beirut_bootleg

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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
I can see now how that line can give the wrong impression. My unit is very dear to me, to the point where I call it by name like any other housemate. It's always "honey, I'll give Bob a go at these dishes". I guess I was
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
https://daan.tech/discover-bob-cassette/ Scroll down to FAQ, and expand the first question: Is the use of a Bob cassette mandatory? LE: It's also mentioned in the rewind project's README. > Credit where cr
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
Every time this gets posted to HN, the comments go straight for "DRM bad!", when the Bob dishwasher does NOT in fact require you to use the proprietary cassettes.
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
Permit me to disagree with about all of your conclusions here. First of all, the cassettes are returnable. This is also mentioned on their website. * https://daan.tech/discover-bob-cassette/ > Each Bob cassette is r
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
Chrome comes bundled with Android.
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
> (e.g. weird for-profit entity that runs a "non-profit") propped up by its largest competitor to avoid anti-trust accusations. Not totally unheard of. Sounds a bit like OpenAI for the most part. > Its only real product has
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
Now we're getting somewhere. The taboo is when you start accounting for christofascist families churning out children like it's a Factorio assembly line so that there are always more of "us" then there are of "them&
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
There's a huge gap between the two, one in which a variety of hardware and software could live as alternatives. Where are they though?
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
And we can now translate their warnings about the incoming extinction level CME and save Atlantis. These are exciting times
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
I'm not sure when Slovakia entered the chat, but I was responding to the parent's question of how could the workers (in Sweden) be prohibited from deciding whether to strike, and was trying to make a point that US commenters go by
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
By living and working in the U.S.. Most commenters here are wrongly assuming workers in Sweden have as little rights as they do, and probably just as exploited as well.
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
There's a more insidious side effect to prettier related to the line length thing which I'm not sure other commenters touched upon, and the reason I avoid opinionated formatters. Prettier will affect your diff in ways you didn&#x2
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
> I dislike the attitude of those who reject ads but also refuse to pay And I dislike YouTube's hostile ad escalation in recent years. One ad - fine, two ads - hmmm, three ads - what the hell. Unskippable ads. Inappropriate ads. Lou
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
I thought this was going to be another instance of that time Bard pre-membered its own demise from lack of adoption.
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
Your theory is assuming I'm using more toilet paper than usual, or that my budget for toilet paper has increased in the past 2 years, which is just patently ridiculous. No, this is not a joke. I wipe the same as pre 2020. I had a coupl
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
"sick" is right. A healthy market should be fine, but we have generations upon generations of chief money maker officers each trying to make line go up in the small window of time they're with the company. Repeat this enough
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
There will come a moment in time when consumer wealth has been almost entirely absorbed, leaving businesses with no further profit to gain from traditional revenue streams. After years of relentless pursuit of profit, multinational corporat
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
It scrapes that % every trade, every millisecond, thousands of times over. That adds up, and all that money has to come from somewhere.
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by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
Above Pinterest even?!
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by beirut_bootleg 4y ago
"It works" is the most common metric I've seen juniors decide when to submit code (the rest being just trash). Add code review to that and expect it to get merged because "it works"? Not sure the problem is with the
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by beirut_bootleg 4y ago
I've tried this with zip bombs, but I can't tell how well it worked out.
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by beirut_bootleg 4y ago
You're not the only one. Quite a shock to find something so opposed to what I expected. Gemini the simple web-like protocol vs. whatever this buttcoin dumpster fire is. All I wanted was to see the discussion around Project Gemini and d
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by beirut_bootleg 4y ago
A personal anecdote: Our video player has a specific use case where it needs to run at 10x speed. At some point we started seeing decoder underflow issues in Chrome. After banging my head against it for a couple of days, I discovered that s
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by beirut_bootleg 5y ago
I'll take 1. Imagine the FOMO when someone tells you a child made more money that you ever could in your entire life. This is textbook NFT hype.
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by beirut_bootleg 5y ago
Yes, please do! And go ahead and use that energy to power your every day needs: lighting, cooking, heating and entertainment. Now tell me which of those categories Bitcoin falls under. Solar energy may be virtually infinite, but solar panel
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by beirut_bootleg 5y ago
I remember iepngfix.htc. Glad that whole thing's over.
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Was Google Earth Stolen?(avibarzeev.medium.com)
400 points by beirut_bootleg 5y ago|134 comments
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It's time to rethink how we report election results(source.opennews.org)
1 points by beirut_bootleg 5y ago|0 comments
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by beirut_bootleg 5y ago
Saw those ROMs in my Romanian clone called Cobra (Computers Brașov). Young me was fascinated by the way they were encased in some sort of clear epoxy instead of black ceramic. You can read more about the clone here: https://arste
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by beirut_bootleg 5y ago
To be fair he never used the word "useless". That's the title submitted by the person who uploaded that. There could be a bit of confirmation bias here. It's as easy for someone with little trust in their government to p

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