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Jeff250

Happy belated birthday!

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If you ever want to pay the actual price for an item on Amazon, take the image of it on the Amazon page and then search for it using AliExpress's image search feature.

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I also thank those who sat at home during voting day, and the "I voted my conscience" protesturd voters. They straight-up let trump in. All the lead-up talking about going out and voting turned out to be nothing but bluster and false bravado. I've talked to a lot of people who did that and as soon ...

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I read something even weirder, and it kind of makes sense, that this CEO orchestrated his own death, suicide by hire. Think about it. How does this shooter know exactly the where the CEO was going to be walking and at what exact time, which was very early in the morning? This is the CEO of a major ...

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This is absolutely unbelievably amazing.

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The way I see it, we're discussing things on the internet. I don't know where anyone that might read what I write lives. Tiny margins matter in some places. Hell, my Congressional District had a top 2 jungle primary that ended with 2nd and 3rd tied. (after a recount 5 votes separated them out of ...

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I get the enormous stakes, but they are multiplied by astronomically tiny probabilities of your vote determining the election. In a non-swing state, that probability is zero. That's why that kind of argument falls flat to me. If it was just about making the most for the future, I could have spent ...

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But how do you incentivize candidates to not drift toward the center after a primary election using primary elections? At the same time, the stakes of general elections have gone through the roof. So I think if you have any preference at all between the two available outcomes of a general, you ...

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Anyone who doesn't vote for Democrats no matter what they say or do can take credit. You say that third party voters shouldn't take credit due to what a small number they are. We could debate whether that number is truly small, especially circa 2016, but it isn't even relevant because you're using ...

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What do you mean by "to keep them on side"? Does that not ultimately reduce to, to keep them voting for Democrats in general elections?

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I think everyone should vote like they're in a swing state. It's certainly your right to vote that way! I hope that whoever you are trying to send a message to with your vote receives it (sincerely). I'm not sure how you can say this, since it paths back pretty directly to Sanders' insurgent ...

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That's me. I do this. Because I disagree with it both morally and on its strategic merit. Whatever message you’re trying to send won’t be received, and you increase the chance of the outcome you don’t prefer. I have never in my entire life seen the Democrats lose a general election and have the take ...

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Well, in my opinion that is faulty logic, along the same lines as independents are just cowards for not choosing a side. But if you want to blame people like me for Harris losing the race, be my guest. *Every* election the DBB lambasts everyone who votes third party, because *this* election is the ...

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Ferno wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 3:06 pmDid you?

I did, via the web! (Not kidding.) One of the few benefits of being an expat.

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CPU Microcode or firmware updates are often included in windows update because they can be applied at runtime like most anything else, but unlike a real bios flash they do not persist through a reboot and have to be reapplied again every time the OS loads. Also actually flashing your BIOS is like a ...

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Krom wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2024 5:09 am A windows update cannot make your BIOS screen stop working.

I don't believe that's strictly true though. I've seen BIOS updates pushed through Windows Update. They were shoehorned into the rest of the driver updates.

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Do they really not make "dumb" cars anymore in the typical consumer price range? I remember struggling to find a 4K dumb TV a few years ago. I eventually found something, but I had to settle for mediocre picture quality. But, it turns on instantly, and it will never nag me or phone home.

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Just to defend AUR, I see it as just 1 of 4 different sources. The standard pacman repos work just the same as you'd expect from a deb from launchpad. Then you have snap and flatpack repos. AUR shouldn't be what your whole system is built on, rather just a few programs that you want compiled on ...

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Google has to deal with an adversarial threat model where the adversary is allowed to adapt their strategy in response to changes Google makes to theirs. Specifically, spammers are studying Google's methods and evolving their tactics to compensate for whatever improvements Google makes. Even if your ...

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I still use Ubuntu after all these years (since 2005), even though it is a bit "corporate" these days. Debian-based distros are generally the path of least resistance just because a *.deb is one of the most common ways to distribute linux software. You don't feel there are more options under the ...

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What about free email hosting like Gmail? I don't see ads in their interface. How long before Google wants, or needs to, monetize that service? I'm sure I'll hit their storage limits and have to pay for more eventually. I just use the email by my internet provider. No ads ever. I think the ISP's ...

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I still use Ubuntu after all these years (since 2005), even though it is a bit "corporate" these days. Debian-based distros are generally the path of least resistance just because a *.deb is one of the most common ways to distribute linux software.

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Just tell us what we have to do for you to stop posting here.

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I guess the question is, if you were trying to advertise your product, how much would you pay a Website to put your ad in their ad gauntlet?

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It's called enshittification. Once a company's product has reached its maximum market share, the only way for the company to make more money off that product is to increasingly squeeze the product's existing user base.

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Is style of art something that can be copyrighted? Is there anything stopping me from making art in Samdoesart's style (other than an obvious lack of skill and ability)?

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But really, who is going to claim copyright infringement over a generated person with three arms and missing a thumb?

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I'm not a lawyer, and this ultimately seems like a legal question. But to use an analogy from something that I'm familiar with, if you copy even a single line of GPL'd code into your project, then your project is derived from that project, and now you are obligated to GPL your project as well. How ...

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The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that these types of questions are seeded by "AI" companies to exaggerate the capabilities of their machine learning models so that we think that their models are so powerful that they introduce all of these terrible ethical and legal quandaries.

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Gongrats TC, I see you indeed killed E&C... but then this is what you wanted as you're too lazy to actually be a moderator. You have no concept of how to get people to post other than dim insipid posts and certainly no idea how to reign in the name callers. And yes, now I am gloating but I doubt ...

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I believe this is what you mean? https://descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?t=142

It looks like the formatting got messed up in one of the forum upgrades, but it looks much better here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101121231 ... .php?t=142

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It looks like it was released by Kevin Bentley. There is some commentary here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048177

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Available here: https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3

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If it works with Proton, I might check it out after it is released, but it's not enough for me to invest in the kickstarter.

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No linux version.

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It's scary because I used google fonts for django, wordpress, and regular html websites. This also implies any php plugins could theoretically could cause a site to violate the law, even if it's just to support a basic function, not provide ads. Even if GDPR doesn't mind, your visitors might, since ...

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I don't know the answer to your question, but not all cookies require consent under GDPR. Specifically, "strictly necessary" cookies do not require consent.

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No linux support.

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It looks like their GitHub link is broken. https://github.com/BredaUniversityGames/DXX-Raytracer

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vision wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 10:33 am It's true. If Hollywood stopped making movies that reflect American values they would go broke immediately.

These days it's the intersection of American and Chinese values.

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