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- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 1 day ago:
- Comment on No excuses 3 days ago:
Well, it has been my experience that kindness is in the eye of the beholder.
- Comment on No excuses 4 days ago:
You don’t know what someone is going through, and everybody is the way they are because of a background that they didn’t choose.
That said, sometimes being unkind is the most effective way of pushing people toward a better path.
- Comment on they all start out the same but in a month they figure it out 4 days ago:
Indeed. This is their job and they’re using company resources to pay someone else to do it for them.
- Comment on Deep 1 week ago:
PREGANTE
- Comment on Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy 1 week ago:
IIRC was prescribed like 30 ejaculations over the course of two months. I could be wrong about the exact number but I remember thinking I had to actually put an effort and some consistency in it if I was going to hit the target.
- Comment on Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy 1 week ago:
With the left hand. You don’t need that much dexterity to click thumbnail images.
- Comment on Deep 1 week ago:
trasgernder
- Comment on What's your favourite menu music in a game? 1 week ago:
The Mirror’s Edge theme was written by Lisa Miskovsky who was part of Cheiron Studios and worked on several hit songs including Backstreet Boys’ “Shape of my heart”. One of my favorite songs of hers is “Why start a fire”.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 2 weeks ago:
I use mine as a toy and as a device for making phone calls
- Comment on Daily routine for me 2 weeks ago:
unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 2 weeks ago:
Brits don’t actually use spices other than salt.
- Comment on US will complete TikTok deal ‘in coming days’ and control its algorithm, White House says 2 weeks ago:
So is Facebook and Instagram
- Comment on US will complete TikTok deal ‘in coming days’ and control its algorithm, White House says 2 weeks ago:
“In about two weeks”
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 2 weeks ago:
Why does everyone assume that programmers can just go and fix stuff they don’t like without getting shot down in performance reviews for lack of focus or changing things without product owners approval.
We have a prioritized list of work items coming in from the PO and that’s what we work on. There’s generally no room for creativity. Supporting larger files in Notepad in particular would increase maintenance costs due to requiring much more complex memory management, and it would label you as not being a team player for increasing complexity for everyone.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 2 weeks ago:
One of the best features of notepad was that it starts quickly. That feature is now gone. :(
- Comment on What use a smart card reader? 2 weeks ago:
You can store a private/public key pair on a smart card and use it for digitally signing or encrypting things like email, or just for authenticating to your PC. Some banks also support authentication by client certificate; web browsers can access your smart card for authenticating to web sites.
- Comment on Good evening. 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: if a woman eats only hamburgers through her entire pregnancy, then she will have created a human being out of hamburgers.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 weeks ago:
These arguments would apply the same to Google’s approach. My argument is that Google appears to have another agenda.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 weeks ago:
If they only cared about thwarting malware they could have just relied on code signing via public certificate authorities, like with binaries on Windows.
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 1 month ago:
- Comment on 1 month ago:
FWIW, while it’s not a VM, games for Windows do tend to have higher performance in Proton on Linux than they do in Windows 11.
- Comment on sponsored by raycon 1 month ago:
They mean as successfully as you
- Comment on Vibe check! 1 month ago:
GATTACA
- Comment on Microsoft investigates Israeli military’s use of Azure cloud storage 1 month ago:
Well yes, their sales department needs to know whom to contact
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 2 months ago:
Did anyone catch what the Proton app adds over all the already existing apps?
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 2 months ago:
Not everybody cares for SEO BS
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people 2 months ago:
Dude, the problem is you have no fucking idea if it’s wrong yourself, have nothing to back it up
That’s not true. For starters you can evaluate it on its own merits to see if it makes logical sense - the AI can help solve a maths equation for you and you can see that it checks out without needing something else to back it up.
Second, agentic or multiple-step AI:s will dig out the sources for you so you can check them. It’s a smart search engine with no ads and better focus on the question asked.
- Comment on How Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 Will Change Our Phones 2 months ago:
I just got Android 16 via OTA update yesterday. Nothing changed.
- Comment on The more things change, the more they stay the same. 2 months ago:
