believe you're going to see the lower average at place
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by mardef 3y ago
Stock should just be the liquid. You're not going to get good flavor or texture out of the veg that's simmered for hours. Make the stock, strain it, put in a freezer bag and freeze flat. Keeps a long time and takes little space. T
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by mardef 3y ago
I think it'd be closer to a Hackintosh.
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by mardef 3y ago
I wouldn't call someone reciting a French-English dictionary a French speaker that understands the language. Other way around. If a kid understood the concepts of multiplation, they could train themselves on the next logical steps like
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by mardef 3y ago
Windows has Phone Link to do this with Android. It's only been around for ~6 years or so
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by mardef 3y ago
Everything about iOS Apple has excluded all other browsers on iOS, requires you to buy more apple hardware to produce software for iOS, and has all of their rules around IAP and not allowing you to even link to an alternate store in many ca
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by mardef 3y ago
Part of the context here is that UWP (universal windows platform), is a target to write-once and run on any windows platform situation. This made much more sense when Microsoft had multiple platforms running windows with just different sets
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by mardef 3y ago
I find Duolingo to work best when I go against its desired way and do it my own. If it asks me to translate a sentence with the multiple choice options, I translate it first before looking at the options. I listen before reading. Most impor
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by mardef 3y ago
Their phrasing is specific to align themselves with the current supreme Court review of deference. They'll likely delay until that decision has come down and they hope they can just claim the laws were unconstitutional in the first pla
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by mardef 3y ago
It serves the authors content ad-free. You can choose to subscribe to authors that do not place ads or sponsored content in their videos. When I dropped cable I started subscribing to dozens of channels and now have a pretty solid subscript
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by mardef 3y ago
winget Mozilla.Firefox
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by mardef 3y ago
> Well we all better stop flying and driving if we’re set out to reduce human suffering. No, we're better off regulating safety, setting increasingly strict pollution and mileage standards, and continuing to update laws to eliminate
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by mardef 3y ago
I really don't want to give meta any of my business.
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by mardef 3y ago
I feel so old. What is it that I'm missing out in iMessage that is so important? Honest question, I've been texting since t9 and have never owned an Apple device.
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by mardef 3y ago
Bun has solved this, unless you have developers on Windows.
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by mardef 3y ago
MSFT is up 55% YTD at all-time highs. That 1% drop at the announcement is the initial reaction which will probably disappear come Monday. You bury bad news on Friday afternoon.
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by mardef 3y ago
Until you are providing software to the US government, in which case it is their requirement. Or at least that was my experience while working on sovereign cloud stuff in big tech.
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by mardef 3y ago
It is confusing, but recently it's pretty straightforward .Net framework is the OG .Net and is windows specific. That stopped at v5 (I think) .Net Core is the cross-platform reboot that was mostly a subset of framework, but not a prope
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by mardef 3y ago
The major problem was the retroactive aspect and the very short amount of notice. Part of choosing your engine is selecting the appropriate licensing costs for your games business model. After spending 2+ years working on your product, the
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by mardef 3y ago
$19 is quarterly, so $76/year vs $120/year. But that $19 is for an average user. Paying users will presumably be your most engaged users that probably generate much more than that

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