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by zac23or 4y ago
Question for anyone inside the chess world: is chess now the same as ciclism, in terms of cheating?
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by zac23or 4y ago
It's nothing, it's a Pr text.
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by zac23or 4y ago
All electric airplane designs today appear to be frauds (like all crypto currency projects), because no one airplane project answers the most important problem: battery power density.
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by zac23or 4y ago
I love Qt, technology-wise. But the business model... Distribution Licenses? Come on!
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by zac23or 4y ago
I have Edge, Firefox and Chrome installed. Firefox, on my machine is slow as hell. Edge freezes or is super slow on some sites like Youtube. For a few years, I will need to use Chrome.
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by zac23or 4y ago
Do TOS protect Amazon from false advertising? Fantastic. It opens up a new way to deceive consumers.
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by zac23or 4y ago
So Amazon needs to change the button to "rent". Without the change, it is at the very least false advertising. In the end, big companies can distort the words and etc, But theft is theft, it is very clear that it is theft.
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by zac23or 4y ago
On the website the button does not say "rent", but "buy". That's theft. The theft pure and simple, ancient, which has been around forever. Nothing new. If you SOLD something and somehow REMOVE it or the ability to u
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by zac23or 4y ago
I see some people defending Apple. Bizarre. The support Apple has in the most absurd decisions led me to classify it as a religion, not a company. Apple is a trillion dollar company with over 154,000 employees. Apple has the resources to ke
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Kyiv’s western allies boost nuclear deterrence after Putin’s threats(ft.com)
10 points by zac23or 4y ago|4 comments
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by zac23or 4y ago
Someday, someone will be killed because of it. And Hertz will respond like the surprised Pikachu meme. People's lives are nothing to corporations.
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by zac23or 4y ago
The most dificult thing to believe is the Ms Teams working without problem. "The Linux works in a 11 year old ThinkPad, so it works easily in any computer" is a quantum jump to conclusion.
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by zac23or 4y ago
> When it doesn't gets in the way, yes How? My problem with Windows and basically all modern UIs on all operating systems is that we are in the dark age of UI. Everything is gamified, unnecessarily complex, slow...Windows is especia
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by zac23or 4y ago
Of course, there are technical reasons not to use Windows. But it's not the norm. > Your comment assumes that political reasons are somehow less important than technical ones. This is not true. If politics is important to you, good
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by zac23or 4y ago
>I'll give you a technical reason: the Windows API isn't POSIX Is not POSIX is a technical reason? I have more problems between Linux distributions than between Linux/Windows when it comes to programming. > If you'
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by zac23or 4y ago
How does Rings of Power have a budget of 465 million? I don't really understand these production budgets. I would love to understand this, if anyone has any spreadsheets or article explaining this, thank you.
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by zac23or 4y ago
I'm a developer. I use Windows to program in Java, Delphi with SQLServer or SQLite. Git works great on Windows. I use WSL for Ruby, Python, Go with Postgres/Mysql. I don't dual boot Linux because 100% of the time linux automa
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by zac23or 4y ago
Windows is a very good operating system. Windows haters don't hate for technical reasons, but for religious or political reasons. And I like Microsoft. Microsoft makes some products, that's it. Not experiences, or promises of free
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Expected new features in OracleDatabase 23c: Boolean data type, GROUP BY alias(twitter.com)
1 points by zac23or 4y ago|0 comments
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by zac23or 4y ago
Only someone on the development team has the answer. But it's normal for MS to rush with a product, only to get better after years. I remember that IE only gets good after IE 4, and SQLServer only after some versions too.
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by zac23or 4y ago
> I think it's important to remember that it's hard out there these days. A life of crime may not be the only option available, but it becomes more and more appealing as access to education or training gets more difficult to af
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by zac23or 4y ago
Beauty and money are life's lubricants. In my experience, beautiful people of both sexes are no more dumb than ugly people. They basically need to put less effort into everything in life, so they don't need to know much. The woman
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My office got us turtles to take care of and bring home on weekends(askamanager.org)
2 points by zac23or 4y ago|0 comments
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My employee refuses to lie to customers – but that’s our policy(askamanager.org)
28 points by zac23or 4y ago|12 comments
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by zac23or 4y ago
$20B? It is fear that gives wings to men... And opens the pockets of companies.
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by zac23or 4y ago
Avast - a famous and trustworthy IT company. You can call Avast many things, but a "trustworthy IT company." is not one of those things.
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by zac23or 4y ago
I've never worked for Google, but in every company I've worked for, when productivity was considered low or something, developers and designers weren't to blame for the low productivity. 1. We had 26 teams and 16 meeting room
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by zac23or 4y ago
> Don't estimate I agree. But in my experience, the real problem is out of the developers' hands: 1. On a project, my team worked hard not to miss any deadlines. it worked, but the project was delayed for other reasons, and the
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by zac23or 4y ago
USB: Universal Serius Bulshit. HDMI is crazy too. A lot of governmental regulamentations are generated by these craziness.
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by zac23or 4y ago
> At Firefighters, firefighting is our top priority. We recently discovered that our base of operations caught fire and, as the fire hydrants and fire extinguishers did not work, it was incinerated. An absurd, insane message.

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