roryisok

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   by roryisok 9y ago

   What magical country are you from? I'm going to guess at somewhere in Northern Europe?
2. 512.▲
   by roryisok 9y ago

   Windows phones! And before those, minidiscs
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   > whereas public perception seems to be that anyone using any sort of welfare program is cheating and doesn’t deserve it. I think this is it. Even being on benefits in the first place is considered scrounging by some. I'd much rathe
4. 514.▲
   by roryisok 9y ago

   I don't feel that way. I feel much more angry about rich people dodging taxes than relatively poor people cheating on benefits.
5. 515.▲
   by roryisok 9y ago

   Well which is it, space or cost?
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   Eventually they'll stop replacing that model of battery though
7. 517.▲
   by roryisok 9y ago

   And the only reason that decision was made was to stop you from DIY upgrading the SSD and getting a few more years out of your $3k laptop
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   I was lucky enough a few years back to find a guy in my hometown selling two 6ft x 4ft whiteboards for €20 from a sports club. Before that I was playing around with magic whiteboard sheets, which are a dragons den product that's basica
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   Just playing devils advocate, but another scenario might be if one side of a warring species annihilates the other, and then takes off into space. What if the Nazis won WW2, and started a space program in the 60s? There could be an alien eq
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    We're not sentient at all. We only think we're sentient.
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Never seen it, worth a watch? I do like Martin Clunes
12. 522.▲
    by roryisok 9y ago

    Every bully has a back story. Or should have.
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Kvothe being awesome at everything irritated me, it actually went over my head that he might be an unreliable narrator... I liked Name of the Wind for the most part but some of the characters were flatter than pancakes. That bad guy student
14. 524.▲
    by roryisok 9y ago

    I'm going to have to read "surely you're joking", it comes up so often on these lists
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham - everyone goes blind and a bunch of sentient plants start eating people. one of the first science fiction books I ever read, and the one that introduced me to post apocalyptic fiction. Giant plants might
16. 526.▲
    by roryisok 9y ago

    But if you use qt you're already cross platform and native. Why force the user to fire up a webkit instance to parse your JavaScript when you could code in python or java?
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Am I missing something? Doesn't wasm still need a browser to run? What advantage are qt bindings if you still have to load webkit?
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Wpf? Does that mean it might be possible to target windows 7?
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Even web assembly would still require a full webkit / browser instance though. UWP or WPF apps that run XAML don't have a browser instance (unless they use webview) and the memory footprint is much much lower than the equivalent e
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I can't find any GUI info here, I'm assuming that you still need to use html/CSS on top of webkit on top of node.js which then runs .net core in another process
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Well the point of this project is to allow someone to use .net in the background, although this is already possible with the edge.js project (nothing to do with the edge browser)
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I was really excited when I saw this because I thought someone had finally brought us a .net alternative to electron, using xaml. Unfortunately this seems to be electron but with a .net webapp running in the background? You still need node
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    "I gasped". "I screamed". I don't know what the standard of writing is like at politico (I don't frequent it) but this reads like fiction
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    or an end of day prompt with a really quick and simple survey. of course, for some of us, having a newborn means you completely lose track of time. I was off for 4 weeks when our first was born in the height of summer. we slept whenever she
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    well if all her lady friends use it I think you can safely say greater than "one" for your sample size =) I might give it a run for number three!
26. 536.▲
    by roryisok 9y ago

    cool app, but in my limited experience with newborns, there just isn't enough time to input data into a system like this to get the cool reports.
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I assume you're talking about OS logins or something. But lets be honest here, 99% of the passwords we use daily are for websites or web based services
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    The author recommends using a password algorithm that you can mentally process and then storing the results in a password manager. If you're going to store them why not let the password manager generate the pass for you?
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    was just thinking this. it's one of the bigger problems facing any potential mars colony.
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    probably just the windows version, but I find Typora has a terrible lag when typing if there's any strain on the CPU at the time. Dropbox was eating up 30% and Typora keystrokes slowed to what felt like 500ms response time.