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by tetraca 6y ago
A remote server should not be an absolute prerequisite for a doorbell to function. That feels like complete nonsense. Like sure, the fancy cloud features should fail, but there is no reason that it shouldn't continue to operate in a de
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by tetraca 6y ago
I found the FreeBSD handbook to be extremely helpful in both installing the system and trying to navigate my way around it. It's what made me finally comfortable moving around in *nix systems when I was in a "install every weird o
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by tetraca 6y ago
If I remember right, VAC doesn't necessarily immediately ban a cheater. It might instead put them on a list. After the hack's popularity increases, there is a mass ban of everyone detected using the hack at a later date.
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by tetraca 6y ago
I'm essentially in the same boat as you -- I'm willing to pay for content as I do for my books, or support free sources of information as I might for Wikipedia. The siren song of the advertiser is hard to fight though, even if man
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by tetraca 6y ago
I don't want to be sold products. I don't care how "relevant" it is to the particular subset of people I most resemble. I want precisely the information I asked for, and no more. Every bit of information extraneous to th
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by tetraca 6y ago
Reddit /is/ the candy - a bunch of empty information calories that makes you feel good until you realize what you've done. 99% of it is forgettable the moment you move on to your next post.
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by tetraca 6y ago
As far as I understand the technology, it's slow because you are physically pushing/pulling pigments around in little cells. It's simply not as fast a process as passing voltage across a crystal or shooting an electron beam.
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by tetraca 6y ago
My experience with confluence is that it just becomes a landfill of articles that are never read or cared about after 1-2 days they're created.
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by tetraca 6y ago
I would argue that the PC is (or will be) a longer lived platform, with homogenized interfaces that let it stay in the game far better than the C64 could dream of. My budget 8 year old PC - which initially had the cheapest CPU I could possi
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by tetraca 6y ago
> C64 shipped something like 20 Million units over its lifetime. You could use it as a gaming machine (many did) - or you could go further if you wanted to. How is this state much different from installing Steam on a PC with a couple con
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by tetraca 6y ago
> Hows about selling a more open system that allows end-users to tinker and contribute themselves? The appeal of a console is that it's an appliance - you can just plug the thing in, not worry about any of the technicals, and go pla
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by tetraca 6y ago
On sid, I've never had any such issue. I get pretty updated packages and haven't experienced any serious breaking changes, but I also don't do anything that's particularly sensitive or touchy to updates.
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by tetraca 6y ago
I never got it either, outside of possibly just the momentum of having a relatively easy to install Linux distribution early on. Rather than Fedora, though, I opted to run Debian sid. I get all the up to date fresh-from-the-oven software pa
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by tetraca 6y ago
Lobbyists will likely instead heavily prey upon the ignorance and inexperience of those sorted. There's going to be a lot of (in the best of cases) ignorant people in those chambers desperate to figure out a good solution to any and al
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by tetraca 6y ago
I bet the guy who owns test.com gets a lot of interesting junk.
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by tetraca 6y ago
Pretty old. I want to say I built their website back in 2008 or so (they changed the logo and color scheme but it seems to still use dokuwiki and the base templates I built out), and it was definitely going on longer than that.
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by tetraca 7y ago
> Pick a nice subset that you find compelling and that demonstrates your strengths, and code that. That would be fairly reasonable. The tests I got, had a heavy project offloaded upfront as effectively part 1 of the interview, with no su
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by tetraca 7y ago
After dealing with a few of these things, I've resolved every time I get one of these applications in the future, I'll just decline. If you want me to spend like 1-2 hours doing some small exercise that proves I can program, fine,
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by tetraca 7y ago
Depending on where your waste water is dumped, it is.
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by tetraca 7y ago
Weird, I've never really needed to use special IDE settings for my Spring boot projects at all; I can just gradle run my project, maybe with a different profile set in the environment.
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by tetraca 7y ago
A lot of them that do mix units between products of the same class (one measured as volume per unit, and another as mass per unit), making it difficult to do a direct comparison.
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by tetraca 7y ago
If you cheap out on your smith, good luck coming back without a hole in you.
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by tetraca 7y ago
> why should we pay them so much money, it’s the computers that are doing the work. Why should we pay the blacksmith so much money? It's the armor doing all the work. Why should we pay the stone mason so much money? It's the ar
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by tetraca 7y ago
You should learn Chinese.
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by tetraca 7y ago
Anything that becomes common will eventually degenerate into such inexactitudes. These sorts of things are already present in food terminology - "chips", "jelly", "bacon". In practice, they don't really bo
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by tetraca 7y ago
Likely, the more popular option will be known as "Oven baked ground corn". The less popular, more contextual option would have an attached qualifier to distinguish it from the one most people want, such as "Oven baked ground
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by tetraca 7y ago
> In German, "cabbage salad" == coleslaw. In English, "cabbage salad" != coleslaw. Of course. This is a purely hypothetical exercise, in which we are speculating on an alternative means of naming food items which is m
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by tetraca 7y ago
You don't need to be specific to an absolute fault. People aren't machines. A compounding approach in practice would likely just result in English constructions similar to Dutch or German - eg Krautsalat -> Cabbage Salad (Coles
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by tetraca 7y ago
Everyone has ideas, but not everyone has good ones.
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by tetraca 7y ago
The more we have to invest into standing up an energy source, the more cogs you have to put into simply maintaining the energy infrastructure, and the less that we have available at any given time to upkeep the rest of our logistical chains

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