neotek

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by neotek 6y ago
I've been playing the shit out of Human Resource Machine and its sequel-of-sorts 7 Billion Humans recently, they're really fantastic games. Basically ASM with cute graphics.
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by neotek 6y ago
Haha yeah, PHP-Nuke sites and vBulletin forums, what a duo!
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by neotek 6y ago
When I think back over my childhood, there's nothing I miss more than the way being on the "old" internet felt. The Geocities sites, the webrings, ICQ, Trillian, mIRC scripting, stileproject, the birth and death of E/N s
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by neotek 6y ago
>If increased voter turnout helps your political party, you are likely to support it. If it hurts your political party, you are likely to be against it. If you care about democracy in the slightest then you support an increased voter tur
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by neotek 6y ago
>Democrats fight hard to make voting as easy as possible because they are supported by people who are not engaged politically and by people who aren’t invested enough to vote if it takes any effort at all. Sounds perfectly reasonable to
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by neotek 6y ago
Apple does give you the ability to install non-app-store apps (some without tethering), e.g. sideloading or enterprise certificates, although I agree it's not as easy as flipping a switch. They should also provide a way to downgrade
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by neotek 6y ago
I care about security, but that doesn't preclude me from jailbreaking my iphone and running dozens of tweaks that haven't been "vetted by professionals", along with sideloaded apps that haven't been through Apple&#x
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by neotek 6y ago
I, a user, am extremely appreciative of Apple's walled garden. I've never once had to worry that the app I'm downloading is crammed full of malware because I trust that Apple's processes are robust and will work well in
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by neotek 6y ago
>Not all sites need it, and given the abuse it’s responsible for, it shouldn’t be permitted unless a user opts in. And 99.999% of internet users will therefore be trained to blindly click "accept" on any permission popups a web
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by neotek 6y ago
What a thoroughly disingenuous comment. Here, let me have a go at emulating your style: >I'm sorry but this is emotive gibberish. Are you saying all emotion is gibberish? So you want people to have no emotions whatsoever? You'r
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by neotek 6y ago
"Good luck with that in court" only means something if the courts haven't been stuffed full of incompetent and dangerously unqualified judges.
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by neotek 6y ago
Yes, I know that they know the precise location and imaging capabilities of the classified USA 224 reconnaissance satellite, thanks to this boneheaded security leak by the President of the United States of America.
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by neotek 6y ago
Our buying team communicates with sellers and their agents in China almost exclusively, they all love WeChat and use it in lieu of anything else.
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by neotek 6y ago
Is it possible to play Zork for the first time without a guide or manual of some kind? Could I fire up a copy today and dive straight in or do I need some external information? Edit: and a follow-up question, is there a good Z-Machine inter
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by neotek 6y ago
>Name a president of the United States (or anywhere, why limit it?) and I'll provide you with a corruption scandal that either they were linked to or happened during their tenancy. How about I throw it back at you and ask you to nam
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by neotek 6y ago
I take your point, I'm referring more to the surrounding milieu that capitalism (as practiced in America, at least) has encouraged and driven and which it seems to have as its ultimate goal for society.
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by neotek 6y ago
I have to say, you really are an amazing coder. I read your write up for “memories.” a few days ago and it completely blew my mind. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
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by neotek 6y ago
What an insipid observation.
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by neotek 6y ago
This game would be so much fun with better controls. Even just adding mouse aiming would make it infinitely more playable.
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by neotek 7y ago
>This is absolutely common. Business will require tracking/authentication/etc, contracts will be signed, developers will implement the provided SDK. Nobody will inspect the data being sent. That's exactly the point. Zoom
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by neotek 7y ago
Seems much more sad and dreary to be the kind of person who can only find humour when punching down.
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by neotek 7y ago
We had to remove products containing any and all references to Cuba and Egypt from our Shopify store to avoid PayPal suspending our account. All of the products are American made, produced in the US with local ingredients. For example, a ra
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by neotek 7y ago
I look forward to reading about this comment on n-gate.
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by neotek 7y ago
Musk has missed just about every goal he's ever set by a wide margin and has only managed to pull through because hordes of taxpayers and investors continue to line up to dump money into his black hole projects on the back of his self-
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by neotek 7y ago
Who would have thought that a loudmouthed self promoter with an overinflated sense of his own intelligence and a history of making thoroughly unrealistic and unscientific predictions would get this one wrong too?
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by neotek 7y ago
There's a certain irony in accusing someone of constructing a strawman by constructing your own strawman.
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by neotek 7y ago
Do you actually need someone to answer this for you, or are you arguing in bad faith?
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by neotek 7y ago
>I don't understand all the negativity and downvotes around Trump's actions. Because Trump is a moron enabled by a political class that displays outright contempt for the public, who completely mismanaged his government's
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by neotek 7y ago
Sounds like Dactyl Nightmare! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xj7qPEUEq0
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by neotek 7y ago
>many people are prepared to pay a bit extra for ethical treatment of animals More accurately, they pay extra for the perception of ethical treatment of animals. Chickens on "free range" farms suffer horribly too.

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