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Why do people hate on mobile games, call them "not real games" and mock them, when some mobile-exclusive games are the best games I've played?

The Infinity Blade or Minigore series, for example, or anything made by Illusion Labs. These games are genius and most consoles don’t even have a touch screen or utilise it well like some smartphone games do....

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Many mobile games are just thinly veiled attempts at monetization. Get people hooked, then start adding time-bound gates you can unlock, add PvP with loot boxes and multiple types of premium currency that’s hard to keep track of. Doesn’t matter what the game is about - you can do this to racing games, fighting games, gardening games, whatever.

That said there are still mobile games that are fun and genuinely good gameplay - I used to love Minigore too, after it was available on Android. But these are few and far between.

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why do we insist on giving this guy so much free advertising? move on already lol

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lol. India is just like Trump - did something wrong and is now throwing a tantrum when they’re being called out on it.

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oh man that was one of the best phones hardware-wise. unfortunately that was also the era when samsung = bloatware

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I haven’t seen any ads, so my feelings about Windows might change at some point. But I’ve tried linux in the past, and there’s a reason why it just doesn’t get as much adoption.

First of all, linux seems to be built around the command line. I hate using the command line, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. Everytime there’s something to troubleshoot I have to figure out command line inputs and outputs.

Second, the annoying issues with windows are annoying, but I’ve learnt to figure it out. No, I don’t want to set as default, no I don’t want to send data, no i don’t want to create a MS account. Even if I didn’t figure it out, I can still change it later - sending data is annoying af and i don’t like it, but it doesn’t stop me from doing something. On the other hand, i encounter issues with linux that stop me from actually using the OS all the time. Everytime I do, I have to post in forums asking for help, wait 12-36 hours while using an alternate OS/workaround, and dread the inevitable use of command-line that follows.

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i don’t doubt that linux has its uses and command-line is powerful. What I’m saying is >80% of users only know how to use a GUI, and that is why linux won’t go mainstream without having a GUI for everything user-facing.

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I was there in the 80s and 90s. You young people are definitely luckier. You are by far more beautiful, more gentle, you are more welcoming, you don’t discriminate against gays and nerds. Socializing without mobiles was as boring as you can expect.

But you could afford a house on a single income :'(

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Running. It’s the cheapest, easiest form of exercise, but it absolutely bores me to death and i just can’t deal with it after 5 minutes.

I don’t mind most other forms of exercise, it’s just that they all require more time, effort or resources. Going to the gym requires a gym membership, basketball requires friends, etc.

eyy,

this is exactly how I feel! I don’t get any sense of achievement from running a certain distance or running faster than I did before, and it feels terrible (and I know I can stop that feeling if i just stop running). Almost every other sport gets me that sense of achievement but requires more time, money or effort in some form.

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it’s a lie perpetuated by Big Tetris!!

jk, good to know. I assume this should work similarly for any game that doesn’t contain violent content and yet activates the brain.

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Tuna is one of the healthier fishes. It has higher mercury levels, but unless you’re eating it every day you’re fine.

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what if you have a mortage and your bank account shows -$300k?

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don’t you know, apple invented wireless charging!

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accidentally drinking polonium tea too

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this is a barbaric act with no regard for human life.

It’s Russia, were you surprised?

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What a disappointing guy. The least he could have done was take out Putin before he died.

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Not a cobol professional but i know companies that have tried (and failed) to migrate from cobol to java because of the enormously high stakes involved (usually financial).

LLMs can speed up the process, but ultimately nobody is going to just say “yes, let’s accept all suggested changes the LLM makes”. The risk appetite of companies won’t change because of LLMs.

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That doesn’t sound right at all. How could the amount of COBOL code in use quadruple at a time when everyone is trying to phase it out?

Because why they’re trying, they need to keep adding business logic to it constantly. Spaghetti code on top of spaghetti code.

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It’s never been a technical reason, it’s the fact that most systems still running on COBOL are live, can’t be easily paused, and there’s an extremely high risk of enormous consequences for failure. Banks are a great example of this - hundreds of thousands of transactions per hour (or more), you can’t easily create a backup because even while you’re backing up more business logic and more records are being created, you can’t just tell people “hey we’re shutting off our system for 2 months, come back and get your money later”, and if you fuck up during the migration and rectify it within in hour, you would have caused hundreds/thousands of people to lose some money, and god forbid there was one unlucky SOB who tried to transfer their life savings during that one hour.

And don’t forget the testing that needs to be done - you can’t even have an undeclared variable that somehow causes an overflow error when a user with a specific attribute deposits a specific amount of money in a specific branch code when Venus and Mars are aligned on a Tuesday.

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Most cobol systems have more code that doesn’t do anything vs code that actually does something.

What values do variables ROBERT1, ROBERT2 and ROBERT3 hold? Whatever ROBERT wanted.

And when that system is storing high-risk and/or sensitive data, do you really want to be the person who deletes code that you think “actually does nothing”, only to find out it somehow stopped another portion of code from breaking?

The reason why these things still exist is business laziness. They don’t know and don’t care what cobol is or isn’t doing.

