megaman22

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by megaman22 8y ago
I love my dog, but a clone would not be the same dog, with the experiences that make her the way she is. I cannot think about dog cloning without remembering Fry's speech upon throwing the fossilized remains of his faithful Seymour int
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by megaman22 8y ago
IBM really, really does not want anything to do with further developing or supporting Lotus software products. I believe that they gave that whole business over to HCL not long ago.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Calling this a "system" or "platform" is probably being very generous. It sounds like a very loosely related glom of Domino databases that grew up organically, probably with a little custom UI sprinkled on top. Notes c
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by megaman22 8y ago
Nay. I do not understand the obsession with whiteboards. I've had coworkers that went gaga when they discovered that whiteboard paint was a thing, and they could cover their office in whiteboard surface. Doodles and doodles and dood
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by megaman22 8y ago
If it's running well, he might never have to touch it. We sell some Notes-based products with some considerable customers (still!) and only get a couple emails a week or month. Annual support and maintenance fees just keep rolling in.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Man, if you could cash that voucher in for other educational materials, that would be an idea. What a library I could have had... Even in the broke, rural, low-cost-of-living area I came out of, the last school budget works out to more than
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by megaman22 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258) The impact of the Mongol conquest almost cannot be overstated.
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by megaman22 8y ago
I am far too old and uncool to have any idea that that kind of thing existed. I'm more in the barstool sports/onion/fuckjerry/animalsdoingthings wheelhouse. Pure stupid entertainment, hearkening back to a simpler inter
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by megaman22 8y ago
The only part of the New York Times worth paying money for is the crossword. I was a subscriber for a couple years, but after a while you start noticing that all the opinion pieces and non-A section articles seem to be on about a six week
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by megaman22 8y ago
> Part of the reason Instagram has surged in popularity lately is because it's generally real humans posting the content rather than endless automated shitposts (I'm not saying they don't exist, but it's certainly mor
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by megaman22 8y ago
If you do have broad shoulders however, narrower keyboards are rather painful to use. Right now, I'm using a Logitech G710+, which is a full-sized IBM-syle keyboard, with an extra row of garbage buttons on the left side. If my left h
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by megaman22 8y ago
Definitely doable if you're not in places where real estate has gone completely bonkers. There are lots of places where it isn't unreasonable to rent an entire house on a single income, even though most incomes there are fraction
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by megaman22 8y ago
Brave shows how many ads and trackers it has blocked, as well as a number that's labeled Time Saved. How that is calculated I haven't the foggiest, but it must be related to download size.
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by megaman22 8y ago
It's too much to hope that products could just focus on doing what they do, and doing it well, rather than bodging on miscellaneous shit until it resembles the Homermobile. Build a browser. Implement the standards fully. Make it scream
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by megaman22 8y ago
Beating around the bush to say somebody is doing something dumb without hurting their feelings takes extra effort, and lessens the impact, unfortunately.
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by megaman22 8y ago
This used to be a common feature of the type of forums that predated SO... For example, https://www.gamedev.net/forums/forum/71-for-beginners/
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by megaman22 8y ago
Generally, I write everything in plain-text, and then as a final processing step, bring it into Word and format it. I hit on this process when I was in college, since SVN, which I was using for version control at the time, is such shit wit
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by megaman22 8y ago
No shit. Protectionism is only bad when we do it, for some reason.
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by megaman22 8y ago
Go has a bit of a niche, and Rust is trying real hard, but they aren't Javascript or Java, or C#, or Python, or Rails, or PHP, or C++, or Objective-C or... Out in the wider world, they are very much playing catchup, and have a very far
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by megaman22 8y ago
There are remarkable parallels between the two, it could be argued. There is something of a myth of Chinese continuity which isn't really warranted at face value when you examine the history more closely. Likewise, there is another m
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by megaman22 8y ago
Fracking, and development of all that domestic shale oil that became economical to exploit when oil prices were through the roof previously, as I understand it.
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by megaman22 8y ago
I think that gas going back down to two-something a gallon again after that period a few years ago where we started getting used to it pushing four bucks, combined with increased fuel efficiency of newer ICE vehicles, and the price premium
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by megaman22 8y ago
So, most people are going to have to completely rework their electrical system in order to put in an EV charger, going by the Tesla specs[1], up to including a larger service. Not too many people have an extra 40 amps of capacity kicking a
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by megaman22 8y ago
Statistically, nobody actually builds real UWP apps, so it is largely an academic point. But if you're out of the sandbox, I fail to see a good reason not to just build a regular old Win32 app the way it has always been done.
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by megaman22 8y ago
> Have there been any previous attempts to do this? Any success? Many over the years, and largely not. Unreal and Unity are probably the closest to successful to date, but they are full-blown game engines, at a higher level of abstracti
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by megaman22 8y ago
This sort of pessimism is depressing. We have to at least try, and we have more than enough capability if we cared to try - we put men on the moon while fighting a major war and engaging in a nuclear arms race, with computers orders of magn
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by megaman22 8y ago
Pre-industrial levels when we were still coming out of significant cooling period. In every other period of human history, increased average temperatures have coincided with golden ages. Depending on where you peg your baseline for what &
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by megaman22 8y ago
Get them to play with Legos, or help with household chores or something, explaining the process of what you are doing step by step. Try to get them thinking logically. I couldn't even read at five years old, I certainly wouldn't
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by megaman22 8y ago
> If you look at IQ and the kinds of jobs people sub-100 IQ can retain, you begin to realize very quickly that about half of the population is going to need to be retrained in some kind of intellectual job going forward. This is a troubl
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by megaman22 8y ago
Said by no one in any place other than an internet forum. It's not exactly as easy as picking up a can of pringles - even for hunting rifles, you have to wait at least an hour on average for them to run the federal background checks.

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