shapefrog

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   by shapefrog 3y ago

   Welcome to the world of twitter / linkedin / internet business gurus
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   by shapefrog 3y ago

   I use a decoy phone that doesn't contain evidence of any crimes, its basically a get out of jail free card.
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   by shapefrog 3y ago

   Doing a jam session while the crowd are "networking" and exchanging linked-in tier anecdotes about how they thought they were missing a meeting with the CEO because they were helping a homeless person is not a good creative enviro
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   by shapefrog 3y ago

   If I could download a car, I would.
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   by shapefrog 3y ago

   If I squint really really really hard they both have "com" towards the end of their names.
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   by shapefrog 3y ago

   We are special and unique, that is why we were chosen not them.
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   by shapefrog 3y ago

   > If these customers do not have access to Raspberry Pi, then they are likely to "go to the wall". 'Should I zero some of those customers or constrain them so heavily that they go out of business or take very serious damag
8. 158.▲
   by shapefrog 3y ago

   This is not the point of the raspberry pi. It is to provide a very cheap computer for companies so that they can access more money.
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   by shapefrog 3y ago

   I set out to save the world, but then a corporation that was built on my product, because it was much cheaper for them than the alternative, said they would make less profit if they didnt get all of my product. Morally I had to support the
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    The No-ADHD diagnosis was done by a professional whos pay depends on dispensing a No-ADHD diagnosis, while the 3 professionals offering a Yes-ADHD diagnosis depend on positive diagnosis of things to get paid.
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    Furthermore, why does a 2023 released game, in development since 2018, run like utter garbage on said spec hardware that is orders of magnitude more performant than last years specs ...
12. 162.▲
    by shapefrog 3y ago

    Please enter a plead - Not guilty by reason of its a prank bro.
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    Ethical vegetarians who eat fish are my favourite kind of hypocrites.
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    The "trap" in the meat fields being a refrigerator.
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    Ryanair did it >10 years ago, coin slot not contact payment terminal however.
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    NY to LA is ~ 5 hours, which is about as long as you get on the continental USA. Do you really need to eat? Chicago to NY is just over 2 hours - not really enough time for a 3 course meal. If you are doing the 19 hours from NY to Singapor
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    > the biological defenses that plants have evolved to defend themselves and their seeds from undesirable predators Hunting and gathering meat doesnt traditionally involve going out into a field and picking up a strip of meat wrapped up i
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    My experience is very similar. I am neither a great writer, not a great coder, not a grammar nazi - but still have to make major corrections to the output of such tools. I came to the sad conclusion that perhaps what I write and what I do i
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    When writing goes to 120 characters or you regularly write "thread" / 1/n at the bottom of your tweet, you lose some of your ability to think
20. 170.▲
    by shapefrog 3y ago

    I hate that everyone benefits from GDPR and hates GDPR and Europe for daring to try.
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    > difficult it is to predict policy outcomes Are they really - or are they pretty obvious to anyone who casually glances at the headline of the policy, but the consequences are a problem after the next election. If you win you can always
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    > be distributed among the parties in cahoots: the Microsoft employee(s) involved in the scheme, the partner, and the decision maker at the purchasing entity Fraud. > In the government had paid $5.5 million for Microsoft licenses for
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    > The price of a seat in the House of Lords is £400,000 The price to buy a seat from Boris was nearly an order of magnitude cheaper - but he also sold a lot of seats that he can not fulfill.
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    > I want certain favours from the current UK government, I can give a friend of mine an interest-free loan for him to donate significant sums of money to the current ruling party (Tories). You get away with this as long as there is no wr
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    > the history You dont need to go beyond yesterday for history. The foreign aid budget for example is litteral bribery with a less icky name.
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    I see your $300M "least impactful" Harvard donation and raise you $4.1 billion Presidential candidates raised and spent in the 24 months of the 2019-2020 election cycle.
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    For the replier that wanted a more substantive response; my comment can be expanded on by pointing out it is ultimately a commentary on the motivations involved in the employee-manager relationship within the bureaucracy of the mega-corpora
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    It didnt pick up the bug in the else of the calculate function, presumably it is only running along the path that the script is running based on the inputs.
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    > imagine the energy savings if Firefox users switched to Chrome This is why I left firefox.
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    by shapefrog 3y ago

    They are not the intern anymore - they are senior vice president of battery draining, this feature absolutely killed it at the end of year review.