tpxl

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by tpxl 3y ago
> What sort of inflation would take it from 2700 to 37,000 since 1987? 7.5%. Doesn't seem that unbelievable.
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by tpxl 3y ago
Netflix has successfully driven me back to piracy. Their catalog is shit, they have only one part of a lot of trilogies, Harry Potter keeps disappearing and their UI is so full of bugs I wonder if anyone working at Netflix actually uses it.
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by tpxl 3y ago
Some games do run benchmarks to figure out recommended settings for your setup.
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by tpxl 3y ago
As far as I'm concerned if you 'bought' something, it should be yours to do as you please, including reselling and destroying it. If you didn't buy something, but rented it - for example a game on Steam or Epic Games sto
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by tpxl 4y ago
> I know that I've not purchased many games that I otherwise would have I, on the other hand, never purchase a game without watching gameplay footage, and have bought games I've watched people play, that I ended up never playi
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by tpxl 4y ago
Parent was being facetious.
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by tpxl 4y ago
Paying for something means you have money. People with money make more valuable ad targets.
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by tpxl 4y ago
The vast majority of Java is open source (Open JDK). You can get builds from Amazon (coretto), Microsoft, Red Hat, SAP, ... that do not stupid licensing requirements of Oracle.
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by tpxl 4y ago
You can use jlink to create a custom runtime you can distribute with your application, so that your users don't need to download a JRE/JDK. You'll still need to run this with the java command. You can use also jpackage to cre
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by tpxl 4y ago
You'd think so, but people fail to do so often.
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by tpxl 4y ago
Good point. Satisfying your cravings, like you have done, seems to be positive, just replacing sugar with zero calorie replacements seems to be a bad strategy though. I have a friend who drinks about 10 liters of 'sugar-free' fizz
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by tpxl 4y ago
On top of fiber, it's just easier to drink than to eat. Mulching 3 whole oranges and drinking them (fiber and all) is still a lot easier than chewing through them. Also, it takes a bit for the fiber filling you up signal to get to the
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by tpxl 4y ago
I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or you said 'AWS' and 'Microsoft 360' and meant cloud and managed email. > What kind of alternatives do you use for your email, browser, centralised data storage, etc
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by tpxl 4y ago
My take on fake sugar is, if you use it for weight loss, you've messed up. You'll still crave sugary stuff, and when you don't have fake sugar handy, you'll eat the real thing (in restaurants, etc.). On the other hand, i
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by tpxl 4y ago
> giant tech companies that can afford to comply Where does this sentiment come from? Cost of compliance for Facebook is many orders of magnitude higher than cost of compliance for a website for your hairdresser or a restaurant. In my st
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by tpxl 4y ago
Nice bit of FUD you got there. You can use Google Search and be 100% compliant, because Google doesn't see any customer data. Google chrome isn't even a service, I can't imagine how you'd manage to stick customer data in
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by tpxl 4y ago
What about the people who hide their poor performance by being in the office? You can easily do 'water cooler conversation' for 6 hours a day if you can't be bothered to work, which doesn't fly when you work from home. A
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by tpxl 4y ago
Afaik, a lot of modern AAA dialogue gets re-recorded in the studio these days, and is then mixed to be inaudible in post because fuck us I guess.
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by tpxl 4y ago
Part of the problem with modern movies is they're designed for surround sound 5.1 systems or similar. In those systems, the middle front channel is generally used for dialogue, but that channel often gets entirely dropped when remixing
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by tpxl 4y ago
Yes, where I live, the banks are intentionally leaving the homes vacant. After the shit hit the fan in 2008/2009, the government bailed out a bunch of banks and acquired a bunch of houses in the process. Those houses have been slowly l
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by tpxl 4y ago
The fucking entitlement to call someone not a team-player for going home to sleep.
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by tpxl 4y ago
Google Play Services, not Global Positioning System.
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by tpxl 4y ago
The last content patch (that wasn't Halloween) was in 2017. They're planning a new content patch for this summer/autumn, and I'm cautiously optimistic they'll increase moderation prior to the patch to increase playe
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by tpxl 4y ago
When your kid leaves high school at 18, 2/3 of their life will have been hell to endure. Yeah, no thanks.
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by tpxl 4y ago
You can detect whether a script is being piped to shell or just downloaded, and serve different content. At least pipe it to a file, then execute that file.
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by tpxl 4y ago
This is called price dumping. First time I've heard of any action being taken to prevent it though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
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by tpxl 4y ago
I have been given a 'you need an official USB-C - 3.5mm jack adapter' warning by a non-apple brand. So yeah, this is happening.
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by tpxl 4y ago
Every single freedom ever has restricted the 'counterfreedom'. Freedom from slavery restricts your 'freedom' to keep slaves, freedom to live restricts your 'freedom' to kill, and so forth. Perhaps I should have
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by tpxl 4y ago
What do you mean by 'shoving podcasts down my throat'? I pay for Spotify and I had trouble finding the podcasts in the app, and it doesn't recommend either. I'm from Europe though, maybe that explains it?
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by tpxl 4y ago
Using IPs to protect from abuse has been debated to death and is considered legitimate use.

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