galleywest200

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Comment · 12 days ago
Maybe water access for parts of the process?
Comment · 20 days ago
Did he put up though? Do you have multiple examples of pro-consumer wins he had early in his tenure?
Comment · 20 days ago
> The alternatives have always been crap

LibreOffice is actually fine for 99% of all paper pusher workloads. The only office app that can claim superiority is Excel.

Comment · 21 days ago
Normally “second screen content” refers to something you glance at while doing your main task such as a day job (emails, etc).

Another example is Old School Runescape, which has gained a moniker of “second screen game” because a lot of the boring grindy content can be done while focusing on something else.

Comment · 24 days ago
The Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest selling console of all time. Consoles are not dying, it is just that Nintendo won the war.
Comment · 27 days ago
Which is fine. RuneScape has been in development since the early 2000s, long before GenAI even existed. They got along before GenAI and they can continue to not use it.

People may be forgetting the game has 20 years of content already, why do they need to make more faster with GenAI? Its already a massive piece of software.

Runescape is quite literally a dinner table name it is that famous. Their only true competition is probably World of Warcraft. The community is already huge. What competitive advantages are they going to lose? Likely none.

Comment · 1 month ago
My company uses Oracle BRM to bill for millions of phone calls each month. It would be such a crazy upheaval project to move from that.
Comment · 1 month ago
Prehistoric humans get a pass in my book. They seemed to have a cozy life.
Comment · 1 month ago
I agree with this statement in general, but it “hurts less” to spend money when you are running things yourself. Hard for me to give a specific definition as to why, but it may be more palatable to companies to burn their own cash on their own hardware.

Maybe it is “sunked cost” or maybe it is “I will do it myself dammit”.

Comment · 1 month ago
I wonder if the popularity of NetBSD for research has to do with how easy it is to compile a version of NetBSD with favorable licenses.

You can opt to build it yourself and exclude anything that is not 2-clause BSD licensed, as some drivers and such are if I recall correctly.

Comment · 1 month ago
My response to that would be

“Hey intern/grad student, enjoy your new assignment”

Comment · 1 month ago
Captions are for audio. I presume if someone is reading captions they can read the whiteboard.

Now if you are talking about the blind then sure thats different but the blind don't need captions.

Comment · 1 month ago
Counter point is captions are also really cheap. I presume the lecturer read from a script, just use that.
Comment · 2 months ago
Birthright citizenship is a constitutional right in the US same as freedom of speech, religion, the press, and the right to sue the government.

The change would require 2/3 of all states to approve a constitutional amendment. It won't ever pass. Most of us are only citizens because someone up the chain was born under this rule.

My family came here in the early 1700s and fought in the revolution. It would be a disgrace for me to do anything other than support immigrants.

Comment · 2 months ago
Could be that woodlands grow better in areas with more rain and thus less sun and thus more cases of seasonal depression?

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