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by tpxl 5y ago
IIRC the developer said when he's done he is not going to transfer ownership. It's open source so it can live on, but not under the same name.
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by tpxl 5y ago
There is a lot of confusion going around in this thread regarding the difference between "uBlock" and "uBlock origin" with many people not even realizing there is a difference. As far as uBlock Origin goes, it's one
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by tpxl 5y ago
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but wasn't uBlock handed over (changed owners? don't quite know how to put it) and uBlock origin started later precisely because uBlock breached the trust of their users?
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by tpxl 5y ago
We have a heat pump from ~2008 about a meter away from the outer wall of the house and I don't recall ever hearing it from the inside. You'll hear it from a few meters on the outside, but it has never been a problem. It's abl
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by tpxl 5y ago
If you're lucky and the exception happens in your code directly. If not you're gonna have about 30 lines of interceptors and generators and whatnot before you get to your class. If you call ClassA::foo from ClassB::bar you'll
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by tpxl 5y ago
Afaik there are some species of birds that rely on mosquitoes for most of their diet.
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by tpxl 5y ago
GP said they couldn't raise wages compared to new hires, so they couldn't raise wages of experienced staff relative to new staff, leading to experienced staff being underpaid.
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by tpxl 5y ago
Salary changes come with a new contract IME (unless the changes are in the bonus compensation). You can't force someone to sign a new contract (you can probably make them a sign or leave offer, but you can't make them sign) so you
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by tpxl 5y ago
Pray tell, what are good reasons to underpay experienced staff compared to new staff?
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by tpxl 5y ago
They have, then came Epic Games store and we're back to exclusives. If you want a really good example of where video games got it wrong in recent years: Metro Exodus was sold as a "pre-purchase" on Steam before it released fo
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by tpxl 5y ago
Nit > the right to set up useful bots Discord allows bots. They probably can't do _everything_, but there are useful bots and even bridges for IRC (and probably others).
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by tpxl 5y ago
I will echo this experience. An example of an email that made it through from a gmail.com account (abbreviated, it also contained links to some apps (the main purpose I assume) and much more text): شهر مجاني عند الاشتراك السنوي $ الأسئلة ال
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by tpxl 5y ago
> Lane keeping assist I've had lane assist try to slam me into a divider on a highway repeatedly. That definitely falls under the buggy part of the car.
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by tpxl 5y ago
> I don't trust that I wouldn't accidentally say something that triggers it to phone a person I'm talking about Someone set their name on Xbox live to something like "XBox turn off" then got people to read his na
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by tpxl 5y ago
He sold/handed over 'uBlock'. The new owner was malicious. Gorhill learned from his mistakes, started uBlock origin and decided he'll rather let an extension die than hand it over the next time.
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by tpxl 5y ago
Didn't someone then implement a terminal emulator with colors, unicode support, fonts etc and it wasn't a doctoral research project?
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by tpxl 5y ago
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you completely. There's nothing to be done in this case since the hackers are anonymous, but alas, noone seems to care.
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by tpxl 5y ago
> This is going to turn out to be important the first time a DAO gets significantly scammed Badger DAO got scammed for 120 million USD last week and I doubt they were the first.
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by tpxl 5y ago
> Where are the regulations, audits and security checks for this thing? Missing by design. It is telling that a currency dubbed "USD tether" which (let's pretend) is backed by USD 1:1 magically excuses you from all regulat
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by tpxl 5y ago
Thanks!
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by tpxl 5y ago
What's the problem with that? Terraria has been on sales for 2$ for ages now, that doesn't mean it isn't a bargain to buy at that price instead of 10 or 12 that it is regularly.
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by tpxl 5y ago
We used moodle in uni cca 10 years ago and it worked fine. Did online quizzes/exams, homework submission, forums, lecture notes, ...
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by tpxl 5y ago
They haven't lost meaning, you can still wait a bit to get your game cheaper. It does usually follow a pattern of: opening sale 10%, full price for a bit, seasonal sales 10-50%, eventually up to 90% off during seasonal sales.
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by tpxl 5y ago
Used to work on an application that mostly did string manipulation and we couldn't upgrade it from 8 to 9 (or 11). Java 9 got compact strings (8 bits instead of 16 per character) if you used only a subset of UTF-16 (the LATIN-1 charset
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by tpxl 5y ago
> Clock speeds have remained fairly constant and gains are solely in more cores. Instructions per clock have risen steadily, even though the frequency stays the same. About doubled since 2011 according to cinebench[0]. That being said, I
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by tpxl 5y ago
> Where the numbers keep growing is in its number of active SmartCast accounts, which are now over 14 million, and how much money it makes from each user on average. That number has nearly doubled from last year, going from $10.44 to $19
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by tpxl 5y ago
Unlocking _your_ device willingly and unlocking someone else's device against their will are two completely different things.
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by tpxl 5y ago
> But my point was that many of these decisions are made not because of evil approach to making more money, but because of very practical and down-to-earth things. You make these decisions for these reasons, and others do it so they can
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by tpxl 5y ago
That depends, if the subscription is until canceled, then yes, it's a lifetime term.
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by tpxl 5y ago
Something with a high spread on the market (ie SP500/SP100/FTSE) will generally give you good returns over time. The trick is to be consistent, not micromanaging and not worrying. It took 5 years for sp500 to catch up to pre-2008

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