sawaruna

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by sawaruna 6y ago
>People can already buy PC titles anywhere they like. EGS, direct purchase, steam, GOG, twitch, whatever. There's nothing to allow. This is unrelated to them supporting their 'direct pay to developers' stance on their own
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by sawaruna 6y ago
It's maybe my perception, but I don't know if 'is this cheaper form of payment directly to you less safe?' is a question many users would be having. To me anyway, it seems like an excuse to namedrop a bunch of services w
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Maybe you're thinking of FandangoNOW? AFAIK Fandango does not let you 'buy movies'.
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by sawaruna 6y ago
No, I'm asking if they will allow people to buy digital PC titles on EGS via direct purchase to the developer and bypass the percentage EGS takes. People are bringing up digital currency or IAP, but if Epic is arguing for 'direct
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by sawaruna 6y ago
>Does a new payment method on mobile mean purchases there are less safe? >No. Thousands of apps on the App Store approved by Apple accept direct payments, including commonly used apps like Amazon, Grubhub, Nike SNKRS, Best Buy, DoorDa
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Figures there would be some obstacle.
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by sawaruna 6y ago
>The vulnerable application is the interactive chat application that allows to send messages to other passengers. A bit of a side note here, but does anyone actually use this? I remember seeing it on an ANA flight and thought it was a fu
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Buying an HHKB and typing 70-90 WPM does not make one an "Expert Typist"
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by sawaruna 6y ago
The lowering of the planet’s albedo through melting ice sounds like the most worrisome runaway effect.
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by sawaruna 6y ago
It's from April, but a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q_DDXpzQgw
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by sawaruna 6y ago
>Also important to remember is that GPS is not the same as location services. Even if GPS and cellular data are unavailable, a mobile device calculates location using Wi-Fi and/or BT. Apps and websites can also use other sensor data
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by sawaruna 6y ago
No doubt. Enjoying & (feeling like compared to others I was) excelling at finding information was what made me get interested in information science in the first place, but I often felt advances in ML and NLP would allow for anyone to f
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by sawaruna 6y ago
> mac presentation: Prepare MAC for presentation: minimize all apps, close browsers, send files from desktop and downloads to trash and set not disturb mode This sounds like a terrible idea, just because of the chances of accidental tras
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Might be my librarian career bias but I'm always surprised at how few people know about query operators. Ironically as Google search seems to be ignoring vital parts of people's queries, they are becoming more needed now, whereas
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Antergos has been discontinued afaik. Might as well recommend Manjaro in addition to Arch instead. Surprised at no mention of Pop!_OS. Many people I know have recently switched to it from Windows, apparently because it is recommended for th
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Can you give a use case for this, or how one could have anticipated the Ideanomics surge you mention? Searching something like 'electric vehicle' will show many recent patents by Tesla, Apple, Honda, et al. Is the idea that you wo
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Monkey Type – a minimalistic typing test(monkey-type.com)
1 points by sawaruna 6y ago|0 comments
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Oh, explains it. Though they simply said the 'her' jumped out at them, not because they felt it was in error with the question, but maybe that was it. My mistake.
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by sawaruna 6y ago
If it said ‘he’ would you have gone to check for verification of this? The quote altering is odd but this ‘jumping out at you’ is also a bit weird.
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by sawaruna 6y ago
I noticed this lately, I think when getting a new OS installed and making the dictionary UK English instead of Canadian English, thinking there would be little difference. The main issues have been with words that may end in an 'ism&#x
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by sawaruna 6y ago
I don't use it, but Cleanshot X can do this - https://cleanshot.com/
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Why do some submissions get auto flagged as duplicates but others don't? https://hn.algolia.com/?q=oatly+coke
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by sawaruna 6y ago
> With Ster’s new ad server, advertisers are blind—they receive no information on the user. Instead, they get information about what the user is looking at. Pages and videos are tagged based on their content. Instead of targeting a certa
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Is it better to indent your code from left to right or right to left?(twitter.com)
3 points by sawaruna 6y ago|0 comments
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Are there rats in Alberta? Wikipedia can’t decide.(2019)(crackmacs.ca)
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by sawaruna 6y ago
I wonder how other alt milks fare. All of my milk consumption is spelt or oat (not oatly though), and I avoid almond for environmental issues. Cost performance, taste, and environmental impact make those two the best for me, but is anything
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by sawaruna 6y ago
I'd love to see schema.org updated and used more. As someone still doing linked data work, albeit in academia, I mainly use it simply to provide more context to self-created, domain specific properties within ontologies using things li
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by sawaruna 6y ago
I need a keyboard shortcut expert to help me out with something specific in Safari. If I type a term into the URL bar, the bottom list of suggestions is for 'Bookmarks and History'. If arrow down to select one of these, it places
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Alright, that was the only thing I could thing of that would cause my confusion here. I viewed it simply as 'it's False to say all eggplants are fruits' but I guess the author's intention was 'because people conside
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Forgive the dumb question but what is False about ‘∀x eggplant(x) ⇒ fruit(x)’

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