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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Prices tags are normally prepared using computers which are famously good at maths. Here in the UK, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have different rules for tax on certain products and yet everything is advertised with the final price.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Apple and giving their own software priviledged access and denying/revoking that priveledge from their competitors. Name a more iconic duo. See also Tile, Pebble, Spotify, etc.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have no relevant opinion on the story, but why is the photo of a slab of butter on a chopping board beside a small pile of fudge squares and chocolates?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's true! I just drew a circle and measured it. Turns out π≈5.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Also you’re not problem 2 on the list, you’re dangling at the bottom end.

And yet here you are.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Tell you what: why don't you write down a list of every problem in the world, ordered from most important to least important - and make sure it's totally objective - and we'll punish anyone who tries to fix problem 2 while problem 1 is outstanding. Sound good? No, sounds fucking batshit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Ah, yes, my Fortnite controller which I use to Fortnite with other Fortniters with my Fortnite console. Is this like a new version of when Boomers used to call anything even tangentally related to video games "a Nintendo"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I have a few domain names, including firstnamelastname.co.uk. I mostly use it for spam monitoring; everyone gets a different address, so eBay has ebay@, Microsoft has microsoft@, etc. It's harder for them to link my identities together and if I suddenly start getting fuckloads of spam I know who leaked/sold my address. Fuck you, LinkedIn and LastFM.

I also had my own email server until recently (MailInABox on Proxmox), but I was looking for a cloud storage provider so I ended up signing up for Proton and moving my email there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I currently have my full name on GMail and Proton, but I actually had my first name on GMail when it first launched. As in, if my name was Brian (it isn't (it might be (it isn't))) I had [email protected]. Sold it for £1000.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Many of the allegories from the likes of Descartes and Aristotle use the concept of the mind being manipulated by demons - a common trope of their times - but the concepts being explored were the same as people talking about being a character in a book, or a brain in a jar, or a computer simulation; they're just using the prevailing ideas of their time to communicate ideas to their contemporaries.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm currently running Timberborn on a potato. The NPCs don't perceive their world's lag: they are part of the world.

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