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by toxican 7y ago
Why wouldn't they though? Astroturfing gets around adblockers entirely and reaches those who are ad-adverse because they don't necessarily realize it's an ad. It's nothing new either, it's just the internet equivale
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by toxican 7y ago
Busted how though? It's not like McDonalds, for example, would use a Mc-branded account to post random things to reddit with clearly visible McDonald cups or whatever. They'd use some throwaway account or buy an established accoun
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by toxican 7y ago
But the best kind of ad is the kind the enduser doesn't realize is an ad. Not to mention that cross-posting happens all the time so your "ad" can make it all over the site for a day or so. And if it goes viral enough on reddi
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by toxican 7y ago
I would really hope that something as critical as aviation instruments have the capacity to be updated to account for this and that it's been treated like a mini-Y2K with lots of fixes made ahead of time. But I guess we'll see...
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by toxican 7y ago
What's more likely? The iPhone has some hidden, subtle responsibility for the death of Steampunk -or- something niche like Steampunk found mainstream success, over saturated the pop culture market, then fizzled away back to something n
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by toxican 7y ago
It's like someone picked two topics out of a hat (iPhone, Steampunk) and was tasked with writing an article about them. iPhones (and smartphones in general) were definitely a cultural phenomenon, but there's literally nothing tang
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by toxican 7y ago
Wild Wild West was a bad movie, but I think the whole steampunk aspect of it was really interesting and well done. Not-Will-Smith's decked out spy train car was really cool. The steam-powered spider mech was a little hokey in retrospec
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by toxican 7y ago
For small projects, large files, or one-off files, it's Sublime for me. For work on my existing/massive project at work, it's phpStorm. For everything else it's usually VSCode.
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by toxican 7y ago
I made the switch to vanilla JS from jQuery a year or so ago and it's great to see how jQuery (and other libs) pushed vanilla in certain directions. But I'll always miss $('#element') vs getElementById('element&#x27
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by toxican 7y ago
I don't think "nerd" holds the negative connotation it once did. All these ultra-wealthy silicon valley types, the abundance of tech in our daily lives, etc. have shaved away the edges on that term, imo. I certainly don'
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by toxican 7y ago
They admitted to encountering the literal definition of UFO -- "Unidentified Flying Object", which in no way at all proves or even suggests alien activity. If you want to get annoyed with the media, direct it at them convincing pe
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by toxican 7y ago
You reminded me of this story I read a while back about how an indoor pot farm was identified because the heat from the grow lights melted the snow on the roof and apparently in the Netherlands that was enough to get a warrant - https:&#x2
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by toxican 7y ago
Well I guess we should just give up and not try to do it better this time! Who says it has to be people with ties to the tech giants? You don't need to suckle at Google's teat to understand the underlying technology and advise on
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by toxican 7y ago
> technically capable to do the job Colloquially known as "nerds"
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by toxican 7y ago
My kneejerk reaction is that the Google of 2008, even 2012, isn't the same Google of 2019. Maybe that's political bias talking. All the same, not crazy about politicians and corporations being so cozy, regardless of affiliation.
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by toxican 7y ago
@temporal Have you seen the prices for VGA cables, cat5, etc. at Walmart, best buy, etc.? They absolutely will jack the price up because they know the only people who buy that stuff there are ignorant or too desperate to wait for shipping.
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by toxican 7y ago
Okay so two things cause the sound of the mechanical keyboard. The switch itself, and the bottom of the key hitting the are beneath the keys (called bottoming out, I believe). You can buy rubber rings that quiet out the bottoming out issue,
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by toxican 7y ago
RP servers are a blast. Even if you don't RP, the RP community makes for a much friendlier and livelier server than non-RP ones do, imo. But do try RP! It's a lot of fun and very challenging at times.
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by toxican 7y ago
I'm really excited to play Classic and I'm worried about this. Everyone talks about how difficult Vanilla was, but there was also substantially less well-organized information about min/maxxing, boss fights, strategies, etc.
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by toxican 7y ago
Right because destroying small town businesses, unethical employee treatment, etc. didn't push folks away, but a fire at a walmart somewhere in the country will.
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by toxican 7y ago
Seems pretentious as hell, to be honest.
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by toxican 7y ago
I'm inclined to agree with Lewis over Pegg here. There is no reality where all adults set aside all "trivial" things to focus entirely on social issues, injustices, etc. That's just not how the world works. People can do
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by toxican 7y ago
Ha, that's a good point. I never could really get into using RSS feeds for whatever reason. It's possible I'd lose interest in this approach to media consumption for similar reason (whatever they are).
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by toxican 7y ago
> You mean like a browser? I can see this being a nice alternative to a few browser options for checking the latest across multiple sites. Pinned tabs, "Open All" bookmark folder, loose tabs, etc. Not ideal, imo, so having them
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by toxican 7y ago
It's built on Electron and still no native Linux client. There's a web version, but you can't join meetings or screenshare. There are 3rd party wrappers for the web version that enable meetings, but you still can't scr
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by toxican 7y ago
I just want to know who thought it was a good idea to return results with zero context around them and no way to jump to that point in a conversation. Right now the best you can do is search to find a date, then scroll up until you hit that
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by toxican 8y ago
I suppose you could point a webcam at the whiteboard, although there are a lot of options out there for online collaboration. We use MS stuff at work and multiple people can live-edit Word, One Note, etc. docs for example.
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by toxican 8y ago
While I wouldn't put it past Google to do something nefarious to make this happen, I have noticed they like to take super bleeding edge features and run with them before they're standard, simply because they can. Could be the resu
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by toxican 8y ago
I struggle to think of a less applicable situation for that quote.
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by toxican 8y ago
Of course it is. It didn't go away because you don't use it.

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