darklajid

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by darklajid 7y ago
Another one from Singapore. I agree that the official reaction seems well handled! (Not that there wasn't a slight panic and crazy hoarding stories and there certainly are flaws in company/building management policies, but .. that
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by darklajid 7y ago
Similar/same experience here: Friends are in Europe, I'm in SEA / Singapore. We randomly have the robot voice or people cutting out and then start the 'switch region' dance. Which might fix the problem for a while,
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by darklajid 7y ago
Duplicate a couple days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22055145
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by darklajid 7y ago
I was tinkering with it recently. My problem was .. support. After a lot of double-checking on my part, I was finally convinced that Cloud Run messed things up (in my case: A Content-Type header was changed from ThingsISend to text/htm
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by darklajid 7y ago
Sometimes Names and occupations are a weird (and amusing) mismatch. Lester Freundlich - the name literally meaning 'Friendly' in German - having to be the ~bad guy~ in this context, going after a private person selling some map on
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by darklajid 7y ago
Obviously this is all opinionated and YMMV etc. > Facebook in comparison never had strangers piling on me telling me I am worthless and invalid based on my race and gender. Uhm.. That seems to be just as prevalent on FB (or anywhere onli
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by darklajid 7y ago
This is a signed die and has to have -1 on it somewhere..
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by darklajid 7y ago
I have a 3700x system (but running Windows) at home. Check with the motherboard vendor first? My board¹ has received three or four updates since I got it (which .. is an entirely different can of worms and doesn't exactly inspire confi
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by darklajid 7y ago
> Perhaps you should, so you can be more informed on a position before posting opinions such as this. As evidenced by the above, you don't actually know what this protest is about, yet are trying to create comparisons that will misl
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by darklajid 7y ago
> Well I am sorry for the people who live in that country. And this, Hacker News, is why it's hard to argue on English platforms / on mostly American sites. This poster, in a single reply, just showed extreme arrogance, perceiv
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by darklajid 7y ago
I think you gave me the most pause in this argument so far. I do think punishing the player itself, even in the original 12 months / 10k way before they relented, was .. acceptable? Linking to my earlier comparison with professional at
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by darklajid 7y ago
> We can't know for sure from the outside, but context suggests 2 is more likely. Can't it be .. both? And if we at least somewhat agree that this had to have consequences, why .. does it matter? > For years American enterta
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by darklajid 7y ago
> Context #1: there has been a years-long trend for Western entertainment media (movies, games) to cater to the Chinese market. This ranges from voluntary censorship that seems odd in the West (no skeletons?) to more sensitive topics lik
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by darklajid 7y ago
> But in the West it is expected that token political statements are to be allowed and protected. Is that so? I could imagine a huuuge amount of political statements that are illegal in my home country, Germany. Since I was raised there
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by darklajid 7y ago
> And seize his prize money and fire the casters? I don't know. Personally I'd say "yes and no", but .. > Would they have done the same had he voiced support for BLM or Julian Assange? No idea. > Your line of th
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by darklajid 7y ago
> They could win everywhere but China, by explicitly choosing to withdraw their products from China. Westerner here. No, I don't want ANY political agenda in game streams. If Blizzard hosts people shouting "Free HK", &quot
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by darklajid 7y ago
I don't understand the line of reasoning here. If Blizzard wants to (appear to, if we doubt their sincerity) support a political cause, that's a decision by the company. I agree that they should expect a potential fallout for that
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by darklajid 7y ago
Apart from the global crisis this is also quite a big subject here, locally, in Singapore and among friends in HK: Honestly I don't see how Blizzard should've reacted instead and feel bad for them. That's not related to &quot
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by darklajid 7y ago
You don't use StackOverflow, ever?
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by darklajid 7y ago
I recently switched companies from one .Net shop to (kinda, sorta) another. The previous one had a big product based on a COM-turned-WCF architecture for years. WCF is dead/not a thing on .Net core. The one I'm currently looking a
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by darklajid 7y ago
> if it's so bad for privacy and isn't necessary for a CDN, does Cloudflare the CDN simply disregard ECS when receiving requests from DNS.Google, or do they take it into account? I don't understand that for various reasons
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by darklajid 7y ago
I'm with some of the people on Twitter: It seems weird (to put it mildly) to just blackhole your own site with no explanation whatsoever to the end-user. For everyone on 1.1.1.1 archive.is will now be "down" and they're
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by darklajid 7y ago
I might have misread the GP, but I kinda felt that it also brought up the issue that a pihole (or similar solutions) might cease to work in a "DoH / I automatically pick the best resolver if I deem yours not good enough" worl
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by darklajid 7y ago
Just changed jobs from a job that was 10 minutes away from home, in a quiet cubicle, to a job 70 minutes away in an "open concept" office - and it's painful. Before that I worked completely remotely for years and I miss it so
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by darklajid 7y ago
Sorry, kinda mixed the "Need office" requirement I wrote about and my previous "Different VMs for different needs" (Office was one, a Windows product I build extensions for was in another, then the corporate environment
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by darklajid 7y ago
I'm thinking of going down that route, but for various reasons I NEED Outlook and Office a lot, although my main work is development and could work on another platform. If you do this (as I did in the past) you're now juggling N W
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by darklajid 7y ago
I don't wanna touch the Stallman / Epstein story with a 10 foot (3.x meter?) pole, but I do believe that standards vary. In Germany a 17yo cannot drive, CAN drink and can have (I'm old and it doesn't apply to me, so this
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by darklajid 7y ago
Because it takes nothing but an openssl installation (or similar) to generate one? Anyone can control a (root) certificate - the problem is getting others to trust it. Legitimate use cases might be: You want to intercept (and decrypt) traff
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by darklajid 7y ago
Expat in SG here. Durian is really nice, the smell doesn't bother me. I do think it's very heavy and filling though, so I rarely eat a lot.
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by darklajid 7y ago
Meeting someone half way is nice. I like being able to talk to random other people speaking English as a foreign language. It's useful. It sure would be nice if English speakers would pick up some phrases or a basic understanding in a

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