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dudeman13
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Comment #31520555
My gear is better than the recommended specs. I have to turn off anti-cheating (i.e. https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/90 ) to make it run smoothly, which disables online in…
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Comment #31272814
>it is in fact the case that getting new stuff done is the only way to benefit the company >[work that will] drive future productivity, of course I think this is valuable These 2 a…
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Comment #31265855
>it is in fact the case that getting new stuff done is the only way to benefit the company I spent a few weeks just refactoring 6k lines of code into +- 300 lines on my current job…
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Comment #31264048
>You're asking for title inflation You're asking for feature bloat. If the only way of winning is getting new stuff done, new stuff will be done regardless of the benefit or cost t…
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Comment #31263955
>typically more harmful for more people on average than the feminine expressions of same The equivalent feminine expression of the same kind of dominance is a reputation war. Reput…
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Comment #31257506
>Why not a 1000 character long line? I work in a codebase where a previous dude constantly did this. I do not find those lines amusing. Whenever I'm un-fucking his stuff one of the…
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Comment #31233635
Bootcamps don't ask for almost half a decade of their lives and what's possibly crippling debt (depending on circumstances). If it matters, I have a Computer Engineering BSc and I …
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Comment #31229118
>People who complain about the charge port on the bottom don't use the mice. People who don't like pink bags don't buy pink bags.
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Comment #31204361
Will definitely take a long while. People in general aren't up to be criticized on that one, even indirectly. Children are like cute kitties: no one wants to see them tortured, but…
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Comment #31204289
Do you mind sharing how you got those references? I.e. which search strings/websites you used, or if you had them at hand with f.e. Mendeley or maybe already knew about them? I wan…
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Comment #31203700
I mean, Myers-Briggs is bollocks anyway so we shouldn't be using it for anything but funsies. I have a dream that one day we will shit hard on that sort of stuff instead of validat…
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Comment #31172258
Depending on the subject, people's natural state is optimism even if they think they are being realistic. [1] and [2] have a bunch of interesting references on this matter Appearin…
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Comment #31115163
The words just before it were "a sketchy patched executable". People are bound to infer there is something wrong with it, regardless of whatever your intentions might have been.
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Comment #31018332
I have a feeling if OP had read some of the papers surrounding Daniel Kahneman (and the works Kahneman cited) he wouldn't be so sure about mankind's rationality. It's like the vast…
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Comment #31006961
>At one point, all of the relevant facts and figures were loaded into your working memory, and with that information you arrived at a conclusion You are awfully optimistic about th…
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Comment #30970044
>Anyway, "other adults" lie all the time Yes, and if this is their standard modus operandi the healthy thing to do, if possible, is getting rid of them from your life. Are you gonn…
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Comment #30969527
It's not a game if you can't choose to stop playing it. People just don't respect kids. Would you enjoy that game with other adults? Even if no matter the situation they wouldn't g…
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Comment #30782738
So you're implying me the only place supply and demand actually works is in an idealized free market that doesn't exist? If that's the case, yeah, we agree on it. All those cases I…
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Comment #30760666
A close to most fundamental factor must survive close to most observations of the real world. That's not the case. Monopolies have historically shit all over the notion that supply…
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Comment #30747945
I don't think you can win this one. The free market might as well be a religion for some people. Nothing (not even historical facts) is enough evidence for it to not be the answers…
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Comment #30566151
Thanks for that. My initial reaction to the title was "wait, you can describe prime numbers using formal languages?". I could feel it in my guts that this would probably have some …
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Comment #30549369
The game design might be a bit bloated, but dashing and reverse "get over here" is what I always wanted on these sort of games. It's a damn shame how modern shooters just don't go …
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Comment #30549263
>All of there games are overpriced and never go on sale If whole generations of gamers will buy them regardless, why should they change it? Even after shitting hard on their custom…
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Comment #30410426
>There are thousands of Java accounting apps There is already a solution that lets us not reinvent this particular wheel. It's called Excel. I hate using it.
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Comment #30365563
>What I'm saying is that I don't think questions like that are a useful/effective route to understanding music more broadly. Thanks, I misunderstood you.