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Blackmist ,

As he counts his money.

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Smart switch in the UK is awkward because we have neutral wire only in the wall switches.

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Oh we already had that.

https://segaretro.org/Mega_PC

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If they haven't been doing so for at least a decade, I'm sure their shareholders will want to know why not.

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Yeah, it's the reason I cancelled Amazon the day they announced that, while Netflix shambles on.

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And the product thumbnails that all look like sex toys.

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Shit, most of Amazon is that as well.

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Half of them aren't in China though. It's dropshippers, so you still get your cheap death traps, but you get them in a few days, Amazon get their enormous cut, and they get to take no responsibility when it burns your house down.

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Half Life 2 and it's episodes are always on a massive sale in a Valve bundle.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/232/Valve_Complete_Pack/

There's a lot of stuff there you won't play, but it's a must have for the Half Life and Portal series.

Also Wolfenstein: The New Order and Doom 2016 are great.

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I'm sick of being told what I should and shouldn't be eating tbh.

Seen plenty of scares over the years about fats, saturated fats, eggs, sugars, carbs, glutens, red meat, meat... Now Ultra Processed Food.

At this point, it's just food. If you're too fat eat less of it. If it's actually dangerous don't sell it.

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And what good did it do for cigarettes? It's not like you're going to look at the pack and go "oh shit, it's bad for me?"

Everyone I know who gave up smoking recently, did so purely for cost reasons and took up vaping instead.

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Or the funders get bored of waiting after ten years of "no Mars yet" and cancel the project, leaving you with a half finished rocket.

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I guess whether it's worth it depends on whether you hate writing code or reading code the most.

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Yeah, it's all on Twitter and Facebook.

Why hang out in the run down Nazi bar when the big chain bars are all accepting Nazis now?

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The width of these things as well. You probably couldn't fit that in my driveway without taking the mirrors off. If you somehow managed it, you'd only be getting in and out through the sunroof.

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Ah, the days of needing a 3D GPU and a 2D GPU...

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I even played Doom and Doom 2 on mine, at some horrendously low resolution.

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26C is way too hot for me to sleep properly.

Imagine training your whole life for one Olympics where you're at peak performance, then having it fucked up because organisers decided to do this performative nonsense.

No wonder half the teams are bringing air con.

Am I the only one preferring low quality media over high quality one?

I have a very slow Internet connection (5 Mbps down, and even less for upload). Given that, I always download movies at 720p, since they have low file size, which means I can download them more quickly. Also, I don't notice much of a difference between 1080p and 720p. As for 4K, because I don't have a screen that can display 4K,...

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I don't often go for the full 4K Blu-ray Remux releases, since they're massive and I can't really tell the difference over a 10-15GB rip, at least visually. Just a webrip is fine, depending on the source. Plus even my nVidia Shield Pro struggles with them at times.

US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement ( www.wired.com )

The music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators. A group of music labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group has filed lawsuits in US federal court on Monday morning alleging copyright infringement on a “massive scale.”...

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But of course. If artists want to fight for their rights, they better get their own lawyers.

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You'd think so, but who do you think pays huge sums of money every year to be allowed to sell death traps to the public?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyF7YmHYhYc

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Some automatic conversion is fine.

a=3+0.2

print("Hello {name}. You are {age} years old")

That kind of thing. But the principle of least surprise definitely applies. If you get to the point where you're adding two booleans and a string, I feel like the language should at least say something. At least until the technology exists for it to physically reach out of your screen and slap you.

Blackmist , 
0 == []
>> true

"0" == []
>> false

0 == "0"
>> true
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Yeah, there's no real costs, because in this case it's a cost of "lost opportunity" in advertising.

As a rich westerner, your eyeballs are worth more than some rickshaw driver in deepest darkest India, because you have more money to fritter away on nonsense.

Never understood how the third world pricing logic holds up for things like video games, since the hardware to play them costs pretty much the same no matter where you are.

Blackmist ,

I gave up trying to figure out what the "bitness" of CPUs were around the time the Atari Jaguar came out and people described it as 64 bit because it had 32 bit graphics chip plus a 32 bit sound chip.

It's been mostly marketing bollocks since forever.

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I'd imagine 60 million dollars to google is like 60 cents to most of us.

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Torrenting was blocked on it anyway, as far as I could tell.

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Exactly. Donald Duck is an infinitely superior character.

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Will they serve it though? They weren't even present at the sentencing due to "poor health".

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That doesn't mean it's not higher level than other languages from more recent times.

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If five people can maintain a service bigger than all those combined, then the big streamers need to buck their fucking ideas up.

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Go for a walk. Maybe meet somebody to walk with.

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Genuinely don't like their hotdogs at all. Not at bad as IKEA but there's something just off about them.

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It's underneath on mine, with the contents in the sidebar. Looks shite.

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Badly muxed VP9 stream? Is that where they tried to stuff ads into it?

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It is.

"This problem is triggered by bad muxed VP9 bytestream served by Youtube, so it's not a regression on our side, this issue can also be reproduced on old versions Firefox".

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Right wingers and authoritarians get mixed up a lot.

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For the same reason they include spelling errors in their emails, it certainly helps when only their dumbest victims get past the initial pitch.

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Well that's still better than the weird Indian witch doctor spam I see on a couple of forums I visit.

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To do:

Cheaper headset

Actual controllers

Make it work with PCs

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Watch in awe as absolutely none of these fuckers go to prison.

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Much of it is owned by the Crown Estate. Which is technically owned by the current monarch, but it's not their personal property.

All sounds like a scam to me to prevent inheritance taxes scooping off a chunk every time one of them carks it.

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We're not starting WWIII over TSMC and nVidia's stock price.

Shit, most of the world won't even recognise Taiwan as a country. I can hardly see Haiti, Paraguay and the Vatican coming to the rescue.

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Pretty much most of the screenshots I get these days are a photo of somebody's screen taken on a phone.

Makes me long for retirement or at least a giant solar flare.

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Why would they do that when Google and Apple already do all the work for them?

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Much higher floor limit, and no need to enter your PIN every X transactions.

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I'm not talking about checking a stamp. I'm talking about a full inspections of an item taken at random from a batch. And charging them for it.

And unless you have an office in Europe where we can go and arrest you for fraud when it turns out not every batch follows the rules, it will happen to every batch as well.

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