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9y ago
Catan cards take that in account. They basically made one card for each possiblity of pair of dices, so there is a 7 card for 6+1, another for 5+2, and so on... Playing with it is MUCH better than with dice... when I played with the dice th
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9y ago
You missed my point. I am quite willing to spend 100 on a keyboard, I just literally don't have it. When you are struggling to pay rent, medicine, food, you don't have much choice... See many people that go years with rotten teeth
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9y ago
People willing lots of them... having the money? not so much. For example I am from Brazil, currently without any work. But my peak income was 2000 usd month with 1000 usd going straight to pay student debts... I had other things to do with
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9y ago
In Brazil you can. Idea is get corruption. For example, we had a governor that had as wages about 10000 usd month... yet was spending millions. Not even the craziest bank would fund that, so it must have been corruption. (It was, he receive
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9y ago
I once got fired that way... I won't give too much details, but basically it was this: Bigwig liked me. Guy directly under bigwig, was my theoretically boss. back then I didn't understood office politics, and kept communicating wi
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9y ago
Decided to google about this... Found this article: https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/129776/after_controve... I wonder, how many people reading that article would predict the rise of stuff like GitHub and Gi
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9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Brazil) I am a game and systems programmer, specialised in making fast code that use the hardware well, and for scripting work I love using Lua languages, and similar. Also I made once a arcade game, including woodwor
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9y ago
I am a game and systems programmer, specialised in making fast code that use the hardware well, and for scripting work I love using Lua languages, and similar. Also I made once a arcade game, including woodwork, painting and electronics fro
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9y ago
I am from Brazil, Cortana is not available here... (at least when I checked last time). And Start Menu behave as described in all machines I tried, it takes forever to load, and sometimes still closes again... And its search system is reall
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9y ago
My whole life adults around me (school teachers included) kept telling me I was a genius, that I should go to college, and then I would become rich. When I turned 18, I asked people around me to let me study on my own for a year, before I j
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9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Brazil) I am a game and systems programmer, specialised in making fast code that use the hardware well, and for scripting work I love using Lua languages, and similar. Also I made once a arcade game, including woodwor
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9y ago
I am a game and systems programmer, specialised in making fast code that use the hardware well, and for scripting work I love using Lua languages, and similar. Also I made once a arcade game, including woodwork, painting and electronics fro
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9y ago
Many of the traits that make a person ambitious make a person bad at child rearing. A moderately successful man will look usually for a woman that can do what he can't, he won't look for something redundant. What is the point of a
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10y ago
Or sometimes you can't accept it. Yesterday who is hiring made me sort of depressed, I am in desperate need for work, yet all work I was qualified for was non remote in other countries, or semi remote, the few ones that allowed real re
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10y ago
I am a game and systems programmer, specialised in making fast code that use the hardware well, and for scripting work I love using Lua languages, and similar. Also I made once a arcade game, including woodwork, painting and electronics fro
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10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Brazil) I am a game and systems programmer, specialised in making fast code that use the hardware well, and for scripting work I love using Lua languages, and similar. Also I made once a arcade game, including woodwor
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10y ago
Capability: having the means of defense (soldiers, technology, weapons...) Capacity: having enough resources to use capability (manpower, food, ammo, money, energy) Brazil for example is great at the second, having plenty of resources, but
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10y ago
I liked the article but it doesn't explain how to start a network... much of its advice is about how to manage an existing one. Examples: it mentions that you should sometimes offer stuff to people you already know, instead of only int
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10y ago
That is some awesome news for Sub-Saharan Africans and Brazillians (if I remember correctly rest of south America ins't connected to Brazil, online games between Brazilians and Chileans for example have terrible lag, as route includes
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10y ago
"slightly" out of spec you mean pulling 7.7 amperes from a part rated to 5.5 amperes, and that might (due to dust and other factors) pull all the 7.7 amperes from pins that are supposed to have only 1.1 ampere running trough them.
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10y ago
MY 380x only get hot when using the default fan control, that is complete crap. With my custom fan curve it starts to get limited in performance while still around 60c (and fan noise is still not 'perceptible' over the sound of a
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10y ago
I was using only nVidia my whole life, and got tired of some of their business-related bullshit. So I thought AMD was going to be better, because they try to be good and nice... Well, AMD hardware is NOT good as nVidia (example: 380x in par
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10y ago
Last year I bought a i5-4690k, some slightly outdated but top of line mobo, 32gb DDR3 2400mhz and a bunch of 1tb WD Black... Total price was about 800USD yet it feels like I had bought something much more expensive, everything I throw on th
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10y ago
I am from Brazil, that is a agriculture powerhouse. 1. Young people here don't want to be farmers either, the ones that do want (me for Example) can't afford the land price anyway. 2. Because exporting the same thing over and over
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10y ago
That story is particularly curious. Originally people used to dress male babies in red, because it was the colour of blood, war, strength, etc... And female babies in blue, because it was the colour of peace, the sky, etc... Around the 1960
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10y ago
I have thyroid problem... Endocrinologists even then failed to help for most part. I found only one willing to help, and only in an half-assed manner. I still go most for formality and legality reasons, but I am mostly treating myself as I
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10y ago
According to 8chan one smb2 exploit actually affects Win10, despite being tagged as intended for much older Windows.
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I don't bother explaining to doctors why I switched. Every time I did in the past they got personally offended and refused to address their flaws, so why bother? Also I am almost convinced good medics in certain fields (endocrinology f
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10y ago
Where? Mind you, I don't live in a first world country... So it must be either remote, or allow relocation. (in my country at least ALL jobs are for React/Electron/Java... I applied to them because they are the only job listi
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10y ago
I am a game-engine-developer... without any work at the moment. People just rarely want my skills, I work with C, C++, Lua, ASM, blazing-speed well built code that takes a long time to make. People don't even ask me to do interviews, w
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