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by sellyme 5y ago
> They kinda do rhyme with the right enunciation. Which is a somewhat more positive way of saying that they rhyme with the wrong enunciation. Which is a totally valid way to construct lyrics in music - you have a bit of artistic leeway
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by sellyme 5y ago
The advantages of a generic engine are somewhat diminished when you have to make sure your game fits on a cartridge potentially as small as 256kB. You can't really afford too much overhead given to generic functions and structures that
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by sellyme 5y ago
The only thing that can realistically cause a significant spike in tweet activity is a major news event, and major news events are typically unlikely to be neutral. Critically, the baseline is fairly static, so the extremes in this graph ca
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Am I though? Yes. > She posted a joke on Twitter mocking the idea that white people couldn't get AIDS. Even if you believe the subsequent backtracking, that's still a profoundly stupid thing to be doing in that circumstanc
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by sellyme 5y ago
> With paper, radio and TV, any ad buyer can cheaply verify that their ad spending ends up where it should by buying a paper at a random train station or listening to the airwaves. Good luck verifying that the FM radio station you bought
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by sellyme 5y ago
I have ~800 applications installed on my phone and there are fewer than a dozen of them that I would not immediately uninstall were they to send me a push notification. I don't buy that "no app developer" can avoid using FCM,
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Medics exist to protect patients, not the other way around. Tough to do that if they're dead.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Was she wrong for doing that? Probably. You're being somewhat generous here.
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by sellyme 5y ago
Extremely off-topic, but that URL is a great example of why using headline/lede text in links is a bad idea. Really loses its punch when the '%' gets stripped.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Where did the post you reply to mention "racists and sexists"? The post pessimizer responded to explicitly mentions neonazis.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I forgot the law's name but the said law states that "a machine of a certain complexity cannot build a machine more complex than itself" Isn't this disproved by the evolution of reproductive organisms? That's n
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by sellyme 5y ago
In some countries, absolutely. In countries with consumer law, no. For example, where I live (Australia), it's absolutely unambiguously illegal to mislead the consumer. It's pretty obvious to everyone that putting "BUY!"
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by sellyme 6y ago
Lichess makes fantastic use of the screen space available, works excellently on all manners of devices, has a native darkmode, and puts the most relevant content front-and-center instead of designing around revenue generation first and func
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by sellyme 6y ago
The exact opposite is true. These symbols require (but do not have) translation on every piece of clothing, because almost no-one understands what they mean, and it's not currently possible to type them in to Google to identify their m
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by sellyme 6y ago
I'm just as confused as you are as to why anyone on the planet would click where the "attach image" button used to be, see a popup for gifting Nitro, and go "sure, let's do that instead", but evidently Discord
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by sellyme 6y ago
> should you be able to ignore that contract? If the clause is illegal, yeah. In almost every jurisdiction on the planet, a contract containing a clause that is illegal renders that clause invalid, and the rest of the contract stands. So
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by sellyme 6y ago
> most services _require_ a phone number Define "services". In the last decade I have signed up for exactly 1 service that required a phone number (Telegram), and somewhere in the region of 8,000 that didn't.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> this is also why you can't collect unemployment just because you haven't worked because you haven't been scheduled over a weekend Presumably this works differently in your country, but I could 100% collect unemployment b
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Either side can stipulate anything they want in that contract, other than what is disallowed by contract and labor laws (and of course your rights). Guess what this is disallowed by! You can write "oh yeah by the way we're no
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by sellyme 6y ago
Unfortunately software companies now view customisability as a bad thing, as their priority is profit, and that often involves making the client less usable. Discord wouldn't be able to periodically shift around the UI to make you acci
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by sellyme 6y ago
> but, is there a tournament or contest along the lines of 'producing some result via searches' quicker than others? im thinking a form of this might exist at defcon/thotcon/similar If there is, it will definitely hav
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by sellyme 6y ago
> If you have a mouse with some additional side buttons (that you don't already have mapped) I can strongly recommend mapping them to ctrl-pgup and ctrl-pgdn, so you can go left/right with your tabs in the current browser witho
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Surely this is not suggesting that Google searches afford any privacy. ;) Depends on who you want privacy from. Google's entire business model relies on them being the only company on the planet who knows as much about me (or you,
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I've never understood why people wouldn't just figure something out as global warming gets worse. We've just seen first-hand evidence that millions of people could be dying and some would find it politically expedient to
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by sellyme 6y ago
It's not the type of "crazy" you're looking for, but as far as craziest websites, Time Cube was a strong contender.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> an Amazon FC job @$15/hr + healthcare is a "holy shit amazing" job. This is true tons of places. It's double minimum wage! Affordable healthcare! I don't disbelieve you, but the fact that this "holy shit a
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I can't fucking wait for us to move over to it It's been nearly 15 years and it's still almost exclusively a buzzword used by scammers. It'll happen some time after the Year of the Linux Desktop.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> iOS is a Shopping Mall "No Porn Stores Here Please". Most shopping malls I go to don't block me from entering any malls that they don't own. It astounds me how many people are willing to give Apple a free pass on th
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by sellyme 6y ago
> "Chrome OS is literally Linux" is about as accurate as "Android is literally Linux". I agree, but I don't think that you're making the point you wanted to.
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by sellyme 6y ago
The point is very much that we've now heard him out on about half a dozen different occasions and he's repeatedly shown an inability to deliver.

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