xsmasher

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by xsmasher 11y ago
Agreed; in my line of work (mobile games) an out of memory exception is the least useful, because the place that threw is not necessarily in the offending system that ate all of the memory. Getting stack traces for other exceptions IS usefu
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Apocryphal story: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Close_Encounters_...
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Only the "most popular roads" would suffer from that flaw; and the "day in the life" animation.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
From a technical point of view it's amazing. Artistically, the voxels are too big to look impressive to anyone used to polygon graphics, and too small to give off the "pixel-art" aesthetic of Minecraft or Terarria. I want to
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Okay, bad example. Orphaned word like "kith" in "kith and kin?"
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by xsmasher 11y ago
> They're the ones who say we're not allowed to have jobs if we think the wrong thoughts or have the wrong opinions. Yeah, like that crazy leftist Joe McCarthy, and his modern-day ilk that try to get teachers fired for being ga
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by xsmasher 11y ago
You might be interested in the concept of "eggcorns," which usually spawn from orphaned idioms that we can no longer connect to. For example the word "dander" is no longer used outside the idiom "get one's dand
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by xsmasher 11y ago
It looks like this was an update to the software in the Hue bridge? So people who THOUGHT they were buying a zigbee-based bridge now find that many zigbee products can no longer be paired with it.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Labor law generally outlaws discrimination, spying on, or termination of employees based on union membership. Seattle seems to be using its authority to regulate transportation services to extend these protections to drivers regardless of w
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Animals come in all sizes, and the big ones depend on the little ones. And so, ad infinitum.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
I didn't say serial SHOULD give equal time. I just disagreed with an opinion that they DID give equal time.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
I felt like the last half of season one spent its time poking holes in the prosecution's case, and none poking at the defense / defendant. Mileage varies.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
You already have the necessary experience to answer this question. The people and the business are more important than the technology. Using Clojure will not prevent the CEO from turning out to be a maniac and hothead.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
The question is, how MUCH of a difference does your digestive efficiency make. 5% ? 10% ? I doubt there are people getting twice as many calories out of a meal than the average person.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Compared to three years ago, there are fewer game Kickstarters that offer physical rewards, and that's a good thing. A lot of early campaigns wound up with a bunch of orders for physical goods (deluxe editions, t-shirts, figurines) tha
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by xsmasher 11y ago
I don't know the right answer, but this sets up some perverse incentives - police might be urged to be "more careful" around rich people than poor people, since wrongly arresting rich people has more penalty. Conversely if yo
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Not if it allows you to bring unused/underused capacity into use.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Similar quote from "The Name of The Rose:" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/849150-and-don-t-succumb-to... Where is yours from?
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Using the botanical definition in a culinary context doesn't make any sense.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
It's a case of in-group vs out-group, self-identification, etc. If you said "I'm not going to respect drivers because they speed all the time," everyone would think you were a nutter; but the same sentiment for bikes get
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by xsmasher 11y ago
> Do you believe that all information needs to be carefully controlled No, but nor should it be free from criticism.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
The U.S. dietary guidelines discussed in that article encourage more dairy (but low-fat, not high fat) and "Increase seafood intake by replacing some meat or poultry with seafood." The also encourage us to "Reduce intake of
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by xsmasher 11y ago
>Given that Zipcar has had 16 years of experience having cars stolen, they must have decided that it would cost more to install cutoff devices in the fleet than to buy some extra cars every year. I'm sure that GPS tracking makes it
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Careful! I've seen proxies (TracFone I think) subtly modify JSON files by removing whitespace, probably in the name of download speed. That will break the hashing. If you start seeing unexplained errors on pay-as-you-go phones, you&#x2
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by xsmasher 11y ago
This choice is long-term good if it reduces the use of DRM, but it's pretty user-hostile right now. No chance of running in a "Windows 7 compatibility" mode that allows the DRM to keep working?
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by xsmasher 11y ago
I use it for lunch most days of the week. I know exactly how many calories I'm getting (useful if dieting) and it's convenient; I get back the 30 minutes I would have spent going to a restaurant / food truck.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Could happen http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-33839742 [Australia suggests Vegemite sales limit amid 'alcohol abuse']
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Those videos should not change your desire to make abortion safe, legal, and rare; or your disgust at the knee-jerk notion of defunding all of Planned Parenthood's women's health programs.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
I've heard both "don't use dry food, it causes issues" AND "don't use wet food, it causes issues" so... You're going to have to provide some citation for your opinion.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Very prevalent. http://dumbledoreshotfirst.blogspot.com/2013/08/words-of-day...

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