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by tcdent 10y ago
Clarus the Dogcow favicon is pretty 1999
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by tcdent 10y ago
I don't see how that's different from contacting a manufacturer and having them produce your product. If you want the first-hand experience, it's usually up to you. Shared tool access is becoming more popular with the (hac|ma
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by tcdent 10y ago
It's a knitting machine, so it's nothing like a sewing machine. It's not a new concept; I have a manually-operated Brother machine from the mid-60's intended for home use, and industrial knitting machines for socks, etc.
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by tcdent 10y ago
American supermarkets have numerous options for delivery, many of them provided by the same brand, but only Instacart has come close to delivering an experience I can endorse. Their employees are professional and have been taught to provide
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by tcdent 10y ago
This is a culture that believes prosecuting to the "fullest-extent of the law" is the right thing to do, regardless of the actual human circumstances.
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by tcdent 10y ago
> There's something to be said for the punch that Jet A still packs I commonly hear "jet fuel" expected to be some exceptionally-potent fuel, but the truth is that it's very similar to regular old Diesel with aviation
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by tcdent 10y ago
The overhead of an SQL query has nothing to do with the language you're using.
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by tcdent 10y ago
The ecosystem is still evolving very rapidly. Additionally, the vocal majority of the existing Unity community aren't the most technically inclined. The result is something akin to the front-end web development community before Stack O
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by tcdent 11y ago
The selection wand is nothing revolutionary, and likely works better for his purposes in the obsolete software. PS anti-aliases selections by default, so there's a specific example of a tool he's had to tune for his style of art.
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by tcdent 11y ago
I think efficiency is the wrong term. Palatte shifting and limited color palates were born from the necessity of effeciency. Now he has to use an emulated DOS program to edit them. He uses an experimental web app to display palate shifting
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by tcdent 11y ago
I own a desk and a chair, but I never use it. Desks are too unpleasant for me.
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by tcdent 11y ago
In a word: empathy. Nothing beats the visceral explanation of a demo, though.
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by tcdent 11y ago
> how bad and anti-productive the FSF's PR has been at times in the past 26 years I'd apply that same sentiment to this article as well. They haven't received the recognition they deserve, and because they're always a
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by tcdent 11y ago
> useless things , like Tumblr (I'm sorry but Tumblr is a complete failure under Yahoo) Buying Tumblr and then causing it to underperform are two separate points. The potential for success (before acquisition) would characterize i
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by tcdent 11y ago
I'm no expert, but it's interesting enough to note that League of Legends was born out of a Warcraft 3 map/mod. Had Blizzard stifled their freedom to create (they used to provide a map editor with earlier games), the worlds m
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by tcdent 11y ago
375ml 'half bottles' have been around for a very long time. The claim from those with a discerning enough palate is that the wine develops differently inside the smaller container, and thus the 750ml is ideal. I recently tried a f
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by tcdent 11y ago
"...some company named Valve" who's software, social network and content distribution are installed on nearly every gamer's computer. Also don't forget their history as a game developer, which attributes an arguably
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by tcdent 11y ago
As a publicly educated kid who started working when he was 15-1/2 (the legal minimum age in CA for a work permit at the time), I'd encourage you to rethink the importance of child-like innocence. Not that I regret my choices, but
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by tcdent 11y ago
The people that produce blatantly poor products like this are the only ones to blame.
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by tcdent 11y ago
The JSON response trick is just the right amount of magic. I'm eager to make Swift my new web dev language and this looks like a very promising option if they continue to maintain that balance.
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by tcdent 11y ago
If your payload is power generation equipment, and you are able to stay airborne for an indefinite period, is that not perpetual motion? The usual preventative physics apply; friction, efficiency.
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by tcdent 11y ago
Depending on how you look at it, it could be said that their 'response' has been there all along via the API. There is a vocal minority that is looking for more powerful tools to manage their specific project's workflows, oft
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by tcdent 11y ago
You do not have to identify yourself in California. https://www.aclusocal.org/barstow-stop-and-id/
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by tcdent 11y ago
What's realistic timing for getting a feature you contribute (and receive approval) deployed and available for use?
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by tcdent 11y ago
Scary enough to have redundancy? edit: I'm talking about redundant systems. A wood fireplace, for example. You should have a backup of any form of technology you rely on to maintain your life. We regularly do it with far less critical
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by tcdent 11y ago
Slack didn't invent chat commands. Bots have been listening and enhancing IRC for decades. The terminology varies, but there's little difference in implementation.
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by tcdent 11y ago
> "Because your application is run as zipapp, it must be zip safe. ... The main violation against zip safety is using filesystem API..." I like everything about this, except for the possibility that zipapp constraints could h
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by tcdent 11y ago
I'm mildly baffled by the coding style of the main encoder class[0]; where do these conventions come from? (All-caps three character properties, namespaced(?) arguments, spaces e v e r y w h e r e, curly bracket array access.) Also, I
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by tcdent 11y ago
Are you saying that retention is bad from a memory use perspective, or that there is a risk of looping mid-broadcast?
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by tcdent 11y ago
It has literally everything that the original vapor has; where do you think the compounds 'go'? Nicotine, flavorings, everything else, goes in your lungs and plenty of it comes right back out.

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