That’s the thing - tor a risk-averse industry (most companies running COBOL systems belong here), being the guy who architected the move away from COBOL is a high-risk, high-stress job with little immediate rewards. At best, the move goes seamlessly, and management knows you as “the guy who updated our OS or something and saved us some money but took a few years to do it, while Bob updated our HR system and saved a bunch of money in 1 year”. At worst, you accidentally break something, and now you have a fiasco on your hands.

Do you think we will ever have affordable housing again in our lifetime?

Considering how crazy expensive accommodations have become the last couple of years, concentrated in the hands of greedy corporations, landlords and how little politicians seem to care about this problem, do you think we will ever experience a real estate market crash that would bring those exorbitant prices back to Earth?

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No. Expensive housing is a genie in a bottle.

Once sufficient people have purchased a house at the high price, it would be in their interest for prices to remain high. Corporate entities that buy up houses will actively lobby to make sure housing prices stay high, and the average Joe who paid that much for a house will be happy it stays that way.

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I’d rather have a system that’s compatible with both apple and android phones. A car is supposed to last decades; it’s the absolute last place I want a walled garden.

Google Drive, Google Docs Replacement: Is OneDrive and a subscription to M365 Personal the answer?

Some background on me, I’m big on data privacy, I’ve stripped out a lot of services which harvest data and sell it. The last scummy bastion is Google Drive and Google Docs. I make use for G-Drive for backup redundancy and accessing things from any where, especially on my phone. Spreadsheet of my favorite horror movies, or a...

eyy,

look up owncloud if you’re truly serious. you can set up your own personal storage with a rpi and spare hard drive that’s 100% free of corporate greed and spying. you can also use the chance to set up a personal email server.

it takes work and money, but that’s the price you pay if you’re protective of your data.

eyy,

Ah yes, men and women are physically built differently so trans women have an advantage because they can… grip the chess pieces better with their bigger hands, and crush the pieces/flip the table more easily due to their increased strength. Makes total sense.

eyy,

TIL boost exists.

Now i have a question - why have two different systems of showing that you like the content? Why do we need boost AND upvote?

eyy,

but if you like it, why shouldn’t people see it? and if you want people to see it, why wouldn’t you like it?

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In response, the US angrily condemned the move as “actions of aggressors looking to start a nuclear war that will cause the extinction of mankind”, and arranged for missile launches off the coast of their neighbouring country.

Oh wait, wrong country…

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But boomer bosses need to physically see their workers sitting in chairs, they need that feeling of power!

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Florida’s new state motto should be “Because we Can’t Stand Mississippi and Alabama Always Taking the Bottom Spot”

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ah, the north korean playbook

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Some North Korean stories may be exaggerated, but it’s a known fact that they use families as hostages.

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Some North Korean stories may be exaggerated, but it’s a known fact that they use families as hostages.

Brands that don’t buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification (www.theverge.com)

another change to Twitter’s ad policy. Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to...

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if someone offers you $200k for a 2020 Toyota Camry would you sell it?

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Ain’t nothin’ but a miiiiiiistaaaake

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jesus

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Post quality is a bigger indicator, and that does seem to be dropping

That’s the thing - it’s hard to track this. If anything it’ll be a slow decline

eyy,

yeah people here are generally nicer. I do wish there more more active niche communities though

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TTS?

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A single billionaire harms the earth an order of magnitude more in a single year than most small towns will in a decade

But if you and your family stop using plastic straws, turn the heat down in winter, meticulously sort all your recycling and use public transport more for the next decade, you can help Jeff Bezos offset the emissions for his next weekend trip to the Maldives!

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He was doing so well as the world’s capitalist hero right up to the point where he called that British diver involved in the Thai cave rescue a pedo because people who were more experienced than him told him that his harebrained idea wouldn’t work.

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The article is written badly. Has he already given the speech or not? The article seems to already know what he will say/said:

He will be speaking in Prague because of “the close and productive bilateral relationship between the UK and the Czech Republic and further, the historic context in the aftermath of another Russian invasion in Europe”, his office said.

In his first public speech, Moore warned that China and Russia were racing to master technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing, and this will again be a focus.

Government and intelligence agencies globally are seeking to harness the power of AI, but Moore will say it will complement not replace humans who can uncover secrets beyond technology’s reach.

“The unique characteristics of human agents in the right places will become still more significant,” he will say.

"They are never just passive collectors of informatio n: our agents can be tasked and directed; they can identify new questions we didn’t know to ask; and sometimes they can influence decisions inside a government or terrorist group.

"Human intelligence in the age of artificial intelligence will increasingly be defined as those things that machines cannot do, albeit we should expect the frontier of machine capability to advance with startling speed.”

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It’s South Africa. Putin will be safe as long as Russia keeps building in the country.

Mystery Disease Outbreak in Egyptian Village Alarms Health Authorities: Investigation Underway - BNN Breaking (bnn.network)

Health Ministry Takes Action: Investigating the Strange Disease Outbreak In a concerning turn of events, over 200 people in the Egyptian village of Al-aleikat, located in the Qena governorate, have been infected with a mysterious disease, causing alarm among the residents.

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egyptindependent.com/mysterious-upper-egypt-villa…

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https://media.tenor.com/nwoJ4BS0XHYAAAAC/oh-no-anyway.gif

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How do you know this?

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this is just fucked up.

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This is commendable, but is 7 years really necessary? I think 5 years is plenty long before phones get outdated.

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