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afloyd

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    Comment #46107151

    So the argument is... "I dont like it", "It's dynamically typed" "Twitter crashed a decade and a half ago", "It's slow", and "It's only in top 20 on the yearly stackoverflow survey…

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    Comment #41294344

    Former Roblox player that quit back in 2016, there used to be a free currency called Tickets which were a free currency you could get through various means, it was a lot more restr…

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    Comment #37907919

    That's definitely an 8BitDo controller, although not of a make currently available. Analogue has previously used 8BitDo controllers, and it features the star and pixel-heart most o…

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    Comment #37667054

    Its not like brainpower is a finite resource, the more you work your brain the better it works anyways. You cant expect "obsessive tinkerer types who've historically driven scienti…

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    Comment #35802193

    It is very similar to the old newgrounds series :the game:, made by Nutcasenightmare. Because Nicky Case is Nutcasenightmare

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    Comment #35654998

    it scales with vehicle volume, the larger the truck, the less strict the regulations become

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    Comment #35499570

    Human readable formats should exist for more or less one purpose, interfacing with a human, eg configuration.

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    Comment #34332515

    Note they did not say "Google is now an ad company", it was "now we consider Google an ad company first", it is a matter of perception.

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    Comment #34295207

    Very interesting! I did some searching but it seems they never had a system for having it act as a bridge between two cybiko nets? I would expect that to be a reasonable thing to d…

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    Comment #34288099

    I more meant making a fake cybiko that would allow you to communicate with someone in another city with another repeater, connected over the internet.

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    Comment #34288077

    I wonder if it would be possible to make a repeater for the signal, perhaps over the internet

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    Comment #34277319

    I believe they meant productive as in they have produced more work than expected.

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    Comment #33242336

    This is not actually a pre-order, or atleast not as implied by the word pre-order, rather they are simply sold out. Source: currently typing on one :)

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    Comment #32959558

    This gives me an idea of an attack vector. These groans and moans seem rather quiet, and the airline claims its an amplifier issue. Assuming that the amplifier is not shielded from…

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    Comment #32373179

    plan9's ACME is interesting how its mostly traditional except for both the mouse-chords and the part that its also a shell. also a window manager. and a file manager. at one point …

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    Comment #32338221

    sounds like a weird portmanteau of unix and vaxen, a term I have heard used for the old dec vax machines, which did indeed run unix. so, not entirely gibberish, just mostly gibberi…

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    Comment #32005871

    Note, Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, the recent remake, is a Unity game, the original HL2 mod and 2013 version are both in the source engine.

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    Comment #30153925

    I would absolutely love to ride a bike or say, roller skate to work, but as i live in a stroad infested car dependent mess of a town, that is sadly impractical at best and outright…

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    Comment #30100729

    Essentially what happened is the mod went into an interview without telling anyone, without preparing, and basically managed to destroy all momentum the sub had, and then started b…