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rhubarbquid

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    Comment #22016933

    I've worked in media, and I can confirm the "packages" that sponsors buy as described are totally normal in media. There's a reason editorial departments are totally separate from …

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    Comment #22016883

    It's almost like there's a reason the FTC requires disclosure of paid content...

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    Comment #14573458

    > Just use the GMail to avoid the delay with fetching third party accounts. "Don't use the email client you prefer" isn't really a great argument against it being bad UX...

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    Comment #14556643

    You've probably built up a decent skillset that would be valuable to a growing startup, if you're interested in working for someone else for a change. Don't be discouraged that you…

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    Comment #14329009

    Is something messed up for me, or does nothing much happen until the 1:30 mark?

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    Comment #13778834

    I have no problem with them charging for their software, but it's kind of lame that you have to download and run it before they even tell you it requires buying a license...

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    Comment #13517607

    I'm curious why you'd be opposed to throttling background tabs. I could see it being a problem if it interfered with, for example, playback from things like soundcloud, but I'd als…

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    Comment #13223672

    > I would have made a very strange push for developing a simple RISC-V core I assume that's just a typo/autocorrect, but it makes for a hilarious mental image

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    Comment #13094404

    I would guess: a policy against installing unapproved software on production servers, systems that don't have compilers installed (for security, jq appears to be C code), or debugg…

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    Comment #13094383

    It might be interesting to try... but switching operating systems is kind of a big step just to try another shell. Or is there some OO shell that works on Mac or Linux that I don't…

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    Comment #13029216

    Linux was the only OS on my desktop in 1994...

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    Comment #13029167

    It's been there since 10.10: https://developer.apple.com/reference/hypervisor

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    Comment #13029158

    and 2 sentences after describing themselves as someone "whose definition of "fun" includes spending 6 hours in the middle of the night figuring how to get dual boot working with UE…

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    Comment #12992097

    Wow, that's super creepy This looks like dream tool for stalkers

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    Comment #12965071

    It has 6 usb ports, 2 of them type-c

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    Comment #12877877

    Metallic hydrogen was theorized to be a superconductor in a 1968 paper: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.21....

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    Comment #12869103

    Not yet, the new Macbook Pro meets all my needs (assuming I can stand the keyboard)

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    Comment #12859865

    > None of the data in chat is really a "system of record" and the switching costs are minimal. That's not true where I work. Slack's history is full of valuable information that we…

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    Comment #12583667

    I started working on a web based renderer for the burning ship fractal a little while ago. It's far from perfect, I still consider it a WIP, but it works well enough to play around…

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    Comment #12295132

    $35 sounds a bit high to me...

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    Comment #12295118

    It looks like the crap they used to put in spam emails to get past the early spam filters

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    Comment #12252549

    I think we agree, I meant "more than we could" not "more than there used to be" ;-)

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    Comment #12252509

    a) It never hurts to let the developers know you want it b) In theory, you should be able to hibernate Linux and boot in to Windows > I'd need to share monitors/keyboard for practi…

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    Comment #12252436

    > Mac used to be the same story, but now I would bet that at least 10% of indie game sales are on Mac. One of the big things that changed was that Macs got a lot more popular and b…

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    Comment #12251609

    Printing those warnings to every end user isn't particularly useful though...