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by daeken 8y ago
I think the order of operations here is important. Take, for example, the case of operation == "/" and b == 0. You might find it valuable to log that you're doing a division, before it catches fire due to the divide by
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by daeken 8y ago
Rather than adding syntax for it, the sane approach would just be to generalize the functionality. T Log<T>(string msg, Func<T> func) { Log(msg); return func(); } var result = operation switch {
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by daeken 8y ago
Love the design, but I'm kind of envious of how easy you made this look! Haha. My wife and I got super into stained glass work for a while there, and while she kept getting better, I never really did. It's hard to do it well, so
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by daeken 8y ago
Yes, because those are clearly the same thing. A completely natural, healthy process, and a medical procedure. I know that when I see a smiley face emoji, I think that we should have a tooth extraction emoji.
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by daeken 8y ago
Yeah, I've done a good bit of therapy (which I never found effective) and I'm on a cocktail of meds (which are remarkably effective, but they can only do so much). Anxiety's effect on my life has been drastically reduced ove
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by daeken 8y ago
> I don't know a single diabetic who cares about injections and blood sugar tests. I'm diabetic and the sole reason I don't check my blood sugar (unless I think something is drastically out of whack) is that it takes me up
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by daeken 8y ago
People drastically underestimate the prevalence and impact of UAF attacks. They're extremely common in complex applications and often lead to everything from information leaks to code execution. That's why almost every browser e
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by daeken 8y ago
I've not dealt with the NGC directly -- only other gaming commissions and some NGC partners -- but everyone I've dealt with in gambling has cared deeply about security. They often get it wrong, but they take this stuff very ser
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by daeken 8y ago
Grabbing someone by the clothes like that? That's assault. Plain and simple. I'm sorry that the assault wasn't more violent?
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by daeken 8y ago
> As DeepSolar learned to identify the characteristics of panels in the images, the system was eventually able to correctly identify that an image contained solar panels 93 percent of the time. About 10 percent of the time, the system mi
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by daeken 8y ago
I can drive in a nail with a hammer or a boot, but that doesn't make hammers and boots the same thing. There are many different ways to accomplish any task.
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by daeken 8y ago
Not at all. Many demos these days are either built on in-house engines which abstract things away (a group of tool devs builds those, while the actual demo devs/designers just work with the tools), or they're built on a premade en
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by daeken 8y ago
Just because something isn't illegal/breach of contract doesn't mean it's right.
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by daeken 8y ago
I see you're a recent joiner of the site and have another comment much like this one. For what it's worth, I suggest reading the community guidelines, as you'll see why this is getting downvoted: https://news.ycomb
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by daeken 8y ago
Retracting a sign-on bonus when you're laying someone off -- rather than them quitting or being terminated for cause -- is wrong. That's tantamount to wage theft, IMO. Reversing someone's yearly bonus after the fact is just a
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by daeken 8y ago
Yeah, this will almost certainly have a negligible effect on their subscriber base. I won't say it's zero, but damn close. $2 monthly increase means $24 a year, or ... less than a single meal for a family of four at Wendy's o
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by daeken 8y ago
I think this has little to do with narrow-mindedness or anything along those lines, and a lot more to do with the fact that definitions for words exist to facilitate communication. If I redefine life to include, say, my computer, I ought t
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by daeken 8y ago
And this gives you the benefit of applying exactly the force you want. I'm no materials scientist, but I imagine this could allow for some potential gains in efficiency/quality/whatever.
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by daeken 8y ago
None of this is true. VPSes have existed since the early 2000s and have been in common use since the mid 2000s; Linode was founded in 2003, for instance. Shared hosting was popular because it cost pennies, whereas VPSes would run you $30+&#
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by daeken 8y ago
I don't think the vitriol is warranted or constructive at all, but regardless... What I thought would happen: the general public would be made aware of a serious vulnerability in products they believe to be safe (they were -- millions
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by daeken 8y ago
When it was first disclosed, all the major hotel chains went to Onity with a huge "what the fuck?" and got discounts or free hardware. Then Onity closed up shop entirely; the name still exists in UTC, but the original Onity just
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by daeken 8y ago
The Onity lock hack was mine. I imagined many outcomes when I decided to disclose it; a meth-fueled crime spree wasn't one of them. Man, life is weird.
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by daeken 8y ago
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green - Just solid, approachable sci-fi.
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by daeken 8y ago
Sometimes people just like to dialectic a word into a sentence, even if they don't know what it means.
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by daeken 8y ago
> The Cold War never really ended, the players and the venues just shifted. That makes a good soundbite, but I think that changing the players and venues means it's a different war.
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by daeken 8y ago
Because they have uses outside of the abuse. If you always expect that they're being used improperly, then you mess up the actual use cases.
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by daeken 8y ago
Mono isn't sponsored by Microsoft; they bought it. They also publish an insane number of things completely open source, developing them in the open. .NET Core being a huge one, but ASP.NET, VSCode, ChakraCore, TypeScript, and so man
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by daeken 8y ago
It's a way to leverage their money. If by matching up to $1M they can get the group to raise $1.5M, that's better than outright donating that money.
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by daeken 8y ago
On this one, I gotta disagree with Zappa. It's great in the same way that Captain Beefheart is; which is to say, it's amazing how much awful can be packed into such a small space. "My Pal Foot Foot" never ceases to amaze
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by daeken 8y ago
I'm a bit baffled by this, on a few counts. First, many kids from wealthy families have tried and failed to produce great music, c.f. The Shaggs. Second, the Beastie Boys didn't get big because of money, but because they actually

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