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by kej 8y ago
From the Worlds Adrift blog, they've apparently heard back from the Unity side: "Bossa has been informed by Unity that Worlds Adrift should not be affected by the situation between Improbable and Unity. Thus, Worlds Adrift remains
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by kej 8y ago
They did completely overhaul the equation system in Office 2007 so that you edit them with unicode text instead of the proprietary OLE editor from previous versions. The document [1] describing how they use unicode characters to structure m
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They did this for an episode of the Shrek spinoff Puss in Boots series, as well.
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I'm planning to set up an old laptop with Linux for my 7 and 5 year olds, so I'm curious if you have any other software suggestions in addition to GCompris?
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I'm really liking How to Invent Everything by Ryan North. It's instructions for rebuilding civilization if you were stranded in the past, and is just the right mix of funny and interesting.
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It's trailing behind C# (as always), but the plan is to support F# in CoreRT, which will get you your native builds.
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It still carries huge "don't use for production" warnings, and only parts of it are slated for stabilizing in Dotnet Core 3.0. That said, it's fairly usable today, and I think there's enough interest in it that I&#x
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by kej 8y ago
That's a good observation. Do you have any suggestions for non-English protest songs?
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There's a FF extension "App for Hangouts" that puts Hangouts in its own window and has worked for me while I slowly convert my contacts into other IM systems.
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>A family friend had one recently that she tore her hair out over for at least a week before finally accepting that there was no “simple” solution after confirmation from no fewer than five other people that they thought the problem was
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by kej 8y ago
In addition to the other suggestions, you might consider something like SketchUp. It's not going to do as much as the software professional engineers are using, but it's also not going to be as hard to learn.
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There's some detail on the interior of the sub on their site [1]; note the slider on the "Key Features" photograph that shows you the inside when the slider is moved to the left. [1] https://fivedeeps.com/home
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That one is technically a two-man band, but definitely still fits the pattern of someone dedicating their life to making a complex game.
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There was a notable incident years ago when they messed up a billing script and precharged a year's service to all their customers, to the tune of $7.5 million. I'm not sure I've heard any horror stories since then behind the
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It's definitely a neat project, but worth mentioning that there are sub-$100 projectors running Android (so it can be headless and programmable) that also have a better native resolution than the TI DLP component used here, and video i
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*annual charge
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WikiLeaks sat on Manafort's group sex and blood money texts, but released Podesta's emails less than an hour after the Access Hollywood tape was published. His agenda was more than an act to get on Don Jr.'s good side.
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by kej 8y ago
>to control very easily who can fetch what where it's fetched (permissions) This is a piece of GraphQL I haven't been able to get my head around. Could you elaborate or point me to a good explanation of how this is implemented?
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I'm curious what the other books in the rotation are, if you don't mind sharing.
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These are pretty good puzzles, the full archive is at https://www.janestreet.com/puzzles/archive/
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I think I agree with you that the context of an artistic work is a valuable lens through which to view it, but there are definitely timeless works of art, too. Don Quixote or most of Dickens come to mind.
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It's a question of authorization. If the fire department clears you to bring in your nitrogen swarm you'd be fine, but they want unauthorized drones out of the area so they don't interfere with other emergency operations.
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If it's what you enjoy and you're not tied into a different job for other reasons, go do it. I'm not sure what Facebook's requirements are like, but there are tons of places that would hire someone with Python skills at
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I don't know you or what your life is like, but I can tell you that I've been in a very similar mental place and I can tell you that your mind is lying to you right now. Please seek help. There are lots of options and possibilitie
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by kej 8y ago
Am I missing something? It looks like phone data is unlimited (with throttling after 23GB in congested areas) and tethering/hotspot limited to 10GB.
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As a sort of counterpoint to the suggestions you're going to get, I really like the series Connections [1] by science historian James Burke. He takes a step back to show how interconnected and interdependent technological progress is
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Only tangentially related, but it reminds me of the story 17776 - What Football Will Look Like in the Future . https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
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It looks like this is the same as the Fread micropayments service [1], which is a real company [2] but is similarly quiet about whatever business partnerships it has established. They have some blog posts [3] that give background but don&#x
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>was quite a hassle to reset 2FA on all the websites after my phone was replaced in warranty repair Next time print out all the QR codes and save them in a secure place. Now you can easily add them to a new device, although you need to b
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by kej 8y ago
The joke isn't specific to this project, it's a reference to the semi-famous quote "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." More info: https://www.martinfowle

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