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by queuebert 2y ago
I have the same problem on my Mac since installing Teams. Now Microsoft Update Manager starts every time I boot, even though it's not listed in the boot items. And it always shows that I have an update available ... to Microsoft Updat
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by queuebert 2y ago
It should be. Everything in the world runs on Linux except people who write Word documents and emails for a living. All that's missing is a simple UI that provides LibreOffice and a browser and doesn't nag you or leave you vulnera
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by queuebert 2y ago
Thanks for reminding me of the hundreds of dollars of games on Steam I bought to play on Mac and now can't because I didn't realize that giving into to their Apple's incessant update nagging would completely remove support fo
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by queuebert 2y ago
Are you sure about that? Their average markup is around 10%, so that would mean that the average member would be spending $600 or less in the store per year.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Software companies should do the same thing material goods producers do: make the product smaller, faster, and cheaper. Instead they rent seek with half-assed updates and added bloat that 95% of users never need. Adobe is not alone in this
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by queuebert 2y ago
What's missing in Gimp? How far away is it from being a viable competitor?
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by queuebert 2y ago
> Absolutely nobody gets ahead in business by selling wares cheaper than what they could have gone for, ... Explain Costco then.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Having actually taught economics undergrads at Harvard, albeit in a science elective, I can the standards are not quite so high as you might think.
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by queuebert 2y ago
I'm not trying to be anything. He's demonstrably incorrect. It's just talking points, and I'm calling it out. Microsoft has only ever forced standardization of aggressively mediocre software. In every case, be it OS, spr
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by queuebert 2y ago
> Four decades later, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called Excel “the best consumer product we ever created.” He doesn’t just see it as an enterprise tool. It’s for everything. Nadella said he simply can’t imagine a world without Excel. “P
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by queuebert 2y ago
What is the purpose of the annual spikes?
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by queuebert 2y ago
It's amazing how much security policy relies on the bad guys being dumb.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Knowing your rights is not the same thing as asserting your rights against a gun-toting, uniformed agent of the state who threatens you with detention, confiscation, and violence if you don't self incriminate.
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by queuebert 2y ago
I disagree. There are a lot of idiosyncrasies about monsters in NetHack such that getting good at NetHack is 99.9% about learning the NetHack world, not the real world. The werecreature game mechanic is no different than the POI or HALLU ef
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by queuebert 2y ago
Second best documentary ever made, after Idiocracy.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Read the article.
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by queuebert 2y ago
But something is wrong in the learning, because as a human NetHack player who has ascended, I can say that we don't play radically different on full moons. Yes, the random numbers go your way slightly more, but that's about it. Th
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by queuebert 2y ago
Serious question -- can you clarify what evidence would need to be released? The calorie counts clearly add up, because a single non-super-sized McDonald's meal is over half of a grown man's BMR. All that remains is to add up the
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by queuebert 2y ago
I don't find any of the OpenAI voices sexy or deferential. They sound fake happy to me, like a customer service phone menu or an elementary school teacher, and reek of Bay area vocal fry [1] and lilt. I wish there was a greater divers
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by queuebert 2y ago
They didn't miss on social media from a social perspective -- Google+ was a great user experience. But it did make it harder to harvest people's attention for ad revenue.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Having some array syntactical sugar alone would be invaluable for us casual Bash programmers.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Fittingly the now-defunct Amber Rapid was a blindfolded chess tournament.
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by queuebert 2y ago
You could also do the extremely readable `| cut -f1 -d.` which will do nothing for an integer.
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by queuebert 2y ago
They're a manager and send out daily emails reminding the coders of arbitrary deadlines.
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by queuebert 2y ago
An amazing game that is secretly propaganda to make people respect and appreciate bureaucracy. Glory to Arstotzka!
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by queuebert 2y ago
Thank you. That website was an abomination. Scrolling to do anything but move the content up should be highly discouraged.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Same here. Loudest noise is one of my servers, but after that is birds and cicadas. I wish I could make the birds shut the hell up, but that sounds like the start of a horror movie.
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by queuebert 2y ago
In fact the books use that rapid discharge property to power weapons.
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by queuebert 2y ago
The Rho Agenda sci-fi books rely on capacitors with absurdly high energy densities to power the tech. Is there any thing in the physics that would prevent a capacitor from having a higher energy density than a battery?
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by queuebert 2y ago
If the ointer points to a very large block of memory, is it an oinker?

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