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Are they any longer? Murderbot is a nice read, but it feels like really expensive short stories.

By the time the book gets going, it's already over.

To be fair, Warcraft does need a remaster.

Have you tried replaying it? You can't even RMB to move units, you need to click the move icon then select where.

Warcraft 2 does not (imho), and last time I tried it, Warcraft 2 BNE still worked just fine, so that's probably getting shut down now.

Thanks! That made it a lot more useable again.

It's been the absolute worst experience since updating.

You submitted this 9 hours ago as "I built a brutally honest Dating Profile Rater, an..."

And now you just happened to "discover" this profile rater?

The influencers, the biggest athletes and musicians are marketing it

The government is marketing it.

Public concerts hosted by the municipality will have gambling ads posted all over, sponsored by the latest scam.

Sample size: Alagoas/Pernambuco. Cannot say anything about the gambling ads in the other states.

I absolutely cannot imagine singing karaoke without alcohol.

Alcohol certainly does not preclude it.

For some reason free customers are the most demanding

Ever try giving something away for free on an online marketplace?

If not, don't. Always charge something. Even if you'll just tell them afterwards you don't actually want/need the money.

You'll run into the worst people imaginable on the internet.

I don't think it's unreasonable for people to expect cloudflare to be policing their own service for malware when they're trying to pitch themselves as a security product.

But you're not the customer, you're the consumer.

Are they pitching themselves as safer for the consumer?

I thought the ads were bad enough, but my Samsung TV will start lagging and freezing when it's connected to the internet.

Had to buy an AppleTV (box), factory reset the TV, and use the AppleTV to stream to my TV over HDMI.

TV worked fine when I first got it, but after updates and internet it just became completely useless if left to it's own.

Start off by searching for "yx" or "xy".

Then do your actual search.

If you're going for image search, do the yx/xy text search first, then you go over to images.

That'll (for some reason) never give you a captcha.

"Secure" is relative.

I have a system I use where you enter your email and get a one-time code.

The goal in that system is not to securely authenticate you, merely to identify you. "Good enough" for the use case.

but what about hardware that's already here? (I'm also Brazilian)

It's ridiculously expensive.

Very little hardware is produced domestically, and the little that is, you don't want to be running your switches on what is in essence a no-name "intelbras" brand.

BigFixedDecimal? Sounds like yet another java naming pitfall.

how could that possibly happen?

Global singleton shared across requests, instead of request scoped.

1. [Client 1/You] Auth/write to variable (failed).

2. [Client 2/ISP] Auth/write to variable (success).

3. Verify what the result was (success)

A race condition combined with a global singleton can easily explain such behavior.

Was the correct answer related to cache invalidation?

Main thing holding me back from even trying it is the mental overhead of having to think about "number of searches per month".

Same as an ISP with a bandwidth limit, even if it's much higher than I'm likely to need, it's not something I'm interested in having to keep track of or worry about.

Streaming services tend to have garbage UI's, content that gets removed after x amount of time, and filled with ads

And forced mandatory subtitles in the wrong language. (Netflix)

Actually had to install a chrome plugin to remove subtitles.

I've tried a few dongles and have had nothing but bad experiences.

"Kinda works" for a while, with a noticeable delay when changing songs etc.

Actually pondering replacing the infotainment system itself to get wireless airplay.

patrolled by drones that mark targets for these smaller squads.

Surely it could be scaled better with satellite imagery? Assuming it can be updated "reasonably frequently". I imagine drones would run into maintenance problems, especially in such "remote" regions.

I paid the mIRC license like 15 years later, by the way...

Probably not valid anymore, fairly recently he changed something requiring a new license.

Not that he doesn't deserve a new license after all these years.

I've often run into the "just wear headphones" argument and never been a fan of it. Do you code with noise cancellation in a sort of sensory deprivation mode? Or do you listen to music?

Listening to music while coding severely reduces my concentration, and I find it in no way to be a substitute for silence.

Even if it's handled in the backend, if you receive zero visual feedback from clicking the button, you'll just keep spamming it until something happens.

Not that great of an experience when you sit there and "nothing happens".

Health data primarily.

You aim to encrypt the fields you can, without hampering usability too much.

Anything you need to be able to search for (name, ssn) to find patients, or filter on for reports, is generally plaintext.

More sensitive things such as "that patient has aids" you'll have to decide if you want to encrypt it, or do a massive select from the DB anytime you need statistics on it. (Or better yet, encrypt it, but store an anonymized tracker elsewhere. But this is less useful for cureable diseases)

I wrote a Go application to run on AWS lambda, but also compileable as a monolith.

Was fun running on lamba etc, until as you say, the costs starts soaring massively. Moved it to a cheap VPS and never looked back.

Yet you tend to lose english subtitles when travelling in certain regions.

I've had instances where I've extended my stay, and they've found me a cheaper room. However, calling the hotel itself prior to booking has always resulted in higher or identical prices.

It's anecdotal, but I've not personally found it to be worth the extra hassle.

Personally, I ditched Firefox due to poor performance. Especially on infinite-scroll pages, Firefox would just stutter and become unusable.

Maybe it's improved, but my impression was that of a browser gradually getting worse.

Furthermore, not all websites seems to care much if it breaks in Firefox.

Those sites are for hotels.

I've actually booked apartments via booking.com

Though they're not as extensively listed as on Airbnb.

I wonder if this is a retina display issue

I'm using an external monitor running at 5120x1440 (Samsung, not retina) only, and am experiencing the the same on Firefox.

At least not retina exclusive.

GPU: {device: undefined, fps: 342, gpu: 'apple m1 pro', isMobile: false, tier: 3, type: "BENCHMARK"}

Despite the supposedly high FPS it's very jumpy/laggy in Firefox, though fast in Safari.