jterrys

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by jterrys 4d ago
Shame that the Canadians don't have any significant ports open towards the Atlantic. Vancouver dwarfs everything.
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by jterrys 2mo ago
In my opinion, the personal threshold of 'making' says more about the remnant era in which you were raised in rather than about the specificity of the act itself? Your grandparents lived in an era where it was common for men to bu
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by jterrys 2mo ago
I think I've accumulated enough acronym cruft in my middling age where it has introduced serious imprecision in my language and understanding. Particularly when the recycling of acronyms is so common. PTP, P2P, PVP, NTP, LDAP, DNS, SMT
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by jterrys 3mo ago
Agreed.
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by jterrys 3mo ago
Ye olde double edged sword On one hand aggressively punitive copyright claims stifle creativity and innovation in transformative art. On the other hand, generative AI reopens that transformative creativity.
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by jterrys 4mo ago
This actually begs the question...why the fuck would they use THESE for an airshow? They're aesthetically identical to F18 from a ground silhouette perspective. They blew through some really expensive planes from a much smaller fleet f
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by jterrys 8mo ago
I think at a certain point you need to just call it quits with that sort of bullshit. I have my dignity. I'm a fucking grown adult. I'm not going to spend my spare time haplessly looking online to unfuck the new current set of fuc
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by jterrys 10mo ago
people still insist on using a browser built by a company that makes money off of ads and act surprised when said company purposefully compromises their privacy and data on said browser.
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by jterrys 1y ago
The dialogue options and scenario possibility outcomes were very impressive for its time. Still kinda is today. It's more in depth than you'd think. The levels are pretty sandboxy with how they allow you to approach missions and i
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by jterrys 1y ago
I think the problem is that the app store is perceived as a general computing platform compared to what it was originally birthed from: Built in immutable applications on a mobile phone.
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by jterrys 1y ago
I agree with you in principle. But I also, I guess, kinda just have a dumb thought about this whole ordeal. Broadly speaking, we are in a position where we, the general public with the backing of the government, want to change how a private
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by jterrys 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250728145153/https://bobdahack... hugged to death
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by jterrys 1y ago
What you're seeing in the drop of value of diamonds also reflects the general shift in tastes of different generations with income. I'm a person that likes to go to flea markets and antique stores on the rare occasion and the valu
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by jterrys 1y ago
SEBI wasn't bold at all. They saw them do this in January, told them in February to stop, and they persisted until they finally shut the operation off. They were tipped off as early as November 2024 that this was happening. If anything
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by jterrys 1y ago
UIs tend to have a universality with how people structure their environments. Minimalism is super hot outside of software design too. Millennial Gray is a cliche for a reason. Frutiger Aero wasn't just limited to technology. JLo's
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by jterrys 1y ago
>It is unusual to be interviewed by someone more than three levels above the position you are applying for. This happened to me, and it was by far my worst interview ever. Early on in my career right after graduating I got interviewed fo
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by jterrys 1y ago
There's also...apartment hotels! Want hotel quality and safety with apartment perks? Just go to an apartment hotel! It costs more than a hotel/AirBnB but you're also not at the whims of random hit-or-miss listings and shady s
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by jterrys 1y ago
commercial toasters, tvs, washing machines, you generally can't go wrong with spending a premium for something that was built to last a LOT of use. Speedqueen makes commercial washing machines with a consumer lineup that's serious
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by jterrys 1y ago
Nobody is discounting the efficiency of meatwave tactics. The problem is Russia postured itself as being the highly competent alternative force of the world order outside the sphere of North America and Western Europe. Which they demonstrab
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by jterrys 1y ago
/k/ has hated Russian milsurp slavshit far longer than they cared about Ukraine. For years Russiaboos would shit up the board that almighty AK superior firearm or that Russian magical remote turret tank best tank in the world or t
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by jterrys 2y ago
Considering this current administration, it is sadly unsurprising that the SEC most likely won't follow through with some serious penalties. It is absolutely abhorrent that an exchange is marketing and promoting secret services that of
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by jterrys 2y ago
Russia can just leave. Chamberlain tried to bargain peace for Britain at the sacrifice of the Czechs and other nations and in the end his country got bombed to shit anyway. You guys make it seem like Russia has no agency here
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by jterrys 2y ago
There's been some speculation about recent BH moves into small positions that Munger/Buffet don't traditionally meddle in. So it's kind of assumed that younger guys are taking more of the helm. The problem is their choic
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by jterrys 2y ago
lol. We recently switched from Grafana to Prometheus. Reason being that a license refresh took longer to process on their end. What happens when a license expires on Grafana? They fucking shut down all your shit cold turkey. Don't care
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by jterrys 2y ago
Housing prices in spain and portugal are booming to astronomical degrees mainly because of china. This bill is specifically targeted to stop that without explicitly calling out china. Middlemen cost money, making it more expensive to buy ho
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by jterrys 2y ago
A lot of entertainment is priced in and the powers that be lament that young people aren't falling for it anymore. You like sports? Well, you need a subscription to see their away games, a subscription to see their home games, and a se
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by jterrys 2y ago
A while ago I purchased a full set of the Harvard Classics, first edition. I had a blast going through them. Part of me wishes they'd release an updated Encyclopaedia, and I could certainly afford it now compared to when I was a young
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by jterrys 2y ago
and comfort and familiarity. I can easily imagine tourists in a foreign land preferring McDonald's or generic fast food when they can't/don't/won't make up their minds about what to eat. It's entirely poss
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by jterrys 2y ago
...why did they have to make it so ugly?
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by jterrys 2y ago
4chan tries to make its users anonymous to each other. There's nothing in there about you being anonymous to their servers.

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