RHSeeger

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721.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
I was under the impression you could lend games to another account. So you and your son each have your own account, you lend him one of your games, and he can play it while you are playing a different game.
722.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
I would love to a Droid 2 style keyboard for my phone http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/wireless/detail-page/mo...
723.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
Generally, we're driving out, hanging out for a couple hours to have a meal, and driving back. There's no garage to plug the car in; the car area is about 100 feet from the house. Overall, it's just not realistic to plug a ca
724.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
We looked at getting a hybrid this past fall when buying a car, but couldn't find one that suited our needs. We didn't even look at an EV, because of the range issue (our relatives all live 2+ hours away, visits to them are freque
725.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
> It's not a miracle, it's extremely fortunate. Depends on your definition. From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/miracle miracle 1. an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in huma
726.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
While I agree with your point in general, I don't think the choice of wording is "the problem" here. But I do agree your wording is more correct. It is almost impossible to prove a program is "correct". But things l
727.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
I'm working in Java atm, and my general steps are - Take a quick look at the symptoms and code and see if it's obvious - Take a look at the jstacks and see if there's anything that stands out (lots of code stuck in the same p
728.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
> But in the end: for me personally 'x algorithms programmers should know' is useless. I guess for me, it boils down to something like "Given a software developer A, adding more experience to them will generally make then
729.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
As a concrete example, it sometimes happens that I'm working on existing code trying to make it faster, because it just isn't up to it's task at the moment. Looking over the code, I can see that it has some code that does a L
730.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
I expect it's likely more of "memory safety in a language doesn't make it _safe_, it makes it less vulnerable". It removes _some_ issues, in the same way that a language with static types removes some ways a program can
731.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
> It demonstrates that Python needs libraries like NumPy. You need libraries to do _anything_ in Python. It's interpreted, so literally any call you make in Python will eventually make it back to something written in a compiled lang
732.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
If a "normal" outcome for such an event would have been much closer to 1,000,000 being killed, then yes it would be wonderful if 990,000 were saved. Sure, we mourn the dead, but we can still be happy for the saved.
733.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
I've lived in a city of 50k people and smaller, and in various suburbs (of major cities) and ALWAYS had a collection of delivery menus in a bag next to the junk drawer. I don't think I've even lived anywhere that didn't
734.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
I'm definitely not sure. Could very well be the transition from CVS to Subversion that I'm remembering. It's been a long time :)
735.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
Sounds like RCS [1]. I remember, back when a company I worked for switched from RCS to CVS, one of my coworkers was annoyed that CVS didn't support locking checkouts. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_Con
736.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
The problem is definitely with naming. Regardless of whether you have function neigh() { ... } or class horse { method neigh() { ... } You still wind up with "add functionality for this _slightly different cas
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> Nowhere it's touted as a rival to youtube in the popularity sense, just like you wouldn't call WordPress a rival to Twitter. But I also wouldn't give it a name that, to the casual observer, makes it _sound_ like a rival
738.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
Could you use non-breaking space instead?
739.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
A VERY high percentage of ads are obnoxious. And a high enough percentage of ads are outright dangerous. Given that, using an ad blocker to keep yourself safe is a pretty sane choice. Even for sites that _try_ to have safe, sane ads; they&#
740.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
> a panel of people from just such a group Oh, certainly; though I'd argue they should have input from medical and financial experts, too. But regardless... > just me and my loved ones making medical decisions about me The decisi
741.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
> But if given the option, I'd prefer just me and my loved ones making medical decisions about me. But, in a system with limited resources, it makes not sense to have individuals that need the resources (but don't pay them) mak
742.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
> For us as Japanese developers, the first time we heard it, it was like a discriminatory term, as though we were being made fun of for creating these games, and so for some developers, the term can be something that will maybe trigger b
743.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
Assuming your type system is robust enough to support such things. That's not the case for many mainstream languages.
744.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
> It's a shame that so many see changeability and performance in opposition with each other. I've yet to find compelling evidence that such is the case. In the article, when I saw this > For f, it’s much easier to notice a d
745.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
> When I lived in the suburbs it took me 28 minutes to drive to the grocery store Wow. That sounds more rural to me. I've lived in 5 or 6 different suburbs (of three different cities, 2 "major" ones) and never been more th
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
And different people like different things. I live in the suburbs and there's somewhere on the order of 20+ restaurants I can get to within 15 minutes (and probably about 10 within 7-8 minutes. And I can also, like the poster you were
747.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
>> "a rat cage in a soviet urban project", "nightmare of living on Gotham", "giant, nightmarish big cities" > Your words show a huge amount of bias and are pretty uninformed by actual history. So did t
748.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
> (I previously worked for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and lived on an island in the Panama Canal) This is, by a wide margin, the most interesting "casually made" comment I'd read in a bit. Any ch
749.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
Lots of video games are low energy. Idles and incrementals, certainly. But I find things like Diablo to be pretty relaxing (or at least I play it that way), and tons of others. I can't really get into the FPS games anymore just because
750.
by RHSeeger 3y ago
Therein lies the issue. This type of thing shouldn't be civil in nature. Things that are dangerous to others and have a likelihood of causing significant damage... should be criminal in nature. Someone driving drunk is putting others a

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