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by nsxwolf 1y ago
Yes, I believe they would have removed this app during the Obama and Biden administrations if it had become associated with political assassination.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
A nuisance app that generated zero revenue for these app stores was used in a murder. It’s a PR no-brainer to simply remove it just as they constantly remove other apps for all sorts of reasons.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
How many times are we going to re-litigate this? Until there’s a law requiring side loading options, you have the web. Everyone here was totally fine with the “gay cure” apps being pulled.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
It’s perfectly legal, but also perfectly legal for a corporation to choose not to sell or distribute a particular software application.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
I don’t understand what anyone was expecting.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
The residential radon mitigation industry does not like this.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
The analogy here is porn apps vs Safari.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
I built a Meshtastic and found a few nodes but made 0 contacts. Gave up after a few weeks. The community seems to be more interested in talking about it and showing pictures of their gear as opposed to actually doing anything with it. It’s
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
Famine, war rationing, economic depression and the widespread use of tobacco and methamphetamine diet pills was why Americans were historically skinny.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
That isn’t fun. I have a TI-99/4A in my office hooked up to a raspberry pi so it can use the internet. Why? Because it’s fun. I like to touch and see the things even though it’s all so silly.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
People stop responding to warnings when the false positive rate is high.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
I have to push back on the unlimited amount of time thing. Maybe in FAANG that’s true but in the places I’ve worked for, hiring is something that comes down from on high - someone tells us they need N bodies for some project, and we need to
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
I literally got my first real job 26 years ago by talking about my game engine, for a fintech firm.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
I have that one, I sometimes take the case off just to look at it.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
Don’t they also say we only started seeing blue as a distinct color recently? That gives it future vibes.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
That is creepy and I do not like it.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
I used to build systems that did that and other things. When Nuance came out I was like a kid in a candy store just deploying ridiculous features to clients’ IVR systems.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
I think those all had close to or more than 10 years. SNES had the least but C64 was a retail product for 12 years.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
We find it incredibly hard to hire these people. It turns out a lot of US companies are also interested in smart, capable, cheap engineers in Central Time Zone.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
I don’t remember anyone saying or writing “eighters” and “sixers” back then.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
That was expected. It’s not meant to land on water.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
Why would it be satire? We all just saw one of the greatest achievements in the history of engineering and we can’t feel good about it?
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
So the assumption is that some populations will always reproduce in sufficient numbers and immigrate, and this just goes on forever and everything’s fine? Those other populations never age and decline?
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
I had a Sun workstation at my first real job, and it had the 21” Trinitron. I’d never seen anything like it.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
We stopped after it kept transcribing a particular phrase of domain jargon as “child p*rn”, again and again.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
Now stack them into cubes and it looks way smaller.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
Might as well have it code in assembler then. Get the performance boost.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
Are you sure your experience didn’t drive your salary up?
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
My bank account doesn’t remember the part where non-big tech salaries went up.
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by nsxwolf 1y ago
But it doesn’t matter to me. One method makes me so miserably hungry 24/7 that I quit after a few weeks of agony, the other makes me forget all about food entirely. This seems to bother people, who always tell me to do it the “right” w

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