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by thoth 10y ago
It's still there, as a balloon popup that says a file name can't contain the following characters: \/:*?"<>|
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by thoth 10y ago
That scene did seem out of place, and I'm not sure how useful a 3D file explorer is, but fsn was a real (experimental) product for IRIX systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn edit: fsn is lowercase
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by thoth 10y ago
The linked article specifically mentions that the CC safety net is fraying as well - costs for middle class income brackets range 11% to 22% instead of 16% to 45% (across various other options and states; unfortunately all 8 states mentione
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by thoth 10y ago
>$50 million is missing, and people feel wronged as a result. So what is the plan going forward - if either party in a "smart contract" feels disadvantaged by the outcome - they go running to the law and outside jurisdictions f
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by thoth 10y ago
The language is Solidity ( https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ) which runs on the Ethereum VM. Certainly one of the challenges for the project is implementation and security issues in the Turing-complete lan
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by thoth 10y ago
And my anecdotal experience is losing ~100K selling a house in the down market of 2009. As for whether a condo makes its money back - suppose someone doesn't plan to sell it? A place to live is more than a profit/loss or investmen
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by thoth 10y ago
>Was the NBA's lifetime ban on Donald Sterling ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sterling#Racial_remarks... ) totally fine? I don't see any problem here. This is a conflict between two corporations (the
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by thoth 10y ago
> flat-out blows all their money and now can't afford rent and/or food? Well for starters I'd imagine a future BI system to handle something like rent via direct transfer to the landlord. Food handled the same way, some pr
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by thoth 10y ago
I use this strategy when playing WWF as well, and have stumbled across words unknown to me. I also play illegal words to check the validity of other words formed. For instance, if I wonder whether an existing word can take an -S or -D endin
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by thoth 10y ago
The "Why not Python/Ruby/Node.js/Lua" section lists 3 reasons the author developed this language...
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by thoth 10y ago
>The rollout of the ACA websites makes it clear that the government isn't good at producing that sort of product. You mean that the private contractor hired to do the HealthCare.gov website, CGI Federal, did a lousy job?
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by thoth 10y ago
I was a teen in the mid 1980s when computers were too expensive. The situation today is orders of magnitude better, it isn't really comparable at all. For one thing, a Raspberry Pi is more powerful than the Sinclair ZX-81, Apple IIe, o
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by thoth 11y ago
>You should say it 'works sometimes'. 1st and 3rd examples work from PowerShell.
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by thoth 11y ago
Things I like about PowerShell include objects - cmdlets return them and you can call methods. For example, you can get a list of services (get-service) and each is a ServiceController object, which you can Start(), Stop(), etc. Things I do
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by thoth 11y ago
>A branch of physics used to be taught a long time ago called "numerical analysis" to deal with this issue. Freshmen engineers had to take a year-long Numerical Analysis and FORTRAN programming class at my undergrad university.
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by thoth 11y ago
I also got tired of organizing papers and websites (various articles I print to pdf), I just throw it all into Mendeley Desktop now and apply my own tags and so some minor modifications on author/title. I go with the "last name -
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by thoth 11y ago
>The implication seems to be that students can't do the trial-and-error, understand then apply the theory. I agree with parent comment that this is awfully defeatist. All teaching is a balance between various factors, and perhaps th
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by thoth 11y ago
>I felt like it was nothing but a bag of tricks... had to substitute a "2" with "1/2 + 3/2". Many techniques in math are "tricks" like this. Think of solving a quadratic by completing the square, o
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by thoth 11y ago
Not taking sides here, but this view is fine as long as everything is explicitly detailed in unambiguous language. For example, the 4th Amendment protects against "unreasonable" search and seizure. There is a lot of leeway in what
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by thoth 11y ago
I've got a bunch I like, here are some of my favorites: Itanium processor overview (series) https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150727-00/?p=... Lock-free algorithms (series) https://blo
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by thoth 11y ago
Midway down the page for SHGetFolderLocation is a remark that says this function is a wrapper for SHGetKnownFolderIDList, which seems to be the one to use.
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by thoth 11y ago
You're correct, I didn't recognize it. Thanks for pointing that out!
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by thoth 11y ago
When I was an undergrad and graduate EE student, the "go to" book to help with electromagnetics was Div, Grad, Curl, and all that ( http://www.amazon.com/Div-Grad-Curl-All-That/dp/0393925161 ). Back in m
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by thoth 11y ago
>Power companies are responsible for their own infrastructure. How exactly do you build infrastructure without government powers such as eminent domain, or without inserting easements for utility access? A libertarian landowner could sim
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by thoth 11y ago
>From what I remember, suicides account for almost half of all deaths due to guns. The article says "Today, suicides account for roughly two out of every three gun deaths."
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by thoth 11y ago
>At my (now closed) local B&N, it was a Starbucks. It was probably a Branded Solutions Food Service store ( http://www.starbucks.com/business the Food Service option, not a Licensed Store or Starbuck Office Coffee del
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by thoth 11y ago
Ah, gotcha. I haven't played in a while so I'm out of touch as far as figuring out what changes are significant. I looked over their development page ( http://bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html ) and can't fi
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by thoth 11y ago
>A "dot release" (who really cares about numbering schemes?) DF numbers its releases differently than most software. The developers made a list of features ("core components") they would like to implement and the vers
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by thoth 11y ago
>I'm sometimes a bit sceptical giving money to friends I'm a runner/biker and I know dozens of people that do these charity events. I even went to an informational session for one, since I was thinking about it... the way
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by thoth 11y ago
>linked with evidence The evidence boils down to a unnamed source that ESR trusts... unsourced hearsay. Pretty thin indeed! I think commenter Anonymous4982 says it the best: "My advice: stick to writing about tech, ’cause you make y

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