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by sen 5y ago
As an Australian, I absolutely appreciate knowing an online company is located somewhere that isn’t here.
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by sen 5y ago
You're literally the reason I got into IT in the first place. I'd messed around viewing source and writing static HTML for local businesses etc but it was never enjoyable, it just got me extra money towards rent (I had flunked out
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by sen 5y ago
Reddit (at least the version of it that created its popularity today) died ages ago, and now it's just being propped up weekend-at-Bernie's style while the owners suck out every possible cent they can before losing the final remai
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by sen 5y ago
I played with a dozen different game engines before settling on Unity, mainly because the quantity and quality of the tutorials/guides and community around it. I have to search less to find my answers compared to other engines.
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by sen 5y ago
There’s a difference between apathetic and powerless. Everyone I’ve talked to about this including my non-techie family all “care” and agree it’s total bullshit, multiple called/wrote in against it, but every single one of us knows not
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by sen 5y ago
I had a video with 8 digit views get taken down and a copyright strike applied to my account because a “spiritual healer” said they own the copyright to the word “spirit” in any and all uses, and good old Google/YouTube sided with them
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by sen 5y ago
They're talking about the free ad-watching type users. It's been published by multiple creators that YT Premium is easily their biggest income stream but there's just very very few people willing to pay Premium (for most crea
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by sen 5y ago
I pay for YouTube premium but still see them. That’s not OK, especially when the creators make 10x more money off YouTube Premium users than from ad-based users. YouTube needs to make a way for creators to label the sponsor sections and it
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by sen 5y ago
> It would be far easier for everyone involved if I just brought a hard drive with new shows around for them every few months. I do this for my family. 3TB external HDDs, each time I see them they give me the old one and I give them a an
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by sen 5y ago
The courts/police don't have to pay back any interest made when they seize cash do they? Or appreciated value of products/cars/whatever seized? Seems like a pretty obvious thing to me in this case that any profits made w
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by sen 5y ago
It’s fair to assume that every single interaction you have with any major website is logged and stored, and disabling any “history” features etc is only for yourself, eg if you’re on a shared computer. There’s absolutely no way any of the F
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by sen 5y ago
Yeah I prefer that version too. Definitely hit the nostalgia feels but with some modern .. cleanliness? Eg having it modeled properly then rendered like that gives it a much cleaner and more accurate look than the old hand-drawn pixel art b
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by sen 5y ago
It's not just old people, many people who aren't techies think that entering an email address into a Telco form means they're ASKING for that email address. I get multiple emails per day for all sorts of services from all ove
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by sen 5y ago
Even off-the-shelf cheap PLA still has orders of magnitude less random crap in it than any of the other plastic toys they already play with. I wouldn't make a pacifier or chew toy from it, but I've got no problem making dozens of
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by sen 5y ago
Yeah I remember playing with VRML in ~1996-97 and developing a bunch of "virtual worlds" (tiny by todays standard) for companies then. It never got huge traction but it was definitely around, and there were some really fun 3D virt
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by sen 5y ago
> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important. https://news
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by sen 5y ago
The reality of the "metaverse" as far as I'm seeing it, is literally just MMORPGs without a story/purpose, where you hang out with friends, chat, do shared activities, etc etc. Second Life done better, with the world siz
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by sen 5y ago
I’ve been saying for years now that we’ll most probably see a time in our lifetime where you need to wear a (light) space-suit style thing to go outside in some seasons. Insulated and actively heated/cooled, possible with air filtratio
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by sen 5y ago
New stuff is scored well too at first, so the algorithm can "test" and see what kind of traction the post gets. If it hits a certain score for traction then it's boosted more, and if it doesn't then it's buried. It&
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by sen 5y ago
I’ve noticed most the climate scientists and related people are using the term “climate emergency” now. It’s a lot clearer.
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by sen 5y ago
I’ve been getting the truck one heaps lately, and constantly failing it. Fire engines, utes, Removalist vans, street sweepers, etc etc. How the hell am I supposed to know what some American programmer thinks a truck is? It’s pervasive acros
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by sen 5y ago
I thought the website was pretty good at explaining it? (I don't own one or know much about it other than having heard about it a few times on HN before): > openpilot is open source software built to improve upon the existing driver
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by sen 5y ago
My first tech job was similar. ~15 person “IT company”. When I joined I was hired as a webmaster/developer to manage their own corporate website, and their main income was doing Citrix installations and outfitting SMEs with computers a
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by sen 5y ago
Or seeing a "ghost" line showing either what a (simple/mostly-random) AI/NPC is doing, or other current/previous players of the same seed. Something to make it more competitive/addictive. It's still pretty
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by sen 5y ago
Regretfully most racing sims (and any other sims that use peripherals) are still a huge pain to get going, even with Proton. At most you can get the actual game "running" (with performance sacrifices over Windows), but you still w
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by sen 5y ago
I remember being so ridiculously proud of myself when I realised I could make a cgi script to write each visitors IP to a text file then on each new visit collate that text file to display a counter of “unique visitors”, then display it nex
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by sen 5y ago
I'm seeing it on all pages... Home, Explore, Subscriptions, even History.
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by sen 5y ago
Most people I know (including myself) find them a hassle but completely necessary and appropriate. NSW has terrible leadership that has blundered the entire thing. The “lockdown” in Sydney is an absolute joke compared to what other states h
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by sen 5y ago
I block all Google and Facebook domains at a router level, and haven’t really had many issues. I’m sure there’s sites that don’t work with those blocked but for whatever reason they’re not sites I visit. I get cloud flare captchas occasiona
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by sen 5y ago
Great nostalgia hit, I used to spend so much time exploring teletext as a kid, and playing the text games. It was such a great system.

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