xsmasher

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by xsmasher 11y ago
Have you heard the term "Smart grid?" Being able to postpone some types of usage (water heating, etc) and to quickly ramp down generation based on demand will reduce the amount of rejected energy.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
There was a similar story on reddit a month ago; internet detectives "ENHANCE-ed" a photo and determined that the driver could not taken an incriminating photo at the time they claimed to. https://www.reddit.com/r&
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by xsmasher 11y ago
All of these solutions are more expensive than free water that falls from the sky. If the drought ends, then you have an expensive white elephant on your hands. If the drought conditions are the new normal, though, we'll wish that we s
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Not shocking at all to anyone interested in sports science. Bodybuilders have a high BMI because of their higher weight relative to their height, but they are not actually obese. BMI is only used because it's easy to measure; it's
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by xsmasher 11y ago
So is working on cars, or caring for horses, or gardening.
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The parent is addressing whether ADP will win a defamation suit; it's possible that Zenefits violated TOS and that ADP shut them down with good reason, but that doesn't mean that Zenefits defamed ADP.
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The min / max specs are copied from GTA V min specs. http://www.geforce.com/games-applications/pc-games/grand-the...
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Automated translation: "Apple's online store refuses to sell Brazilian album with nipples on the cover" https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=h... Sounds like they objected to
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Many people use credit to buy MORE than they need, and MORE than they can afford. A new car instead of a gently-used car, a larger house that just becomes a sink for their income. That doesn't mean credit is bad - it can be used as a l
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by xsmasher 11y ago
The car loan seems like a bad idea. If the student loan is low-interest, it probably makes sense to invest your extra money and only pay the minimum on the loan. It's cheap money. The mortgage may be cheap money too, and can pay off de
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by xsmasher 11y ago
AAA means a certain budget, which should at least correlate* with high production value. Not necessarily "good," but "expensive looking." *This might not be true in cases of outright corruption or incompetence. You'
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I'm assuming these refunds are deducted from the earnings paid out to the publishers. This should have a lot of beneficial effects. Instead of Steam spending resources curating, this pushes the cost of bad games back onto the publisher
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by xsmasher 11y ago
I tried 3D printing for the first time this year, and I used Blender. It was as easy as exporting an .STL file and uploading it to Shapeways.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
What historical rough edges? Genuinely curious. Looks like the dock you link costs more, and doesn't have the audio out / remote control port that Apple's dock has.
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by xsmasher 12y ago
Tesla and Musk have been teasing the contents of the announcement all week; everyone knew what it would be, but not the specs/price. I don't think the stock will be blow up again until we see sales and profit numbers for these new
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by xsmasher 12y ago
Visibility and connections. Review sites will look at apps form top publisher first, and publishers have the connections that can get you featured on the app stores.
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I stand corrected, thanks.
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by xsmasher 12y ago
I stand corrected. My point about different systems still stands.
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Since we're bikeshedding... >Yes, they could have used rand() with an appropriate srand(seed) rand() is shared across the whole OS, so another program calling rand() could make you skip a number; or another program could reseed rand
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by xsmasher 12y ago
Mostly. It is possible to distribute applications to jailbroken phones without Apple's help, but that's a minority of phones. When a new version of iOS comes out, a new method of jailbreaking usually needs to be found. Stock phone
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by xsmasher 12y ago
This is one of the things that makes a city bike-friendly, making it easy to start riding. San Francisco: My company has a bike parking room on our floor, and some train stations have five-cent-an-hour bike lockers. (All stations have bike
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by xsmasher 12y ago
Interesting. If the open-source tools are not the tools used by a majority of studios, then their students are being put at a disadvantage. But if the choice is "Blender or nothing" then at least their students are learning the sk
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by xsmasher 12y ago
The use of the term "strenuous" running is also misleading; it may make people think that "running hard" is harmful. In terms of this study, it means running four hours a week; probably 20 miles a week or more. That&#x27
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by xsmasher 12y ago
Right; Apple submission doesn't doesn't require encryption that inhibits visibility into the app internals. It does require signing, and Apple prevents unsigned apps from running on non-jailbroken phones.
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Right; short term pain while the money is redistributed to somewhere it can be of more efficient use. The parent made it sound like the loss of jobs was going to collapse the economy.
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That sounds remarkably like the broken window fallacy. What does your company do with that extra money now? Throw it in a barrel and burn it?
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Game co's often hire out the porting, so they can still exploit a platform without splitting their focus. Aspyr has made a living porting popular games to the mac.
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I think they're referring to this: https://gigaom.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jon-fairplays-apple/ Apple DID let you sync raw MP3 and other non-DRM files, but only through iTunes. Apple did not delete those
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At least you can redirect messages to another recipient, and write a handler for "unhandled messages." Impossible with c++, at least with standard method calls.
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That sounds great. Is this the episode? http://podtail.com/podcast/npr-car-talk-podcast/1430-the-and...

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