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by qball 3y ago
>according to an set of rules the user can't be expected to know This is consistent, it's just never properly communicated. If the source and destination are on the same drive, dragging executes a move by default; if the sou
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by qball 3y ago
>In school it seems that gossiping is more or less accepted where roughhousing is clearly banned. In its majestic equality, the law prohibits boy and girl alike from engaging in socialization activities overwhelmingly favored by boys.
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by qball 3y ago
>Windows is largely built on C++, no? Microsoft has been trying to migrate Windows development to a managed language for over 20 years ; their first attempt at this was a complete disaster and NT 6.0 (Vista) would ultimately be develope
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by qball 3y ago
>We need linux to add electron or an equivalent directly to the OS. Almost like some kind of... web OS? To think we almost had it, but Palm made some bad decisions back in 2009 and the dream of app-as-browser + Node.JS + consistent app
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by qball 3y ago
>Maybe each subcommunnity can be it's own server? The need to do this obviates the utility of federation completely.
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by qball 3y ago
>Being resistant to unseen administrators destroying your social graph is literally a selling point of federation. And that "selling point" is grossly inaccurate. (Unless you make a separate account everywhere, which obviously
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by qball 3y ago
>what instance do I join? The answer is "both of them". Pick a client that makes it the easiest to connect to separate instances on separate accounts, then choose the same-ish username. Federation is, fundamentally, an anti-fe
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by qball 3y ago
>It's sad because a company that played a meaningful role for people and other companies is dying and being sold for parts, but it's the cycle of life – not every company is meant to endure indefinitely. It's also worth no
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by qball 3y ago
Maybe so, but Reddit is not Twitter; API access is far more important for Reddit because its official client is garbage and can't handle the long-form content that Reddit is known for. This will have outsized implications for the 1% of
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by qball 3y ago
>the only reason Reddit is even considering moving ahead with these changes is because they don't care No, they're just flailing. The problem with Reddit is that its product is ideological conformity ; but its owners are too b
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by qball 3y ago
And yet, somehow, that's exactly what it turns into.
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by qball 3y ago
Yet another salvo fired in the war against general-purpose computing.
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by qball 3y ago
I misremembered; it's a 150-buiding microsimulator limit. The buildings still function, but if you query them you get the generic popup rather than the detailed one. Earlier versions of SimCity 2000 are more limited in this regard as
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by qball 3y ago
Not if you're running a flame hot enough to guarantee complete combustion; this is the difference between a proper waste incinerator and a burn barrel. Plastics are hydrocarbons; nothing special going on there.
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by qball 3y ago
>Phones are in decent shape but other ARM devices aren't so lucky. Yes, but that's because Qualcomm and Samsung are about as incompetent at CPU design as early-2010s AMD was; their products have been 3-4 years behind the leadin
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by qball 3y ago
>This has the same vibe as "mount a speaker to play fake engine sounds on a near-silent EV, because that's what people who grew up with muscle cars expect to hear". To be fair, a significant chunk of normal cars have this
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by qball 3y ago
The exodus has begun.
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by qball 3y ago
>without departing too far from 2000’s core mechanics or simulation approach SC3K is similar enough in structure to SC2K that it can actually load SC2K city save files directly; SC3K being a relatively strict superset of SC2K in terms of
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by qball 3y ago
>This promises to be a portable unlimited screen space Well, if the resolution is up to par and the software is set up to mitigate the problems even middling resolution would cause. No headset, except maybe the 8K (and possibly the 4K) P
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by qball 3y ago
>Are there a lot games where a 4090 owner would have a meaningful advantage over an 3060 owner in a competitive environment? Yes, all of them benefit from being able to push high framerates at resolutions the 3060 (and 2070 and 1080) can
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by qball 3y ago
>This is a long term trend, and it has been on the trajectory to where we are now for a long while. Economic conditions (real and imagined) in urban and suburban areas not unlike those seen in 1920 (automation resulted in massive economi
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by qball 3y ago
>Both Google and Samsung promise 5 years of security updates for their phones. But Apple has, for the last 10 years, provided about 7 years of feature updates. Google and Samsung top out at 3 because their phones are designed to be re
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by qball 3y ago
Sponsorblock effectively does this- it fast-forwards the parts of the video marked by other users as advertisement.
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by qball 3y ago
>pulled an Apple and banned anything but statically compiled code in WebExtensions Yes; the point of this move is specifically to render the vast majority of adblocking efforts non-viable.
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by qball 3y ago
>It's just EVs where all of the best-regarded models skew larger. Well, yeah; batteries have really bad energy density and are extremely heavy. Length doesn't affect aerodynamics as much as width or height does, so if you want
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by qball 3y ago
Yes, but the problem with Intel CPUs is that they have to pull significantly more power than AMD does to get that performance- that's kind of why they have E cores and have to provide more P cores per dollar by comparison.
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by qball 3y ago
This sort of thing was even a problem 13 years ago. ( https://www.overclockers.com/socket-1156-burning-issuesis-fi... ) It's not new- component OEMs just screw up sometimes. I suspect that PGA sockets have less problem
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by qball 3y ago
The bill for replacement when it dies, of course, will be 3000 dollars in parts and 1000 in labor. And the new one will still be just as slow as Android tablets in 2010 were.
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by qball 3y ago
>I don't understand why we don't also get serious about solar and wind. Because we already have reliable renewable power in the form of hydroelectric generation in the vast majority of the country. And, of the 30% of electrici
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by qball 3y ago
>I miss being able to see the title of windows in the taskbar... To be fair, that dumbass trend started with Windows 7. I just install StartAllBack these days to be done with it (and it fixes the problems that 10's Start Menu has- t

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