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  • Ex-believers, what made you quit your religion/cult?

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  • I'm an exmo. Gender and sex is doctrinally binary, I always wondered how intersex children would be treated. Thanks for sharing. There were lots of things that made me leave, but I always disagreed with the church's stance on LGBTQI+ issues.

  • Anyone know where this is from?

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  • FDA bans use of Red No. 3 dye in food, drinks

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  • Interesting question... After a small amount of research.

    The FDA in the US and the INS globally. The number is just a sequential identifier, i.e., red #3 was approved before red #5.

  • People who charge/discharge between 20-80%, how's your device?

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  • My Pixel 8a has this built in, the setting is called Charging Optimization, and will limit the charge to 80%.

  • How do you guys feel about the Pomodoro Technique?

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  • Use it for tasks you tend to put off and don't use it for tasks you tend to hyperfocus.

    Right now I mostly use it for boring time-consuming chores, otherwise I don't bother.

    I will hyperfocus when I am coding at work, so I never use it then

  • Chat, what do you see?

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  • If you could only have 1GB of entertainment data, what would it be?

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  • What are you going to do with the other 900mb?

  • HP drain

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  • That's how you get the vibrant greens.

  • Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers

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  • 20 years.

    But it isn't the original system. It's the implementation done is Legends Arceus.

  • Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers

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  • Nope, my bad. Im far from an expert but know enough to differential between copyright and parent. I didn't know that prior art had that meaning.

  • Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers

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  • Once again. Patents have nothing to do with art. And even if they had proof they worked on those mechanics before Nintendo patented them doesn't mean they have the right to use it. Yes, it's kinda a dumb system. But there is a lot of effort to get a patent, and once you have one you have a lot of protection because of it.

    Disregard. :) see comment below

  • Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers

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  • It's a patent case. It has nothing to do with the creative design of the games.

    But yes. Every pokemon is copyrighted. Every pal is copyrighted. (In the US) All creative work is automatically copyrighted to the creator.

    You can't copyright "a standing lizard with a small flame on its tail" but you can copyright Charmander. If you copy enough elements that a lay person can't distinguish the original and the copy then it opens it up for a copyright claim.

    None of that is relevant in this case.

    A patent is to protect a specific invention from being copied. In this case, there is an innovative game mechanic that Nintendo patented has that Palworld copied. The speculation is with throwing an item that captures a character that fights other characters in a 3d space.

    The patent is dumb. Personally I don't think it is innovative or special enough to be patented. Patenting software or game mechanic are dumb anyway.

  • TIL what an Ortholinear Keyboard is

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  • I use a planck as my daily driver. I wouldn't recommend it unless you have some good reasons to switch.

    It took about 2 weeks of use and practice before I could type at a reasonable rate with it. And then it took about 2 weeks before I could type on a normal keyboard again.

    I had a few reasons why I got one

    • I travel enough that having a small form factor was important
    • I have small hands, and was developing some wrist pain from stretching and moving my hand on larger keyboards. It did help a lot, but I think switching to a 60% would have been just as helpful.
    • I didn't type that fast anyway and have pretty bad form, I was hoping switching layouts would be a natural way to retrain my typing and type faster. I did improve for a bit, but I stopped practicing and am a pretty terrible typer again

    I do think it's pretty cool. It's a conversation starter when people walk by my desk. The planck is a 40%, so most people haven't seen a keyboard that small.

  • The Tippy Type makes typing with long nails less tedious

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  • You can't have a solution if you ignore half of the problem statement. It's completely unhelpful.

    Problem: I want to be able to type better while having long nails.

    Your solution: Don't have long nails.

  • The Tippy Type makes typing with long nails less tedious

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  • Someone didn't read the article. She addresses exactly this.

    I can already hear the trolls making jokes about women being concerned about breaking a nail. If it’s so inconvenient, why not just have short nails? Well, I’m not out here wearing long nails for fun. Being a reviewer often means acting as a part-time hand model for whatever gadget I’m testing. The Internet Nail Police has repeatedly shown up in my comments over the years if my polish is chipped or, god forbid, there’s a smudge of dirt under my natural nail.

  • What browser do yall use?

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  • Oh cool, I'll have to switch. I've been using Arc for a few months now and really like it, but would rather move away from chromium. I'd been using Firefox for years before that

  • We have been played for fools

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  • My favorite project was C++; it was big, it was complicated, there was a massive team working on it, I got to work with high level abstractions while occasionally dealing with really low level concerns.

    It was really hard, but now writing code in every other language I've worked in has been really easy.

  • Just Switch Over

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  • When does something become mainstream? The Steam Deck has sold millions of units.

  • What is something people you encounter at your job say that makes you want to scream? (Job, person & quote)

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  • But guys, if we use agile then we don't need requirements! We just make something and then the customers tell us if we are on the right track, we just get to iTeRaTe

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    jeff 👨‍💻 @programming.dev

    Elon Musk Certified Genius*

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    The customer is always right. 🪞

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    The Programmers' Credo

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    AbstractObjectFactoryBuilderFactoryInator

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    COBOL inheritance

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    👨‍💻🟰🧙‍♂️❔

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    I'm looking forward to new O'Reilly book