thedudemabry

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by thedudemabry 10y ago
One possible benefit of the hybrid handheld/docked model is that each player maintains their own system and screen, independent of whether or not they have control of the television or are even in the same room as their opponent. I don
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
This is totally not a meaningful use, but one that surprised me when I stumbled across it: Bravely Default, the Square-Enix RPG, had an intro where a fairy crawled out of my carpet and flitted around. I don't remember any more AR in th
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
I didn't take "baseline" to be dismissive, but rather a description of GIMP's venn-diagram overlap with Photoshop. They both make different choices for different reasons, but ensuring that proven useful features eventual
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
I tend to agree with you. GIMP is a very important project in my view because it provides legal, cross-platform access to a baseline of image manipulation tools. The above-and-beyond feature set is fantastic, but not the reason why I love i
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
We've occasionally brought our little dude into bed with us when he's going nuts, but also know the potential consequences. It's not generally safe to bring a child into an adult bed and I know without my spouse being super-v
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
This is fantastic. I'm not joking when I say that I have family members who didn't realize that a second pregnancy was possible during the after-birth period. Thumbs-up for a government tackling a really thorny problem.
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
Haha, I once got into a rather frustrating discussion with my partner when discussing the optimal order and partitioning of laundry loads so that we spent the least amount of time babysitting the washer and dryer. After our third digression
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
Ted Chiang's short story collection is the most concentrated dose of fantastic sci-fi/fantasy I've read. Each story is brief, memorable, and plays with at least one neat "what if?" I've also given out a couple
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
I credit Mr. Hartl's tutorial many years ago with my decision to take Rails seriously and find a job where I got to work with it every day. I appreciated the framework, but it often seemed "too cute" or "too magical&quot
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
This was one of the biggest level-ups in my own personal cooking, realizing that salting (and to a much lesser extent peppering) to taste makes or breaks the dish. Most home cooks I know will skip that step out of ignorance or health concer
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
Way to go, Dontnod! This is an amazing indie-movie-flavored game that you should definitely try out if you want some Heathers-meets-Donnie-Darko awesomeness.
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
I've had this issue (during and after GPU-intensive tasks, which aren't common enough to be a major nuisance), and after blowing compressed air through all exposed vents, didn't notice a change. I should schedule a repair tim
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
We also use Clojure at work alongside Ruby, and I'm continually pleasantly surprised to find the benefits of using an immutable-by-default language. I like the functional programming aspects of programming in the large and small, but t
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
It's a _super_ tropish twist, but I think that's a knowing choice. There's a great Extra Credits episode (usually a video game analysis show) exploring that theme at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghrI2Vb8u2U
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
While I agree with your assertion that a state of anarchy introduced by force (technical or otherwise) in a relatively stable democracy would be nightmarish, I suspect that's going to be the thrust of season 2. The activists leveraged
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
VLC Player! I didn't even think to include it on this list because I rarely think about it, which is a great sign. I always install it on new OSs and make it the default media player. But it plays all the things I've thrown at it
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
Agreed on all three recommendations. My use of Trello grows and shrinks over time as project management influence shrinks and grows, but it's a great product. Instapaper and Inbox are just amazing.
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
In our R&D Slack instance, it's amazing to see a program with great UX (Slack) enable engineers to post awk, grep, sed, jq, etc. one-liners to solve other engineers' questions. IRC has the same benefits, I'm sure, but Sla
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
I had forgotten about this tool, and having worked mostly on Apple hardware for the last 5 years didn't realize they had a macOS version. But when I used it on Windows, it was phenomenal.
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
Synergy. It's a keyboard and mouse sharing client/server application that runs on every platform I use. I don't know if better alternatives exist because it has just been rock-solid for the last 12 years that I've been u
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
I would imagine that different markets make a huge difference. My only two points of reference are Denver, CO and Kansas City, MO. In Kansas City, Whole Foods produce and dairy prices were anywhere from 100-200% more than their Price Choppe
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
"More serious and expensive offerings apply machine learning to internal human resources (HR) records, and work to discover and infiltrate online crime rings." Their first offering sounds pretty unlikely to yield results and the s
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
I half-remember an article I read a long time ago about chip and pin cards that mentioned asynchronous communication with the mothership as a big win for the chip. The example it brought up was that because the chip's identity could be
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
Thank goodness storage is cheap. I've had a revolving door of credit/debit card numbers over the last few years thanks to identity theft, and the SaaS providers I use for personal stuff are really good about keeping my data around
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
Yep! GiantBomb is a video game website with some interesting personality. Something like 80% of their content is freely available with banner ads on the site and typical interstitials on their podcasts. For $50 a year, all ads disappear, th
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
I thought I was the only one! My gaming PC hooked up to our living room TV has nagged about the upgrade for months, and I dutifully closed the popup window each time I saw it. About two weeks ago, I turned on the TV to find a new login scre
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
Yeah, I've personally overlooked Uber's most unfortunate PR crises because darn, it's convenient to not pay a tip. But if that slim advantage goes away, I'm back to the same decision matrix that made me dislike taxis.
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
As a self-admitted, lazy millenial, I have to call bullshit. Commuting 4 hours a day for a job, assuming that the job is 2 hours away, means devoting half of your ordinary-full-time hours to driving to a place to work. Outliers are absolute
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
I've kinda thought about this in the context of relatively complex technical jobs. One side of my family tree worked a bunch in the consumer banking (non-investment) industry, and I remember hearing story after story of someone being c
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by thedudemabry 11y ago
Something that to some small degree worries me is that video game preservation is all but impossible for online-only services. WoW and its ilk have played a large role in the evolution of video games, but in ten years we're unlikely to

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