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SlowRobotAhead
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Comment #40287495
I can tell you having been responsible for the aspects of a TINY scale in comparison button, about 30,000 units a year, that buttons are fucking hard man! It's so much harder to ma…
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Comment #40287403
I liked it, but couldn't get past "this is just Bioshock in space with a more mysterious plot". Then the reveal, well, IDK.
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Comment #40287383
There is no doubt AI won't be used to fix the fully voiced issue. That is such a no-brainer. As to graphics, my favorite games of the past 5 years were average graphics at best. (S…
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Comment #40287349
I think the Starfield TV show is going to have difficulties, it'll just be people switching between planets every scene.
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Comment #40287305
I'd really love cables from my office to my livingroom.
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Comment #40212485
It's getting there, but the day that old.reddit doesn't work is the day I never go back even for small community stuff.
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Comment #40212465
I am confused why you think this is a problem reddit wants to solve. They're in on it homie. Now there is a stock price to protect. They literally are obligated to keep the bots ru…
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Comment #40212447
There is almost no difference in r/politics and the other "formerly default" (but still default by means of network effects) subs. It's all the same lunatic that has no idea they'r…
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Comment #40212427
What? You don't like getting strongly opinionated advice from kids that haven't even gotten their first internship yet? I swear some of the things I've been downvoted for in r/embe…
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Comment #40212380
>the only informational resource on the web that's still unscathed is Wikipedia Ask a conservative about that opinion. Do it before you do exactly what I'm accusing you of and down…
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Comment #28901452
That list of murdered trans people is awful. I wonder why only two I could find were trans men, and almost all were in large cities? Is it that much safer to be a trans man than a …
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Comment #28901298
“ Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd saye!” (Many a true word is spoken in jest) Accredited to Chaucer
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Comment #28755440
> Software keeps retrying. We get hit by a massive flood of DNS traffic asking for http://facebook.com If you aren’t using exponential backoff algorithms for your reconnect scheme …
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Comment #28431721
Do you know more than the medical experts in India and Japan? Should they be mocked?
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Comment #28328869
I don’t know much about myocarditis, but isn’t it possible and even likely a large number of those cases would be undiagnosed?
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Comment #28328845
I’m a little out of loop, but isn’t it true that there can be no possible studies for long covid more than a year and half or so? Of course there is long Covid, and of course there…
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Comment #28328801
As I understand it, Israel does count previous infection similar to vaccinated status. Not an argument, just a data point.
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Comment #28328732
> Nobody died from vaccine That’s not strictly true. There have been deaths, but this can be attributed to components in the vaccines that these unlucky people may have gotten at a…
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Comment #28253832
> Reddit doesn't let people pay directly for content. You can gift awards but those aren't really worth anything. Worth noting this scenario is even less similar than as you wrote …
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Comment #28239528
> Makes sense Does it? Nude is ok, but sexual isn’t? What if I find nude sexual, what if I find sexual separate from nudity? Why business is it of payment processors to say what is…
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Comment #28011978
Is that a thing that happens to you? That sucks. Aside: Was the entry on your blog about being hugged by a significant other while in line at a hard store a fan fiction? Seems like…
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Comment #28011847
> It would be catastrophic. Yea! How did people communicate or companies advertise before Facebook!? They couldn’t. I mean, maybe some old fashioned things no one remembers, but we…
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Comment #27768286
> QNX an OS for human critical scenarios is a microkernel. Hmm, Never thought about a stated OS focus like that. Off to look it up. Good mention
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Comment #27768233
I think scale is a really hard thing for us, but yes, being concerned about this is quite silly.
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Comment #26974051
I’m not shitting on your comment, but are you saying “we need government involvement (regulatory oversight) to solve problems made from previous government involvement (poor spirit…