dasb

6 ms·

31.
by dasb 6y ago
The most popular streamers in any game are not necessarily the most talented, but those that are the most entertaining while still being reasonably talented.
32.
by dasb 6y ago
King's book is really good.
33.
by dasb 6y ago
It worked well for me even without MicroG. The only proprietaty app that I need and use is Whatsapp, and it doesn't require Google Play Services.
34.
by dasb 6y ago
I recurrently have these types of dreams: 1. The moon is extremely close to earth, so it covers half of the sky. 2. There's another earth-like planet instead of the moon, also really close. I love those dreams, they also come in night
35.
by dasb 6y ago
AFAIK sale-based pricing is about squeezing consumer surplus, as described by Joel Spolsky [0]. [0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
36.
by dasb 6y ago
> So how does Ubuntu differentiate itself, in 2020? 1. Using the most popular distro is an advantage 2. Polish. The little details add up over time. I tried switching to Mint and had various small problems that I didn't have on stoc
37.
by dasb 6y ago
I loved my ~2008 Toshiba Satellite. Rest in peace, old friend.
38.
by dasb 6y ago
No one who knows what they're doing uses zip passwords as security. The passwords are probably there for other reasons.
39.
by dasb 6y ago
Great, now I can suck at chess in 3 more dimensions.
40.
by dasb 6y ago
I've always pictured scrolling as moving a camera or visor over a static sheet.
41.
by dasb 6y ago
Slack is unusably slow on any machine, so there's nothing new about that.
42.
by dasb 6y ago
AFAIK you can't log into your Google account from Newpipe, or at least it's not required.
43.
by dasb 6y ago
So, is this just a syntax change or is this adding a new statement? If it's the latter, does that mean that the execution environment is part of the language itself, instead of, for example, C where environmental stuff is only accesibl