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  1. Phiwise_

    A Quick Interview with Laura Fryer, Industry Veteran at Xbox

    It can vary a lot depending on organization and office politics, but when done right good producers are essential to coordinating the skills and time of a large and varied pool of experts so resources aren't wasted and the pieces of the project come together without friction and they can focus...
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    Possible Cheating in Quake 3 Arena Speedrun

    I didn't see anything too unusual. Working the spawns is a part of the game, and quake trains a careful, precise aim that can look strange if you're used to other shooters. As for his expression, that's how Raisy pretty much always is: https://youtu.be/_hLt8KjGTO4
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    Court Protects Personal Information Requested by Media Companies

    Doesn't the article say the court granted at least one of the requests? Seems less like a ruling victory and more like an untelated question of some requests not meeting the evidence standard. This was a California federal court decision anyway, and the case is in New Jersey. No theoretical...
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    The Official Congressional Blacklist

    I don't think you understand my commitment to solving it. I want to be the prairie doctor, taking off a limb with a hacksaw to stop gangrene. I'm confused by this phrasing. Have you been trying to say the fed would love a cbdc, but shouldn't morally? Cuz yeah, that's what a "congressional...
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    The Current Deplorable State of Smartphones in 2023

    Hard disagree. Ease-of-use and power don't have to be a trade-off, and aren't in engineering with higher standards. Phones are like this because the average joe doesn't want power, or more specifically doesn't know to want power, but that can be changed. Maybe not by one person, but it can happen.
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    The Official Congressional Blacklist

    Not really. I find it quite enjoyable to support business I like over business I don't. Huh? What would a central bank find disagreeable about a centralized currency? Especially with the backing of law to monopolize it.
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    The Current Deplorable State of Smartphones in 2023

    I got a Samsung (TM) Galaxy (TM) Core (TM) 2 (TM) a couple months after it came out, and have fond memories of its OS simplicity and shape that was designed to be held by a human hand. Looks like it was released a couple weeks after the S5.
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    The Official Congressional Blacklist

    No, I'll vote with my feet and use the ones that don't. Thus why it's a problem that the gov looks to be gearing up to not let any of them choose to compete for my business by not requiring info I don't want to give.
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    The Official Congressional Blacklist

    Ah yes, whatever will I do if a website asks me for something I don't want to give them? /me closes website
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    The Official Congressional Blacklist

    >Government-run identity security for the whole country What could possibly go wrong? Literally the only good part of the SSN-as-ID system is thst your SSN is explicitly not a government ID and therefore the bureaucrats aren't allowed to feature-creep a universal security apparatus around it...
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    The Current Deplorable State of Smartphones in 2023

    I suppose this is meant to say the Galaxy S5 is your "best" model of smartphone?
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    The Official Congressional Blacklist

    Of course Mittens is behind this garbage. No wonder the glowies tried to unseat Lee last cycle. They wanted another instrument of panic. Lee asked a few too many questions at ie the chokepoint hearings.
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    The Official Congressional Blacklist

    Why are these clowns incapable of doing something good for once? Notably, isn't archive.today based in Russia? Can't wait for my gov to give the monopoly on archiving to those scum at internet archive.
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    Top 10 Free Programs for Windows (UPDATED AGAIN)

    0: TronScript Fights for the user (and so thoroughly that even most power users will get benefit out of it). 'Nuff said.
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    Cinema Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) - Very Predictable but Good

    I don't see many movies, but puss in boots was my least predictable movie in some time. I predicted any emotional tension or serious stakes would be constantly undercut by mediocre jokes, and was blown away when the shrekspawn merchandising vehicle about an animated anthropomorphic cat and...
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    Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer -Liam Proven

    That would be cool, but to my understanding it's not even clear if such processors will work at this point. Only a lot of research dollars from a very rich company or VC can really change that. (And people wonder why Intel's always begging for handouts...) That's what I like most about this...
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    Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer -Liam Proven

    First, what went wrong: The Circuit Less Traveled: Investigating some alternate histories of computing Second, how it happened: Generation Gaps: A heretical history of computing Finally, a crazy idea to fix it: Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer I...
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    Game Server Announcements + Site Logo Subtitle Possibilities

    I quite like "Raw data for raw nerves".
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    8 Actually Good Movies That People Got Ass-Mad About

    It amuses me to no end just how badly these people overestimate how much the rest of the world cares about them. They almost need to, emotionally. "In retrospect, this was telling me two things about people's relationship to technology. One was that romance and image go a long way towards...
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    8 Actually Good Movies That People Got Ass-Mad About

    I'm forty seconds in to that TLJ vid and the guy is bragging about the rotten tomatoes score. The critic rotten tomatoes score. As they say, you don't get a third chance to make a second impression. (Plus it's immediately after obliquely bragging about what a terrible risk he's taking with his...
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    Should I Personally Support AI Software?

    I still don't get it. How is stable diffusion going to "disproportionately benefit the upper class"? It's free "art" for whoever wants it. And even if it did, there's plenty of reason to not think that matters. https://youtu.be/xbJ0aAKd0fg
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    Should I Personally Support AI Software?

    I'm not sure I know what this is supposed to mean.
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    Should I Personally Support AI Software?

    I disagree with this in the specific case of Stable Diffusion, like another user said all the images I've seen look both samey and technically inferior (ie misuse of soft lines even on objects with hard edges or a mess of large-scale composition or people with hands with too many or too few...
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