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stordoff
8y ago
The author does note in the comments: > Note that by default, afl-fuzz runs on a single core, so it may take several days to get results
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stordoff
8y ago
They were merged into Firemonkeys Studio, and are still a going concern (their last three games - Real Racing 3, The Sims Freeplay, and Need for Speed: No Limits - are still getting updates). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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stordoff
8y ago
Overclocking brings up another example - a lot of AMD CPUs have extra cores that can be unlocked. They're manufactured as the higher-end chips, then just have cores disabled. Sometimes due to defects, but often they work just fine.
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stordoff
8y ago
On the flip side, I often hit it accidentally when hitting cmd-w, and I don't think I ever intentionally hit it. Choosing good defaults is hard.
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stordoff
8y ago
Voltorb, maybe? https://www.pokemon.com/uk/pokemon-tcg/pokemon-cards/xy-seri...
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stordoff
8y ago
> I bought a bunch of Yubikeys and tried giving them away like candy to friends and family. I couldn't even give them away; people still weren't interested, including several developers (!). My problem is what if I lose it. I k
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stordoff
8y ago
The term was borrowed from the cattle industry, where it was used to know who owns a thing, thus you know the source and have a reasonable expectation of quality.
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stordoff
8y ago
Generally speaking, I can find the information I am looking for, usually by forcing Google to include those words.
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stordoff
8y ago
s/x/y is common syntax: > A related habit uses editor commands to signify corrections to previous text. This custom faded in email as more mailers got good editing capabilities, only to take on new life on IRCs and other line-b
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stordoff
8y ago
It's frustrating because it just translates into making Google harder to use, and multiple searches for the same thing are now common. I often see, on a four word search, the top five or so results all having "Missing: word3 word4
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stordoff
8y ago
> Everything that has been negotiated and decided so far would have to be ignored. I'm not disagreeing. The current procedures are brought to close. IF new proceedings were brought, the EU would be well within its rights to say no a
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stordoff
8y ago
This is not my reading at all. It brings _the_ withdrawal procedure to an end - the procedure under Article 50 is terminated. It does not preclude starting another. Indeed, it would be contradictory - the purpose of the notice is to confirm
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stordoff
8y ago
> She's literally the only person in the wide political spectrum in the UK that's willing to actually deal with this like a sensible adult She's been told by the rules of Parliament that she can't have another vote on
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stordoff
8y ago
I don't think anyone is expecting anything to come directly of this. However, it puts more pressure on MPs.
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stordoff
8y ago
> There is a court ruling that states that invoking Article 50 repeatedly can be seen as an illegal abuse of the rule to exert undue pressure on the EU Citation needed. I have read the primary ruling on this[1], and I don't recall a
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stordoff
8y ago
And is in fact about what some people do pay, proving there is a market for such services: > The economics of drug dealing make it cost-effective to pay 5% to 10% to betting shops to launder the illicit profits. https://www.th
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stordoff
8y ago
It's used in the multiplayer, but whether it actually makes a difference or not is debatable. Digital Foundry's opinion: > Crackdown 3 doesn't deliver much of the promise previously showcased from the power of the cloud.
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stordoff
8y ago
I wonder if you could use something like the RetroArch rollback solution[1] - render multiple versions of the stream, then pick the closest one based on player input. With a fast enough Internet connection, you could let the _client_ pick,
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stordoff
8y ago
Is there any reason that requires infrastructure to _play_ the games (in a consumer sense)? That seemed more like a prototyping tool to me.
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stordoff
8y ago
I've found Live to have great support. Console arrived with a broken disc drive - shipping label seen sent within an hour, and a free (download) game for the trouble; wanted to cancel a transaction and the site was bugging out - sorted
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stordoff
8y ago
I don't want to downplay it too much (I've seen my grandmother go through benzodiazapine withdrawal, and it took the best part of a year IIRC), but I would add withdrawal is highly personal. I've quit drugs that I was told (b
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stordoff
8y ago
Even if she had received and took it seriously, what do you expect her to do? 9 minutes to receive something, determine it is real, and do something about it is not a lot of time.
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stordoff
8y ago
Superdry is perhaps the most obvious example (in the opposite direction). In the same way that Japanese products often include gratuitous English, they include gratuitous Japanese on their clothes: > The company's products include m
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stordoff
8y ago
I've certainly had songs I've overheard appear in dreams. Weirdly enough, despite it being lucid dreaming and I'm fully aware that I'm dreaming, I have no recognition of where the music is coming from until I wake up.
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stordoff
8y ago
I'm not sure why this is the case. I don't see why you wouldn't be able to edit things that are in the sandbox (you create it in the first place, after all), whilst making sure things in the sandbox can't access anything
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stordoff
8y ago
Eyewitness accounts are _notoriously_ unreliable. Multiple witnesses saw something approaching TWA-800: > Although there were considerable discrepancies between different accounts, most witnesses to the accident had seen a "streak o
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stordoff
8y ago
Arguably it does: > The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to
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stordoff
8y ago
Unless they make specific predictions, I'd pay it no mind (and even then they can get lucky). There are a thousand things that line could apply to, and there are probably a ton of such "predictions" posted daily that go nowhe
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stordoff
8y ago
> It's only recently been possible to actually use HEVC/x265 for transparent encodes, previous versions of x265 removed film grain/digital noise to such a degree And even then I've found that it still requires tweakin
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stordoff
8y ago
It's possibly because Atmos requires DTS-HD MA (there's no free alternative), or because people playing on standalone hardware are more likely to support DTS-HD MA than FLAC. In general though, FLAC will compress to smaller than t
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