matthewrobertso

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by matthewrobertso 10mo ago
The World Economic Forum is famous for saying people will own nothing by 2030 and be happy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_ha...
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by matthewrobertso 10mo ago
If you want that you won't want this steam machine, HDMI 2.0 can do 4K60 HDR at 10-bit, but only with chroma subsampling (4:2:2 or 4:2:0) (not full 4:4:4).
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by matthewrobertso 10mo ago
The specs for this steam machine say HDMI 2.0, in the past I used a pulse8 HDMI CEC USB dongle with a computer which was also HDMI 2.0 iirc. I was using a 1080p projector with it but their website claims 4k support: https://www.p
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by matthewrobertso 1y ago
The government told me to.
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by matthewrobertso 1y ago
This is the result of campaigning by an Australian group
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by matthewrobertso 1y ago
What's your take on the government drone striking American citizens without any sort of trial?
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by matthewrobertso 2y ago
It looks like the power button was moved to the bottom of the new Mac mini, maybe to make this experience worse.
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by matthewrobertso 2y ago
Then why does Moraes need to censor people on Twitter? If the argument is ironclad, shouldn't it be able to defend itself from speech?
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by matthewrobertso 3y ago
Really, a third food analogy? Is this satire?
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by matthewrobertso 3y ago
I don't think you understand my argument as you are making a second food analogy (first coke, now steak). Please read my response to your first food analogy as it applies to both food analogies.
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by matthewrobertso 3y ago
There is always a free source with the answer somewhere. The trouble comes when the free sources are pushed far down in the results by legacy brands. When this happens, I will continue to pretend to be google to access the content they are
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by matthewrobertso 3y ago
No, I don't want to read their content. I want to find an answer to my search query. If the search results are full of paywalled articles that claim to have text relevant to my query, but won't show me the article because publishe
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by matthewrobertso 3y ago
No I don't, I disable JavaScript and read what they served google in the first place. If I went to a public water fountain and found that someone had turned it into a coca cola dispensing machine, I wouldn't be happy and wouldn&#x
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by matthewrobertso 3y ago
I want to research a topic, so I do a google search about it. If 100% of the search results are readable to google, so that they are indexed, but unreadable to me, due to paywalls, the google search is useless. I'm not sure what the so
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by matthewrobertso 3y ago
NES Tetris has a weighted randomizer where it is less likely to get the same piece twice in a row (if the same piece is going to be served twice, the second is rerolled one time). So it is possible to get the same piece twice in a row but l
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by matthewrobertso 3y ago
Unbanking someone isn't the same as charging them a fine.
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by matthewrobertso 3y ago
>The American people were misled by government claims about WMDs and handwavy connections between Iraq and 9/11. But that doesn't permit us to retroactively declare that "well, if only the people knew in 2002 what we know
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by matthewrobertso 3y ago
How could this be unclear? They are both narratives. They both have characters. Why wouldn't a concept about characters from one map to the other? Do you think fanfic characters and official movie characters are incompatible types? I h
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by matthewrobertso 3y ago
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue
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by matthewrobertso 3y ago
>I'm not sure anyone watched the three or so TV series about John Carmack and John Romero Which series were these? I'd love to watch them but can't find any information. From googling they shot a pilot for a Masters of Doo
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by matthewrobertso 3y ago
The title of this post is "Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See", the article is about China getting a say in what happens in the US.
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by matthewrobertso 3y ago
I am not sure this is (still) correct - I am able to call into a .NET framework 4.8 library from .NET 7.
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by matthewrobertso 4y ago
I've been covering my eyes with the palms of my hands for a few minutes when I start noticing eye strain coming on, it helps to some degree: https://seeing.org/techniques/palming.html
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by matthewrobertso 4y ago
White trash is a derogatory racial and class-related slur used in American English to refer to poor white people, especially in the rural southern United States.
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by matthewrobertso 4y ago
>Why would anybody expect that new hardware that has to be reverse engineered and for which no Linux drivers are provided to work out of the box as soon is it is available? The title of this post is "Linux on the laptop works so dam
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by matthewrobertso 4y ago
It might be obvious to you but I sincerely don't see it. The first paragraph is about the source reducing things to axioms. The second paragraph is clearly about tone. Where is the criticism of the content and not the tone of the artic
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by matthewrobertso 4y ago
Can you highlight where you made that argument the first time? I read your first comment as entirely concerned with tone and don't see where you are discussing lack of engagement with an argument.
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by matthewrobertso 4y ago
"sort of comically smug"
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by matthewrobertso 5y ago
Are you imagining a parallel reddit thread with 30 votes between members of government and YouTube? Why would that be public?
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by matthewrobertso 5y ago
I looked through this thread when searching for a workaround but this method didn't work for me (2019 Shield TV Pro), I had to swap the launcher.

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