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by mcv 1y ago
> GOG is in bed with Amazon. Is that criticism? Because from your comment, so are you. You pay Amazon, and GOG gives you free games. I refuse to give any money to Amazon, but gladly pay GOG.
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by mcv 1y ago
GOG does not support Linux, and Steam does, but the Heroic launcher is great for running GOG or Epic games on Linux. And if that doesn't work, you can still import the game into Linux, while also still owning it independently from the
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by mcv 1y ago
Steam's massive investment into Linux support has gained them an incredibly amount of goodwill in the Linux community. Before Steam started supporting Linux, playing Windows games on Linux was incredibly unreliable and buggy. Now, almo
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by mcv 1y ago
Another possibility is that without the subscription, the car runs efficiently and meets all sorts of emission standards. But with the subscription, all that goes out the window, because it's got to deliver more power now. It might be
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by mcv 1y ago
Absolutely. That's the direction we need to go. And ideally, the rest of the world too. But having this EU-wide, will encourage more webshops outside the EU to also support it.
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by mcv 1y ago
Ridiculous that a few large corporations get to decide this. The only people who have any business deciding what content is or isn't allowed on someone else's platform, are the People, or their representatives in government. I can
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by mcv 1y ago
The idea is that you should consider the area around the notch to be extra, and not part of the normal screen. Show your game on the rectangular part of the screen, and use the extras for stuff that doesn't need the whole screen, like
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by mcv 1y ago
History aside, what are the technical merits of Vulkan vs Metal vs D3D? Wouldn't it make sense to simply implement the technically best solution everywhere?
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by mcv 1y ago
I've often wondered about that, because I often see them used interchangeably (and not just here). But you're absolutely right. Here's a random site I found that explains it: https://www.difference.wiki/bevel-
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by mcv 1y ago
Censorship has always been more of a conservative thing. But really more of an authoritarian thing, once you manage to get your head out of one-dimensional political thinking. But if you want left-right, "helping the poor and disenfran
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by mcv 1y ago
Sounds like the EUIPO isn't following its own rules. I wonder if there might be some corruption going on that might be addressed. It's certainly a ridiculous and dangerous ruling.
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by mcv 1y ago
More specifically, for the past 40 years, the US government has mostly been focused on increasing the power of corporations. It has reduced the government's power where it limits corporations, but increased it where it limits people.
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by mcv 1y ago
> the conservatives have largely withered on the vine becoming merely another center left party. Excuse me, WHAT?! I can't imagine what else you could write to signal so clearly that nobody should take anything you write seriously.
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by mcv 1y ago
In fact, I'd go a step further and note the similarity with organized religion. People have a tendency to organize and dogmatize everything. The problem with religion is rarely the core ideas, but always the desire to use it as a basis
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by mcv 1y ago
Same thing. Maybe this doesn't make the double promise quite as visible, but it's still a double promise. You could probably replace the other await with a .then() too.
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by mcv 1y ago
I still question your claims of cause and effect here. The US abandoned this well before the USSR had fallen, and the reason the rest of Europe followed suit was not the fall of the USSR, but merely because they were blindly following the U
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by mcv 1y ago
Just when I was finally coming to grips with needing bifocals.
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by mcv 1y ago
> And my bank, my countries' largest, one year ago dropped NFC in favour of Google Pay. Dutch banks used to have a great system for contactless payment through your banking app. Worked perfectly. Last year, it seems they all abandon
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by mcv 1y ago
But many companies also misuse Excel for tasks for which it's a poor fit. They also use it for data entry that has nothing to do with financial calculations, and Excel is not suitable for maintaining data. One of my big frustrations ha
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by mcv 1y ago
Why would it be unstable? Most of Europe still has it. The US chose to do away with it.
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by mcv 1y ago
I'm feeling similarly about reCaptchas. Why the fuck do we let computers decide if we're human enough? I'm not going to jump through those kind of hoops again.
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by mcv 1y ago
We should have taken the timeline with the flying cars.
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by mcv 1y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. Have a deepfake of yourself, driven by an AI trained on your work history and the common interview questions, ready to take over your session when you spot an AI.
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by mcv 1y ago
This is in fact one of my two requirements when interviewing: I want to hear the candidate say "I don't know" to a question. The other is that I want to hear them talk passionately about some project they once did. Bullshitti
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by mcv 1y ago
Could you expand on the shortcomings of Node test compared to jest?
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by mcv 1y ago
I have to admit I was a bit surprised when I was suddenly expected to get rid of all extensions in import. Sure, looks clean, but is it right?
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by mcv 1y ago
No idea how much compatibility breakage there is, but it's probably going to have to happen at some point, and reducing dependencies sounds worth it to me.
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by mcv 1y ago
Do you need an LLM for this? I've made my own in-house fork of a Java library without any LLM help. I needed apache.poi's excel handler to stream, which poi only supports in one direction. Someone had written a poi-compatible libr
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by mcv 1y ago
That's very concise. Still, the double await remains weird. Why is that necessary?
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by mcv 1y ago
This is all very good news. I just got an alert about a vulnerability in a dependency of axios (it's an older project). Getting rid of these dependencies is a much more attractive solution than merely upgrading them.

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