xanderstrike

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by xanderstrike 10y ago
> vehicle purchasing, insurance, and maintenance, and buying fuel These are all things Uber does not do. It comes out of the cut the driver takes home, not Uber's revenue.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
I was delighted when they changed it from "always ask" to "show by default." Like I said, Gmail never puts spam through to me, so it saves me clicks.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
That's interesting, I never get spam in my inbox in Gmail, but my "spam folder" is constantly full. I wonder if gmail makes these spam emails appear as if they're "inboxing" to the spammers.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
So reddit gold.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
Give it a few years and your average Russian hacker with a handful of stolen credit cards will be able to buy enough VPS muscle to crack it.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
The value of Google's automated processing of images can't be understated. Last year I uploaded roughly 50,000 photos to Google, which was every photo I had taken since 2006. Google automatically created albums for every vacation
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
> Survivorship bias. In more ways than one. When jerks are allowed to be jerks, people who do not want to deal with jerks leave the company. So the jerks bubble up to the top, while otherwise great engineers who don't want to be ber
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
Can you expand a little on how the article said the identification worked? It says it takes a set of pixels, does this patch of pixels get stored? How big is it? If it's stored, how is it protected? Is it encrypted at rest? I have a Vi
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
> who doesn't assume that everything we do is tracked for optimization This kind of acquiescence is dangerous. What you're essentially saying is "why bother enforcing the laws, nobody follows them" which is a terrible
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
Can you recommend a 50" 1080p tv that isn't "smart"? I've been shopping for a new one and I strongly suspect they don't exist.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
Which is a bummer, because a lot of these sites are supported by affiliate links. When you go to your own amazon, you lose the affiliate connection and can't support the site that gave you the information.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
The only things you can't play at home without spending a lot of money are the games that require dance pads, racing wheels, or light guns. That's why those fill modern arcades. Anyone can get a fight stick and MAME if they'r
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
Google Voice has been rolled into Fi now (when you transfer your number into Fi, it becomes a google voice number). I think Google Voice has a few more years in it at the very least.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
I've had no such troubles. I play Rocket League with my steam controller regularly. Sounds like you might have gotten a bad one, did you contact support?
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
I have Plex Media Player as a non-steam game, and used the configurator so that the UI is entirely navigable with a standard Xbox One or Steam controller. So it's doable.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
After using the SC for about six months as my almost-exclusive controller, only reverting to my 360 controller when the SC won't work for some reason or another, I'm far more precise and fast with the SC. Consider that you've
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
I don't have to buy a windows license to run windows software.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
I think you're confused. That's a workstation for professionals. That's not the demographic apple is interested in any more.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
It doesn't need to be that thick or that wide even. Consider the Magnus EN1080 [1]. It's a bit taller than a mac mini, has an i7 and a GTX 1080. It's got the liquid cooling you seem keen on too. I believe this is the future o
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
"Assuming a perfectly spherical voter..."
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
Facebook users also don't live forever, to be fair.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
Unless you're looking to wear your non-facebook status as a badge of pride (which many do), I think there's a more constructive way to quit wasting time on FB. Every time you see a vapid post, unsubscribe from whoever posted it. E
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
It's a good idea to think of the temperature rating of sleeping bags as "survivable" rather than "comfortable." I camp year round in CA. I use a 20 degree bag for late spring/summer/early fall and a 0 degr
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
More likely, playing it in order commits to a certain approach too early, and makes that approach predictable. Starting from the middle leaves other options open. Given that it trains against a copy of itself, with equivalent predictive pow
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
I "solved" the problem by restoring a week old backup from before I'd upgraded to Sierra. All other things were equal, so the OS was the culprit. This is why good backups are important, never know when Apple's gonna scre
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
There's also the NFC S4 Mini, which only supports half length GPUs (Gigabyte makes a good 1070). It 4.3L or 262in³. Both of these options are certainly smaller than a macbook plus an enclosure though.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
> MacBooks have good software that works I just spent my entire workday struggling to figure out why `kernal_task` was constantly using 16gb of RAM. Whenever people say macOS "just works" I assume they do nothing but web browse
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
> But, instead, young people want urban living I think most young people are trying to go where the jobs are more than anything.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
That's for windows, it won't work in Xubuntu.
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by xanderstrike 10y ago
> What's the battery and noise/heat level like on those? If you have to ask this question, a gaming laptop is not for you.

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