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847karma·750submissions·August 2, 2017
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It plays video games better, but it needs to be on bare metal for that to happen.
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Links to here:
https://xkcd.com/2617/
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Disney should buy them as EA did some of the Star Wars games.
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Watercooler talk and gossip should not be allowed at work. Talking about work is fine, talk politics on your own time.
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It was a good computer, a friend had one and I had a Commodore 64. The 64 had better sound and sprites, but the Atari had better color and animation.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/12/15/fac... …
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https://youtu.be/QEX1YFXYTdI Mythbusters proved a car can run on cooking oil that is used.
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Offer positive feedback instead of criticism. Give examples of how they could be or do better.
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Looks like an ALGOL type language. It was for the Atari 8 bit series. Possible it can be ported to C:
https://cc65.github.io/ That is a C compiler for 6502 based systems.…
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Fake news, if Roe is banned it is up to the states to decide if abortion is legal or not. It does not automatically ban abortions everywhere.
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Bubble sort is slow.
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It is just a draft copy and hasn't been voted on yet. No idea who leaked it, might be a hoax. Everyone is getting upset over it for no good reason. It just makes abortions legal or illegal at the…
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If I talk regular it is over their heads, I have to dumb it down and do some hand holding when things break. In the company I worked, I visited the users and asked them what they wanted in a wish list…
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Uh, did you know that is a cognitive bias?
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The liberals have moved further left into progressives. The Conservatives have moved a little bit right. I used to be liberal like everyone else until they moved left and made me a moderate relatively…
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Bad personality, good businessman.
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Hillary Clinton said it takes a village to raise a child.
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Apple has a good privacy policy, compared to other tech companies. Tracking can be turned off if you want.
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It keeps upper management busy and out of your hair micromanaging you.
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Mismanagement, raising prices, shit shows, leaving Russia, turning shows political. It just turns people off Netflix. I used to subscribe to Netflix a decade or so ago. Played Netflix on a PS3 on a TV…
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Data Compression. The P2P program compressed the file to a smaller size and recompressed it on your end. It did go faster but it is an illusion.
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Math programs in C and Python that I use like a calculator.
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Right to repair trumps the Mac, get an ATX standard PC and run BSD or Linux on it. Upgrade cards and RAM as you go along and replace them when they go bad. Also cheaper than a Mac. Apple makes Macs an…
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Not since a company in France bought out Lucent the old Bell Labs. Due to Visa quotas being filled a lot of talent in foreign students go back to their own nations to invent new tech. Big Tech like Go…
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Used websites like: https://findamentor.com/ Find one that is a good fit for you. Don't just contact people randomly find one willing to mentor you.…
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Burger King's app has always sucked. They refuse to fix it. McDonald's works better because they have better quality IT than BK. Don't go to BK anymore, boycott them until they fix thei…
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For tech news and product reviews. Discussions on the like as well. Sometimes nothing relevant to my interests but I learn about new things.
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Use a FOSS template or use WordPress with a theme. Why should you code your own website when using a template or WP is faster?
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I am certain Russia is having Snowden write spyware for them. We might see it soon enough as Russia uses it to spy on the USA and EU.