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by xtracto 3y ago
I remember enjoying a later version of lemmings called lemmings tower or something similar. It was pretty cool.
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by xtracto 3y ago
What I want is an AI trained to simulate the human body, allowing scientists to perform artificial human trials on all kind of medicines. Cutting trial times from years to months.
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by xtracto 3y ago
I found it amusing that just yesterday the Federal Comission for Competition (COFECE) in Mexico, gave a ruling to Amazon and one of its competitors Mercadolibre that they have to "unbundle" their video/streaming offerings fr
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by xtracto 3y ago
I use stremio with some torrent plugin. I've read about debrid , but don't really get it's advantage. Is it mainly to avoid being identified as torrenting by authorities? So if i live in a torrent friendly country it does
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by xtracto 3y ago
DatDog is a freaking beast. NY wife works in workday (a huge employee management system) and they have a very large number of tutorials, videos, "working hours" and other tools to ensure their customers are making the best use of
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by xtracto 3y ago
I cant wait for the bittorrent "pirate" models without censoring or strings attached.
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by xtracto 3y ago
Aaah, more and more the /r/drmgraveyard subreddit gets populated... https://www.reddit.com/r/drmgraveyard/comments/1amdv5q/sony_...
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by xtracto 3y ago
This snippet is amazing and hilarious at the same time: >The game has changed. In 1977 this business was fun—the sellers and buyers were hotshot techies like ourselves, everybody spoke the same language and knew what was going on, and te
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by xtracto 3y ago
I cannot share the full book because a) I don't own the copyright and b) My dad (who ultimately owns it) still has plans to put sell it. And I feel it still requires some editing. But I can share a couple of sample pages: https:/
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by xtracto 3y ago
I lost the distal phalanx of my thumb in my left hand when I was a kid (6 y old). I've lived my whole life without it and have had gone through the full "stages of grief" rainbow and obligatory bullying in school. Now I am 40
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by xtracto 3y ago
I helped "writing" a cookbook from my grandmother's recipes. For her 100th birthday, my dad rescued more than 250+ pages of recipes that my Grandma had collected over the years. Some were written in typing machine, others wri
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by xtracto 3y ago
Similarly for me with an old movie called Miracle Mile. I wanted to watch it and searched through the 6 paid services I have ... none of them had it in my country, not even for "rental" . I've got the income, and I'd gl
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by xtracto 3y ago
There's an app called Stremio that just blows any "official" app away. The app is not for piracy per-se, but it's easy to turn it into a full fledged PopcornTime version that works.
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by xtracto 3y ago
The technical side has been solved for 15+ years. It's a licensing/rights issue what is screwing with the video experience. FWIW Netflix should go back to providing physical content rental (DVD, blueray) with full catalog. Or some
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by xtracto 3y ago
People LOVE to be outraged. I don't use jetbrain products at all, and find these outrage reactions hilarious. There's a whatsapp group where neighbors of my gated community chat, about current issues in the community. Realistical
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by xtracto 3y ago
Darn, I've completely forgot about coral cache. From the /. times. I remember it being slow but super useful.
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by xtracto 3y ago
That was my experience when I visited to California when traveling to the USA. I remember a nice town called Santa Cruz, with really nice parks in Google Maps, but once I took a walk in one of them an it was super scary, full of tents and h
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by xtracto 3y ago
It happened to me and my team like 10 years ago or so: An engineer deleted the production database. We were able to recover it. But the postmortem basically focused on why the he heck did we let that happen. The guy stayed in the company f
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by xtracto 3y ago
Or just dont use Apple. People make it a huge deal , but they can just vote with their wallet. Apple will continue their anticompetitive a d abusive tactics als long as the market tells them that its OK (with their spending).
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by xtracto 3y ago
It just occurred to me that it may have something to do with the "crystal generation" thing: young people today are less tolerant and unwilling to compromise. My wife is quite "conservative " with right leaning values (f
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by xtracto 3y ago
Any human written text (commit messages, code comments, Merge Request messages, etc) that explain WHAT is done are useless. They are basically a GPT bash command away : `git diff | aichat "summarize and explain these git diff chang
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by xtracto 3y ago
Imagine if Dell, HP and Lenovo made some kind of Personal Computing alliance and put some good millions to make Linux Mint work flawlessly in all of their computers. No frills, no .conf edit, just install the "certified mint" and
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by xtracto 3y ago
Well... if you actually read the article instead of just the header, you would learn the reason for the need of a portable version.
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by xtracto 3y ago
So, what happens if I have shares in there from a previous company? Would my account be automatically migrated to the new provider? Do I have to contact the company ? :(
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by xtracto 3y ago
Or https://www.trueup.io/layoffs They don't seem as bad as last year around the same months.
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by xtracto 3y ago
These conversations are always interesting in these type of US-centric forums: You can really see the "patriotism" that emanates from these conversations: China BAD, US Good and exactly what you mention: Free for me but not for
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by xtracto 3y ago
This, I think this IS the real problem. In a capitalist society, there are markets that need to be heavily regulated. Health is one of them and aviation is another. Private companies are going to do what they are supposed to do: Maximize
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by xtracto 3y ago
You are not kidding haha, I saw the article and immediately thought the same. I use a Dell Latitude as my work computer and run it with Linux (Mint). It is a constant struggle between battery life, sleep states (lack of), camera not workin
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by xtracto 3y ago
This is amazing. Definitely will use it. Thanks for sharing
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by xtracto 3y ago
I followed it too. It's a crazy feeling: one of my favorite teachers from University (A PhD in AI at the time backbin 2001) is nowadays in prison for murder . Apparently he is gay and slept with a student, got drunk and passion got

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