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by mvdtnz 1y ago
You think all streaming services have banned non US IPs? What world do you live in?
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
I don't know enough to understand what prevents it I guess. I thought it was a matter of game or anti cheat developers not writing software that will cooperate properly. It's a chicken and egg problem, has been for decades. Believ
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Just to add a bit more context, the group of people who I play games with are not people I met playing games. They are my lifelong friends. I'm not willing to walk away from those friendships or my interactions with them for the sake o
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> I personally think gamers, as a demographic, has some responsibility to say.. 'yeah, no. stop being dicks' Well you don't play online games. Personally I care a great deal more about cheaters than I do about whether a c
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> it rarely if ever makes sense to buy anything but the top spec Macbook Pro available God I wish my employers would stop buying me Macbook Pros and let me work on a proper Linux desktop. I'm sick of shitty thermally throttled slow-
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Battlefield 2024 (and the upcoming 6) and all recent Call of Duty games are the obvious ones. And if you're interested in sim racing then device compatibility is a major problem even before you get to launch the game. > I am ok with
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> What conceivable reason is there to choose economy if someone else is paying. Thanks for the unpleasant reminder that people like you exist.
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It definitely isn't solved.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Unfortunately there's just no solution for an important part of my life - gaming. If it was completely up to me I would completely ignore games that didn't work on Linux. But I maintain an important friendship group through gaming
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
One indicator there may be a bubble is when internet investors are bragging about a P/E "under 60" like it's a safe pair of hands.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Which cryptocurrency did you lose you shirt on?
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
A bursting bubble doesn't instakill an entire industry. No one is suggesting that. Bursting bubbles are harmful to most market participants and often have a blast radius beyond the industry. It's great that Facebook and YouTube em
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Can you expand on that?
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
This isn't funny or clever. Stop it.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> Dog whistles are where someone says something that their audience will understand to mean a specific thing, but will be inaudible or neutral sounding to people who are not in their audience. They are named that because they are like th
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> they're being usurped on all sides between TikTok, X and BlueSky Good grief. Please leave your bubble once or twice in a month. Tiktok yes. X and Bluesky, absolutely not.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Uhhh I have been living on rainwater directly for several years, and like every other person on the planet indirectly for my entire life.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
That's not what a dog whistle is. A dog whistle is when someone isn't doing something, but their ideological opponent wants to imply they are doing that thing, so they accuse them of "dog whistling" the thing. Like if El
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
60% of the features in a product small enough to rewrite in 2 weeks is probably 3 features.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Back in my days of devouring popular physics we had Peter Woit and to some degree Lee Smolin. But people were mostly getting their pop physics from books, not online, so the velocity of contrarianisn was throttled.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
You don't need to comment if you didn't read.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Relevant HN link/discussion: Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25600274
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
The worst of the changes on the redesign had been telegraphed to users ahead of time and the overwhelming consensus was "we don't want this". In other words, "Digg failed because they weren't listening to what the u
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
What
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> gpt5 has always been about making a "collection of models" work together and not about model++. That is revisionist history. Look at Altman's hype statements in the weeks and months leading up to gpt5, some of which were
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How is that relevant to this discussion?
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According to Wikipedia, > An ultra-processed food is a grouping of processed food characterized by relatively involved methods of production. There is no simple definition of UPF, but they are generally understood to be an industrial cre
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> but the concept of an immutable, append only, tamper-proof ledger underpinning it is a very useful one Which is why blockchains have become such a ubiquitous technology. They're literally everywhere. Can't swing a cat without
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> While these laws are outwardly about preventing minors from accessing porn sites Take a look at the Australian age verification law. Mainstream websites aren't even collateral damage, they are explicitly the target.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
If I make a fish potato cake in the shape of a snapper can I call it "snapper"?

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