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thedaemonon Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install

Windows 10 Pro, I've installed it about 40 times or more. Domain Join is the option to create a local account. It works, I do it every install, while connected to network.

thedaemonon Create a First-Person Shooter In Godot

Thank you so much for creating a web page tutorial, instead of a Video tutorial.

thedaemonon Google Chrome to block file downloads over HTTP

Google Chrome has been removing over-rides since forever.

thedaemonon The Geocities Gallery

It is up. You shouldn't post a link and not be bothered to check it.

thedaemonon How housing became the world’s biggest asset class

>It's like healthcare in the US: Since people can't opt out of it

We do not have a national healthcare system as most of the world does. We are not forced to have healthcare. Yes there are provisions of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that charge a tax penalty if you are not covered or exempt.

thedaemonon How housing became the world’s biggest asset class

I don't think anyone chooses Kansas or Missouri (depending on which Kansas City you are talking about) as a place to move to.

thedaemonon Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 Leaked Specs: Up to 20GB GDDR6 RAM

3d artist here, yes Renderer can use your GPU RAM while rendering.

thedaemonon Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 Leaked Specs: Up to 20GB GDDR6 RAM

That's the bottom end of the RTX cards. $300 for a low end card that would have been $150 a few years ago.

thedaemonon Half the world is now middle class or wealthier (2018)

>I don't know the realities of the weird city life Americans experience, but the places I've lived in Europe make this trivial.

I have lived in poor rural America. Here is some information for you that might help: There are no forms of public transportation. You are required to own your own car or have someone drive you. Work is usually 1 hour or more away. The grocery store is usually 30 minutes to 1 hour away. There are usually fast food restaurants within a few miles. Don't forget that America is gigantic in area and very spread out in the rural areas. However after telling you this, when I was a child we did go grocery shopping and ate things like crock pot roast beef and hamburger helper.

thedaemonon People no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life, survey shows

Because they aren't investing and letting their money work for them. They are spending it frivolously.

thedaemonon How did British officers live in the scorching heat of India?

The author is a history professor from the US, I would say, yes you are correct, Fahrenheit.

thedaemonon Translating Quake 3 into Rust

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-poorest-countries-in...

thedaemonon AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th

I haven't had any experience with cheap current generation CPUs. Have you any experience with ones such as an Intel Celerons that are about $30 on Amazon?

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/...

thedaemonon Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?

Information Technology.

thedaemonon AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs

It seems, after reading all of these comments that the ONLY significant improvement of highdpi is Font Rendering. I am a 3d artist and do not run HiDPI as it is a waste for my user case. I can see how most people don't do artwork and prefer the font rendering of HiDPI. Please don't think we all want nice font rendering, sometimes we need that 100% scaling.

thedaemonon AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs

I wonder how we've gotten by for 40+ years without HiDPI font rendering. sarcasm

thedaemonon AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs

16:10 was the perfect aspect ratio. I held onto my 24" 1920x1200 Dell Monitor until just last year. I recently tried to upgrade to a new 16:10 and it was impossible. Disappointing.

thedaemonon Translating Quake 3 into Rust

Not everyone is a rich American or European, many people live in what would be considered a poor country. They might have a core2duo if very lucky. The entitlement on this website is getting out of hand.

thedaemonon AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th

I just upgraded my CPU and kept my GPU, an older Nvidia 960 GTX. My CPU was a Q6600 and now I have a Ryzen 2700X. CPU matters so much it's amazing. Some games are heavy on the GPU and some are heavy on the CPU. Depends on what kind of things they have going on.

thedaemonon AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th

People buy Mac Pros to specifically run Mac Video Editing Software. This is the only reason to own a Mac Pro. IE if you work for Marvel editing films.

thedaemonon Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?

I'm just horrible with acronyms because I work in IT and the health industry, previous the security industry. They all have acronyms and the same acronyms. So they all mean different things to different people. Acronyms are a lazy person writing and you have to be "in the know" to know what they stand for. 100 years from now, no one will be able to understand them.

thedaemonon Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?

Ah yes chauvinistic men who feel entitlement to "pussy". You are what's wrong with the world. Women are people, not objects.

thedaemonon Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?

https://www.faang.org/

Acronyms really need to be phased out, as I highly doubt you mean Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes. I'm guessing it's the 2nd result?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Apple,_Amazon,_Netfl...

thedaemonon Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?

These tech guys who's only relationship is with their mother? I'm pretty sickened by reading all the comments on this post. So many incels it's not even funny.

thedaemonon Linux doesn't have Photoshop

Obviously you should loose all of your details. You shouldn't be doing this at any rate.

thedaemonon French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold

There are in fact, more books now than ever before, using this resale model that we've always used. It has been and will be sustainable.

thedaemonon Why Canada's cannabis bubble burst

Here in Colorado, I have none of your problems. The wait is usually 0-10 minutes for me. I can check their inventory online for most dispensaries, even pre-order only for some places. I can also call and ask them. The values are cheaper than the black market or about the same. I am starting to be able to pay with my credit card now, but primary it still is cash. The products I buy are amazing in quality. You didn't say which state you are in, so I'm guessing Oregon? I went in to a dispensary when I was there a few years ago and I felt like I was in a drug den. You had to sit around with a bunch of gross people, and had to have a consultation with a doctor... yeah I walked out of there and went to Washington.

thedaemonon Netflix's UX design is keeping people up at night

Ah yes, the flood of foreign language TV shows and movies that we have no interest in watching. The problem is, Netflix has lost all of these licensed products and are forced to created original content. The golden age of streaming is dead. We now have cable/satellite style streaming services. Instead of 1 big bundle, we now have 2-6 streaming services paying roughly the same amount. At least there are fewer commercials.

thedaemonon Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectious diseases combined

> Is there something that’s supposed to be inherently evil in acquiring a company anyway?

See the fable the little red hen. It's work ethics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Red_Hen