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by smeagull 4y ago
Yup, it really is a good thing they haven't been forced to use open images.
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by smeagull 4y ago
It's also true for support of old games. I could use a VM with a flaky version of Windows XP (which I have done, and it always crashes) OR I could use wine and have no issues.
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by smeagull 4y ago
I have a incredibly well specced Mac from work that I could use for gaming, but Linux support on steam is so far ahead that I don't bother anymore - it's a pain to figure out what games are supported on Mac - something I no longer
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by smeagull 4y ago
It's human culture. The idea that it should be the sole provenance of rich multi-nationals to decide who can afford to read is disgusting. It should all be freely accessible. Removing money from the equation would also solve other qual
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by smeagull 4y ago
When a company optimises for something so unrelated to the eventual job, it becomes anti-correlated with success.
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by smeagull 4y ago
If you're a company that is unable to find profitable things for 10k of your employees to do, then you should probably be firing people higher up.
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by smeagull 4y ago
Those aren't angry or adversarial and Google deserve much worse.
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by smeagull 4y ago
I missing print without parentheses.
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by smeagull 4y ago
Actually we're speaking English, and not Greek or Latin, so we add an 's' or 'es'. Just because some English professor assholes wanted to show off their knowledge of foreign languages in the 17-19th centuries, doesn
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by smeagull 4y ago
For pedants it's octopodes because its a Greek root, but the sort of people who think that way are the worst and are responsible for screwing up English a lot, so fuck those nerds. If you're speaking English then you just add an s
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by smeagull 4y ago
Seems like you'd end remote work before firing everybody, because now you have no idea if you're going to be able to keep the people you thought you could. If you were planning these moves of course.
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by smeagull 4y ago
There is some value to brand recognition and being well known. I doubt it's 16k of value however.
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by smeagull 4y ago
You can use all the fancy words you like, but if you're just going to call the writer a dick, then just call them a dick. Don't bring pubes into it.
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by smeagull 4y ago
I understand how cryptics work. I do cryptics from other newspapers. I have seen the Guardians solutions and even their explanations, but they depend on things I don't understand, dated references, how tiny parts of the UK talk or wors
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by smeagull 4y ago
That's silly. The incentives need to be flipped. Before the target of a patent suit pays a dollar in court costs the filer needs to pay through the nose proving that the case is worth hearing, with the potential to lose the costs if th
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by smeagull 4y ago
You can get a patent on practically anything - they only test in court, which is why these trolls have power. The cheapest way to get a patent is to apply, and make the claims very specific and complicated.
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by smeagull 4y ago
Basically pinterest.
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by smeagull 4y ago
I could never understand the Guardian ones because they're too fucking British. I follow UK news and TV, but I can read the clues and see the answers and still have no idea.
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by smeagull 4y ago
The gameplay tells the message "War is fun"
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by smeagull 4y ago
My university education was cheap and world class. Look overseas to see how badly America is doing.
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by smeagull 4y ago
Fawning is typical of media coverage of most business sectors.
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by smeagull 4y ago
I never see much in replacing Sucrose with normal Glucose. Never understood why.
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by smeagull 4y ago
I don't think copyrighting things is fine.
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by smeagull 4y ago
Are you high? Murdoch has a massive agenda. They have persistently chosen governments to favour in multiple countries. Honestly just have a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
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by smeagull 4y ago
Nothing is objective.
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by smeagull 4y ago
This is an incentive for bad actors, which makes Twitter a worse platform. I suspect the blue checkmark will become a signifier of a scam account if this goes forward.
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by smeagull 4y ago
There is value in pulling that subset out of the extra bullshit. I'd love a twitter alternative that I could use for publicly broadcasting short messages. Especially if it didn't require people be logged in to scroll down.
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by smeagull 4y ago
Probably their terrible labour laws. You can only grind people down for so long.
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by smeagull 4y ago
I don't know why everybody just accepts the idea that Humans will leave the solar system one day. I think we're doomed.
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by smeagull 4y ago
Because its fucking impossible to escape the Suns Gravity well with all our stuff

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