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541.
by tombert 6mo ago
Makes sense; when I was doing WGU they explicitly forbid virtual machines, which makes enough sense since if you're in a VM they can't see your full screen. It wouldn't surprise me if nowadays they have some sort of software
542.
by tombert 6mo ago
It never really occurred to me that you'd want to be able to detect if something is running in DOSBox, since I figured that the point was to be as compatible as possible with MS-DOS. I guess it makes sense to try it anyway. Now I&#x
543.
by tombert 6mo ago
50ms is pretty high, even by LCD standards. I have one of those MiSTer Laggy measuring things, and when I have my cheap Vizio TV in "Game Mode" the latency is around 24ms, a little lower on the top of the screen and a little highe
544.
by tombert 6mo ago
I hadn't heard this, but looks like you are right. Makes me feel a little conflicted having bought one of those SNK bundles a couple years ago on Steam or Humble Bundle or something. Don't love the idea of giving money to someone
545.
by tombert 6mo ago
I don't even think I was charging very much. I was still pretty junior in my career, so I think I was charging something like $40/hour, which was double my nominal wage at my previous W2 software job (doubled to cover stuff like h
546.
by tombert 6mo ago
Someone told me that in 2013 when I was trying to do contract work. I gave him a quote that I thought was reasonable, and he thought it was too much and he told me that his thirteen year old son could do it for free. I responded that he wa
547.
by tombert 6mo ago
Tangential, but in my previous apartment one of my neighbors really wanted me to build him a website after he found out I work with computers. I told him that I don't really build websites, and what I mostly do is write things that mov
548.
by tombert 6mo ago
Yeah, most of the CDs there were pretty unremarkable; a lot of them were unsurprisingly stuff that was extremely popular (since those have the most CDs available). A lot of the stuff that wasn't extremely popular was pretty bad. Still,
549.
by tombert 6mo ago
I'm not a huge fan of them in general, but they did a pretty ok cover of Talking Heads' "This Must Be The Place" that I heard on Sirius XM.
550.
by tombert 6mo ago
Something I did a few years ago was buy a thing on eBay of 300 random CDs for like $10. Most of the CDs were unsurprisingly stuff that was pretty common, but I would occasionally find a few artists that I had never heard of that I ended up
551.
by tombert 6mo ago
Yeah, I've thought about buying one in the past, but $229 is kind of rich for my blood. I bought an ODROID-Go Ultra a few months ago for about $70. This can emulate the NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, and oodles of other consoles, and c
552.
by tombert 6mo ago
Sorry, no. Are they adults or not? Are they considered mentally disabled? If they are adults they should be held to the same standards as adults. If they're given adult privileges then they are grown ups. I get a little annoyed at thi
553.
by tombert 6mo ago
Not if you rip them :)
554.
by tombert 6mo ago
> The slight remorse I feel by not using official YT frontends is towards creators I enjoy watching That's what I felt bad about. I didn't care if I was depriving Google of money, but I was watching a lot of videos of relative
555.
by tombert 6mo ago
I guess I'm just saying I'm not sure I'm going to put up with another price hike. I've grown kind of tired of YouTube as of late anyway, and it's not like I get a lot out of it in any kind of deep meaningful sense.
556.
by tombert 6mo ago
At least the sponsored segments can almost automatically be skipped now. If you press forward on the remote it will jump ahead of the sponsored bit. A little annoying that I have to actively skip it but still better than watching them. Dun
557.
by tombert 6mo ago
I'm not a huge fan of the current price increase, but what I was referring to was what Amazon Prime did about a year ago. Amazon Prime has ads by default now, or you can get rid of the ads if you pay an additional $3 a month. If they
558.
by tombert 6mo ago
Ugh. I can't speak for anyone else, but I have a very strong, borderline-irrational distaste for ads. I hate advertising, I hate having to watch advertisements, I will go out of my way considerably to avoid ads. I have over 400 blu-ra
559.
by tombert 6mo ago
Yeah but then discoverability becomes an issue, I think. YouTube obviously wants to push things that will make them more money, and I suspect popular channels that can have regular ads are more profitable, so they are incentivized to push
560.
by tombert 6mo ago
I suspect they're going to soon do what Amazon did as well, where they start putting ads into the regular YouTube Premium service, and charge an extra $3 a month for a completely ad free experience. I have the family plan shared across
561.
by tombert 6mo ago
It wasn't rhetorical; I genuinely did not realize anyone cared about stars.
562.
by tombert 6mo ago
I've been getting off of YouTube more because now creators censor themselves even more than network TV does. You can't say "kill", you have to say "unalive" or "took their life" or shit like that. Yo
563.
by tombert 6mo ago
Do people actually give a shit about GitHub stars? I've got lots of projects on GitHub and I don't think any of them have more than like five stars, and it has never been something that bothered me. I put the code out there, if p
564.
by tombert 6mo ago
That's sort of where I've been stuck with with jj. Maybe someone can convince me otherwise, but to me it hasn't felt sufficiently better than git to justify bothering re-learning this stuff, even if it's relatively easy.
565.
by tombert 6mo ago
Yeah, I found that out recently when I had to purchase a new 16TB drive because of them in my RAID died recently. I bought the hard drive used about three years ago for about $130. To replace it I had to shop around and I ended up paying a
566.
by tombert 6mo ago
I suppose that the argument could be made that knives are inherently unsafe, and that no matter what it is important to always treat it like it's unsafe. This doesn't imply that you shouldn't use knives, just that you should
567.
by tombert 6mo ago
I mostly use Obsidian for my blog nowadays (using Quartz and Cloudflare Pages). For that it's actually pretty great. It's super easy to write links to your own posts that automatically update, it's easy ensure that your att
568.
by tombert 6mo ago
I mean, define "need" :) The answer is no, obviously I could use Jetty or Netty or Vert.x and have done all of those plenty of times; of course any of those would require pulling in a third party dependency. And it's not like
569.
by tombert 6mo ago
I agree. I don't know many people who have shit on Java more than I have, but I have been using it for a lot of stuff in the last year primarily because it has a gigantic standard library, to a point where I often don't even need
570.
by tombert 6mo ago
I wonder if the best way, and something that might be more likely to pass, is something like "progressive pricing". Like the first N kilowatt hours are the regular price, and would cover the average case for most people (I don&#x2

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