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by nox101 3y ago
Lawnmower Man is probably the strangest license ever. IIUC the story is licensed from Stephen King. That story has absolutely nothing to do with what happens in the movie. It's entirely about some person who morphs into a lawnmower. Ha
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by nox101 3y ago
Vello is used in Skia https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/2e551697dc56/third_part...
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by nox101 3y ago
> WFH will mean more meaningful connections with the communities in which we live I don't see how that follows unless you're not actually "working" and instead using your time at home as an excuse to not work.
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by nox101 3y ago
I spend 40hrs a week working. Why should that be a lonely solitary 40Hrs? > Why should a company subsidize your need to have fun at work, we're here to get a job done, not horse around on the company dime they do. Why do you think p
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by nox101 3y ago
> In this case, the field sucks and mirrors capitalism, skewing the gains towards the top of the pyramid. What alternative do you suggest and why would it work better than capitalism?
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by nox101 3y ago
In 5-10 years I predict there while be tons of mental health articles about how WFH is killing us. Less social life. Less relationships. Less friends. I'd prefer my 8 hours at work to be fun. It's not when I'm at home alone.
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by nox101 3y ago
That 1995 text editor didn't handle unicode. Didn't edit all the languages of the world. Didn't handle emoji. Didn't do auto-complete. Didn't replace colors in CSS with their actual color and popup an inline editor
818.
by nox101 3y ago
documentation, at least python, has nothing to do with the package manager. It's a feature of the language itself.
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by nox101 3y ago
Films from India, China, Japan, and Korea have almost nothing to do with "Asian AMERICANS". We don't generally consider films from Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, etc to have anything to do with "white Americans". T
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by nox101 3y ago
It's a pretty common POV that bullet point slides are bad (there's an opposing view as well). https://www.google.com/search?q=bullet+point+presentations+a... From the POV that built point slides are bad, generally
821.
by nox101 3y ago
feel free to point out that part of the document. AFAICT the entire document is in the context of the first paragraph which sets the scope for everything under it
822.
by nox101 3y ago
I regularly work on a code base with 250k files. Haven't noticed any slowdown
823.
by nox101 3y ago
my machine must be faster than yours. I have both. I can't tell the difference
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by nox101 3y ago
That is how the DoJ defines the market. https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/253... > The District Court determined that Microsoft had maintained a monopoly in the market for Intel
825.
by nox101 3y ago
Is JSR or any other package manager any better? Do pip, cargo, creates, go package manager, gems, nuget, etc enforce anything? AFAIK they are all exactly the same. Any person with any level of experience and any API design can publish a pac
826.
by nox101 3y ago
tons of apps are full of ads. Nearly every game on iOS has ads. PWA vs Apps has nothing to do with whether or not there will be ads.
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by nox101 3y ago
Google let's you put your progressive web app on the Google Play store so AFAIK there are tons of web apps on android and user's see them as apps https://developers.google.com/codelabs/pwa-in-play#0 My apartm
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by nox101 3y ago
You can choose your favorite actors/characters/avatars and have the AI re-render the story featuring these people. Watch Lord of the Rings with all the hobbits replaced by Bratz dolls or your favorite K-pop girl band.
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by nox101 3y ago
You need to know on what criteria the libraries are judged. Some people will judge most features = best, even if that means some string decoding library installs a 1500 other libraries so it can render PDFs of the strings it decoded and it
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by nox101 3y ago
Press 1 million discs, sell 500k discs. Price of those 500k unsold discs is several million dollars. Pressing discs is a huge risk. Don't press enough and you lose sales. Press too many and you lose money. Online has no such issues.
831.
by nox101 3y ago
My grandparents still recognize the world. they drove cars in their 20s and drive them now. They go shopping at stores much the same as the past. They eat at restaurants much the same as the past. They read books, watch movies much the same
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by nox101 3y ago
For me, VR comes down to content. Because the market is too small, there is none. There's few high end titles. HL:Alyx, Horizon: Call of the Mountain? Sometimes you get a port but then it wasn't originally designed for VR and it
833.
by nox101 3y ago
Looking at the device, is it common to have a kvm that can't power cycle the computer? I often need to power cycle mine and was wondering if this was a solution for when I'm away
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by nox101 3y ago
But it also fits the op's pov that most people don't care. Most people don't care that you have to take Apple device to an Apple authorized service center. We had to get governments to pass laws to deal with that. I suspect w
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by nox101 3y ago
> We used to dig up roads to put trains underneath – cheaply. Ever-better tunnel boring machines have made the disruption this causes unnecessary. What? Sure, tunneling machines make less disruption but unnecessary? You still have to bui
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by nox101 3y ago
Apple doesn't allow "wink" in apps so no, this will not be happening on an Apple Vision Pro
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by nox101 3y ago
Humans have an intuitive understanding of physics, not a mathy science one. I know I can't put my hand through solid objects. I know that if I drop my laptop from chest height it will likely break it, the display will crack or shatter,
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by nox101 3y ago
I loved this game/novel. It really was more of a novel than a game but it worked really well. I played alone in my quiet apartment so I really did feel like the main character. In the game (yes this is explained on the site), you'
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by nox101 3y ago
Checking online, the average price of an apartment in Santa Monica is $55 per square meter. SF is about $53. NYC is $65. Tokyo is about $27, Seoul is $23 So no, Tokyo and Seoul are not "just as expensive". HK is at $52 though so t
840.
by nox101 3y ago
I'm pretty sure much of the world disagrees with that assessment. Lots 30s and 40 somethings with children and lots of older people living in walkable cities. The problem in the USA is that there's very little of this style of liv

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