uncle_j

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by uncle_j 7y ago
> So how then do you know that Spain will veto a Scottish application to rejoin? It is what I suspect after living in Spain as an Expat near Gibraltar for 3-4 years. I wasn't aware the official position has changed, however the Sp
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by uncle_j 7y ago
The article is over 2 years old and Alfonso Dastis isn't the current foreign minister. In any event Scottish Independence isn't going to happen anytime soon with Boris Johnson shutting down any possibility of an Indy Ref 2 last we
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> I don't understand why anyone still buys anything at Amazon. It is cheaper than almost every other computer store in the UK for the same parts, deliver next day and they don't tend to shaft you on delivery cost (if it costs a
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by uncle_j 7y ago
That is more true of old x86 hardware and older micro-computers (Amigas, Ataris etc). The SGI machines are difficult to get hold of in the UK to begin with plus they are as other said short supply. There is one Octane in the country and it
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by uncle_j 7y ago
It is a different story in the UK. I would probably just get one if I was in the US.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
This reply is total buzzword salad. > I've watched with great interest over time how Microsoft has evolved from closed source to open source. IMHO, Much of their motivation derives from huge demand from the community to open source
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Been wanting one of these machines for years, but they are sooo pricey it is insane. Mainline Linux support will be good, but I tbh I would be running IRIX as intended.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Most of the CO2 is produced in China and India so I doubt the conversation in the USA will be even relevant.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
I would like to know Why I should contribute to Open Source when Microsoft is a massive company that has plenty of resources to fix its own bugs. Sure if you are at Uni, Just starting out or something that not likely to be commercial (conso
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by uncle_j 7y ago
I am from the UK. But the last movie I watched in the Cinema was in 2014. It is expensive and unnecessary. I bought in the new year a 60inch 4k HDR TV for less than £400 from toshiba. Why would you bother when you can get a similar experien
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by uncle_j 7y ago
I've been doing .NET dev for the last decade. I have no idea how to get the whole browser part of the toolchain working with Visual Studio. I just don't bother. The client side debugging is done with a browser that is basically Ch
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by uncle_j 7y ago
That is interesting. I assumed that innerHTML must have been wrong because textContent works in all the browsers I have tried it on whereas innerHTML doesn't work. A cursory search textContent vs innerHTML seemed to suggest textContent
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by uncle_j 7y ago
This is a shame in some ways. Internet explorer was always very strict on how it works. Anything before 8 was a challenge due to some atrocious bugs. This had it problems but it really taught you not to write sloppy CSS and JS as it would u
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Most of the interesting sub-reddits have been shutdown or are in quarantine for having "wrong think", though hardcore pornography, discussions about disgusting and dangerous sexual fetishes are just fine. > And I agree it gets
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by uncle_j 7y ago
So why is it almost every-time I here it mentioned in regards to this topic it is by those who act pious and pompous as a way of shutting down legitimate criticism?
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Toxicity seems to be a code word for "the plebs are saying things that I don't approve of".
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> I do, however, think that you're underestimating how much bad will Microsoft is building with its userbase these days. Sure, I don't think we're headed for 20-30%, but I do think there is a higher proportion of tech savv
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> I read your comment. I just think that a large number of Linux sales is seen as a large 'pie'. I can't imagine that if there are 20-30% Linux sales that many will be thinking "Well most of those are Proton, we don&#
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by uncle_j 7y ago
It like you didn't read my comment. If I could count on customers or Valve just fixing it with a wrapper for me, why bother making a Linux version at all? You wouldn't.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> Dual boot is too much of a mess for me, I have a separate Windows laptop which I barely use otherwise (it does have a few Windows-only games), it's a bit of an hassle too. I don't feel like booting it and discovering it needs
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by uncle_j 7y ago
That isn't true. Windows does provide something that other platforms don't. The APIs and program compatibility are supported forever in Windows. I can run the original Quake and DOOM on Windows 10 without any problems. A friend of
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> There would be little incentive to port games to Linux without an existing gamer pool which can buy them, and there would be no gamer pool without an initial range of games... There isn't much of a gamer pool anyway. This may surp
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by uncle_j 7y ago
I was asking her why she thought that. Not what other people thought.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
If nobody can truly understand the EU how can you hold anyone or anything accountable? You've just made half of the sovereignty argument for me. As for Scotland joining the EU. Even if Scotland does become independent (it won't),
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by uncle_j 7y ago
You do realise that Proton and similar technologies decrease the incentive for developers to port their game to Linux? Why bother porting it when you can count on someone fixing it for you. As for playing any game under the sun. No it doesn
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Targeting cross platform anything drives the cost up immediately. Just building websites that work on different devices if the site is non-trivial i.e. SVG, WebGL etc the cost up because each platform you have to duplicate the QA phase. Thi
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by uncle_j 7y ago
The internet was originally (for good or bad) the wild west. You could be anyone you wanted on the internet and for a lot of people it was an escape from ordinary life that may have been suffocating. On my Discord. I have a HomoSexual Nazi
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Well there is a bit of a difference it is unlikely a web browser is going to directly cause of a person's death.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Very large companies like Microsoft usually have a problem of the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> Just the fact that StackOverflow have been accused of not being inclusive at all. Can you clarify this? Anyone can sign up with an account and the whole thing is meritocratic.

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