Jamie

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I just want to know how saving passwords is a revolutionary new feature that needs a dedicated advertisement. We've been able to do that on every Web browser for what, 20 years?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I could see why someone would think it, though. My girlfriend got her license very late, we went to the same DMV 3 times to take the test. First time, bapped the pole during the parallel park, instant fail, do not pass go, do not collect a driver's license. Second time, didn't pass the parallel park but didn't bap the pole, so continued. Got marked "Fail" on things. More practice, third time, again, tons of fails over minor errors. Note that there is a middle point between good and fail, but they literally never used it.

Fourth time, I said screw that DMV, we're going to a different one. We went to a town with a tiny DMV with one little older lady running it, she literally had to lock up the office portion for every road test because she was alone. Girlfriend miraculously did the parallel park perfect, not a single fail on anything, and 2/3 of the middle scores. Passed easily.

First DMV had a lot of young workers, so my thinking is they like to mark everything they can to show their bosses how good they are at nitpicking other people's driving.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I just have Spotify and, if it counts, YT Premium. Spotify is on the family plan where my dad has his own account tied to mine, and he can just pull up basically any music he feels like listening to instead of asking me to find it for him.

As for YT, I'm just too lazy to set up blocking the ads on my TV.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oxygen makes iron turn into rust, don't let that be your lungs. Oppose Big Oxygen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Imagine if Microsoft did the same thing with Windows? Allowing software companies to just suddenly change the rules like that could be a terrible precedent. They would probably get hit with antitrust for like the 50th time since they opened their doors.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Turns out other businesses aren't fond of being asked to pay a dollar to reload, who knew?

They keep walking back further and their stock prices just keep plummeting. I would like to say I hope the CEO, who is the former CEO of EA, for any who aren't aware, gets fired for this. But we all know that no matter how hard he messes up, some other business will pay him millions in incentives to pick him up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And borrowing on them is just a bad idea. At least in the case of my 401k, there's no early payoff, you don't make interest off it while it's borrowed, it really can hurt in the long term unless the loan amount is very small.

I looked out of curiosity because I want to buy a house somewhere in the next 5 years, and immediately ruled out any consideration of borrowing off 401k.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't be that surprised if that look became a meme face

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Rule 1: You are playing The Game.

You, along with everyone else in the world, always is, always has been, and always will be playing The Game. Neither awareness nor consent is required to play.

Rule 2: Every time you think about The Game, you lose.

Loss is temporary; as soon as you forget about The Game you stop losing. The objective of The Game is to forget that it exists. Good luck.

Rule 3: Loss of The Game must be announced.

Every time you think about The Game, and hence lose, you must say so. This is the only rule that can be broken, but do you really need to cheat..?

Congratulations, you are now playing The Game, and you just lost.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Hopefully development studios can hold strong and continue their boycott anyway. Backing down now basically means Unity got away with it, in a sense. Plus, companies are learning from each other's shitty tactics lately ala Twitter, Reddit, and Recently Facebook coming out with payment schemes on things that used to be free.

So if Unity does this, other software companies will probably try some similar stuff.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This guy shits

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

This site has a bunch of samples in various programming languages for an X11 Hello World, including Assembly.

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