lnanek2

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by lnanek2 10y ago
Pretty bizarre we haven't genetically modified a saffron yet to have more than three little threads of spice produced per flower. Heck, considering the variety our race managed to breed dogs into and the amount of change we created in
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by lnanek2 10y ago
You might enjoy some of Liu Cixin's stories, which are often similar to that: https://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Earth-Classic-Science-Colle...
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by lnanek2 10y ago
Really not a fan of this. In a link he says he took the code for saving/exporting and split it apart: http://girinstud.io/news/2015/09/improving-the-export-proces... The only way I ever use GIMP is thr
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by lnanek2 10y ago
Supposedly this sort of thing is also why Microsoft Word documents were so hard to parse at first - they were just a memory dump of the process and not text at all.
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by lnanek2 10y ago
Yes, that's pretty full of boilerplate, even for Java, which is notoriously boilerplate. There are more established event buses in Android with simpler syntax, like greenrobot's: EventBus.getInstance().post(new LogEvent("v1
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by lnanek2 10y ago
China is paying researchers to claim humankind evolved in China, basically. It doesn't match the genetic evidence which shows we evolved in Africa.
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by lnanek2 10y ago
That's strange. I'm not that player level and I still easily take down the highest gyms I've seen, which are level 6-7. As long as you can beat the weakest monster in the gym you can attack over and over until the prestige is
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by lnanek2 10y ago
Seems really opinionated, in a bad way: > rates are internally converted to 48 kHz > only frequencies up to 20 kHz are encoded. > In particular, software developers should not use Opus Custom for 44.1 kHz support There are times wh
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by lnanek2 10y ago
If it was another company doing this, there might be a chance it is meaningful. Google is not that company, however. They started and killed visual programming projects before, dumping everyone's data. The last one was called App Inven
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by lnanek2 10y ago
I think an audit on regex usage would be fine in this case because it is silly to be using an expensive regex on the server for every home page display. It should be done when the data item is created, not when it is displayed. Even if they
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by lnanek2 10y ago
Maybe he had to deal with C/C++ APIs. He does flat out say the two main modern languages are Swift and Objective-C. I know using OpenCV from iOS is a real nightmare for this reason.
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by lnanek2 10y ago
Yeah, the server loading indicator every ball toss is grueling. It would be OK if it was reliable and always loaded after a few minutes, but a large portion of the time it locks up after several failed attempts to talk to the server and you
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by lnanek2 10y ago
Seems to work great for the local Dunkin Donuts where I live. You have to enter the parking lot to get the PokeStop, then you see their store, and are probably more likely yo come in and get a donut or coffee. I've grabbed more coffee
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by lnanek2 10y ago
Pros are usually referring to mistakes like trying to fill a flush when most of the cards in the suit needed are already accounted for and not possible to draw so your odds are bad, etc.. Like having 20 in Black Jack and asking for a card,
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by lnanek2 10y ago
Yeah, amusingly, even Google Play has rules against third party payment processors. So Apple's behavior cracking down on directing app users to go pay somewhere else than the app store isn't even Apple specific.
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by lnanek2 10y ago
Samsung Gear S can make calls on its own without a paired phone. I think it runs Tizen OS.
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by lnanek2 10y ago
Working at a company that ships an embedded Android product, I know Android sometimes costs us far more than it helps us. It took us months to figure out how to route some audio from incoming A2DP Sink Bluetooth profile to the speakers, for
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by lnanek2 10y ago
> From a possible general taxing of the immune system relieving autoimmune dysfunction This matches my experience. I have Psoriasis, and the only time I don't have bloody little flakes of skin coming off my hands every day is when I
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by lnanek2 10y ago
Usually I use Cygwin. Have for many years. If I ever hear Bash on Windows gets a feature that doesn't have, maybe I'll check it out!
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by lnanek2 10y ago
GPS doesn't work underground.
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by lnanek2 10y ago
He's missing some of the capabilities already being demo'ed in labs. Connected cars won't just talk to the internet and stop lights like he mentions in the article, they'll also talk to the road (e.g. beacons with the sp
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by lnanek2 10y ago
As a college kid who used to dress rough in NYC, I've certainly been escorted out immediately for just walking into expensive stores there. What's legal isn't what happens in all cases.
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by lnanek2 10y ago
A new smartphone enhances your capabilities, though. They are tools. So the guy waiting for a smartphone instead of waiting to see Harry Potter is going to come away from the experience with more capabilities than he had before. New enterta
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by lnanek2 11y ago
Fortunately, I was running an image site and they hot linked my images. So I only served users with their referrer thumbnails instead of full size images. I also used image magick through PHP to append a footer with my site URL and logo stu
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by lnanek2 11y ago
That happened to me recently. Everyone seemed great during the interview process, but the company was a disaster. Once I got in the door I found out all the code was originally produced from outsourcing in Russia. So it had no comments and
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by lnanek2 11y ago
That's OK, because that's a pretty ignorant comment by the author anyway. We had a time when we didn't have in app payments in Android, and Google frequently showed slides showing a 20x increase in revenue for companies that
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by lnanek2 11y ago
If being there in person gives you a 2% better chance to close a million dollar deal, then it already makes sense to blow $20k on the ticket.
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by lnanek2 11y ago
Yeah, unfortunately for the author, it sounded a lot like that to me as well. I've cared for people overly anxious and it sounded like he would have improved a lot with some sedative or just knowing when to take a calm down break.
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by lnanek2 11y ago
My first job in NYC as a junior engineer a decade ago was 110k plus equity. I rented a single long hallway-like room basement studio in Chelsea for 2k/month. Good neighborhood if you are a gay man or like art galleries. Recently got th
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by lnanek2 11y ago
> Also, it would be difficult for Apple to come up with criteria for an acceptable app that would disqualify Uber but not also millions of other apps, without having some new condition specifically aimed at Uber. Not really. Apple alread

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