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by speeder 4y ago
The "it is not ad, it is recommendation" thing is just pissing me off even more. A lot of companies now pulling that stunt. For example I bought a TV that has a good OLED panel. That TV outright had shown me popups while I am usin
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by speeder 4y ago
The company I work for uses Swift a lot... that said, the performance sensitive parts of the code is still Cpp. Swift is nifty but still not Cpp I guess.
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by speeder 4y ago
My wife some months ago totalled my car. So I went to buy a car urgently... It was my first time buying a car by myself, the one that was totalled was a "hand me down" I purchased from a relative. Dealerships were a nightmare. New
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by speeder 4y ago
My extended family lives near a place where using it as fertilizer is common. It works wonderfully, also it is incredibly smelly, the reason it is used there is because there are no cities there, just gigantic prairies, as soon you get nea
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by speeder 4y ago
Brazillian Ethanol is made with Sugar Cane, not corn. And it is reasonably efficient, much better than corn ethanol that is just stupid. To make corn ethanol you get an energy loss actually, the energy usage to grow and process the corn, fo
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by speeder 4y ago
Ooooh... I am a non-US christian and been trying to understand certain things, tracked down a lot of origins for some of the more heterodox (in my view) beliefs. But never had heard of this bible, despite SEEING that bible multiple times. A
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by speeder 4y ago
Not the type of machine that can wander but... Brazil has some experience with people being nasty to machines. 1. Robotic bank tellers (atm): we had a huge crime wave where people would literally blow them up to steal contents. It got so vi
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by speeder 4y ago
What made Uber special was that it ignored medallion/license laws. Those were central to taxi mafia. For example in São Paulo there was a period of time where some 30.000 or so drivers had passed all requisites, paid all fees, but when
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by speeder 4y ago
I actually joined a political party in my country, because they had the intention of protecting Uber. Some people wonder, but why? Why protect such scummy company? Well, it was literally to save lives, as much illegal Uber behaviour is, wha
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by speeder 4y ago
The goal is probably discourage short term visitors. In the many, MAAAAANY past HN topics about this, complaints about them were constant. Basically Cruise Ships barge in (sometimes literally, hitting other boats or even buildings), then pe
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by speeder 4y ago
That is an interesting solution attempt to their problems. I hope they succeed, including in fixing the pollution to the lagoon. When pandemic started a lot of people noticed animals not seen in years shown up on the lagoon again as soon th
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by speeder 4y ago
I worked in a place that died this way, and know of another place that also died this way. The place where I worked: the owner of the company was Bipolar (in the literal sense), and depending on what phase he was, he wanted different featur
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by speeder 4y ago
This issue is really, really old. Well, the bible starts with it! Hebrews had a predominantly meat-eating culture, where at first, roaming semi-nomadic herds dominated, and later ranching was important. Of course this also means their diet
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by speeder 4y ago
Article forgot to mention secure boot shenanigans. I actually own a laptop that literally refuses to run anything except win8 that come with it and doesn't let me disable secure boot. People say that it is a bios bug... but there are n
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by speeder 4y ago
I am from Brazil, our current president been trying for years to introduce a paper trail, but the congress politicians (of all parties mind you, it is not a partisan thing) and the election judges are happy to find more and more reasons to
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by speeder 4y ago
Tectoy is a Brazillian company that still manufactures SEGA consoles (they have the license back from the 90s). They still use the original motherboard and whatnot... Yet, somehow, they still manage to make it have issues, seemly they repla
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by speeder 4y ago
I went to college while taking debt, and a big reason for it was not even just "advice", it was almost coercion, adults in my life back then (in a way I was still a minor, being 17) just outright made it look like not going to col
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by speeder 4y ago
I once worked on a company that made me understand the value of this stuff. My project was late, I was coding desperately, sometimes skipping lunch to have enough time, I had to leave using a bus on a specific time so I couldn't just s
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by speeder 4y ago
If you look in countries where guns are banned but are with comparable size to USA you will see mass murders by other methods, even if they are more infrequent than in USA (for example mass stabbings, bombings, arson, or more than once in B
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by speeder 4y ago
No they can't just buy a fair phone. I want one and they are not allowed in my country.
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by speeder 4y ago
Some years ago someone posted here on Hacker News some article about a bronze-age battle that had more corpses (archeologists found the battle when they stumbled into the corpses, some even still holding swords and all) than expected, the a
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by speeder 4y ago
I am kinda sad that the Brazillian part in that story is how they forced them to stay because of Yellow Fever, but then they stole stuff from inside the plane... The saddest part of this, is that I am not even surprised :( As Brazillian I d
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by speeder 4y ago
The first patterns were mostly rotations and whatnot. Last patterns were boolean logic, for example 3 or 4 tests were just XOR stuff, another was AND, another was summing, and so on... I ended with a score lower than my usual, because I was
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by speeder 4y ago
Actually from what I heard they DID flesh out things. But then they made the serious error of hiring Rian Johnson AND giving him free rein with the direction of the movie. Rian Johnson already stated himself, he likes making divisive films.
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by speeder 4y ago
First Dune game owner is Virgin, currently owned by EA Second Dune game owner is Westwood, currently owned by EA So... no.
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by speeder 4y ago
Wait, seirously? People are growing Eucalyptus in a desert? That is one of the most mind boggling stupidity thing I ever heard of! It is just insane and suicidal to do that! Eucalyptus trees have 60 meter long roots, and use water at absurd
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by speeder 4y ago
I remembered the name, it was "Overlay" seemly it allowed you do things like control the RAMDAC directly and skip the CPU, send arbitrary information to the CRT, and other shenanigans. From what I understood the non-official reaso
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by speeder 4y ago
I am from Brazil... The monarchs here been very useful: 1. Pedro I declared our independence, and later helped Portugal with some crap and became known there as Pedro the Liberator. 2. Pedro II believed in technology, half of all railways i
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by speeder 4y ago
I was using CRT until recently, sadly it broke in a way nobody could fix :( Reasons why I preferred it over flat panel: 1. Zero lag (lag annoys me a lot when I am gaming) 2. Arbitrary resolutions (for example I was running several recent ga
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by speeder 4y ago
Note: I am from Brazil, and live nowhere near Russia. That said... I believe Russia see the invasion on Ukraine as a necessity to block Ukraine from joining NATO. A lot of people thinking Russia wants to just conquer Ukraine risk a massive

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