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by ranger207 1y ago
My dad stopped using Google like 20 years ago for exactly this reason. He was not happy when his relevant local small business was pushed off the first page by out-of-state providers of tenuously related services
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by ranger207 1y ago
Java's a pretty good beginning programming language. Outside of the mystical incantation of `public static void main(String[] args) {` and what the difference between `new ArrayList` and `ArrayList.new()` is (I still don't know bu
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by ranger207 1y ago
If you keep resetting it slowly changes your pawns to queens, thankfully
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by ranger207 1y ago
Nah, this blog is neutral about it at worst. He publishes daily, and it's usually tips or notes on how things work, especially if it's different from the "traditional" way of doing things. One of my favorite blogs for le
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by ranger207 1y ago
When I was in college a few years ago everyone did group projects in Google Docs, so Libreoffice compatibility was a moot point
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by ranger207 1y ago
SSH most of the time of course, and a management interface (iDRAC, iLO, etc) if you have an enterprise server; otherwise an old monitor and spare keyboard. Sometimes they'll support serial out that you can use over a cable to another c
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by ranger207 1y ago
and I'll repost the comment I made on the reddit /r/games thread about the article too: There's a lot of comments here about how TFA's classifications don't really match with people's own classifications b
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By the way, what's an AA [game]?(hushcrasher.substack.com)
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by ranger207 1y ago
This article and its linked (preprint) research paper attempt to use k-means clustering to classify games by their scope and give a more objective definition to the labels AAA, AA, and Indie (as in, "Call of Duty is a AAA game" or
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by ranger207 1y ago
This is my theory too. The internet made it easier to connect with diverse cultures... and then ignore all of them in favor of the one that agreed with you on every point so you could ignore anything that went against your thoughts
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by ranger207 1y ago
This current spate of attacks might be _because_ of that, in fact. Enough people know that phishing attacks are obviously low quality, so when they see a well-constructed message they're less suspicious
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by ranger207 1y ago
If you get a message (text, email or call), it's best to not trust the contents of the message until you verify it by logging in or whatever yourself. If crates.io says you have a problem, close the email and go to crates.io yourself.
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by ranger207 1y ago
AI being normal technology would be the expected outcome, and it would be nice if it just hurried up and happened so I could stop seeing so much spam around AI actually being something much greater than normal technology
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by ranger207 1y ago
If I had to guess, it's so companies can order 1000s of them through the same channels they're getting the Pis from
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by ranger207 1y ago
It's the thing about type I fun and type II fun, where type I is "fun while it's happening" and type II is "not fun while it's happening but fun in retrospect": if you don't use a guide, the type II f
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by ranger207 1y ago
Yeah I've been figuring that out myself recently. Turns out that I don't really like Baroque or Classical music, but I do like Romantic music. It was just a factor of finding that "classical" has more than one genre in i
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by ranger207 1y ago
Last time I went to a T Mobile store for an account question they told me to call their number anyway
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by ranger207 1y ago
Different explosion, the one the parent comment is talking about happened earlier in reentry
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by ranger207 1y ago
> If she committed a felony, she shouldn't be in charge of anything. I don't think that's a controversial opinion. When Al Franken resigns because of allegations of sexual misconduct, it proves Democrats are evil. When Don
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by ranger207 1y ago
Making sure you can get enough people together for a game is one thing; making sure you can get enough people together for a game that you know aren't cheating is even harder. Most "friends" these days are online-only acqua
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by ranger207 1y ago
C&Rsenal (~hour long historic firearms documentaries) does
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by ranger207 1y ago
I don't think this was "forced" as in "a court told them to rehire them", as it seems the bank agreed to rehire them before the case got to the tribunal. I think this was "forced" as in "their innovat
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by ranger207 1y ago
""a reduction in call volumes" by 2,000 a week" means people aren't calling in as much. How many problems people have per day is roughly constant, so the only change in how many calls they get is entirely dependent
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by ranger207 1y ago
That looks vaguely similar to a 60s Mustang (although also has a lot of details that are wrong) and old muscle cars like that often have wider rear tires for better traction
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by ranger207 1y ago
A couple modern and related games to the ones in the article are * War for the Overworld: a modern version of Dungeon Keeper * KeeperRL: Dungeon Keeper but as a traditional roguelike * Two Point Hospital: modern Theme Hospital * Galacticare
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by ranger207 1y ago
I only bookmark references, not articles, and just use my browser's bookmarks. At most when for example planning a vacation or big purchase I'll make a folder and bookmark a bunch of relevant stuff, then delete the folder afterwar
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by ranger207 1y ago
Yeah, both parties are becoming more authoritarian. IMO the solution is a different voting system than first-past-the-post that allows multiple parties to exist to force different political factions to interact with each other and compromis
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by ranger207 1y ago
Authoritarianism, whether Nazism, Soviet Communism, or French Revolutionary Government, is the belief that some group knows best and everyone else should allow them to make decisions, and that furthermore incorrect beliefs should be stamped
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by ranger207 1y ago
It's a prisoner's dilemma, or tragedy of the commons, or whatever-scenario-where-the-best-plan-is-coordinated-action-but-it's-difficult-for-individuals-to-do-so. Yeah a gay man shouldn't have to go to court to defend his
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by ranger207 1y ago
Well, it's both. You need to ban book bans so that you can have the conversation in the first place, but you also need to change people's mind so that book bans never come up in the first place. It's a guardrail, and ideally

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