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> Horrible controls. Interesting! I found them mostly ok, but I was playing with a keyboard. They definitely remind me of the controls of Pacman games I grew up with where (as sibl…

Which, ultimately, is not such a big difference to the reason we split up work for humans, either. Human job specialization is just context management over the course of 30 years.

This is the first time I've ever even heard of unofficial screen upgrades even being _possible_, and I'm at least two standard deviations from the mean on the "likes to tinker" sca…

One thing I'm confused about in this whole thing is what makes Rebble think they have a right to the data in the first place? They scraped it! "We don't like you scraping the data …

I understand there's two versions of requirements for the NVidia 50 series - the higher end 5070Ti and up, and the lower end 5070 and down. What's the chance of releasing a 5070Ti/…

It can be a bit difficult, particularly now that some phones are getting more demanding about re-authorising before it will go through. Tap-try to get fingerprint scanner working-t…

> There's still plenty of hardware-specific APIs, you still debug assembly when something crashes, you still optimize databases for specific storage technologies and multimedia tra…

The full featured version doesn't even run on Mac OS. Excel, PowerPoint and Word for Mac are all pale imitations of their Windows counterparts.

Certainly "there should be one, and preferably only one, obvious way to solve a problem" hasn't been the case for a while, or maybe ever. See: tfa. Perhaps it's just because I'm no…

Melbourne is easily the worst city in the country for this. Most of the tech sector is in the very large enterprise space lead by the banks, and as a result it's who you know and w…

People look at me funny when I say this, but it's true. I work in performance - a space where we're thinking about threading, parallelism and the like a lot - and I often say "I wa…

I feel like it's not the RAT you'll notice from inside the plane, it will be the silence from the engines. That combined with at least a momentary flicker of the lighting (I'm not …

> Former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer says "most people" in Australia do not see Assange as a journalist. The Downer family have recent history in misjudging what "…

I've been taking this approach more recently. Something shipped is 100% better than nothing at all, even if it's 25% worse than if I whole-assed it. It's been working, in that the …

Not shipping internationally is a pretty frustrating decision. This device is almost exactly what I want, but I can't buy it because you... can't put it in a DHL box with a differe…

I disagree. There's a clear disclaimer of who they are, and they're responding to a specific criticism. Their comment at the top level also has that disclaimer and while it's writt…

Let's not pretend that Mac OS is immune to a bit of the old upsell too. Core OS that features only work when paired with iPad/iPhone. iCloud is actively difficult not to use. The s…

The third party display thing is dead on. I have a $2000 AUD LG monitor that Mac OS just occasionally decides to overdrive (or something) and cause instant but temporary burn in. I…

> budgets exhausted at EOY Nope! Often there's money left over for whatever reason, and in many places if you don't use it this year, you'll lose it next year. Nothing like walking…

> A salesperson not selling anything for 3 months was never heard of It's funny that you say this then go on to accuse others of never having had jobs. I've worked around enterpris…

> Q4 is always the busiest time for sales. Yes, but not if you're still ramping. The sales cycle for Cloudflare is probably 6-24 months. Unless you've stepped in on a deal that's b…

When I clicked this it took me straight into a page with code and an explanation with a bunch of assumed knowledge. It's not very self-explanatory. When I came back here, it the ad…

What makes any of those things more or less valuable than playing a video game? Volunteering, sure, but the rest are just as self indulgent as any other pass time. Just because you…

This just isn't the case for me. I don't wake up when I skip breakfast, and if I don't eat throughout the day, I invariably end up exhausted by 3pm only to wake right up 45 minutes…

The vendor that appears on my Credit Card statement is Amazon. The organisation who sets the commercial terms is Amazon. The website is completely Amazon branded. The goods are usu…