mrighele

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Video game addiction: China imposes gaming curfew for minors(bbc.com)
30 points by mrighele 5y ago|26 comments
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by mrighele 5y ago
Yes, I read the book which is in part responsible for my previous comment. But it not only that. The older I get the less I am willing to spend energy to interpret the UI I have in front of me: even finding out which is the app I want to us
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by mrighele 5y ago
The average user has the same problems, but doesn't realize it is a UI problem or even think that he could be more productive. When he does he probably thinks that he is too stupid to use a computer.
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by mrighele 5y ago
It's also worth remembering that several sound card models used to have an extra IDE slot, although they generally supported CD-ROM drives and not hard disks.
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by mrighele 5y ago
I'm not surprised defenders didn't want to do their job, since they were lacking ammos and even food [1]. "Soldiers in Ghurmach in the northern province of Faryab had spoken to a local media about the same topic just a month
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by mrighele 5y ago
The affected users didn't bother to check if the issue was solved for five years. I think it is fine to close it
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by mrighele 5y ago
The linked RFC talks about this (it refers to UUIDv4, which is not much different from 128 random bits): " First, most of the existing UUID versions such as UUIDv4 have poor database index locality. Meaning new values created in
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by mrighele 5y ago
What about clustering them by upvote/downvotes patterns (I.e. find the bots) and then “shadowban” their votes? (I.e. make them count as one or in any case a fraction of the total) Maybe they would be hard to distinguish from regular us
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by mrighele 5y ago
I think there are a couple of reasons which work one for the other. The first is the mentality of "conquest" that a part of the population (and the ruling party) share. Those people don't see byzantine-era artifacts as part o
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by mrighele 5y ago
In sone countries twitter et al are the best way to get information that is not directly controlled by the government. They are imperfect (accounts banned, state funded troll farms etc) but still better than the alternatives
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by mrighele 5y ago
I you talk about hyperreality I think you were referring to this (1) video, but given the downvotes you received I guess not many people got the reference (1) https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs
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by mrighele 5y ago
99% survival rate is not comforting given the high transmissibility of the virus. For example India had almost 5 million excess deaths during the pandemic
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by mrighele 5y ago
Farming other animals is not limited to humans. For example ants farm aphids
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by mrighele 5y ago
Any particular reason for using ParallelOldGC with Java 16 ? There are other options that should fare much better.
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by mrighele 5y ago
I think that it is important to consider the reason _why_ we make some information public. We make our SSID public so that we, or our friends, can easily access our WiFi, not so that somebody else use it as a tracking tool. Just because I m
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by mrighele 5y ago
> One question: IF there is a CHANCE that the entire OS is indeed just a `sed s/Android/whatever/g AOSP/`, is it legal (for a company that large) to do that? Only replacing the string would probably not be enough, but
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by mrighele 5y ago
> No, I don't want to update my computer right now, and no, updating overnight tonight isn't good either because I need to keep this program running until tomorrow. I understand that your new UX is better for me, and I'm s
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by mrighele 5y ago
In Firefox under linux I see a "No video with supported format and MIME type found". It seems that Gifs are still more widely supported...
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by mrighele 5y ago
you're right, good catch. Usually it's the TS compiler that prevents me doing that.
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by mrighele 5y ago
> If you want something to execute once initially you can use useEffect with an empty dependency list, but note that then there’s no way of accessing updates values (in callbacks) and everything will reflect the initial state. Often you’
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by mrighele 5y ago
Funny enough, the association between pink and girls is quite recent. In the middle ages that was not the case so you it would not be that that strange to have a knight being pink-dressed. (unfortunately I cannot find any reference at the m
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by mrighele 5y ago
Unless there is somebody there blocking a boy or a girl from reaching a certain aisle, stereotypes are no issue. Yes, there are aisle that are predominantly pink and full of princesses, and others that are full of soldiers and weapons, but
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by mrighele 5y ago
Were you thinking about Switzerland maybe [1] ? [1] https://www.wired.com/2010/01/record-speeding-fine-dents-swi...
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by mrighele 5y ago
AFAIK WhatsApp used to be Erlang on FreeBSD, not sure if it is still the case (maybe, Facebook is a big FreeBSD sponsor)
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by mrighele 5y ago
An "easy" solution would be for FB to lobby for the USA to adopt privacy laws similar to those in Europe. Then maybe the data transfer ban could be lifted (somehow I suspect that will not be the case)
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by mrighele 5y ago
I've been using python for many years, but these days I would prefer to use JS (or better, TS) even for backend. I find it more enjoyable to use than Python, and faster. Sure it has its warts, but if you write idiomatic code they are n
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by mrighele 5y ago
Despite their shortcomings webapps won because they had a number of advantages that native lacked, most of all software distribution. What has flutter to offer that a regular webapp lacks? (not performance, it seems)
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by mrighele 5y ago
> Also with diamonds it's probably a factor that the fiancé is expected to present serious intents with a deeper monetary investment. "Look honey, it's an ethical, clean diamond and only cost 1/20th of a dirty one&quo
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by mrighele 5y ago
The DMCA notice linked on the page [1] gives a few more details. We have received information that the domain listed above, which appears to be on servers under your control, is offering unlicensed copies of, or is engaged in other unauthor
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by mrighele 6y ago
This is true for JS too, but I never hear as much hate for that language. Also there are classes of games for which the latency introduced by a GC may not be that much relevant (e.g. strategy or simulation games).

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