mehlmao

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by mehlmao 3y ago
That is a false equivalence. Also, why would someone in 1970 think American soldiers were baby killers? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/the-scene-of-t...
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by mehlmao 3y ago
This was cute. It reminded me of The Looker, a parody of The Witness. It's available free on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1985690/The_Looker/
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by mehlmao 3y ago
Microsoft acquiring Bethesda fixed none of their management issues; why would this be any different? Further, Microsoft lied to EU regulators about what they'd do with the Zenimax / Bethesda acquisition.
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by mehlmao 3y ago
They can't spin out Gamepass because it is a money pit. There aren't enough subscribers to fund large budget game development. At the same time, Gamepass trains subscribers to not purchase new games, because they'll be on Gam
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by mehlmao 3y ago
Funding your own is great until you have an emergency and require the use of a $30,000 per hour operating theater.
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by mehlmao 3y ago
Every time I see 'Buzzfeed News' come up I remember this Onion piece: 'Kidnapped Journalist Forced To Explain To ISIS Captors What BuzzFeed News Is' https://www.theonion.com/kidnapped-journalist-forced-to
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by mehlmao 3y ago
I pay for software and the developers force in ads later. It's not either or, it's just racing to the bottom, forever.
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by mehlmao 3y ago
Again, there is not middle ground between existence and extermination.
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by mehlmao 3y ago
Even if effectively 0% of people hold extremist views (and I think that is a low number), they also commit outsized acts of violence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs_nightclub_sho... https://e
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by mehlmao 3y ago
Sadly "effectively 0" includes a number of mass shooters.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Bork's VHS rentals were actually pretty boring and didn't include pornography. The indignation / backlash to the list's publication made it clear that he and his supporters were hypocrites; Bork had repeatedly argued and
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by mehlmao 4y ago
I expect them to let me access the things I purchased. Not a problem with offline installers from GoG.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Steam is dropping support for Windows 7 and 8. If you don't switch OS, you'll lose the ability to install (and for most games with DRM, to play) the games you already purchased.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
GOG used to be my first choice for buying games, but I stopped making purchases from them after they delisted a Taiwanese game dev for making a joke about Xi Jinping: https://www.pcgamer.com/devotion-returns-almost-two-years
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Off the top of my head, Genshin Impact is a mostly single-player game with some multiplayer functionality. It uses kernel level anti-cheat to make sure that microtransactions are protected. This driver had a known vulnerability that did not
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by mehlmao 4y ago
I've used the sheet music for 'Still Alive' from Portal whenever I need a test PDF. The original blog post linking to it is gone, but Valve has kept it up on their CDN: https://steamstore-a.akamaihd.net/public
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by mehlmao 4y ago
> police didn't immediately make an arrest which means it must have been a random homeless person
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by mehlmao 4y ago
If someone tells me to my face that ignoring user preferences is actually 'consumer-friendly', I will tell them to their face that it isn't. 'Friendly remark' is passive aggressive and can be left out.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
I just had to disable this on a machine earlier today. They list all the packages you have that could receive additional security patches through Ubuntu Pro. I'd much rather see 'All packages are up to date.'
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Executives will destroy lives at random as a show of good will to the capital class. Time to bring back the guillotine.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Haidt's book argues that students and faculty denouncing Amy Wax is stifling a culture of freedom of speech, while purposefully not addressing what the students and faculty were denouncing. This is one of the few examples he provides.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Do Bloop searches also include the license of the code it returns? For example, if a search returns code copied from a GPL 3 project, will it let users know they need to comply with the GPL?
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by mehlmao 4y ago
North of $250,000 it's a bet. If you're Roku and you have hundreds of millions of dollars in a single bank, that's absolutely a bet. Companies can get private insurance to cover money in excess of the FDIC, but they didn&#x27
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by mehlmao 4y ago
I've worked with people (remotely) in the past that I'll still hop on Discord and play video games with. Working remote lets me make connections and friendships where I live, and have more time to do so than when I was spending ho
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by mehlmao 4y ago
> I don't care because it's just the privacy of my neighbors (and their friends and families)
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Man, YC cared so much about protecting jobs two days ago when they were begging for a bailout. What happened?
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by mehlmao 4y ago
A 4K Blu-ray will look significantly better than streaming in 4K. Streaming has an advantage that (sometimes, on newer hardware) it can use newer / better video codecs than DVD/Blu-ray/4k Blu-ray, which are frozen in time at
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Founders can take a loan on the IOUs from the FDIC from VCs and make payroll. Worth watching who goes this way and who holds out, doesn't pay their employees, and begs the federal government to pay them.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
What was censored under Dorsey that isn't censored under Musk?

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