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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 hours ago

This is the publisher punishing researchers for their own market failure.

If the software is not legally available in Egypt at a price affordable to academics, they should pirate it and publish in a journal that’s not part of this exploitative racket.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you play ADOM?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

All time biggest time sinks are probably Civilization 2 and Factorio.

Biggest time sink you’ve never heard of is Ancient Dungeons of Mystery, a one-man Roguelike dungeon delving passion project.

[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This post would really benefit from a little more background information before diving into the breathless appeal for help.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

I’m currently in the middle of a GCP to AWS migration and the user experience in GCP is nicer in a thousand little ways.

GCP developers made sure it’s a nice place to work.

AWS developers made it work just enough to be feature complete. Usability wasn’t part of the spec.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

If Harrenhall couldn’t withstand dragons, no way the fisherman’s castle would.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I actually kind of like the idea of using a folly as a vacation property, but with that location it’ll be completely uninsurable due to hurricane risk and low elevation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

What’s wrong with a little gamification to encourage civic responsibility?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

I need another sticker for my coffee jar:

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

It’s a clbuttic mistake.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The government grants the patent right, it’s not bound by it.

Like in England the king doesn’t need a license to give himself permission to drive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

That’s a slightly revisionist history. ATI was by no means “circling the drain”, they had a promising new GPU architecture soon to be released, and remember this because I bought ATI stock about 6 months before the merger.

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