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barbs

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About barbs

Computery guy, experience in mobile and support engineering, now working in community health.

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    Comment #49217347

    Same with my Wipeout 3 disc

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    Comment #49216872

    Wow, didn't know TF was developed in Melbourne RMIT! That's awesome.

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    Comment #49004252

    Damn, what did Mullvad do?

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    Comment #48966287

    Looks like lots of people (myself in Australia included) are getting the following error message: "Account Temporarily Unavailable. Your account is currently unavailable due to a s…

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    Comment #48940425

    Were the forums ever backed up anywhere? Given the quality of writing it'd be a shame if it didn't get archived.

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    Comment #48930959

    Came here to comment about Tokyoflash's designs, nice to see them here!

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    Comment #48769257

    There's a good vice article about that very topic. https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-do-we-play-video-games-t...

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    Comment #48636164

    No, it's the children who are wrong!

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    Comment #48444061

    Heh, I thought of maple syrup as well. And I'm ashamed to say I prefer the fake stuff! Although it's likely because it's what I had as a child, so there's a strong nostalgia factor…

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    Comment #48403879

    This is what I use to block the news feed on FB to prevent doomscrolling.

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    Comment #48350983

    Did you also have the screen rotation issue? Curious to know what's causing that.

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    Comment #48306921

    Not sure what part of the world you're from but I'm sure you can find some decent authentic gigs around where people aren't doing it for the likes and follows :) Honestly, going to…

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    Comment #48252296

    > "Now, Kevin is an incredible young man and we are tremendously proud of him. He works out of state as a software developer" Half-expecting a comment from him here on HN

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    Comment #48068977

    "Your screen is 320 by 568 pixels, rendered at 2x density — which means it is almost certainly a recent, high-end display." Not quite, I'm on a 2016 iPhone SE

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    Comment #48055297

    What are these hacker camps you speak of?

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    Comment #48033333

    Sounds like a hard lesson in boundaries. No-one is entitled to your time but you.

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    Comment #47992231

    I'm going to quote myself from a blog post I wrote back in 2012: > Nethack is incredibly difficult, and near impossible to win without some knowledge. Whilst it could be argued tha…

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    Comment #47886360

    Reminds me of this blog post where someone was trying to reverse-engineer a hand-rolled encryption protocol in a crossword app by colorizing the output and looking for patterns. ht…

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    Comment #47872071

    That's what Signal does on my iPhone, I thought it was the default?

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    Comment #47790766

    So many upvotes. And not even any accompanying submission text. I love it.

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    Comment #47515831

    Makes me wonder then why they can't afford a team of Android developers to make the Android version.

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    Comment #47446077

    I'm guessing it's a lot more expensive to install and maintain card readers than to essentially just have signs prompting people to use their phone.

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    Comment #47386005

    Glad I wasn't the only one. Love how he goes on to say how he's aware that people are unfamiliar with all those names he just dropped.

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    Comment #47385227

    Was it this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXqVV8_GORE He finds a solution involving copying files across from an older version of xcode

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