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wolrah
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> You also need to decriminalize heroin, meth, and crack cocaine among others before feds would start looking for more work Cops specifically love weed being illegal because they can "smell weed" and use that as a justification
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5y ago
> Not to take from your argument but my retired in law just bought top speced M1 Max for 5k or so. He is using it for light browsing so total overkill but his argument was that buying highest package Audi was way more expensive compared
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5y ago
> your historical observations are irrelevant for FSD beta. It's a new system 1. I find it very unlikely that Tesla completely scrapped the previous system to start from scratch for the FSD beta. 2. If they had, that would make me e
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5y ago
I am also from a rural area, I've spent the better part of the last two decades driving through farmland on roads with no posted limit to get to anywhere. The legal speed limit on such roads is 45 MPH but for the most part on the flat
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5y ago
Bingo. This is why we have things like the 85th percentile rule. There is no such thing as a road with a speeding problem, just a road that is designed for and thus encourages higher speeds than the posted limit. When that happens, you hav
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5y ago
> where it successfully navigates the most dangerous road in America Twistiest, maybe. Most dangerous, not even close unless you or someone driving towards you do something dumb. Historically Autopilot's weak spots have been crappy
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5y ago
The theoretical dividing line (I don't think this has ever gone to court) is whether the plugin interface is specific to the GPL application. The prevailing view is that if a GPL application is just implementing a pre-existing plugin A
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5y ago
The GPL itself offers no such option, but if the copyright holder(s) choose to they may offer whatever alternatives they choose. Many significant open source applications are offered under this model such as MySQL. The catch is that the mo
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5y ago
> Eh, aside from making java and bedrock incompatible The "Minecraft Pocket Edition" (MCPE) code that became Bedrock predates Microsoft's involvement by over three years. Bedrock is actually Microsoft's effort to uni
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5y ago
Microsoft kinda tried: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/11/22430807/microsoft-xbox-s... I got mine through this program. I don't know if it's still running or how long it ran for, but it was a
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5y ago
It's been changed again. You should probably modify the demo deployment to prevent password changes, as well as revert the system to a known good state every so often to undo whatever nonsense has been done to it.
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5y ago
> If you’re looking for a generic LCD it’s probably fine, but if you’re comparing to an LG OLED you won’t find an ad free option in the commercial market. At least I couldn’t back when I tried. https://www.lg.com/global&#
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5y ago
> Buying original equipment is very expensive. But emulators are abound. A middle ground would be for me to play those with original controllers. For NES/SNES? Absolutely trivial. Those controllers are literally just one (NES) or
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5y ago
MSP for a bunch of dental offices here. The number of times I've xrayed my car key fob or cell phone when testing out the digital xray sensors after a new PC install at a client site can't even be counted. If they have a digital x
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5y ago
While you're not wrong, the GPU situation makes maintaining a gaming PC harder, starting from scratch is actually easier than not these days because you can get better deals on prebuilts with modern GPUs.
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wolrah
5y ago
Starting with your questions: > Do you enjoy gaming on an iPad? Generally no, unless I'm playing a game for which a touch screen provides a good interface. Board/card games are great. "God view" games can be done we
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5y ago
> Basically. Imagine having to pay $10 to register a 4chan or reddit account and being banned for silly and ridiculous rule infractions but then being allowed back on if you registered another account("10bux"). Flip side, the p
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5y ago
AFAIK the same has worked in Halo: MCC for as long as that's been available on PC. I've certainly been cross-playing my replay of the campaigns, rotating between PC, Xbox One, and XSX based on whatever I'm in front of at the
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> Do people still have LAN parties? I averaged one or two a year through the 2010s, but my last one was in early 2020 for obvious reasons. While most games can be played over the internet these days and voice/video chat is now acces
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5y ago
> If you dress up for the opera, take a look at your clothes - almost every aspect will be some “fake aesthetic” that has become standard. I agree wholeheartedly and find the idea of dressing up a specific way for anything but practical&
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5y ago
> That won't get the top 10 Steam games running on MacOS. Top 10 Steam games according to https://store.steampowered.com/stats/ * New World - Amazon Lumberyard * Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Source * Dota
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5y ago
> iPhone games are an entire different beast however, and likely not what people “want”. Most of those mobile games you're thinking of are made with Unity, Unreal, or one of a few other general purpose game engines. Those same engi
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5y ago
RAM is something where you either have enough or you don't. When you have enough, adding more doesn't really get you anything. When you don't have enough, performance tanks. The integrated nature of the M1 Macs gives them a
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The major factor Apple has working in their favor with regards to the future of gaming on Macs is iOS. Any game or game engine that wants to support iPhone or iPad devices is going to be most of the way to supporting ARM Macs for "fre
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Right, but it does help them keep videos from being spread as easily if they get taken down. It sure does seem like the only reason cops ever get punished is public pressure, which relies on people seeing the video.
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5y ago
> Glass cockpit upgrades are very popular. For example, an Evolution E5 is $5k to $10k depending on the model. You can remove your vacuum system at that point. There's nothing stopping anyone from upgrading, aside from the cost. To
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> as long as one can show proof of vaccination (necessary if you want to go to the restaurants, cinemas and museums). This is the key point. If we had widespread implementation of similar restrictions we'd be around the same. Unfo
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Correct, and certificate transparency exists pretty much specifically to counter this threat. By requiring certificates to be publicly logged to be valid it becomes trivial for domain owners to monitor all publicly valid certificates in exi
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5y ago
There's also a weird thing with computers where people are a lot less willing to think a problem through. If you put someone in an unfamiliar car and ask them to drive it somewhere, the most trouble they're likely to have is if th
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5y ago
> Interesting… so it would not simply connect another device using dhcp? Most devices didn't support ethernet over HDMI, and it was not something that could be passively supported. > I never needed to use it and I’m not sure what
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