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DaleGribble88

@ DaleGribble88 @programming.dev

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College Prof in the US, focus areas are Human-Computer Interaction, Cybersecurity, and Machine Learning

  • Christian right calls James Talarico "demonic" — for quoting Jesus

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  • I'm from a region with snake handlers and it is fascinating! Highly encourage anyone reading this to look more into it.

  • Christian right calls James Talarico "demonic" — for quoting Jesus

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  • There is a pretty significant portion of America Christians who believe than any translation besides the 1611 King James version of the Bible is blasphemous, nevermind that they are probably reading the 1769 version, but what matters is what think is the 1611 version.

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  • Porque no los dos?

  • Amazon data centers used 2.5bn gallons of water in 2025

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  • Depends on how you define a data center, but you mean the large single purpose data centers that have been hastily built investor bait over the last 5-8 years, then yes, most of those use the evaporative cooling towers that concentrate waste products either already in the water, or added to prevent corrosion because they cheaped out on the plumbing, and then dumps that back into the local water source.

  • Louis Rossmann is suing Samsung after firm offers $330 refund for defective SSD while selling the drives on Amazon for $949 — spat over 4TB 990 Pro SSD is headed to court

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  • Lol, it happens :)

  • Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

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  • Gotcha! I thought it was Chromium based instead of Firefox, my bad

  • Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

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  • Won't this eventually affect them as well because this is an update to the underlying chromium engine?

  • ‘More harmful than helpful’: young people sour on AI

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  • As a computer science professor, you are giving us scientists way too much credit. Most articles we produce are basically just: hey, you can use this framework/use this strategy to solve this problem. There is a sad, or maybe not depending on your POV,, problem in computer science research that most research doesn't follow the scientific method.

  • ‘More harmful than helpful’: young people sour on AI

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  • I think you just described scientists :P

  • Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

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  • And what does that have to do with the price of eggs in China? And regarding the claim in your parenthesis, wrong again. Limitations on how steam keys can be sold through third party vendors is included in their terms of service very explicitly and it is in no way illegal for them to do so. If they are strong arming companies trying to sell games without steam integrations to be the same price as those with the steam integration, well then that would be illegal and the court case is actively determining if that has occurred.

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  • The plaintiff has to show the court there’s even a case to begin with.

    Yes, and during that process, there is no evidence that is considered. Essentially, the judge takes every claim of wrongdoing at face value, and then determines if there is a law that applies. Basically checking to see if the outcome even matters in the worse case scenario. That works the same for both criminal* and civil cases.

    *EDIT: Criminal actually goes to a grand jury and does look at some physical evidence, but only enough to establish probably cause. To over simplify, that the state isn't completely make stuff up just to harass someone. Not to show guilt, but to show that a crime was even possible to have been committed by the defendant. Like, that an alleged stolen object was actually stolen and that the person was approximately on the correct half of the globe at the time.

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  • Christian man sues employer for forcing him to see a Pride flag on his way into work

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  • Sort of? It's mostly just used by western protestant groups. It's been around for about a hundred years. It's a little bland from a vexillology standpoint imo, but it gets the job done.

  • Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

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  • Not that I disagree with the point you are making, but yes, I distinctly remember people complaining about monopolistic practices for each example you gave XD

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  • And this is exactly why other ongoing cases are, generally speaking, not admissible as evidence. Someone doing something bad once doesn't mean that they did it twice. Multiple accusations doesn't mean that they are guilty. Otherwise, a simple conspiracy to bring multiple charges at once would be absolutely damning to a defendant.

    Also the pre-trial stuff is pretty much just to show that there was an applicable law that may have been broken. It has almost nothing to do with whether or not the defendant is guilty, liable, or otherwise found at fault.

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  • It’s the same product.

    This is the part that is holding me up. Is it actually the same product? The version on Steam comes with server hosting, achievements, voice chat, etc. If I purchased the game through Uplay, would I still have access to those services on Steam? For example, many years ago, I bought "Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale" at Walmart, but it basically just came with an asset disc and a code to register the game on Steam. So buying it at Walmart gave me access to the same features as if I'd bought it directly from Steam. Does Uplay do the same thing?

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  • Does R6S use steam integrations if bought through Uplay? Based on what I can find, the answer is no, and therefore valve shouldn't be setting the price because, at that level, they have no involvement with the product.

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  • Based on your take, I agree with you. If valve is providing services, then developers should not be selling steam keys for cheaper elsewhere. It dilutes trust in their business model too if people start assuming that they can get the same services, provided by valve, for cheaper elsewhere.

    However, is that what this article is talking about? The games mentioned, specifically R6 Siege and SoM, both appear to run stand alone without steam integration. I'm not intimately familiar with either one, just what I can gather based off the article and a pair of quick online searches.

  • Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI

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  • Is your joke trying to be funny? No one writes funny jokes anymore. You should just use the funny.js library, and also kys if you aren't using JavaScript. Just write an API wrapper for it you fucking noob. Someone ban this idiot!