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JohnAnthony

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  • France is ditching Zoom and Microsoft Teams for a homegrown video platform

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  • Since I haven't seen anyone point it out yet, "la suite" could translate to "the [software] collection", but is more commonly used to mean "continuation" in the sense of a "next step".I find it hard to translate, but the wording implies this is the next evolution, and they're not going back.

  • Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore

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  • I already thought it was pretty bad but that is somehow even worse. Par for the course I suppose

  • Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore

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  • The new Start menu is also a significant improvement over the old one, with more icons on show, the ability to turn off Recommended ads, [...]

    Guys, we are allowed to disable the ads now. We might have been too harsh on microsoft after all.

    ...insanity, I tell you. Ads, in your face, right in the Start Menu, on your computer that you bought, on your OS that you bought.

  • Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year

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  • While that is a good point (and an xkcd I didn't know), the stats say Linux also had the largest absolute growth, so it's not quite as misleading as you make it out to be

  • Too much Bloat

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  • With a magnetic needle and a steady hand ?

  • iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots."

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  • Thank you very much for your hard work. I would never have gotten a robot vacuum if Valetudo did not exist.

  • AI powered Route

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  • What an idiot. It's an airplane obviously it has to fly up into the air and then down again

  • [JakeyBoi] No Rolls Here

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  • Thank you for the detailed answer!

    I played Pathfinder for a few sessions, but didn't care much for the combat system. I tend to favor conditions over hitpoints these days, and from what I recall Pathfinder was very A+B-C. "Wounded-Dying-Dead" systems are a bit too simplified, but I find around 15 hp to be the maximum I enjoy tracking.

    Fate looks interesting for sure. It isn't what is was looking for, but the quick rules' overview I just watched was very intriguing. I might try to find a session to watch to get a better idea of how the system plays out.

    Now Chronicles of Darkness... is not the medieval-fantasy setting I was looking for, but the system hits all the right spots. Around 10hp max, but with pretty much "wounded-dying-dead" superimposed - 9 attributes which combine to give various sub-stats - enough skills to cover basic situations, but room for specialisation as you see fit - rolling lots of dice for epic situations, but counting them fairly simply - and role playing elements integrated into the system through vices and virtues.From what I quickly watched, I love it. I might try to adapt it to medieval fantasy, or just play a a short campaign in the intended world to get a feel for it. Really cool any way, thanks again.

  • [JakeyBoi] No Rolls Here

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  • I would love a few recommendations, if you don't mind. I played mostly Warhammer 2nd edition but can't seem to get around to the latest 4th edition. It feels convoluted and not "balanced", if that makes sense. Every few sessions I keep thinking there has to be a better and/or less complicated system out there.

    I mostly want the rules to get out of the way of the story we are playing, but still want some depth, differentiation and player choices. And I need a decent magic system, which seems to be the hardest to get right.

    Any ideas ?

  • The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

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  • I agree with the general idea of the article, but there are a few wild takes that kind of discredit it, in my opinion.

    "Imagine the calculator app leaking 32GB of RAM, more than older computers had in total" - well yes, the memory leak went on to waste 100% of the machine's RAM. You can't leak 32GB of RAM on a 512MB machine. Correct, but hardly mind-bending."But VSCodium is even worse, leaking 96GB of RAM" - again, 100% of available RAM. This starts to look like a bad faith effort to throw big numbers around."Also this AI 'panicked', 'lied' and later 'admitted it had a catastrophic failure'" - no it fucking didn't, it's a text prediction model, it cannot panic, lie or admit something, it just tells you what you statistically most want to hear. It's not like the language model, if left alone, would have sent an email a week later to say it was really sorry for this mistake it made and felt like it had to own it.

  • Should I go back to my old job?

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  • I was about to answer something about "never" being a bit too absolute for my taste and try to give a nuanced perspective about it being OK to get back to an old job if you feel it's better for you.

    Then I realised I am just 100% projecting and creating excuses for myself, which whether I am right or wrong is a really bad basis for giving out advice.

    I am leaving my current job in 3 weeks to go freelance, and I am definitely anxious about it. Somewhere in the back of my head I was keeping a door open to allow myself to go back in case it does not work out. Fact is, I know why I quit and it would indeed be a terrible idea to go back to the same company. So, thanks for helping me sort this out!

  • What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage?

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  • Also, autonomous bodywide scratching

  • Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored...

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  • It is more specific in France, but I actually dug around regulations a year ago when the other homeowners in my building wanted to install a security camera. The common parts of a residential building are considered somewhere in between public and private.

    The short version is you need majority approval, the tape can only be accessed if something happens, you can't film apartments doors or windows and as few people as possible may have access. Which put quite a damper on my neighbours who were already celebrating how they would watch who enters and leaves the building at all times.Bunch of fucking weirdos.

  • Using rsync for backups, because it's not shiny and new

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  • rsync -avzhP gang unite! I knew someone would have posted my standard flags. I used them enough that my brain moved them from RAM to ROM at this point...

  • psycho killer

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  • That is well said and something I often struggle to express without sounding super creepy. If someone is attracted to kids, but would never touch one because they know it would be profoundly wrong, I believe they should be congratulated and directed to therapy. Prison, a public lynching or self loathing and isolation are not going to help.

    Which doesn't have much in common with pedo island, obviously.

  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unified

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  • My interpretation was that pink lady shouted out some crap formula FBI guy does not understand anyway so they would be left alone again.

    Last panel half contradicts it, half just leans harder into the absurdity of it all. I wouldn't expect physicists to care much about Rubik's Cubes, I think even the cliché fits mathematicians much better.

    Basically, my spontaneous takeaway was "government and media are so science-illiterate that nobody understands anyone anymore".

  • Common Brit L

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  • I would just like to add that the french people don't actually have grenade launchers on hand, since they are not sold in supermarkets here.

    So we just march, shout, sing, hold signs, and get tear-gassed at some point. Admittedly we're usually in the tens of thousands in medium sized cities and we sometimes burn a few cars and trash cans for good measure.

    The last large protest was on September 18. and had between 500k and 1.1M protesters, according to the police and the protesters respectively.

  • Relateable?

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  • Meine Mutter fand eigentlich, ich sollte die alten Bücher aus ihrer Kindheit lieber gar nicht lesen, oder auf jeden Fall mit ihr drüber reden.

    Max und Moritz war absurd genug, um in meiner Erinnerung OK zu scheinen. Das eigensinnige Kind hingegen fand ich grässlich.

    Obligatorisches "Sorry, ich lebe schon lange nicht mehr in Deutschland und kann weitgehend kein deutsch mehr"

  • DOdodo DODO DOdodo DODO Dodododo DODO DODOOOOO🎶🎵🎶

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  • Am I an idiot for trying to match the "DODOdo"s with Darude - Sandstorm?

    They don't match. Don't try.