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by skeaker 1y ago
I haven't tried with too many games since the usecase only comes up rarely, but I know that Downwell and UFO 50 work this way off the top of my head. They come with a Steam dll that will try to launch Steam for the sake of getting achi
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by skeaker 1y ago
Point not taken. That remains as the vast minority of all software. I can't link a counterexample because nobody would ever put an article saying "indie game has bug" or "IoT coffeepot has to be rebooted every few months
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by skeaker 1y ago
Not all software is life or death. I'd argue that very little of it is.
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by skeaker 1y ago
Definitely not all games, and for games that do have it cracking it is in most cases as simple as swapping out a Steam .dll (so very easy). It's primarily there as appeasement for devs who would be reluctant to engage with a platform w
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by skeaker 1y ago
This would be a lot more compelling if we didn't already know where most of our money is actually dead-ending at (it's American billionaires).
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by skeaker 1y ago
Asinine complaint. 1. Not true in the slightest; you even contradict yourself. Engineering interests absolutely do grow from it like you said, and you will never get someone doing good work in an engineering career without a prior interest.
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by skeaker 1y ago
If all you need is to save bookmarks, could you not simply sign into your browser and use the built in sync feature?
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by skeaker 1y ago
Had a similar situation when I was young. Living far away only really impacts your ability to host events which can suck for things like your birthday parties, as getting a large number of people to all go out of their way is pretty much im
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by skeaker 1y ago
Likening a game to a painting is just a false premise. Games are a unique medium that can in themselves hold lots of different things which inherently makes them hard to compare wholesale to other mediums. They can be similar to Chess in th
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by skeaker 1y ago
Regardless, they are far from dead. Multiple billions of dollars is still doing fantastic for any business, investors and shareholders be damned.
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by skeaker 1y ago
Might not be the best idea, unless we just so happen to be all the way at the top of the sequence[1]... 1 - https://qntm.org/responsibility
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by skeaker 1y ago
Yes, tech corps have actually have been investing in nuclear. See some recent discussion: Microsoft: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601443 Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41840769
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by skeaker 1y ago
The major flaw in your argument is that Yahoo is still around. They still have tons of traffic, some of the most in the world, just behind Reddit. They are not constantly growing, yes, but that is exactly my point. They have a satisfied use
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by skeaker 1y ago
The obscenely rich entities that buy up tons of property without actually using it do so because they only stand to gain even more money on it later. Making more housing would help in the long term for sure, but these entities would still b
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by skeaker 1y ago
Citation needed, my understanding was that housing prices are being driven up by real estate owners/agencies buying tons of property to either rent at extortionary prices or sit on until they sell for a higher price to the next sucker.
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by skeaker 1y ago
I never really bought the idea of any AI company killing Google. They have too much momentum to really be seriously impacted, too many people who only use them exclusively and will continue to do so their whole lives on the name brand alone
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by skeaker 1y ago
Yes, but the connotation here was "conscripted which is a bad thing that made them unhappy."
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by skeaker 1y ago
This is a bad argument because it could very easily go either way. Post any source of yours for the 12 million number and I'll just as easily say it's fake too.
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by skeaker 1y ago
In theory people will steal Apple devices, then when they learn that digital locks make them impossible to use they will gut them for parts and sell those. Serial locking would defeat that. In practice, yes, it pretty much just exists to ma
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by skeaker 1y ago
Your idea seems to be outright incorrect. We need transparency to stop bad things -> Bad things do not help at the ballot box -> We won't be given transparency through the ballot box (unless there are no bad things in which case
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by skeaker 1y ago
Fact is that in a social situation, you don't get to decide how you're viewed. If someone says you're being a jerk, then in their eyes, you're being a jerk. You can't change society or whatever so that they don&#x27
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by skeaker 1y ago
You say that like saving money is somehow a bad thing.
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by skeaker 1y ago
Opposite for me, I struggled with courses that required thorough notes until college where they didn't care if I brought in a laptop. Once I could take digital notes I excelled thanks to the speed and organization of it. I don't t
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by skeaker 1y ago
Exactly my point: Frisbee is subject to genericide but keeps its trademark status because courts almost never actually take trademarks from businesses. If they don't do it to Frisbee then they won't do it to Waffle House because t
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by skeaker 1y ago
This is often brought up and almost never true. No reasonable court would dump their trademark over this. It needs to be overwhelmingly out of their hands and in the public conscious. "Frisbee" for example still holds their tradem
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by skeaker 1y ago
Not sure what you mean by this, it is a real thing you can actually use so obviously it's not "just a publicity stunt."
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by skeaker 1y ago
You responded to a rhetorical question with the wrong answer (you can obviously live well on only modest means as arguably the majority of people do, even in the US), and then proceeded to lay out maybe the most egregious false dichotomy I&
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by skeaker 1y ago
In addition to some of the big ones already mentioned here I also donate to my local animal rescue. They do very noble work saving injured animals from being euthanized and nursing them back to health. It's also soul-crushing work as t
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by skeaker 1y ago
I've had this for as long as I can remember. I have distinct memories from being maybe toddler-aged and having this. I've found that the Valsalva maneuver can make it fade away faster, as can placing your palm over your ear and sq
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by skeaker 1y ago
Seems a bit circular, no? Going on a diet to get the motivation to go on a diet. I'd wager a large part of your behavioral change was that you had already changed your behavior to get to that point.

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