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by gknoy 8y ago
I've always been a fan of JetBrains' IDEs (Webstorm, Pycharm), so I would imagine that their PhpStorm is similarly excellent. (Each of the ones I mentioned are language-specific subsets of IntelliJ.)
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While that is a good fit for this comment, it _does_ fit in this thread as well. Others are talking about how common terrible support is, where getting money back for a terrible product requires invoking the court, etc. The GP posted an e
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Holy cow, that's frightening. Mobile games with in-app payments are clear about "These cost gems {or some other bought-with-real-money mcguffin)", but refilling those gems nearly always makes it clear that you're going t
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One thing they said early on in the ~2 hour video I was watching was that, while AlphaStar had access to the full data of everything within its fog of war, it seemed to need to partition its access to it, in a way that was similar to a huma
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The threat of nuclear war precipitated the development of a network which could withstand widespread destruction. That's not the same as genocide (as that implies something systematic), but is does seem safe to say that having the Int
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> a unique identifier, already conveniently assigned to all people, for identification purposes One problem is that it's not unique. :)
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30 years ago, it was legitimately hard to separate some pieces, and so teeth were often the way to get leverage. I share your sadness at the bite marks in my old legos, and was dismayed even at the time that they happened. Now they have ex
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by gknoy 8y ago
> there were so many times I got annoyed by having two or three small pieces, like two or three 2x2 pieces, where a single 2x4 or 2x6 would do just fine I was annoyed by this too (and am experiencing it with the Lego Hogwarts set I am b
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For most of us males, prostate cancer is something we will eventually get, but is unlikely to kill us. Breast cancer seems a lot more dangerous. I of course worry about it, but it doesn't seem nearly as dangerous as breast cancer.
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I can base this only on my father's anecdotes as a guitar player from that time, but he told me that the musical complexity and chord progressions used in the Beatles' songs were significantly different than the music he had heard
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My guess is that Enterprise licensing is a much larger pool of revenue than individual users.
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Dueling implies that someone who is _better at one thing_ (hurting others) is inherently Right. It also means that someone who is sufficiently good at such things can act as a bully. Dueling introduces personal risk for libelous claims, bu
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In the case of _pranks at MIT_, which has a rich history of outrageous pranks, I'd hoped it would have affected their reaction to it, much as one would hope that students wouldn't get arrested for breaking an entering if they did
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Incognito mode should prevent one aspect of that - Chrome won't remember what it had open as soon as the tab is closed (useful for bank account info, etc).
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This is why I tend to leave telemetry data on. :) .. now if only Google had used that to notice the things I like about Inbox and keep them :-(
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If you stage things often enough, `git add -u` might be enough. It's pretty much what I use all the time, aside from the few times I do `git add -up`.
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I do something similar with my kids. If they don't want to pick something, or feel like they can't, we flip a coin. The coin result isn't binding, so immediately as the coin falls, they realize that they either do or do not w
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by gknoy 8y ago
At 4k resolution, a 30-40 inch monitor gives noticeably improved text quality (even when I could only get it at 30hz). Part of the reason for this is that we're looking at the screen from 2.5-3 feet away, rather than the ~6ft viewing
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You can certainly blame the builder, but the "real" engineers I've talked to all spoke of traditions like a _ring on their pinky_ so that when they are signing their name to a design, they are reminded (as the ring touches pa
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by gknoy 8y ago
A fountain pen is noticeably different from writing with a pencil or ballpoint, because you do not have to exert significant pressure, and because there is a lot less friction of your pen on the page. Writing with ballpoints and pencils has
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by gknoy 8y ago
The _disposability_ of a paperback is a distinct advantage. I dislike abusing my books, and love finding older ones that have survived in a used bookstore, but at the same time there's comfort in knowing that, if I lose it, or leave it
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by gknoy 8y ago
> that's not really how we observe what these cards are capable of I think you may be looking at what most benchmarks show, which is often high/ultra details, with AA. Yes, you can compare cards better by putting them through
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by gknoy 8y ago
> 4K is still the "storm on the horizon" that no one's graphics cards are truly ready for in an affordable way. I wouldn't call it a "storm on the horizon". I am fortunate to have a GTX 1070. If I turn off
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Not only that, but disagreements about what something means is often a Very Hard Problem, and even when courts judge something one way or another, there are many people who _disagree strongly_, and hope to either change the judiciary, or ch
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I find that saying the pledge of allegiance (when I visit my kids' schools for things) is an interesting affair. It's an opportunity to reflect on both the ideal of the Republic, and the ways / extent that the state of the Un
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> Saying that redistribution is bribery is about the same level of discourse as saying that taxes are theft and prison kidnapping I have friends who say literally that (taxes are theft). How does one argue against that? I have a hard tim
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Great point! I think the GP's intention was to note that the designer could choose to partner with a manufacturing place to provide pre-made kits for these (like UGears does).
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> friend with a firearm at the door ... US police are trigger-happy I cannot imagine why anyone would agree to be the first target on site. That seems like a very easy way to get killed or injured.
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This doesn't scale well with the number of people who ask for help, unless you can organize a class - which is hard to do in a way that helps people when they need help. I love talking about git workflow, and am happy to spend a half
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> Please give an example of a game where the dev were done finishing the game weeks / month in advance and chose to not include part of the game in the release. Content gets cut because games release on a set schedule, rather than &

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