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OOPMan
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Comment #41177955
I have Google TV on my Sony TV and found that I was able to disable the ads and crap. There was a setting to toggle. They tried to make it unattractive by saying I wouldn't be able…
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Comment #40670897
Ad-blockers still work fine on the site tho, you're paying Google money for no good reason. Money of which only a small part goes to the creators. If you actually want to support t…
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Comment #40670849
There is some talk that YT are making it such that trying to seek will not skip the ad.
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Comment #40500807
Tends not to matter, the context usually makes it clear what is being discussed.
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Comment #40500739
Just your usual internet attention seeking I guess. Narcissism is a powerful stimulant ;-)
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Comment #40347337
I really don't think Sam needs more encouragement, thanks. Also, if this is your definition of magic then...yeah...
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Comment #40030919
Oh really? So when some local newspaper reports about some random old person in an old-age home that's political? Please, take this destructive attitude and reassess it. Not all th…
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Comment #40030873
Interesting post, honestly feels like the NFT cult: Discord full of true believers, leader with wildly optimistic takes on everything, nonsensical profit model. I will say, however…
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Comment #39944180
This is why I preferred Shadow Warrior 2 to Borderlands. Millions of randomly generated guns sounds nice, except they're mostly trash. I'd rather have the 70 hand-crafted options i…
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Comment #39893750
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Comment #39797658
Early 3d generally hasn't aged as well, probably due to extremely low resolution textures and so forth.
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Comment #39647404
Ah yes, 24gb top-of-the-line GPUs, I happen to have a whole warehouse full. /s
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Comment #39538297
Nonsense. Nintendo bring this in themselves with their own policies. There are so many hardware platforms I can support, and one that hardly ever does sales and refuses to bring th…
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Comment #39492035
Right...because requiring developers to actually grasp the code they're outputting is gatekeeping. If you want to pretend the rush to AI won't lead to more incompetent chefs in the…
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Comment #39475682
You're both right and wrong. Corporations and governments do consist of people and people do care...but it's also the case the being a cog in a large organization does have a tende…
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Comment #39473546
Fun fact, I generated an image for Homo Sapiens a few hours ago (After trying white man, black man and neanderthal with no success) and was greeted with someone that looked very mu…
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Comment #39203516
Another solution in search of a problem... Unless the problem is Apple fans having too much disposable income, in which case I guess this is an excellent solution XD
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Comment #39096112
Right, but did anyones attempts to contact emergency services get affected in this case? I'm guessing not. No matter how you paint it, this was probably rather excessive on the par…
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Comment #39021354
The heck are you on about? Have you ever tried to "train a human"? They don't work that way, not unless your "training" involves so weird torture stuff you probably shouldn't be bo…
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Comment #39021296
It pretty clearly is. Less of a story that is.
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Comment #39021248
Plenty of people would disagree so clearly this is not a settled matter
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Comment #39021113
Nice strawman.
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Comment #38804996
I dunno, I worked with Qt5 and Qt6 recently and creating a UI felt pretty fast and smooth to me (Much more so than the last time I did frontend web work anyway) That said, I've nev…
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Comment #38788811
Gadzooks! You're right! If only NYT had realised the secret to success was spewing out articles reacting to other articles reacting to other articles, they would all have been mill…
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Comment #38788397
I think your kid analogy is flawed because it ignores the fact that you couldn't reasonably use said "kid" to rapidly produce thousands of works in the same style and then go on to…