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by samplatt 11mo ago
I'm usually a fan of Norm's videos, but this might be the first time I've seen a Tested video that felt more like paid-promotion than an actual unbiased review. I don't keep up with it though.
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by samplatt 11mo ago
>I did think Stick Death came out before Xiao Xiao? Definitely remember Stick Death in highschool around '99-'01, 2+ years before this flashers group supposedly started.
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by samplatt 11mo ago
It wasn't until the mention of "City_Plaza.swf" that memories finally came flooding back.
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by samplatt 11mo ago
I also do, I'm Australian. I regularly experience both congestion caused by tower over-subscription as well as traveling waaaay out into the country where there's no reception, even on the Telstra network that boasts better covera
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by samplatt 11mo ago
My non-corporate desktop has 3 screens, screen#2 is shared with a corporate laptop (via a KVM, but the issues happen without it as well). If I switch that monitor to the other machine, Windows re-arranges ALL windows to appear on the new &q
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by samplatt 11mo ago
>The only thing I have had to troubleshoot is getting a Quest3 VR headset to work Very interested in this: what kind of setup do you use for VR? What troubleshooting was required? (My background: I have a 10gbit fiber network and wifi 6E
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by samplatt 11mo ago
Copper 10gbe or fibre? All copper 10gbit devices produce a lot more heat than their 1gbit brethren. It's one of the reasons I switched to running fiber even to desktops at home; it's like 1/10th the heat output.
68.
by samplatt 11mo ago
Doesn't even need to go as far as using power tools. Every lock I've been unable to pick (usually due to the fact that it's a pile of rust) has been susceptible to bolt-cutters. Big lock? Bigger cutters. Still cheaper than an
69.
by samplatt 1y ago
My work's email filter regularly flags links to JIRA and github as dangerous. It stopped being even ironically amusing after a while.
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by samplatt 1y ago
35 seconds @ 80W is ~210 mAh, so definitely a lot less than the ~4000+ mAh in today's phone batteries.
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by samplatt 1y ago
Meanwhile I have a friend group (mostly build from real-life relationships) that gets together once a week for the last ~3 years to play VR games. YMMV :-)
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by samplatt 1y ago
My brother's car/camping fridge's compressor fan died. He replaced it with a Noctua. It's 1/3rd the volume and actually has slightly MORE airlow than the 20c 90mm fan that was ziptied to it from the factory.
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by samplatt 1y ago
Thought the exact same thing straight off the headline.
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by samplatt 1y ago
>a huge step towards a decently secure and stable OS It absolutely was an important (and required) step towards a more secure and stable OS. What it was not, though, was a secure and stable OS. Windows ME was the same. A required step
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by samplatt 1y ago
Not wrong, but TFA mentions "8.5k years" ago as the projected time for these findings. In cold, low-oxygen water, even wood & bone is preserved fairly well.
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by samplatt 1y ago
I mean it's backed up by some of the most bombastic drums and strings that the entire era produced, but sure, it's notable. Even the softer track "Ecce Gratum" still has regular organ interludes to set the tone.
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by samplatt 1y ago
What are some youtube alternatives? YT has so much history and is so pervasive that I hadn't even considered there WERE alternatives. Or are they all similar to the rumble.com link below, standard 2020's coded propaganda and click
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by samplatt 1y ago
...so it's got a mass 3x that of our sun, but it's the size of Jupiter? And it's a planet? ...What? The star it orbits is about the same size as our sun, yet a planet orbits it with 3x the mass? I'm missing something m
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by samplatt 1y ago
>I can't recognize Brisbane Eh, lumping the gold-coast in with Brisbane is easy enough. Tanned bodies, barrel waves, way more tourists than you expect... it's basically California except it faces east, not west.
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by samplatt 1y ago
I read elsewhere on HN - "Well-meaning users will always quickly turn an unusable secure system into a usable insecure system."
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by samplatt 1y ago
It was for ALL on-prem deployments. This wasn't due to the user being insecure, this was Microsoft's fault. If anything it's yet another point AGAINST them - if they can't guarantee secure software without the caveat of
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by samplatt 1y ago
The whole world (not just America) has polarising hateful propaganda aggressively pushed at them for... oh about 2-3 generations now. There's a lot of people that have woken up to this and are loving and accepting, and sometimes it can
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by samplatt 1y ago
>Are you sure you didn't just see a sales meeting? Considering how much the sales division of many medium and large companies dictates the direction of the whole company, "sales meeting" and "business collusion&quot
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by samplatt 1y ago
A big part (I feel) of that for both iPhones and xbox is their ecosystems finally arriving at a point that's "good enough"; the store offers enough games with enough security with low barriers to "fun" that few peop
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by samplatt 1y ago
Er... No, sorry, I don't remember anyone saying that at all.
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by samplatt 1y ago
>the ui is still straight out of the early 2000s There was a lot of great UI back then! None of it in iTunes, but still.
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by samplatt 1y ago
There was an old Tenant-era Dr Who episode where The Master says "shall we decimate them? yes, let's decimate them. REMOVE ONE TENTH." I instantly howled with anguish. Surely decimating them should mean removing NINE tenths.
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by samplatt 1y ago
Confirming britishism - both are in use here in Australia.
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by samplatt 1y ago
That, the DOS defrag visualisation, and the hex-editing my own savegames is pretty much why I'm a developer today.
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by samplatt 1y ago
>What you previously suggested is that is that stakeholders should give their demands to IT and that IT should figure out how to make it happen. Doesn’t sound like collaboration to me. That's fair; I did make it sound pretty one-sid

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