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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
The guide doesn't turn off or remove Cortana so much as uses a race condition to break it. Basically, you attempt to rename the Cortana directoy, inevitably fail, then kill the Cortana process and-then-quickly-click-retry in the error
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
When I worked in plants, I remember gangs of battery charging stations that had a crane to swap batteries out on the forklifts. I can't imagine distribution centers not installing something like that for these trucks (eventually). Even
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Oh that was at a stop light shortly after it started raining in a Texas winter. I'm fully layered and geared up with leathers and full rain suit - I can walk a bit like a robot and look 150 pounds heavier. So I pull up to the light and
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I just want to note that this also happens on motorcycles. On a cold winter day my bike dumped me off as I lost traction at a stop light. It started to fall over, bumped its saddle bags, and before the tilt sensor could stall the engine it
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
There's a sort of subtle difference that plays out in how effective the turning is. In countersteering, you don't move the center of mass of the motorcycle-human system; the wheels pull out from under the bike and it naturally tur
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Don't take it personally - I was always just a terrible rider when I was young; I meant that in a mildly sarcastic way. I never really figured out how to properly steer until I got a motorcycle, and that just about ruined my feeling of
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
There's a really cool video demonstrating the idea [0]. They took a set of handlebars and welded them to the frame. You'll see that you can affect a motorcycle, but only poorly. On a bicycle, you're much more top heavy and
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
It's wildly unintuitive, so don't feel bad. When I was first learning to ride a motorcycle with the MSF, I damn neared dumped the practice bike a few times trying to manhandle it. You'll really quickly internalize push-left-g
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
You're highlighting the perverseness of time management. At its best it's a giant confusing mess, and that's before we get to all the bizarre business logic that's built up over time. I actually think it may simply be th
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Those sort of things are always a bit grey and (IMHO) a bit sketchy, but it's worth noting that it's a bit costly to even test the ideas. Starting a business is a decent way to raise the capital to run the experiment, since grant
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Holy mackeral, that is cool. I really appreciate the "well, let's just try it" approach. I can't wait to see what happens when he launches his little satellite. If it shows positive results, lots of people will replicate
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
The critical detail here is that this is neither free energy nor free momentum in this setup. Energy is pumped in, and some momentum is generated - that's incredibly boring and not at all something that should raise any skepticism. The
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
That's sort of an unnecessary dichotomy. Enthusiasm doesn't mean hoax, and the mistake was propagated by more than just the inventors. Everything suggests that it was just science in action. There was an experiment, and it failed
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
How... how in the name of Science are you supposed to keep track of an attometer-wide object?! The dang thing would be so easy to lose I imagine that misplacing the drive would be the biggest problem such a ship would have! We always imagin
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Yes, but it's not terribly useful. It was theorized that the LHC could possibly generate a micro black hole that caused a bit of brouhaha, but it turns out they evaporate exponentially faster as they get smaller. (This is due to the su
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
And the screen's text are fairly similar regardless of what it's asking, and if there was some sort of error inserting it (damn things often trip before the card's fully inserted), then it makes the same gosh damned sound to
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
From the little I could find on it, it sounds like the rocket actually landed... and then sorta kept landing until RUD. Is that right? There was more slam than hover in this particular maneuver?
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Drats - I didn't mean to downvote! I actually really appreciate the obligatory utility comments referencing where to get the docs.
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
This is largely why I really like Sublime. But! It's worth remembering that it wasn't always that way. One of the huge wins for Sublime Text 2 was that it started up much faster than before; nowadays it's almost as snappy as
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
True, but when you have an awful lot of layers, you can play some silly buggers with it. Even if you botch a layer, it won't neccesarily ruin the whole thing, since the interference betwen the sets of layers also act as filters. I have
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
The good news is that the processes I described above are already well established. The trick is always in the dirty, nasty details, but in this case I'd be bullishly optimistic. I haven't personally worked on a large batch coater
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
The manufacturing costs won't be too bad, I'd imagine. At least, in terms of the normal shocking costs of manufacturing. If the design is simple enough, that 300 layers may be just 75 repititions of four layers (no doubt not actua
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
To follow up and mix in a few other sentiments noted elsewhere with my own experience, I'll partially agree. For me, it's a bit like Monty Python's Holy Grail. I saw it alone as a young teenager and I just didn't really
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Yup. You've heard of defense in layers? Well, VB is a leaky sieve that you can try from different angles as each layer fails. So... you didn't hear this from me. This certainly was from some other engineer tasked with getting $THI
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I work in industrial automation, and you really don't want to know what an awesome impact VB6 had on manufacturing. As `sjm-lbm noted below [0], it fills that essential niche between stuff that's useful and stuff that's too
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
To be fair, the top comment here calls out Poe's Law. You can see this best by how "A Modest Proposal" was recieved: the anonymous author was villified and many powerful people were outraged . People were repulsed and offe
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I actually meant MTA workers in midwest subways (of which there should be none), but your reversal makes sense given how my snark could parse. Basically, I was just disappointed that the article clickbaited me into reading about costs that
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
The author notes at the outset it's embellished to be entertaining, but nothing in the actual big seemed outlandish. The only thing that struck me as unlikely was that someone would actually work out and notice the radius. But I also k
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I haven't read Childhood's End. I really enjoyed Seveneves, though. But there's just a lot of cool stuff in the story that is worth the exposition. As others note, the book is written in sections; if you really don't wan
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I was initially just snarking, since I ain't done seen no subways when I lived in Indiana, but instead I learned about population distribution. Personally, I would have figured a majority would have been rural (since there's just

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