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by armada651 8y ago
I would go a step further than the author and say that all forms of substance abuse is fundamentally rooted in other disorders. People with stressful and unfulfilling lives will naturely search for an escape in either gaming, drugs or other
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by armada651 9y ago
So Tokyo is finally going to build a Skytree made of actual wood this time?
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by armada651 9y ago
> Kenya's Maasai people have long been aware of the awesome power of the earth in the area around Hell's Gate [..] in fact it is considered to be one of the most exciting geothermal areas on the planet. So Kenya is harnessing g
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by armada651 9y ago
They're already on mobile in the stable release. I'm posting this comment from Firefox Quantum on Android right now.
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by armada651 9y ago
Next step: Editing the playlist
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by armada651 9y ago
The 'Dutch Reach' isn't universally taught drivers in the Netherlands, I'm Dutch and I've never heard of it before. Though everyone is taught about the dangers of opening your car door without looking. What's k
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by armada651 9y ago
Until one or two years ago it was illegal in Japan and Sweden to dance in public after midnight. People living in those countries routinely broke the law without consequences, but those countries still managed to function pretty well as a s
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by armada651 9y ago
Apparently it's about this code: https://www.malwaretech.com/2015/01/inline-hooking-for-progr... This is function hooking code. It's useful when you need to change the behaviour of an application, by red
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by armada651 9y ago
The writing for MPC-HC was on the wall a lot longer than when MPC-BE was forked. There's no future for a player that's not cross-platform, case-in-point: > MPC-BE is the only thing I really miss on Mac. And HC definitely improv
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by armada651 9y ago
As a former MPC-HC developer, I consider MPV the spiritual successor.
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by armada651 9y ago
It wasn't just the looks, that was more like the "straw that broke the camel's back".
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by armada651 9y ago
Like many forks in open-source, MPC-BE was forked off because of an internal conflict in the team. MPC-BE is made up of all the Russian developers from the former MPC-HC team after a complete breakdown in communication (i.e. drama).
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by armada651 10y ago
> What is it that makes a human decide to lose interest in such a bugged state? Repetition, the human brain has a reward function that is interested in finding new patterns. Using the same pattern to gain rewards has diminishing returns
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by armada651 10y ago
Well, when you can handle an exception cleanly why wouldn't you rely on it? Just because we usually associate an exception with unintended behavior doesn't mean that is always the case.
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by armada651 11y ago
Google+ is Google's social network, like facebook. And I don't want to use either.
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by armada651 11y ago
So you still need to get a G+ account first if you don't want to have to use G+ on youtube? This is as bad as that dialog on youtube that asks you to create a G+ Account, a G+ Page or fuck off.
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by armada651 11y ago
I think it means a lot more than just data residency. Without the safe harbor agreement you can no longer avoid EU privacy regulations by storing the data in the US. This means that a lot of US companies are now exposed to EU privacy regula
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by armada651 12y ago
I was really surprised that it wasn't mentioned since it is the most important difference and a cause of frustration for programmers just beginning to learn C.
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by armada651 12y ago
That's ridiculous for a couple of reasons: 1. This is adware: sure it might not remove itself cleanly, but it doesn't have any mechanism to re-apply itself after being removed properly. 2. Malware can't magically re-apply its
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by armada651 12y ago
Actually Pokémon Crystal itself, the rom we were discussing, has an extensive higher-level scripting language built-in for events, messages and movement. It still looks very much like assembly, but it is built up of Pokémon commands instead
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by armada651 12y ago
I just spent a six-month internship in Japan without speaking the language. People there are very polite and helpful. They will take as much time as necessary to understand what you want to say. And while you're there you'll autom
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by armada651 12y ago
The kind of brain necessary for programming is the one that sees something it doesn't understand and then does everything it can to learn what it didn't understand. The real reward in programming is clearly seeing how much your un
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by armada651 12y ago
Please let me know when you guys figure this one out. I always wanted to know the best way to flawlessly communicate with friends while drunk.