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by rangibaby 6y ago
I got around that by using Switchresx to supersample on non-Retina screens. It’s not perfect but looks better than jaggies
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by rangibaby 6y ago
Why do they even do that? What’s so bad about pasting into a form? Does the person who designed the form think your password isn’t secure unless it is written on a piece of paper kept in a bank vault?
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by rangibaby 6y ago
It looks like an iMac. That’s why people used to shell out big bucks for Apple-branded displays back when they were a thing
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by rangibaby 6y ago
ICE Trim Extended Range and Trim Poor have the same gas tank, but Trim Poor’s firmware won’t use your last 10 liters of fuel
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by rangibaby 6y ago
> Apple's mobile devices haven't been that interesting since the iPhone X / Watch Series 3. Nothing really has felt like a 'must have' upgrade. iPhone 12 & series 4 watch was definitely an improvement stylist
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by rangibaby 6y ago
Toyota had a lot of trouble after the 2011 earthquake, I'm sure their decision to keep inventory is related to that
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by rangibaby 6y ago
Rotten.com (really) had a great tool that showed connections between people on a graph: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNDB
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by rangibaby 6y ago
There’s a kind of person who just likes having power over others
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by rangibaby 6y ago
What part of Asia? Japanese are far less prudish when compared to USA or UK et al
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by rangibaby 6y ago
That's what the marketers want you to think
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by rangibaby 6y ago
This article and the Sun article linked within it are extremely similar, I wonder why
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by rangibaby 6y ago
Taiwan’s military is strong enough that PRC’s only route to “winning” in a war is to turn the island into a smoldering crater
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by rangibaby 6y ago
Coloring names with escape codes sounds like a John Carmack feature
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by rangibaby 6y ago
If you told Markus Wolf in 1989 that in 2021 most citizens in the world would write each other private and political communicatons via a tracking device that can’t be turned off, and that device has both microphones and cameras, he would ra
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by rangibaby 6y ago
A short squeeze is how Taco Bell won the fast food wars
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by rangibaby 6y ago
I am sick of Dropbox advertising to me and am going to cancel my subscription. I wish there was a “leave me alone” option for paid accounts, I was perfectly happy in the days before Dropbox decided it was necessary to remind me of its exist
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by rangibaby 6y ago
It’s not much choice when the site will find some way of forcing or tricking you to allow tracking
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by rangibaby 6y ago
I still enjoy Jurassic Park, but can't unsee a mental image of plucked, frozen supermarket chicken every time I look at the dinosaurs
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Toyota Mirai Is a Futuristic Luxury Sedan(youtube.com)
3 points by rangibaby 6y ago|5 comments
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by rangibaby 6y ago
Windows ME
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by rangibaby 6y ago
We’re there any returning POWs who weren’t considered to be criminals?
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by rangibaby 6y ago
Modern day version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airstan_incident
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by rangibaby 6y ago
Not really. If they had stayed in the camp they would have died anyway or sent to the Gulag when they got home instead of “just” being disgraced for a decade
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by rangibaby 6y ago
I’ve been a Dropbox paid subscriber for many years (since it was Dropbox Pro). I’m not going to renew it. The constant upsell nagging is too much. Dropbox would be perfect if it just STFU and synced files. One of my clients opening files I
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by rangibaby 6y ago
> What happens if they actually take Taiwan? Or try? A serious military alliance of countries in that don’t want to be dominated by China (again) but have been happy to take Chinese money until now.
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by rangibaby 6y ago
Arnold Schwarzenegger smoked weed for recovery in “Pumping Iron”
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by rangibaby 6y ago
In rich countries outside of the US it’s called “the government”
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by rangibaby 6y ago
In “The Hidden Fortress”, which Star Wars plot and characters (minus Luke) is mostly based on, “Obi Wan” humiliates “Darth Vader” by refusing to kill him after beating him in their duel. The Emperor horribly tortures Darth Vader for losing,
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by rangibaby 6y ago
Add Gary Kurtz to the list. He said the original plan for ROTJ had no Death Star, and Wookiees instead of Ewoks.
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by rangibaby 6y ago
The DS was way better IMHO. I got overhyped on the GBA because of how it was marketed as a pocket SNES. Only two face buttons and the shitty sounding music were a big disappointment to me. The games did look nice, whenever it was possible t

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