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by ndiddy 1y ago
You're right that people don't get directly banned for winning too often, but they will get their maximum bets limited to something like $10 if they consistently place bets where they get a good deal on the odds (i.e. placing a be
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by ndiddy 1y ago
One reason is that Apple sold subsidized devkits to developers starting around 6 months before Apple Silicon launched, while the X Elite devkit was not subsidized, came with Windows 11 Home (meaning that you had to pay another $100 to upgra
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by ndiddy 1y ago
This is a great example of how large companies are structured so that the organization as a whole is capable of making decisions that would be unthinkable and/or criminal if done by a single individual. As a whole, Match Group: - Hid c
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> As you can see, the Ubuntu 24.04 distro is missing from the list, and this is a shame, since this is a board released late 2024. I contacted OrangePi and they mentioned that they would eventually release a 24.04 version, but there was
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> On Windows/macOS it just works, on Linux you'll probably break secure boot with it. The way it works on my Windows laptop is it’ll stay in sleep overnight, then when I open the laptop in the morning it’ll wake up, then hibern
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The modem was an external add-on, there wasn't any special support for it built into the consoles. I think one reason why it wasn't a big success was that a lot of its appeal was being able to easily do stock trades and check your
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Intel's Arc GPUs are fabricated by TSMC, not Intel.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
In case anyone can't tell from the poorly photoshopped image and the "text input via analog stick rotation" input method, this is an old April Fool's article. See https://groups.google.com/g/fr.comp.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
BTW, not sure if you were involved with this at all but I really appreciate all the work that's gone into making the Kirigami/Qt Quick KDE programs feel less janky. It's still not perfect (don't know if it ever will be u
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Freedom Fries, Satanic Panic, Save our Children, Red Scare. If anything the liberals being able to cancel people is a historical anomaly, and now we're seeing things return to their natural order.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Thanks, I found a page on their site that goes over this: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9982051-using-the-chatgp... I still think that the Google Windows program looks more like Apple Spotlight than the Chat
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by ndiddy 1y ago
I looked up some screenshots of the ChatGPT desktop program, it doesn't look anything like the screenshot in this post unless there's some other search mode that nobody's taken a screenshot of. I think it's more likely t
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Yeah I don’t know how they made it so bad. On Windows & Linux, using an SMB share basically gives you the same experience as using a USB hard drive connected directly to the machine. On Mac, you have to wait 30 seconds every time you op
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by ndiddy 1y ago
I don’t think it’s clickbait to say that Microsoft is forcing Copilot onto people’s computers just because they let you opt out if you know exactly where to go in the group policy editor, or that they know they can’t get away with pushing t
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> I'm mildly curious what the reaction to this will be compared to the reaction to other recent political murders, like the Hortmans, or of Thompson. Trump has already issued a statement blaming his political opponents for the death
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by ndiddy 1y ago
I've had issues with stuff on status bars getting cut off for programs written before status bars fell out of fashion. This is less of a problem on Mac because backwards compatibility isn't much of a concern there, so nobody expec
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> It's forever damned to the 5% of people who are willing to toil with a CLI I've never really understood this complaint. On GNOME/KDE, all the normal system administration/configuration stuff (the types of settings y
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by ndiddy 1y ago
From a usability perspective, the difference is that Vista and 7 drew rounded borders around the window contents, while 11 doesn’t have any borders and instead cuts out pixels from the window contents to make the window rounded. The real pr
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> Is this a thing? From Google's official Pixel 9 Pro Fold handling instructions: ( https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/15090466?hl=en#... ) > Flexible screens are softer than traditional phone s
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by ndiddy 1y ago
I think folding phones will remain a small niche unless someone figures out how to make a foldable screen that doesn't get permanently scratched by your fingernails.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The monthly employment numbers the BLS publishes are basically nonsense and I'm sure they wouldn't publish them if Congress didn't force them to. At the middle of every month, they run a survey asking ~120,000 businesses how
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Yeah I think it was just the developer working with what he was familiar with. For example, the emulator used for the 3DS NES Virtual Console titles was developed by a different team at iQue. It uses its own bespoke header format called TNE
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Ford stopped selling all passenger vehicles besides the Mustang in the US in 2018, and 2025 will be the last model year for the Focus worldwide.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
One thing to note is that Nintendo doesn't really have any intrinsic advantage over the unofficial emulation community just because they produced the NES. Whatever documents they have archived internally (something along the lines of t
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> although curiously their NES emulator uses a ROM header format which originated in the unofficial emulation scene, so they must have used unofficial docs for reference. Tomohiro Kawase, the guy who did the Animal Crossing NES emulator,
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Nintendo and Ikegami settled out of court. I'm assuming Nintendo got the rights to the arcade version as part of the settlement, as the arcade version of Donkey Kong got a release on Switch as part of Arcade Archives. https:/&#x2
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by ndiddy 1y ago
I took a screenshot of it when I first read it. Here's a version of the post with all the PII stripped out because I don't want to cause him or anyone he mentioned any trouble. https://files.catbox.moe/vonlwq.png
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by ndiddy 1y ago
If you read the OpenAI blog post the article links to ( https://openai.com/index/expanding-economic-opportunity-with... ), their quote from Walmart is talking about retail associate jobs, not cushy corporate-level engine
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by ndiddy 1y ago
I don't think there was anything beyond the original forum post. Even back then it was already ancient code that Apple was no longer using, so there wasn't any legal drama etc.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
It's a copy of the Toolbox ROM code for the Quadra 660AV. It's a real leak, not reverse engineered. You can see comments on the code from the early 80s by the original Macintosh team. It was published online (I think on Applefritt

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