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by wmil 3y ago
What's really annoying is when you turn on the CC subtitles and someone speaks a foreign language. The on screen subtitle gets covered with an unhelpful "[speaking Japanese]"
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by wmil 3y ago
One interesting difference is that in the TV show Luffy has a friendly smile on most of the time. In the anime Luffy runs around with a wide eyed unblinking psychopathic stare.
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by wmil 3y ago
It's a warm show about people who care about each other where the drama comes from social misunderstandings. The initial pilot featured a more conniving Penny played by a different actress. The focus group feedback was "Someone ke
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by wmil 3y ago
JavaScript seems like the obvious one. Isn't this just a lexical closure? It's common in scripting languages. https://wiki.c2.com/?LexicalClosure
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by wmil 3y ago
"This story was written by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education." I'm sure The Hechinger Report wants to promote the i
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by wmil 3y ago
Come on, give us some screenshots and a Youtube video.
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by wmil 3y ago
What are the actual performance characteristics of the vCPUs? I had a farily awful experience at my last job... My 4 cpu virtual desktop was virtualbox emulating a xeon form 2010 w/16gb of RAM. Loaded with monitoring software. Barely u
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by wmil 3y ago
The overlap between CSS tricks and tile based graphics tricks in underapreciated.
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by wmil 3y ago
I think it's one of those cases where the lines are unclear because this kind of IP issue has never been fully litigated. IP owners like to take an expansive view of IP rights, but they are likely to loose on some issues in court. Fira
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by wmil 3y ago
I also get them confused with Blackwater.
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by wmil 3y ago
The early VGA chipsets were very slow. They also didn't have any of the sprite & tile features that Amigas had. On a generic 286 you could swap out the stock ISA VGA video card for a Diamond SpeedStar and the improvement was crazy.
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by wmil 3y ago
You're supposed to let your car idle for 30 seconds after startup to let the engine lubricate. It's more important in cold climates. So delayed startups aren't some new issue.
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by wmil 3y ago
> It is worth noting that the DOJ defines perjury as a declarant “willfully” making a false statement, that the declarant believed that what they were saying was untrue, and that the statement was related to a material fact. Misrememberi
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by wmil 3y ago
I think I've been hearing that ATI/AMD drivers are about to catch up with nVidia for 20 years.
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by wmil 3y ago
Trains are more vulnerable because they will always have long unguarded sections of track. A train without breaks isn't really comparable because the planes can break using thrusters. I don't believe that you can engine break on a
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by wmil 3y ago
Plenty of software and workflows chew up a lot of screen real estate. 13" isn't enough for how a lot of people like to work.
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by wmil 3y ago
I think it invented two words... https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/A3pj niveescent (of a lens) producing a nive
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by wmil 3y ago
Doom shipped with a feature to launch with external wad (patch wad) files from the command line that could replace maps and textures. There's no reason to ship that apart from modding.
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by wmil 4y ago
Now we can all look forward to the day when websites refuse to load because they want camera permissions for fake depth, shiny buttons, and other random visual effects. Also they'll analyze your face and send it to the ad tracking agen
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by wmil 4y ago
There are fewer checks on the immigration status of construction workers than you seem to think.
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by wmil 4y ago
There's no reason they would be excluded. They are getting paid so they'd show up on the books.
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by wmil 4y ago
Determining status of copyrights and ownership for movies produced under soviet block communist governments is going to open up thorny legal questions. Who would even own the copyright? The government? The director? Are they public domain?
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by wmil 4y ago
The judge wanted to make headlines with a massive bail demand, but was willing to agree to a reasonable deal.
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by wmil 4y ago
But it's not about his wealth, it's about his political connections. If he was a wealthy donor to Trump in an identical case he'd be rotting in Rikers with no hope of bail.
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by wmil 4y ago
The reality is that SBF is getting the kid glove treatment because of his connections. Posters here are merely pointing that out.
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by wmil 4y ago
To a certain degree that's inevitable. Wealth buys comfort. Constitutionally the purpose of bail is to ensure they don't flee and aren't a danger to the community while they await trial. It's not supposed to be a punishm
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by wmil 4y ago
> I was not expecting "making up new rules" and banning ex post facto. That's been standard practice at Twitter for a few years now.
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by wmil 4y ago
I think the cocktail of designer stimulants he took every day had some effect on it.
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by wmil 4y ago
Twitter had a lot of people in marketing.
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by wmil 4y ago
Ontario retail alcohol sales are heavily regulated. The LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) has exclusive rights to import wine and only sells that wine at its retail stores. They reserve a big section of their stores for Ontario wines.

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