TremendousJudge

>ended up affecting only people with really weird/niche configurations that didn't really make a lot of logical sense Did it now? afaik if you only had one drive, and one partition, and h…

Console manufacturers never seem to have any issue with it, and hard drives are user upgradable

>while Pepsi branded ones (excluding Dr Pepper) Dr Pepper is independent, neither a part of Pepsico or CocaCola Company. Part of their (successful) marketing campaign was making everybody believe t…

they _could_ try to make money in some way that is more productive to society than spreading mind-viruses

The ad industry is very good at selling itself

you know, sometimes I wonder how the internet would look like today if every time you loaded content from a server some money would automatically go their way (a tiny payment compensating for server t…

I know, but it's one of those things that are much easier said than done sadly

This essay[0] on the consistency of Middle Earth by the author of The Last Ringbearer[1] really explores the topic as well [0] https://ymarkov.livejournal.com/273409.html [1] https:&…

or worse (and more likely), it's something you can lose

my _bank_ requires passwords to be exactly 8 characters and is case insensitive. when I first realized I literally couldn't believe it, it's infuriating

I honestly don't give a shit about 90% of the services I sign up to that require passwords

>People aren't good at memorizing long lists of things It's much easier to remember a 40 character passphrase of real words than a 12 character password of random symbols including punctu…

The excel email attachments one was insane, and great writeup ( https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem... )…

If you want to see "Amsterdam's way of life" then stay away from the downtown. It's literally adult Disneyworld, with pretty much everything it implies. It's great if that…

Even in the city itself, the best renaissance sculpture museum imo is not the Academy where Michelangelo's David is, but the Bargello which not many people actually visit (the Academy is always s…

GoPro reminds me of every new Kindle, they made the definitive product early on and are forced to release the same thing over and over

I don't think it's the oldest by a longshot, but check this one out, from the Apollo 11 software: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Lum…

I mean, the project is cool and all, but it's a guarantee that a rocket that does not really exist yet will not send people to the moon's orbit in 5 years time. Anybody arguing differently i…

thank you so much, this is exactly what I wanted

...there's a little cog wheel at the top right?

I installed Windows 10 on my machine a couple of weeks ago, and downloaded the latest version of Skype. I could still log in with my 10 year old account, but I couldn't recover my chat history (e…

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." - Anatole France

And Firefox to some extent, except they actually fixed it by requiring all addons to be reimplemented. Lesser of two evils and all that

it's the best video streaming platform. nothing comes close in terms on quality, speed, and amount of content

well... yeah the bills don't pay themselves you know

>just go to another and still contact friends the only problem is that you can only have friends of the type of people that use Mastodon

yeah, part of it was invented at PARC

getting a job isn't easy for everyone

to people who grew up with archive programs, "making all of this into a single file" and "compressing all of this" is the same thing; requiring two commands is counterintuitive

honestly, not having a man page would be better than half of the man pages out there