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by rkachowski 2y ago
A new google tombstone would be super exciting indeed
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by rkachowski 2y ago
The difference between employment relationships and marriage is rather large.
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by rkachowski 2y ago
perhaps some kind of x-box
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by rkachowski 2y ago
> Internally, those two components were known as Finder_FE and Finder_BE (Frontend and Backend). Interesting to see that apps were split into front and back end (indeed, I'm surprised even that the terms existed) back in 1999.
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by rkachowski 2y ago
this is some straight up Ender's Game shit
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by rkachowski 2y ago
I think its important to mention that he broke up with the ex in question in 1989, and died in 2015.
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by rkachowski 2y ago
Yeah, admittedly this year I've also started experiencing holes on the ringbahn (strangely and consistently around frankfurter allee), but the ubahn has been fine. I'm with sim.de which I believe is essentially an O2 reseller (apn
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by rkachowski 2y ago
Despite Berlin's general lack of parity with modern technology, I've never actually had a problem with internet access across the ubahn network in the past decade. I noticed that certain carriers used to have very different availa
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by rkachowski 2y ago
at the very least I would appreciate the sincerity of this approach. We can start having the real discussions without cosplaying as fungible hyper competent leetcode machines, and start asking which of these problems would benefit from havi
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by rkachowski 2y ago
I agree this righteous "one" stuff is toxic. There is something very liberating and wholesome about a senior developer being able to discuss the mistakes and fuckups they've made. It's not just a learning opportunity, it
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by rkachowski 2y ago
It's an interesting idea, but here you have the game designer taking the place of the product manager stereotype - coming up with bizarre unfeasible ideas and the programmer is to make it happen. In any games company I've worked f
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by rkachowski 2y ago
I loved this when it first came out and got pretty far, but waiting weeks for a curt, abrasive response on why my solution didn't pass inoculated me against kernel development. It did however teach me about basic device drivers and was
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by rkachowski 2y ago
> Your reaction to Riven when approached in “gamer” mode will depend on whether you think this kind of intensive intellectual challenge is fun or not, as well as whether you have the excess intellectual and temporal bandwidth in your cur
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by rkachowski 2y ago
if I understand correctly 1. "shader" is just a metaphor, the actual code running on the gamecube gpu is a custom pipeline that has a dynamic structure and is updated aggressively throughout the lifetime of the app - there is no s
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by rkachowski 2y ago
> It all started when I was browsing through some film developing chemicals at one of my preferred photo shops (Fotoimpex). This must be a pretty old article, as Fotoimpex have renovated and frustratingly removed almost their entire stor
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by rkachowski 2y ago
It's very cool and awesome how any criticism of capitalism results in an anti communist comment. As if there are only two possible economic systems and dislike of planned obsolescence + inequality means you want to die in a gulag.
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by rkachowski 2y ago
I remember channel 4 had "bamboozle" - a basic janky quiz game - on their Teletext service, it was a daily adventure between friends to solve each day.
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by rkachowski 3y ago
Truly, it's one of the best and clearly laid out resources out there. I've found a lot of online resources around Berlin life to be frankly hostile (e.g. r/berlin ) to people seeking information on how to approach things like
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by rkachowski 3y ago
This isn't true, this year I have been on a train from Marseille to Berlin and German police checked everyone on the train for passports at the border specifically to check residence validity - and removed one passenger with a residenc
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by rkachowski 3y ago
why do you think they have problems paying bills?
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by rkachowski 3y ago
> Starbucks cards are your friends like, how? are you straight up bribing people with coffee for security favors? or is it like, "hey man, thanks for helping me out I'd like to buy you a coffee but I'm busy with secret con
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by rkachowski 3y ago
> We spanned a pretty wide spectrum – politically! Yet, we KBs [Killer B’s] (Vernor was a full member ... ) Does this mean something other than a wu tang fan?
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by rkachowski 3y ago
> [NDI] it's commonly used by modern planetariums and megachurches. It was perfect for our needs. out of context but I love it
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by rkachowski 3y ago
it is like chicken soup for my psyche after the torment of empty platitudes and anodyne corporate weasel talk.
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by rkachowski 3y ago
I think the author should take a vacation.
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by rkachowski 3y ago
That sounds very interesting, do you have any links to these?
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by rkachowski 3y ago
people who have experience using image editors will have the biggest problems with GIMP?
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by rkachowski 3y ago
are you arguing that Exxon is powerless to reduce emissions from oil and gas?
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by rkachowski 3y ago
do you have an obligation to tolerate the intolerant?
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by rkachowski 3y ago
Are you seriously saying that people should express gratitude for being fired without ceremony, whilst the company at hand makes record profits? All the "wind", "sails" and boat metaphors won't change the fact that

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