sparky
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Originally from Fort Lauderdale 🇺🇸, lived many years in Vienna 🇦🇹, now living in Setúbal 🇵🇹. Software engineer specialized in Apple platforms. 🌎
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 3 days ago:
Nope, you can buy an external one or something as an accessory but it’s another hundred bucks.
- Comment on Preference 6 days ago:
Came here to say the same thing, like WTF, why would you need a jar of 500
- Comment on If Necromancy suddenly became possible, can the undead be called as a witness during court proceedings? 4 weeks ago:
I call the corpse of John Smith to the stand.
Mr Smith, where were you on the night of October the fourth?
……ungh……hiss…… BRAINS….
- Comment on Todd Howard's exclusive 1,000G Xbox achievement appears after years of secrecy 1 month ago:
Literally every company’s “corporate culture” right here. Assemble a room full of people who know what they’re doing, then boss man dictates what should be done with his very limited information, all the while not listening to said people who know what they’re doing, because ThE pRoJeCt, or the ScHeDuLe, or the shareholders, or fucking whatever. Truly, American capitalism cannot be perfected upon.
- Comment on We keep running into LLMs that are pretending to be people, but I bet there are a handful of people out there pretending to be LLMs. 1 month ago:
This comment is an absolute work of art.
- Comment on Close call 1 month ago:
I guess all of these stores will be gone before too long as these days a large portion of the new consoles don’t have a disc drive at all.
- Comment on Is my van submission too late? 1 month ago:
This is the stupidest one, kudos. Take my upvote.
- Comment on To distinguish between the word woman and women, we change the A to an E, but only change the pronunciation on the O. 1 month ago:
Native Portlander here, that’s definitely not us. Wuh-man and Wim-min.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yea, I was a manager at multiple jobs and wasn’t allowed to give interview feedback for this reason, they were afraid anything I said would be fuel for a wrongful rejection lawsuit.
- Comment on Pigs in a blanket for the lazy 2 months ago:
It’s the breadluminati. They are everywhere.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 5 months ago:
It’s actually Argentina and Chile, which tips that calculus in our favour given they’re friendly western developed nations.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 5 months ago:
I pay 15€ a month in Portugal for unlimited data, sms, calls etc and it even includes roaming in the rest of Europe 😊
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 5 months ago:
It’s because “home” in this formation is an adverb, whereas school is a noun. You can be an adverb- I’m tall, I’m short… - but you must be at a noun (or on, or in, or some other preposition).
- Comment on C O L O N I Z E 5 months ago:
Interesting TIL, thanks!
- Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense 7 months ago:
Idk we can do this too, der Waschautomat, less common of course but…
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 8 months ago:
I do understand the point you’re making actually, but you’re wading into emotionally charged waters here. I would argue “white” is an inherently racial term, but the more importantly, the correlation is not really relevant to the discussion and needlessly muddies your broader point (that climate may inspire or disincentive industrialisation) by injecting it with racial discussion.
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 8 months ago:
I get what this guy is trying to say but the phrasing and unnecessary racialising explains the downvotes. A better and less offensive way to put this could simply have referred to climate: that you suspect the harsher climate in Europe rewarded industrial and penalised agrarian lifestyles in a way that wasn’t true for civilisations near the equator. Being white or not has nothing to do with it - correlation versus causation.
- Comment on My Sega Genesis running Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) 8 months ago:
You had a flatscreen HDTV in 1991? Damn, found the time traveler! 😉
- Comment on AppleTV complete replacement opinions 8 months ago:
Actually with a Synology NAS you don’t need Plex, they have a built in equivalent called DS Video with apps for Apple TV, iOS, Android, etc!
I’ve had an Nvidia shield in the past as well and it works reasonably well, but the video experience is definitely better on the Apple TV. The Android boxes make more sense if you want a place to install emulators that also occasionally streams.
- Comment on AppleTV complete replacement opinions 8 months ago:
Keep your Apple TV and use it as a streaming client for whatever you stand up on the backend. Personally I have a Synology NAS that I love and I use the net to get all my content. Use the net. 😉
- Comment on Australian Cheng Lei's first message from Chinese prison describes harsh conditions 1 year ago:
Her situation is regrettable nonetheless; but I agree with you, I don’t understand why any Western journalist would work onsite in a country without freedom of the press or human rights. And I don’t just mean China but Russia, Iran, etc. It’s just far too dangerous, and the reporting you do won’t reach local ears anyway.