tabletiptop

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by tabletiptop 8y ago
Speaking as someone who moderated a torrent site forum in my teens, there's unfortunately so much truth in what you said in that first paragraph. Especially the part about adolescent morality as policy.
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by tabletiptop 9y ago
Are you referring to Facebook like pages? They've been essentially pointless for a while now, since you only get onto your followers feeds if you "boost" a post, money that for a "poor" or "just starting up&quo
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by tabletiptop 9y ago
I hear this opinion everywhere all the time. I don't blame you for harbouring it, but I'm glad for the responses you've gotten.
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by tabletiptop 9y ago
"Windows is my favorite desktop OS ... I really enjoy the ease of use that I get with Windows where everything that I need to do just works." I was in 100% agreement with this up until maybe a year or two ago, having flirted betwe
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by tabletiptop 9y ago
You can take the "precog" metaphor used in Minority Report and replace it what's actually happening - dragnet surveillance combined with predictive modeling algorithms to assess each individual's threat level. This is ha
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by tabletiptop 9y ago
That would be the drake equation. The fermi paradox is just a philosophical question.
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by tabletiptop 9y ago
Depressants don't necessarily make you depressed. The term depressant just means that they depress the nervous system, as opposed to stimulating it like coffee or cocaine. There's a link between depression and drug use because man
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by tabletiptop 9y ago
I'd say that Ubuntu MATE (16.04) with the redmond layout and advanced menu enabled is the best alternative to Windows 7 I've yet seen in a Linux distro.
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by tabletiptop 9y ago
Game design is a broad study and difficult to do well. Programming a game based on an existing design is the easy part.
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by tabletiptop 9y ago
> I might be biased, but I realized in the few years I lived in the UK that the services, health care, and general quality of life are overall better down there than up here. I obviously have only anecdotal proof of that. You said you li
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by tabletiptop 9y ago
> Investors in traditional TV providers are reeling as companies from AT&T Inc. to Viacom Inc. fail to stop the desertion of customers lured away by cheaper entertainment options such as Netflix and Snapchat. What? Snapchat as an ent
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by tabletiptop 9y ago
I work for a small software company, we pick our own laptops from the Dell business account. Anecdotally, every Latitude we've bought has been rock solid, and every XPS - without exception - has had issues. Sound cards dead on arrival,
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by tabletiptop 9y ago
Are you ... wow. You're right. She really had me with the "imagine PowerPoint in Linux without a VM!".